Post by WCWA Online on Sept 4, 2012 17:55:20 GMT -5
This isn’t an easy thing to type.
I think WCWA is about to end.
I started WCWA at the end of the school year my freshman year in high school. I had a lot of free time because I had an hour and a half study hall every day, for the entire year, and I regularly was kicked out of my second period class, because the teacher and I clashed personalities big time. Because of this, I had two classes to finish all my homework.. And I really only needed about half of one. This allowed me to spend the rest of the time plotting something that actually interested me, fantasy booking.
In early 2004, I was writing a series called 3W that none of you will remember. It actually goes back to I want to say the fall of 2002. By the end of 2003, I was really growing bored with 3W and I was growing as a writer. I wanted something to test me more than a novelty federation with a frankly jaded past. 3W had a LOT of stupid crap. My first trial was in the spring of 04, with a WCW reboot series. It never got off the ground.. But most of what I had planned for it became WCWA.
WCWA officially debuted on July the fourth 2004, here on WF. There was a multi-federation supershow on that day, and I chose that platform to launch WCWA, figuring it would get the debut performance viewed on a wide stage. It did, and the entire board seen the very first WCWA Heavyweight (not yet World Heavyweight, because it’s not a World title until it’s defended in at least two countries, something to pay attention to, kids) champion crowned, with a cliffhanger. The man who won the ladder battle royal had no identity. He was just a man in all black who, in the chaos of the ladder battle royal, slipped into the ring and was able to retrieve the championship belt.
I feel like for the last eight years, this has been the formula of WCWA. Each show leaving you with hype to the next show, or a future show. Everything building up. Everything continues to grow. Even PPVs. I’ve NEVER put out a Pay Per View where everything was resolved at the end of the show. Sure, certain elements or feuds may be resolved, but there was ALWAYS something coming out of it, to build to the future. Be it a future contender, an unresolved feud, or a non-finish to an undercard match. The future always had build, because WCWA was an open book without a conclusion.
Today, I’m setting the conclusion.
I’m realizing, and have been for sometime now, that I simply don’t have the time to dedicate to WCWA any more. I’ve grown as a person and I’ve grown away from wrestling a lot. I don’t watch what’s on TV any more and when I do, it’s usually with a lot of disdain. I’ve grown as a writer and I continue to branch out in new creative outlets, and I have a lot of projects that constantly take up my time and my creative energy. I’ve had spans over the last year or two where it’d be two weeks or more without even opening a WCWA document. Lately, it’s been a month or two. That’s not what WCWA was built on and that’s not the legacy I want to leave behind. WCWA is and always has been a story driven property.
I’m not going to be like so many guys before me, who say “I’m quitting booking” on a spur of the moment thing, only to come back two weeks or a week later with a new federation that is distinctly similar to whatever they previously did. I’ve thought about this for the last month or so. When I’m walking, and listening to my MP3 player.. And a WCWA entrance song comes on. I’ve got a fair amount on it, because a lot of the entrance songs used are songs I genuinely like. Most are, in fact.. It’s becoming a trend that I can’t go for a walk without listening to “Synthetic” by Spineshank at least once, and that always triggers the thought. What is becoming of WCWA.
I’m putting this out there, and I’m putting a date on it. There’s two Synthetic’s left before Delusions of Grandeur. One of them is about three fourths of the way written. Delusions of Grandeur will NOT be my final show. I’ve already written out match plans and a format sheet for the month following Delusions of Grandeur and a lot of what happens at Delusions of Grandeur DOES play up the next month, as is the WCWA style. The next PPV after Delusions, however, sort of comes to a brick wall. There’s nothing written after it and there’s really nothing to follow it. I’ve told it to some of the most dedicated followers of WCWA, that this is the show to define WCWA. It’s a currently unnamed PPV that has been fill in named “The Green Show” because all the text and theme is green, but that is something that WILL be changed.. And it’s frankly an amazing card with amazing angles top to bottom. There are no less than five matches on this card, that they way the card is built, could be on top.
This is how I’m going to go out.
I’m not going to rush along to get there, either. WCWA will be business as usual, probably at about the rate of what I’m producing now, but that final PPV is on a very set deadline. I seem to write better when I have a deadline and I know things need to be finished by that deadline. This one, is pretty far off, but for the significance, I feel like it’s the perfect deadline for the final show of WCWA to be posted.
July fourth 2014.
Ten years, to the date, that the first WCWA show was posted..
It will conclude..
I think WCWA is about to end.
I started WCWA at the end of the school year my freshman year in high school. I had a lot of free time because I had an hour and a half study hall every day, for the entire year, and I regularly was kicked out of my second period class, because the teacher and I clashed personalities big time. Because of this, I had two classes to finish all my homework.. And I really only needed about half of one. This allowed me to spend the rest of the time plotting something that actually interested me, fantasy booking.
In early 2004, I was writing a series called 3W that none of you will remember. It actually goes back to I want to say the fall of 2002. By the end of 2003, I was really growing bored with 3W and I was growing as a writer. I wanted something to test me more than a novelty federation with a frankly jaded past. 3W had a LOT of stupid crap. My first trial was in the spring of 04, with a WCW reboot series. It never got off the ground.. But most of what I had planned for it became WCWA.
WCWA officially debuted on July the fourth 2004, here on WF. There was a multi-federation supershow on that day, and I chose that platform to launch WCWA, figuring it would get the debut performance viewed on a wide stage. It did, and the entire board seen the very first WCWA Heavyweight (not yet World Heavyweight, because it’s not a World title until it’s defended in at least two countries, something to pay attention to, kids) champion crowned, with a cliffhanger. The man who won the ladder battle royal had no identity. He was just a man in all black who, in the chaos of the ladder battle royal, slipped into the ring and was able to retrieve the championship belt.
I feel like for the last eight years, this has been the formula of WCWA. Each show leaving you with hype to the next show, or a future show. Everything building up. Everything continues to grow. Even PPVs. I’ve NEVER put out a Pay Per View where everything was resolved at the end of the show. Sure, certain elements or feuds may be resolved, but there was ALWAYS something coming out of it, to build to the future. Be it a future contender, an unresolved feud, or a non-finish to an undercard match. The future always had build, because WCWA was an open book without a conclusion.
Today, I’m setting the conclusion.
I’m realizing, and have been for sometime now, that I simply don’t have the time to dedicate to WCWA any more. I’ve grown as a person and I’ve grown away from wrestling a lot. I don’t watch what’s on TV any more and when I do, it’s usually with a lot of disdain. I’ve grown as a writer and I continue to branch out in new creative outlets, and I have a lot of projects that constantly take up my time and my creative energy. I’ve had spans over the last year or two where it’d be two weeks or more without even opening a WCWA document. Lately, it’s been a month or two. That’s not what WCWA was built on and that’s not the legacy I want to leave behind. WCWA is and always has been a story driven property.
I’m not going to be like so many guys before me, who say “I’m quitting booking” on a spur of the moment thing, only to come back two weeks or a week later with a new federation that is distinctly similar to whatever they previously did. I’ve thought about this for the last month or so. When I’m walking, and listening to my MP3 player.. And a WCWA entrance song comes on. I’ve got a fair amount on it, because a lot of the entrance songs used are songs I genuinely like. Most are, in fact.. It’s becoming a trend that I can’t go for a walk without listening to “Synthetic” by Spineshank at least once, and that always triggers the thought. What is becoming of WCWA.
I’m putting this out there, and I’m putting a date on it. There’s two Synthetic’s left before Delusions of Grandeur. One of them is about three fourths of the way written. Delusions of Grandeur will NOT be my final show. I’ve already written out match plans and a format sheet for the month following Delusions of Grandeur and a lot of what happens at Delusions of Grandeur DOES play up the next month, as is the WCWA style. The next PPV after Delusions, however, sort of comes to a brick wall. There’s nothing written after it and there’s really nothing to follow it. I’ve told it to some of the most dedicated followers of WCWA, that this is the show to define WCWA. It’s a currently unnamed PPV that has been fill in named “The Green Show” because all the text and theme is green, but that is something that WILL be changed.. And it’s frankly an amazing card with amazing angles top to bottom. There are no less than five matches on this card, that they way the card is built, could be on top.
This is how I’m going to go out.
I’m not going to rush along to get there, either. WCWA will be business as usual, probably at about the rate of what I’m producing now, but that final PPV is on a very set deadline. I seem to write better when I have a deadline and I know things need to be finished by that deadline. This one, is pretty far off, but for the significance, I feel like it’s the perfect deadline for the final show of WCWA to be posted.
July fourth 2014.
Ten years, to the date, that the first WCWA show was posted..
It will conclude..