New Concept for cards.

[seanh529]

I've come to the conclusion in my USWA fed that one of the reasons, outside of real world work and married life stuff, as to why I can't seem to get though the cards is because it's so much writing for the TV shows.

After A Night to Remember I am going to attempt to book my TV shows in the concept of the old ECW arena/ Hardcore TV stuff. Since I remember discussing how we did "tv tapings" and how we booked shows in the past I figured I'd share my concept on the board.

Currently I was doing a TNA type taping. A monday show that taped a B-Style show (Challenge) and a main tv show (Velocity) Which airs on that following Saturday morning and night. Then Tuesday we do the taping again which airs the following week Saturday day and night.

I've added a Mid South Coliseum show once a month, that has actually been fun to book bigger matches.

With all this going on it's a lot of shows per month and I feel like I'm never going to get through the year.

I think my new concept is going to be to run the Mid South Coliseum show as a "big show of the month/taped for TV

I'll then use TNM to "book a show" which will be booked as all interviews in a "post production" feel. With the all interview shows I can add in the post show interviews from guys and hype the following months shows. This will also hopefully open up other opportunities with my roster.

I wasn't even sure if you could book a card with all interviews, but after some testing it is possible. I think this will help breath some life into my circuit as I'm starting to feel it fade a bit.

[JoshiQ]

I've learned over the years to do whatever it takes to keep writing your cards. If you have to shorten them, do it. If you have to reduce it to one card a month then do it. People will read if the cards are written well, the angles are interesting, and things make sense. They normally don't care too much about how many cards you have or things along those lines.

As long as you don't mind writing a show based mostly around interviews then I'd say go for it.

[fwaroc]

I know I read circuits more for the plots than the match results. I could really care less about who wins what unless it's a highlighted match or the results lead to further story development. The thing I've seen happen way too often though (including myself), is trying to book too many matches or cards and getting watered down results because I'm too rushed in trying to catch a deadline. You're doing what? 2 tapings but still 4 shows/week essentially?

[seanh529]

I have my card multiplier set for 5 to 1. This is used as 5 shows equals one month.

It's been running like clockwork for awhile, where I do a usually run 2 separate cards, which will give me 4 TV shows over 2 weeks time. I then run a monthly show at the Mid South Coliseum, and then my "special show of the month" either 1 of the 5 PPV events or a big show which in storyline is shot for an exclusive DVD or something of that nature.

The future shows are probably going to work out where I'll do a Mid South Coliseum show, run it with probably 6-8 matches and that will be TV for up to 2 weeks or 3 weeks. Then I'll book a card and cal it USWA Championship TV - and I'll just book it like 10 interview segments. I'll add the show open, I'll do a segment and just copy and paste the results of the mid south show in there, and then tail it with interview segments for a recap of the action along with hyping up the next show.

Very similar to the old ECW way of doing things. It will probably be in full effect by January of my circuit, because I do have a round robin tag tournament set for December.

The idea behind the change will be to keep a smaller roster, about 5 angles at a time, and all the TV matches won't be as watered down.

This is a perfect example of how I keep my feds going for a long time. Changing the format when it starts to get bland. Same thing the TNA Womens federation did.

[rey619]

The reason I changed format from TV to "indy"/house shows was due to a loss of a TV deal. I use a loosely defined rules system based on dice to decide my ratings, and then when they were as poor as they were, I lost the deal when it expired.

That said, it was rejuvenating and challenging to do the write-ups differently, and can be a good thing if the writer is stuck in a rut. It didn't take me any less time to do, perhaps longer, but I didn't have weekly shows and didn't have to take time out of a busy schedule to do so.

I say go with what's best for you, and I'm pretty sure it'll work for the readers too.

[fwaroc]

Hmmm...has Ted DiBiase ever "bought out" a struggling fed? If not that would seem like an awesome angle for someone to run with the Million Dollar Man!

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[seanh529]

Lol, the funny thing is yes! He was the owner of my USWA fed in 2001!

[mdale2k]

Aug 13, 2012 0:02:33 GMT -5 fwaroc said:

Hmmm...has Ted DiBiase ever "bought out" a struggling fed? If not that would seem like an awesome angle for someone to run with the Million Dollar Man!

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Tommy B had Ted buy WCW at one point I remember.

[seanh529]

I gave in and started running shows in the new format. I'll be posting a few cards later this week.