Post by ICW on Apr 28, 2013 22:13:30 GMT -5
This may be a lengthy post so please bear with me...
I've been a member of the Fantasy Booking community since September of 2005. A 14-year old Ant logged onto WF and decided to post the script of "WWAF Monday Night Collision" episode 1 and, as they say, the rest is history. I've been moderator on this board at least on two other occasions, I've seen myself grow as a writer and a booker, and I've made some tremendous friends along the way.
This announcement is slightly painful but it needs to be done.
I am discontinuing Intense Championship Wrestling. I never thought I would ever type those words but the time has come for me demolish something I sincerely love doing in my free time. ICW is dead...
...and yet I'm going to resurrect it.
What? What in the hell am I talking about? I'm killing ICW but I'm going to resurrect it?
Here's the plan, ladies and gentlemen:
I am going to reboot Intense Championship Wrestling.
Reboot? Who in the hell am I? J.J. Abrahams?
Truth is this, guys. The history of ICW is a silly one and you have no idea how much that drives me crazy. I was 14-years old when I wrote the first episode of MNC and the only wrestling I was ever really exposed to was the Attitude Era (which is chockfull of awful storylines). The first episode of ICW took place two years in the future (2007) and yet I was booking Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock, Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels, and had Gorilla Monsoon as play-by-play man.
I took the term "fantasy" a little too literally when I was a kid. I'm 22 now and I'm weeks away from receiving my degree in Broadcast Journalism. Detail means the world to me (and it did even when I was younger) and it drives me crazy how the prior history of ICW is pretty hard to reconcile with its current form.
It was tons of fun booking this version of ICW. I learned a lot from the very best to ever book (J, Tenn, Den, Stenn, Tommy, Heb, etc..). I will always be grateful for the experiences I learned through writing this version of ICW.
But this version of ICW needs to die.
So here's the deal:
I'm going to start fresh. I'm still going to keep the federation name "ICW" but it's history will be a little more defined. I'm introducing brand new storylines. The history of the belts are going to mean a little bit more, everything is going to make a ton of sense, and there won't be any grey areas that I booked myself into. I'm going to be very careful from here on it.
This is a brand new start and I'm extremely excited to get this one going.
So - I cannot stress this enough - everything from MNC #1 - MNC #32 should be considered obsolete. It was merely a first version of a vision I had that did not go as planned.
The old ICW is dead...but a new one is on it's way.
Thanks,
Ant "ICW"
I've been a member of the Fantasy Booking community since September of 2005. A 14-year old Ant logged onto WF and decided to post the script of "WWAF Monday Night Collision" episode 1 and, as they say, the rest is history. I've been moderator on this board at least on two other occasions, I've seen myself grow as a writer and a booker, and I've made some tremendous friends along the way.
This announcement is slightly painful but it needs to be done.
I am discontinuing Intense Championship Wrestling. I never thought I would ever type those words but the time has come for me demolish something I sincerely love doing in my free time. ICW is dead...
...and yet I'm going to resurrect it.
What? What in the hell am I talking about? I'm killing ICW but I'm going to resurrect it?
Here's the plan, ladies and gentlemen:
I am going to reboot Intense Championship Wrestling.
Reboot? Who in the hell am I? J.J. Abrahams?
Truth is this, guys. The history of ICW is a silly one and you have no idea how much that drives me crazy. I was 14-years old when I wrote the first episode of MNC and the only wrestling I was ever really exposed to was the Attitude Era (which is chockfull of awful storylines). The first episode of ICW took place two years in the future (2007) and yet I was booking Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock, Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels, and had Gorilla Monsoon as play-by-play man.
I took the term "fantasy" a little too literally when I was a kid. I'm 22 now and I'm weeks away from receiving my degree in Broadcast Journalism. Detail means the world to me (and it did even when I was younger) and it drives me crazy how the prior history of ICW is pretty hard to reconcile with its current form.
It was tons of fun booking this version of ICW. I learned a lot from the very best to ever book (J, Tenn, Den, Stenn, Tommy, Heb, etc..). I will always be grateful for the experiences I learned through writing this version of ICW.
But this version of ICW needs to die.
So here's the deal:
I'm going to start fresh. I'm still going to keep the federation name "ICW" but it's history will be a little more defined. I'm introducing brand new storylines. The history of the belts are going to mean a little bit more, everything is going to make a ton of sense, and there won't be any grey areas that I booked myself into. I'm going to be very careful from here on it.
This is a brand new start and I'm extremely excited to get this one going.
So - I cannot stress this enough - everything from MNC #1 - MNC #32 should be considered obsolete. It was merely a first version of a vision I had that did not go as planned.
The old ICW is dead...but a new one is on it's way.
Thanks,
Ant "ICW"
