Armchair Warfare Appreciation Thread
 

The general consensus for Armchair Warfare seems to be that it was a lot of fun...however, it was a LOT of work.

Now, that booker in me still gets the urge to produce shows like that, but THIS time, I'd like to just present the whole thing as ONE show. It would no longer be about competition. I'd like to just build a whole writing team, with a few guys each focusing on specific areas of the show. The team could all just brainstorm to come up with ideas/direction/etc. and everybody could split the writing workload. We could post the shows whenever the fuck they're done, as to not add any pressure to anyone.

Would any of you be interested in writing or reading these shows?

I say, half the fun was the competition.

Maybe only have two shows though, with their own writing team. Depends on how many people sign up, I guess. Then the remaining members of the TPWW Universe decides on who wins the War.

That could work, too. Also, with only two shows, there'd be bigger names on both shows. Maybe change the teams after each PPV, but keep the shows and rosters the same, where they continue from where the last team left off? I dunno, just kicking ideas around here.

Another element that I always wanted to implement was random injuries. I never knew how I wanted it to work exactly, but I think it would be cool.

I would be interested in working for one of the teams. Also, when there is the draft of performers, just go to random.com and randomize the list with all the names in it. After that the #1 person will get an injury after week 3 or something.

That's one way of doing it, but I'd kind of like to keep it based on what happens on the shows. If CM Punk comes out one week and cuts a promo without even wrestling, I wouldn't want him to be injured because of it. If he was in a TLC match or something though, then maybe.

12-sided Dice Roll.

I wanna do this! But how will we decide superstars?

If we do two teams, we can do a DRAFT SPECIAL where a representative from each time announces picks for their shows...or something. Or we can just have both teams send in their draft priority list and each show will get their top available pick on their turn.

Personally like the Draft Special idea.

I'd be interested in writing.

On the injury thing:

Each Superstar has X amount of "Warfare" points.

Every match takes away some number of points based on what kind of a match it is, and some sort of dice roll/or randomized number.

If Warfare points reach 0, your dude is INJURED, roll/randomize to see how many weeks/shows he is out of.

Vaguely defined idea that will probably create tons of arguments if implemented. Someone can try to more define it if they wish.

That sounds decent.

As far as voting if we were to do just two shows, I think it would be cool if we did it head-to-head ratings style. Maybe even have it where you have a certain amount of slots for each show and you can do whatever you want in those slots...but you don't know what the other show will be doing in the same slot. The judges could then vote per each slot for either "I'd watch Show A at this slot", "I'd watch Show B at this slot", and maybe even "I'd flip back and forth at this slot".

You start by rolling on the chart chart...

What the fuck are you talking about?

In other words, the Patented Lock Jaw Voting System From Armchair Warfare Season 1

Yes. It was beautiful.

Yes it was. Even if The Usos never beat any show in any segment.

If the talent were spread over only two shows, I doubt you'd even see The Usos.

Pffffftt. Still think I had a better Tag Team angle than most shows, just poor talent to implement it with.

VCW 4 Lyfe

I would potentially be interested in this, although I'm not sure how good I'd be at it.

Then maybe you can just be in charge of one angle for your team or whatever. The way I see it, everybody on the team can be like the "head writer" for certain angles, but the teams could have brainstorming sessions to try and tie everything together or make suggestions to other teammates. As long as there was one team "leader" to piece the show together, the workload wouldn't be terribly high for anyone, and I think it could last a lot longer.

Also, Hard Knocks Wrestling episode 2 was one of the greatest things to happen in the history of the United States.

As long as we get to carry on where VCW left off, I get to book everything and write nothing but have the power to order re-writes...it'll be a cake walk.

I am only joking btw.

I've already expressed "an interest" in this to AbT (and have on more than one occasion considered suggesting the same thing) just gonna see how much interest builds, etc.

Well I guess you can count me in if this goes ahead. I like the idea of having a team of people working together, which was kinda what I was hoping to enjoy about that short-lived Fallen Angel game.

In my head, I see it as, let's say, Iginfest is in charge of the Intercontinental title picture, and he has R-Truth, The Miz, Paul London, and Kazarian to do whatever he wants with. XL is in charge of the main event picture with CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio, Crimson, and Kurt Angle, or whoever the fuck. Teammates could coordinate and use each others guys or whatever, and maybe have one team leader who pieces the whole show together once everyone has written his part.

I'm sorry this sounds so scatterbrained here, but I'm typing it as I think it.

You could also set up social groups for each team to discuss stuff in and maybe set some long term goals you want to achieve.

Like say you want to give Drew McIntyre a long term push to the upper midcard and then to the main event. You could figure out where to integrate him into which storylines. Or if you wanted to gradually build up to the formation of a stable you could figure out ways to intertwine each of the members in storylines so the coming together makes sense.

Another way to do it would be to get together, thrash out ideas for all the guys on your roster/assign guys on the roster to the angles/ideas you have and then assign the segments/matches for that week to members of the team.

I found that I had to "cross pollinate" a lot of angles and guys from other "divisions" to deliver fresh matches week in, week out.

I want to book. Sign me up.

Can I be on the same team as CSL?

We could run The Hipster Division where nobody wants the belt because it's popular and therefore not very good.

Yeah, you're getting it. I was thinking about social groups too.

I was also thinking that we could give the ratings judges the option of a return the following week. If they don't want to judge again, we can find someone else to judge for that week.

How many people should be on each team? Five? Seems like a nice number. Ten judges again?

You think we can get 20 people interested in this on a reasonably long term basis!?

Yes. If the bookers have their workload cut in 1/5 and the judges can cycle in and out as they please.

Would love to see it, but I just do not have the time to contribute.

I'm in. Didn't have enough time to do the original, and I still don't have time to write a full show, but I could do a segment/story per week if I was a member of a team.