Collaborative Circuit?

[mdale2k]

I often wondered if it would be feasible for a few people to get together and do a circuit?

I currently play WMMA 3 (greydogsoftware). It's an MMA sim, pretty good IMO.

But it's made by the same people who do TEW. Not sure if anyone has played it, I never have.

But they had a threat where there were going to be three feds with each a player, head booker, assistant booker and a couple of writers.

I wonder if that type of collaborative (sp?) would work on TNM. I vaguely remember one of the TNM-MP's doing something like that.

[snabbit888]

You're talking about multiple people working on the same circuit, yes? I find it to be interesting if you find someone who you're on the same page with.

It's tricky, because I think for it to work, there has to be a hierarchy of some sort. You need someone making the final decisions, a Vince McMahon if you will. You also have to have everyone have some sort of creative input. No one wants to just be a writer.

I've done this to a certain extent with circuits. I had a buddy help me with angles on the old GCW circuit, but I wouldn't say it was a collaboration, per se. I like getting input on certain angles from other people (Coop just helped me out on the Snuka angle, for example), but ultimately, I have too much of an ego to not be in charge.

[JoshiQ]

This would never work for me. For one, I would have a hard time writing up angles that another guy has in his head. They probably wouldn't come out the way he wanted. Second, if I wanted one guy to be the next contender for the main title and my partner wanted somebody else, it would just be a pain. Either he'd be writing something that he didn't want to or I would be.

Not to mention that it takes me long enough to sit down, book a card in TNM, copy it into Word, make some notes in my notebook, and write up the card. I can only imagine the time it would add by having to talk to two-three other guys beforehand.

I, like Ryan, don't mind a little bit of input from people that read my circuits, however. It can definitely help to see what angles are getting over and which ones are pathetic.

[LillaThrilla]

I think in the last TNM-MP (on the now defunction TNM EZboard forums) had WWE run by two people. This was after the Brand Extension so one was booking/writer RAW and the other Smackdown, with each writing their brand's part of joint PPVs. They could also trade wrestlers between brands, which no other circuits could do (unless a major and an indy had a developmental-style agreement).

[allpowerfulgarth]

Not to continue crapping on the parade here, but one of the other obstacles you run into with multi-person circuits is free time. Even the most reliable posters here will sometimes have gaps in their circuit updates, and when someone suddenly drops off the radar for a few days while the other guys are trying to get something done, it creates problems -- particularly if the disappeared person has a vital role in whatever's coming up next. Plus, you can't discuss things like a real-life booking team would; you have to rely on everybody being available for a chat at the same time, or you do everything over e-mail/private messages, which doesn't allow for as much give and take.

I'm sure I'm not the only poster here who has a job that relies heavily on others meeting their deadlines, and when those others miss the deadline by a mile -- which happens all the time -- tensions rise and the product suffers.