Olypsius? lol.
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I really hope you don't think following WWE's "brand split" idea extremly faithfully is that "unique." That and just how similar many of your rules are to NAPW.
How many wrestlers do you need for each brand before you get going? 10? 15? 30? NAPW flucuates between 25-40 active wrestlers at any given time. Sometimes we have gluts of applications, sometimes droughts.
At the beginning of your fed's life you will have a hard time keeping those kind of numbers. If you look at the first three months of NAPW shows we did not have a huge roster. D!, Ravager, Lobo, Static, D-X, Dudes, JC Cook, Decaps, your couple guys, Misery, Plague, Moose/CalCon (re: Jobbers), a couple other guys. That's barely over a dozen "real" guys. That was for almost THREE MONTHS of NAPW. By the time we got to Black Thursday we received quite a few applications; many of those folks debuted in the Action! Battle Royale.
The point I'm making is that it took us almost three months to get to that level and even then some of those guys did not last very long. You're going to be doing very well to have a roster of a dozen separate wrestlers over the first eight weeks. And I'm talking about having at least ten handlers, not four guys running three characters each. You take those dozen or so guys and then split them between two brands...
I'm not trying to discourage you. If you want to do an efed in this format, than that is fine. But you have to consider HOW to do it successfully. I'm going to give you some suggestions that I think would make UWO a unique promotion and help you to get to where you want to be more effectively.
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For the first couple of months, run UWO (honestly take the D out. Your call but UWO sounds better than UDWO) as ONE fed. Wrestlers join and are not drafted to either brand, they are just booked for the shows. It's like the time for each General Manager to observe each of the wrestlers and determine who they would really want to put on their brand.
So for eight weeks or so, leading up to your first supercard, you have wrestlers on either show. Some booked twice a week, some not, but UWO is one entity at the moment leading up to the initial draft. And you have the two General Manager characters playing favorites, making sure to point out the wrestlers they WANT. The GMs interact and argue. You can get over a major face that way - you have both GMs WANT him bad. There is a lot of potential with that. You do not crown ANY champions during this time period.
So hopefully in that eight weeks you can get a roster of at least twenty wrestlers, which would leave you with about ten wrestlers a roster. I think that would be the ideal way to run a show with a three-four matches per show.
NOW. You have to actually do the draft. How exactly DO you do the draft? Couple ideas here. Both ideas require the following start: You and Michael flip a coin legitimately to determine who goes first (or even better, play an online game / winner gets first pick). You two legitimately conduct a draft beforehand. Michael picks, Jacob picks, and so on and so forth until all the wrestlers are dispersed. NO arguing, NO crying, if Jacob gets a wrestler Michael wants, that's final. It means you both have to use your draft choices wisely. Now...
#1: On the first supercard, you conduct the draft between matches. You open the show in front of the crowd --- NOT backstage --- and have the two GMs announce that they have organized their draft picks. You start with the bottom of your list (this is not a random drawing, so you can start with #10 and go up to your TOP picks).
This goes on between matches doing two-three drafts at a time until just before the main event, when each promotion announces their TOP pick. By doing it in reverse order you build suspense --- WHO ARE THE #1 DRAFT PICKS?
#2: You run the first PPV as it was, and then do a "Press Conference" RP where you do the draft "in character." Again you two legitimately work out the draft before hand. NO crying, NO bitching, you get who you draft. Then you work on the cards from there.
Method #3? Do it completely random. Now there is a catch here --- which one of you does it randomly, and will you be honest? I would suggest getting a neutral third party to do a drawing. So you guys get me to put every wrestler in your fed in a hat, and I pick randomly who gets what wrestlers.
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Suggestion. You have two brands each with three titles. You know what?
DON'T.
When WWE first started the brand extension, what was really REALLY cool about it was that there was still ONE champion, and he could wrestle on either show. Let's put this into e-wrestling territory.
You have one champion. Being champion in UWO means you have extra responsibility because you can be on either show, and every wrestler on both brands is gunning for you. Obviously you only require one title shot per two-three weeks (whatever you decide.) The easiest way to make sure there are no problems is to have NIGHTMARE get a shot, then FURY and on and on. Alternate. If a FURY wrestler wins the title, his first defense will be against another FURY wrestler, then he defends against the other brand. If a NIGHTMARE wrestler wins the belt, then he first defends against a wrestler from his brand, then goes to the other brand. When a champion loses the belt he reverts to his original brand.
The most important thing this does is make "UWO" seem like a unified fed. The way you and Michael have things now... why UWO at all? You two might as well run two completely separate promotions. You need to tie the two brands together somehow. Making the champion the champion of BOTH brands would do this.
BTW: Guys, don't have a "WORLD" title. Until you defend your main belt in other continents, how is it a world title? Heavyweight or just purely UWO title is fine. Anyways.
I would then keep each show with one exclusive mid-card title (You might want to not use Provincial, what province are you based in? NAPW has a Provincial Titlebecause we are tied strongly to Alberta). So TV and Prov are exclusive.
Given the difficulties in having any tag team division in e-feds, I would have one single Tag Team Titles as well, with the champions able to wrestle on both shows. Trust me - it will be way too hard to put together TWO viable tag divisions anytime in the near future.
By going this route you also will put yourself in a position where on your first SUPERCARD, you can really build mystique for the first title match. I would imagine that the men who are booked into the first title match will be probably the top free agents. So right before the title match, both wrestlers in the title match are drafted. That gives the title match extra impetus, because the winner will be able to go to either show while the loser is exclusive. You could do the same with the tag titles. I would recommend NOT determining the brand-specific titles on the first PPV...
Then after the PPV, each brand sets out to determine it's brand specific champion. One brand does a tournament, another brand does a Battle Royale with the final two men wrestling a normal match to win the belt. Basically you open up the titles to most of the brand's wrestlers but each brand determines that champion in a different way.
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There is one major, MAJOR problem I see in the operations of your fed.
You are each the GM of your brand. I'm going to assume that Jacob, you solely determine the results for Nightmare. Michael, you solely determine the results for Fury. But what about inter-brand matches and shows? And regardless of how unbiased you may think you can be? You will end up biased towards your brand.
You need an impartial third staff member who is not particularly loyal to either brand to be the tiebreaker vote. Now I'd like to think you guys will be able to vote against your brand for the real winner, but even then, you're going to end up at an impasse where Michael votes different than Jacob. You need a tiebreaker staff member for every single inter-brand match and event.
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Those are some suggestions on how to make this type of promotion viable and working. You two right now are running pretty much totally separate feds. If that's the case, you'd be better off each having a different webpage for your fed and establish that you are brother feds. If you do some things to make it clear that UWO is one entity and it is going to split the talent onto two rosters (like NFC and AFC) then that's different. You need one single UWO champion for anybody to really care about UWO as a whole.
What's the reason for doing a brand split "in character?" Realistically it's pretty damn illogical for a promotion to do something like that. If your owner/s are trying to push a new idea of wrestling with conference rivalries (again, with an NFL - NFC vs AFCt or MLB - AL vs NL)... well, that's a potential motivation.
And of course, since you are doing different brands, you have the potential to do Trades and angles where a wrestler's contract runs out and he "jumps" to another brand. My main suggestion would be to run, every three or four months, a Draft Lottery. Depending on the size of your roster you randomly draft and shake things up. If you have 20 guys on the roster, only do about 6. Each brand draws 3 random wrestlers (including the champion, who will revert to the new roster if/when he loses the belt). You would have to determine if you put tag teams into the draw as TEAMS or singles. I would suggest as TEAMS because you would piss off a tag team by breaking them up if they're not game.
Trades are difficult because let's face it, you two are going to want each brand strong. I would have them occur RARELY, and make sure there's a good angle if you do. Maybe two wrestlers hate each other before the split, then end up on different brands, and one wrestler begs for a trade so he can go kick his rival's ass.
I also suggest doing very little inter-brand action. Save it for the joint supershows so it stays special. When WWE first did the brand split they tried hard to actually HAVE two different brands. Now wrestlers show up on whatever show they want, whenever they want. It's lost it's luster.
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If you discard all of my ideas, I would still strongly suggest running UWO as "one" fed for the first 6-8 weeks to get a roster built, and then draft the two rosters when you've built it up. Otherwise you might be waiting a long time. Besides, right now nobody really has any reason to prefer one brand over the other. Neither of you has had the time to establish each GM character (one reason for a wrestler to prefer one brand over another) or to develop each brand's unique identity.