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Post by "Dr Death" Ric Anderson on May 27, 2020 18:02:18 GMT -5
If so, how do you keep everything straight, how do you rank the wrestlers in each territory and how do you determine the world champion's schedule?
I'm thinking of trying this and would love any input or ideas you guys may have.
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Post by Chad Olson on May 27, 2020 18:14:15 GMT -5
An idea I've kicked around with stu is having a weekly TV show similar to Pro Wrestling This Week. It would show individual matches from multiple promotions each week. The World Champion would appear in a different promotion every week, fighting the top challengers. The matches from the other promotions could show a big feud, introduce a new guy, or have two guys battling for a regional title. In theory, a regional champion could challenge the World Champion when they come to town. You'd have lots of different promotions and histories, but you wouldn't have to run full cards for each promotion (unless you wanted to). It's doesn't lend itself to booking based on rankings, but I don't have a big interest in this. stu runs a pretty cool version of this in the Wrestling's Finest wrestling game, but it could lend itself to LOW or COTG. |
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Post by tystates on May 27, 2020 18:33:47 GMT -5
A solid idea Chad. I might have to steal it! It could at least help me catch up my feds to other feds that are ahead on the calendar.
I run an NWA with 6 LOW territories in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Europe and Japan. I have a pile of champions that defend in all the territories and each fed has their own champs.
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Post by stu on May 27, 2020 18:49:54 GMT -5
Thanks Chad! Like my good friend said, I run a fed which features the weekly title defenses of a touring World Champion. Champ moves from member territory to member territory, defending the belt against a top wrestler (and I don't keep territory rankings, or even play full territories whatsoever), or in my mind "the" top wrestler of each territory. Champ wins, he moves on to the next territory. Champ loses, the new champ picks up the scheduled defenses, and moves on.
I play 52 weeks in a season, or 1 title defense per week. Works well from these standpoints:
*Feuds still ensue, and rivalries develop....they just are always centered around the World Title!
*This model uses many, many wrestlers, but keeps it simple. I don't have to run full territories with multiple wrestlers, just make sure to rotate new contenders in for the World Title! With that said, I have my favorites. In the game Chad is speaking about, Jerry Lawler was a fave for a while, with Ric Flair, Bruno Sammartino, Dick the Bruiser at times, and Lou Thesz (who holds the record with an amazing 74 World Title Defenses!) have always had their fair share of title shots (although I did burn out on Thesz for just a bit!).
*I keep the fed centered around the World Title, which is what I like, and I keep it simple, which is good for my feeble mind!
Again, it works well for me, have run it for years. The idea wasn't original to me, another guy who plays that game replayed a bunch of historic NWA World Title matches, and it gave me the idea to do a fictional fed, all centered around the touring champ of several member territories. It's fun!
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Post by kaeden31 on May 27, 2020 21:20:09 GMT -5
I am currently running a territory fed (or attempting to). I have four territories, and run them all mostly independently. My current schedule has each territory running one supercard a month on rotating weeks. Two of them are "major" territories, with larger rosters, so they have a weekly studio show that has a few matches and segments to advance feuds and stuff. I intend to do one or two Association-Wide Supercards, kinda like our Wrestlemania, where each territory gets to highlight their biggest matchups with a national audience.
I'm only a month in, so I haven't really gotten into the mechanics of Association titles and stuff, but I'm super curious how y'all do it. I have built a World Tag Team Championship into the Origin story, so I've started laying groundwork for regional tag titles until the World Champs come around. My plan right now is to crown regional Heavyweight titles, and then have a tournament to crown a world champion from among them.
I wasn't alive for the territory era, so I'm kinda making it up as I go along. For those of you who were there; what happens when the regional champ wins the world title? Do they vacate their regional title? Hold both, but only defend the world title in other territories? And if they lose the world title, do they just go home?
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Post by "Dr Death" Ric Anderson on May 27, 2020 21:37:47 GMT -5
I am currently running a territory fed (or attempting to). I have four territories, and run them all mostly independently. My current schedule has each territory running one supercard a month on rotating weeks. Two of them are "major" territories, with larger rosters, so they have a weekly studio show that has a few matches and segments to advance feuds and stuff. I intend to do one or two Association-Wide Supercards, kinda like our Wrestlemania, where each territory gets to highlight their biggest matchups with a national audience. I'm only a month in, so I haven't really gotten into the mechanics of Association titles and stuff, but I'm super curious how y'all do it. I have built a World Tag Team Championship into the Origin story, so I've started laying groundwork for regional tag titles until the World Champs come around. My plan right now is to crown regional Heavyweight titles, and then have a tournament to crown a world champion from among them. I wasn't alive for the territory era, so I'm kinda making it up as I go along. For those of you who were there; what happens when the regional champ wins the world title? Do they vacate their regional title? Hold both, but only defend the world title in other territories? And if they lose the world title, do they just go home? When a regional champion wins the world title, the regional title was usually vacated and the local promotion would decide how to fill it. When the world champ lost the title it would depend on who it was. When Kerry Von Erich lost the NWA title he just went back to Texas. When someone like Terry Funk or Jack Brisco lost it they could pretty much choose where they wanted to go. |
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Post by Chad Olson on May 27, 2020 21:45:34 GMT -5
A solid idea Chad. I might have to steal it! It could at least help me catch up my feds to other feds that are ahead on the calendar. I run an NWA with 6 LOW territories in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Europe and Japan. I have a pile of champions that defend in all the territories and each fed has their own champs. Help yourself! I've seen all of your feds and it looks pretty daunting! |
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Post by The Mysterious Budo on May 27, 2020 22:52:40 GMT -5
An idea I've been kicking around is holding a region's top singles title would be the one-way ticket to getting the shot at the world champion when the time came. Rivalries and general writing will obviously lead to other people challenging the champ when he comes around, but the regional champs are the ones who are in the most noticeable line. The rivalries are all based around fighting the world champion or champions, in the tag division if you go down that route with it. I've been kicking around a map of US, Canadian, Mexican, English, European, Japanese, and Puerto Rican territories with the US one have it's own regions: West, Southwest, Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast with their own championships that would get actually played out and defended once a month. The rosters or structures of the regions haven't been worked out yet fully, but it's an on-going process.
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Post by Sickman on May 27, 2020 23:15:51 GMT -5
I ran a three territory NWA fed for a couple years. I started with three commissioners that drafted talent to their brands. I started with brand specific tournaments to crown champions and from there I ran them all differently. Different announcers, different presentation. It was fun while it lasted.
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Post by joebreakdown on May 28, 2020 3:14:23 GMT -5
I have been part of a couple of muliti promotor territory games which have begun with a draft. These always start out brilliantly with everyone posting up shows, tarding talent and hosting touring champions, but more often than not, they fall apart as soon as folks drop out. I've always enjoyed them though- especially as I get to run my style of 'wrasslin' in a more realistic setting.
I've always been intruged by Wrestling's Finest...maybe one day i'll purchase that and have a look.
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