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Post by LillaThrilla on Dec 19, 2009 20:28:58 GMT -5
Lets kick off some discussion.
How much planning do you do for your circuits? Do you plan only to the next show/week or the next PPV or longer?
Do you keep any kind of reference about who has issues with who and why?
I remember back in the heydey of WWF booking (I think near the turn-of-the-century peak) someone said they had a giant board with all the wrestlers with notes about who they'd faced recently and who they had issues with and why. Anyone been zany enough to try something that extensive?
If you take an extended break (months or years) from writing & booking a circuit then come back to it and pick up where you left off what do you do to refresh your memory of what was going on?
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Post by jeff the god of biscuits on Dec 19, 2009 21:08:47 GMT -5
ummm ... I usually plan about one PPV in advance ... that is I try to decide where I want to go storyline or championship wise and go from there ...
both of my circuits (WWE and TNA) both have Excel spreadsheets that tell me who is on the roster, who are the champions, what the next PPV lineup is and what the next two shows' matches are ...
I often plan one show right after another, for example, I run Raw. Right after I run the card, I go in and schedule the next Raw on my spreadsheet, then book my next card (which would be Impact for Thursday nights) ... Smackdown is already scheduled and ready to book when I am done with Impact, same with Xplosion (my TNA Saturday show) ... all the while I am tweaking my monthly PPVs during the cards, sometimes creating matches, sometimes adding stips, whatever comes to my mind ...
for the really big cards, Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, etc, I start thinking way in advance. Last month I started considering who I want to win the Rumble, and once I am decided on that, I can start moving that guy into a good position for it ...
I have already started thinking about 'Mania ... things like who is in Money in the Bank, which legend is coming back this year and who they will face (last year's legends match was Ric Flair & Dusty Rhodes v. David Flair & Cody Rhodes) ... things like that ...
I usually never tamper with injuries and people quitting, I just write them into the storylines ... I have tampered with certain people quitting if I feel the need, but usually don't. Booker T is in a War Games match for me this Sunday at my TNA PPV, but he quit, so I am writing him out of the match and adding Batista, who just left my WWE circuit ...
I know, I know, I am sick and have way too much time on my hands ... comes with being unemployed for almost six months now ...
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Post by snabbit888 on Dec 20, 2009 16:24:44 GMT -5
With how I am doing it now, I have certain angles planned about 5 or 6 months in advance, and others I just do on the fly. I like to have an idea of where I am going, but with injuries, people quitting, not re-signing, etc. I have learned to be flexible. I keep a .txt document of upcoming shows. At the bottom, I have "angle ideas" that I sometimes pull from. Like for instance, I'm in 1972 with GCW OS, but I have an angle for 1995 planned. It's disgusting.  I also have .txt documents set up for wrestler debut dates, wrestler retire dates, death dates, keep an extensive list of injuries that have occured and how they affect the wrestlers' stats, and the like. |
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Post by rey619 on Dec 23, 2009 10:06:27 GMT -5
Like for instance, I'm in 1972 with GCW OS, but I have an angle for 1995 planned. It's disgusting. When it comes to 1995, you could say: "this match is 23 years in the making!" I usually plan until the next PPV as well, but have ideas that span longer than that. Not 23 years though.. however, TNM tends to throw curveballs at me every now and then, like having one of my tag-team champs quit after one card. I think long time planning helps a circuit immensely, like remembering who injured who, even though it could be months or years ago. I really liked it when The Sheik threw a fireball at Giant Baba at the Grand Prix, which led to their match at GCW's Korakuen Hall debut. Did you plan that in advance? I mean, was the Korakuen Hall show already planned when you held the Grand Prix? |
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Post by snabbit888 on Dec 23, 2009 14:54:50 GMT -5
Like for instance, I'm in 1972 with GCW OS, but I have an angle for 1995 planned. It's disgusting. When it comes to 1995, you could say: "this match is 23 years in the making!" I usually plan until the next PPV as well, but have ideas that span longer than that. Not 23 years though.. however, TNM tends to throw curveballs at me every now and then, like having one of my tag-team champs quit after one card. I think long time planning helps a circuit immensely, like remembering who injured who, even though it could be months or years ago. I really liked it when The Sheik threw a fireball at Giant Baba at the Grand Prix, which led to their match at GCW's Korakuen Hall debut. Did you plan that in advance? I mean, was the Korakuen Hall show already planned when you held the Grand Prix? I had it planned... sort of, I guess. I knew I'd be doing the Korakuen Hall shows, and right now with all of my Japanese shows, Antonio Inoki & Giant Baba are always a big part of that. It was just one of those angles I did and then later on when I did the Korukuen shows it was like, "Oh, that works perfectly." I try to keep as much continuity as possible, but it's not meticiulously planned. The one I really planned to have them meet as much as they did was Inoki/Luke Graham. They kept having great matches with each other for years, and I was really proud of how that whole series came off. |
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Post by mattharms on Dec 23, 2009 17:34:10 GMT -5
For NAWA, I have the main event scene pretty much anally planned out for about eighteen months to two years in advance. Mostly everything else is planned from WrestleClash to WrestleClash. Of course there is always a spanner thrown in the works every few months like a certain main event superstar who will remain nameless landing on his head and breaking his neck putting himself out of the year. But barring that, everything is tightly planned, even if those tight plans get rewrites about two or three times a year to account for injuries and wrestlers giving notice.
For instance, I knew the main event at WrestleClash V in 2006 was going to be Raven against Teddy Hart back in late 2004 NAWA time, around October or November. Just how I got there got changed up a bit due to injuries.
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Post by Zedja on Dec 24, 2009 11:43:19 GMT -5
Too much planning.. But not when I get off and running. Before that.
Who is in what circuit?
How will I determine who will be the first champion?
What date will the first show take place?
Will I screw it all up again?
But I'm beyond all the questions but the last one. Now only remains to build the website and finding the graphics.
Seeing how I will have 3 different versions they will be run differently.
The first is unbooked, the second booked by who wins, nothing else.
The third is the most complex since it's determined by results. The first card will be the same as one of the other versions (haven't decided on booked or unbooked yet), but during the first year where I will determine the champions and who goes down to the farmer leagues I will take the grades from all the three circuits and add them. The one/s with the highest grades will win the next match. Which means Hulk Hogan and others like him probably won't be the champ.
During the second year the rules will change, but I'll jump that bridge when I come to it.
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Post by JeepGuy on Feb 5, 2010 21:18:50 GMT -5
Yes, lots of planning getting set up and signing wrestlers who I can run some fun to write angles around.
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