BWE: You Book IT!...Discussion thread - Writers needed!

Bounty Hunter

I had an idea for a thread quite a while back but held off on suggesting it until now.Okay the premise is quite simple but for it to be successful it will need quite a few posters to become contributors and if that happens should result in a good read for all once or twice a week.

People are always complaining about the often non-sensical booking in the WWE (and TNA for that matter) well this is your chance to show them how it should be done.

I will get a list of names of people willing to contribute to the BWE (Boards Wrestling Entertainment) which will be our take on the WWE. Those people will make up our creative team. Each week then one member of the creative team (going on a rotational basis) will be made head writer for one of our shows and get to book what should happen that week.

This will be done in a similar style to that of the Evaluation thread from the Draft threads (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055549539&page=2) but each writer can do their own shows like in the linked thread in whatever style they wish.

The first show would carry on from exactly where the WWE is at right now so if this was to get a decent amount of interest the first boards booked show you could get to read and compare to the real thing would probably be the post Summerslam Raw. However from that moment on it would be a continuation game in as much as whoever is the head writer/booker of the following Raw would carry on from the BWE Raw and not the real thing. Therefore our product could go in a very different and argueably better direction.

There will be very little limitations placed on you as head writer/booker of your show but we would most likely keep it in line with reality as regards injuries etc, so if a Wrestler gets injured in real life it will be your challenge as booker to write him/her out of the show and get them to drop their belt if neccesary.

Other details can be worked out later like if we have to set a limit on how many new/returning wrestlers a writer can introduce in a show or if they have to consult other writers in perhaps a discussion thread about drafting wrestlers between brands etc.

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it could be good fun to do / read every week and could make for an interesting comparison to the real thing too aswell as seing what cliffhangers people write into their shows for a fellow boardsie to have to follow up on the next week.

However to be viable would need a good few contributors as although you may not need to go into great detail even a format similar to what we get in spoilers would be okay for your show it would mean a good bit of work from those willing to be involved if we dont get a few willing to do so.

so anyone interested in giving this a try or wanna make any suggestions for it?

geeky

Count me in! Though between the 26th of August and 7 Sept, I'm out of action due to honeymooning.

Bounty Hunter

geeky wrote: »

Count me in! Though between the 26th of August and 7 Sept, I'm out of action due to honeymooning.

good man! and congrats on the wedding, ill try to arrange it so that your show isnt during that forthnight. It shouldent be too hard either as depending on how many people we have in this it will only be one or two people going each week anyway, if we get over a certain amount of people taking part itl be bothe SD & Raw if not just one of them.

The Cannibal

Sure, I'll give it a whack. Could be fun.

Suggestion wise I'd say that if it builds to a big card and you have 4 weeks, give each writer the power to make no more than 2 matches each in advance, and then the rest have to work with those matches in mind and then add their own two. You should end up with an 8 match card at the end. Then maybe a collaborative effort with all the writers booking their 2 matches or the best writer of the month booking the whole thing, or just the next guy on the rotation.

Bounty Hunter

The Cannibal wrote: »

Sure, I'll give it a whack. Could be fun.

Suggestion wise I'd say that if it builds to a big card and you have 4 weeks, give each writer the power to make no more than 2 matches each in advance, and then the rest have to work with those matches in mind and then add their own two. You should end up with an 8 match card at the end. Then maybe a collaborative effort with all the writers booking their 2 matches or the best writer of the month booking the whole thing, or just the next guy on the rotation.

good man thats 3 so far (including myself).

and you bring up a good point with booking in respect to building to a PPV and your suggestion of say each show in build up to it getting to announce 2 matches makes sense and could work with obviously the bigger feuds being announced in the earlier weeks shows. Ill wait on decisions on things like this till we have more contributors signed up who can give input on these things but id say such a system would be likely.

Considering such things may need to be discussed next weeks Raw might be a bit early to start but we will play it by ear and whenever we are ready start at the next one

DM_7

Sounds interesting

I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see how many are interested. I'm not sure how good I would be at it so I will have a think and see if i'd like to take part.

But its a very good idea and will make for some good reading.

flahavaj

As reigning and defending Draft champion I feel it only right that I should give this a rattle BH bah. Count me in.:pac:

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

Sounds interesting

I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see how many are interested. I'm not sure how good I would be at it so I will have a think and see if i'd like to take part.

But its a very good idea and will make for some good reading.

cheers man

like i said though it wouldent be that difficult tbh as we arent expecting everyone to be expert bookers or anything and like i said it could be as short as a typical spoiler write up if you wanted (maybe if your not too confident about taking part) or as long as a Lance Storm type write up.

actually are any other people who thanked the OP interested in taking part? or like DM did you just think its a good idea which could make good reading for you.

edit: that a bai Flahavaj making it 4 in so far, a solid addition to the BWE creative team going on your past experience here

DM_7

A go on, count me in.

Anything that is good for the Boards PW Community is something I want to be a part of.

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

A go on, count me in.

Anything that is good for the Boards PW Community is something I want to be a part of.

good man thats 5 already! at this rate id say we will be doing both SD & Raw each week as tbh if we only get another 5 people to do this we will only each have to do 1 show every month maximum (not including PPVs). I may sticky the thread for the actual write ups when it gets started and at that point turn this into a discussion thread were we can talk about each new show produced and compare it to the product being put out by the WWE.

michael.etc...

I think this is a great idea. Unfortunately I would not have the time to contribute, but good luck to those of you who do. Will make interesting reading.

currythis

Count me in!
May not be great at it but I'll give it a go!

Bounty Hunter

michael.etc... wrote: »

I think this is a great idea. Unfortunately I would not have the time to contribute, but good luck to those of you who do. Will make interesting reading.

cheers man, pity i can imagine youd be a good contributer.

btw suggestions are always welcome from non contributors on how it could be run etc and sure if you do follow the thread and can think of an awesome twist for example you could always pm your idea to one of the people next in line to book a show (not that they would be obliged to do it of course as they would have their own ideas too).

curry this wrote:

Count me in!
May not be great at it but I'll give it a go!

good man, thats officially 6 members signed up to the BWE creative team now!

Furious-Red

Never thought i would be working in partnership with my rival from the Draft Count me in

orestes

Now this should be excellent, fair play BH, great idea! I would put myself forward for it but I'm up to my ass in college stuff for the next month or so (deferred exams, huzzah indeed) so will have to pass, but I would definitely be interested in joining the creative team at some stage if someone extra is needed at some stage

Bounty Hunter

Furious-Red wrote: »

Never thought i would be working in partnership with my rival from the Draft Count me in

haha almost forgot about it, well Bischoff did work for Vince afterall glad to have you on board

orestes wrote: »

Now this should be excellent, fair play BH, great idea! I would put myself forward for it but I'm up to my ass in college stuff for the next month or so (deferred exams, huzzah indeed) so will have to pass, but I would definitely be interested in joining the creative team at some stage if someone extra is needed at some stage

tbh thats the reason i held off on suggesting the idea myself until now as the course im doing only has another week left in it now and im sure we could find room for you down the line, sure if we get enough people interested now we could add you to the list and i could just make sure you were near the bottom of the list of people to have a go at booking a show so that it would be over a month before youd be called upon.


7 people signed up now with Furious Red signed up and of course the more the merrier as the more contributers we get the bigger in-built audience we will have

Cactus Col

Well, as ATH Co Champion, I feel it would be a dis service not to put my name forward for this.


Might I suggest .... if you were to get enough people involved, you could split the contributors down the middle, and have one team work on Raw, and one on Smackdown. Giving a competitive element to procedings?

Rjd2

Cactus Col wrote: »

Well, as ATH Co Champion, I feel it would be a dis service not to put my name forward for this.


Might I suggest .... if you were to get enough people involved, you could split the contributors down the middle, and have one team work on Raw, and one on Smackdown. Giving a competitive element to procedings?

Good point, I will put my name forward as well.

Bounty Hunter

Cactus Col wrote: »

Well, as ATH Co Champion, I feel it would be a dis service not to put my name forward for this.


Might I suggest .... if you were to get enough people involved, you could split the contributors down the middle, and have one team work on Raw, and one on Smackdown. Giving a competitive element to procedings?

not a bad idea and i might broach the subject if we get enough although that could mean people being put on brands that they would prefer not to be booking which ideally i would like to avoid. But should we have an even mix of people wanting to book Raw/SD then it'd be perfect i guess.

Rjd2 wrote: »

Good point, I will put my name forward as well.

good stuff that means that...

Current BWE(Boards Wrestling Entertainment) Creative team
Bounty Hunter
Rjd2
Cactus Col
Furious-Red
Currythis
DM-ICE
Flahavaj
The Cannibal
Geeky

Jolt2007

This should be interesting. I wont take part due to lack of time/being god awful at booking (see draft). What I might do if you need it is be the smarky twit who tries to pick holes in everything and says how pretend booking was better in my day

Cactus Col

Afraid I'm gonna have to pull out. Got all excited and threw my name in the hat before I knew if I could do it. Sorry.

Bounty Hunter

Cactus Col wrote: »

Afraid I'm gonna have to pull out. Got all excited and threw my name in the hat before I knew if I could do it. Sorry.

no worries man, ideally id still like to get a few more people interested as it would lighten the load for all involved although it wont actually be that much as with the amount involved atm it will only be 1 post a month needed which can be as short as the spoilers you often see posted or as long as some of the draft thread ppvs posts (linked in OP).

so anyone else interested give us a shout here, as ill be looking to get this going soon enough because if needed we can always add people to the BWE (Boards Wrestling Entertainment) Creative team as we go as they see how it works.

Gerard.C

gwan i'll join in, the return to college is looming and something like this would keep me from studying!!

Bounty Hunter

Gerard.C wrote: »

gwan i'll join in, the return to college is looming and something like this would keep me from studying!!

good man

Current BWE(Boards Wrestling Entertainment) Creative team
Bounty Hunter
Rjd2
Gerard.C
Furious-Red
Currythis
DM-ICE
Flahavaj
The Cannibal
Geeky

so with 9 atm we do have about 1 different poster covering each Raw/SD and 1 to do the PPV they would build to (if its a PPV after 4 weeks which it isnt always anymore)

I would think that we will start sometime next week so that there has been 1 post SS Raw (our first show will be a Raw) but ours will be up before the next Raw. That way we will have something to base it off (the post SS Raw) so that ours is more comparible to the real WWE.

ill post up an order of posters and when they have been drawn to do a show in the next day or two also. This list can be added to obviously if more people join the creative team and can be alterd if people are unable to do a certain week and give a heads up. Even though I will be doing it randomly (who does what show etc) I will offer that if the person that gets drawn to do the first show doesent notice they have been so and therefore cant get a proper post up before next monday night, I will have a short something done up to fill the void, but I wont do this usually as people will have weeks of notice of where they are in the order and therefore time to notify others if they cant do it. I will also every so often do a new draw if we end up with an even number of posters so as to avoid certain posters alwyas having to do the 2nd SD of the month for example and allow for variety.

^these are all ideas though and despite maybe making myself defacto BWE promoter if anyone has any ideas on how this could be run im all ears.

Bounty Hunter

okay heres the order which has been randomly (except geeky who couldnt do one of the first few weeks) drawn for who will book what show when:

1. Furious-Red
2. The Cannibal
3. Bounty Hunter
4. DM-ICE
5. Flahavaj
6. Gerard.C
7. Currythis
8. Geeky
9. Rjd2
10. Shaneomac

So Furious-Red is up first, I posted this now so that if you are watching Raw tonight you can do so with what you will book to follow it in mind. Once you have submitted your BWE Raw (ideally before the next Raw so that we have then got something to compare it to) the cannibal will be up and it will be his turn to book BWA's Smackdown which he will be able to do after the spoilers are released on tuesday night (it should probably be out before the spoilers for the following week so that again people can compare them)

remember if anyone else wants to do bjoin this your more than welcome just so so in this thread.

This thread will soon become the discussion thread also after the 1st BWE show is put up, which i will put into a seperate thread, so that all the shows can be read one after another.

DM_7

Holy Moly! Do I have to come up with a smackdown show, I'm scared now, Smackdown is awesome!

This should be fun to be a part of, I look forward to working with you all:cool:.

BWE - Coming soon.............

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

Holy Moly! Do I have to come up with a smackdown show, I'm scared now, Smackdown is awesome!

This should be fun to be a part of, I look forward to working with you all:cool:.

BWE - Coming soon.............

yup from the looks of things your on the SD creative team for atleast the 1st month but you dont neccesarily have to look at it as a negative, o no i have to compete with that kinda thing but perhaps more of a, sweet look at the great basis/wrestlers ive got to work with.

DM_7

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

yup from the looks of things your on the SD creative team for atleast the 1st month but you dont neccesarily have to look at it as a negative, o no i have to compete with that kinda thing but perhaps more of a, sweet look at the great basis/wrestlers ive got to work with.

You right, I have to think positive.

Furious-Red

So just so i get this right. After i watch Raw i have to book what i think will happen next week?

DM_7

Furious-Red wrote: »

So just so i get this right. After i watch Raw i have to book what i think will happen next week?

What you think should happen next week using this weeks RAW as a foundation. Not what you think Vince and the wwe creative would book but what you would like to see, next week someone else will follow on from your BWE Raw rather than wwe raw.

I think I have that right........

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

What you think should happen next week using this weeks RAW as a foundation. Not what you think Vince and the wwe creative would book but what you would like to see, next week someone else will follow on from your BWE Raw rather than wwe raw.

I think I have that right........

yep this weeks Raw will just be a starting point, you can book anything you want to happen in the following show once it follows on from what is already happening. How much better will your ideas be than what WWE will actually do, now that will be interesting to see. Then the next week I carry on from your version of Raw not from what the WWE do next week, so i wonder what youll give me to work with... then what ill leave Flahavaj to work with after my show, and so on

flahavaj

Shouldn't there be some discussion before hand between us all as to a long term plan or something. If we're all singing from a differemt hymn sheet and have different ideas on what should be on the PPV things could end up a bit of a clusterf*ck with ideas all over the place from week to week and people focusing on different feuds on their particular turn? Just a thought. If we have a common idea as to where we're going it might make things easier and more cohesive.

Bounty Hunter

flahavaj wrote: »

Shouldn't there be some discussion before hand between us all as to a long term plan or something. If we're all singing from a differemt hymn sheet and have different ideas on what should be on the PPV things could end up a bit of a clusterf*ck with ideas all over the place from week to week and people focusing on different feuds on their particular turn? Just a thought. If we have a common idea as to where we're going it might make things easier and more cohesive.

good point, that will be what this thread will be for you can pass ideas by the rest of the creative team here.

Although you may want to obviously phrase your questions in a certain way so as not to fully give away your plans for your show before you get to post it. For instance you could ask if anyone has any plans to debut someone from FCW or something like that soon before you introduce a new wrestler incase you mess up future plans (maybe not the best example).

I guess some common sense will need to be adhered to. obviously only a certain amount of matches can be built for a ppv for example and more of those matches will have to be announced in the earlier shows so if you have a later week youll have to just focus on improving already announced feuds.

Im sure we will improve as we go too but sure some of the fun will be the clusterfukc-ness that might occur at times with the real feeling of what will they book next and how will the next person follow up how the last show just ended.

Shaneomac

Can I still give it a go BH?

Bounty Hunter

Shaneomac wrote: »

Can I still give it a go BH?

sure ill add you to the current list, will be a while till your go now but youll have lots to work with by then and will have gotten the chance to see everyone else at it.

if anyone else is interested you can still put your name forward.

and Furious-Red if tonights Raw is anything to go by ive an inkling your first instalment of BWE Raw will be much better than WWE Raw in comparison.

Furious-Red

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

and Furious-Red if tonights Raw is anything to go by ive an inkling your first instalment of BWE Raw will be much better than WWE Raw in comparison.

Ha thanks , shall get on working on it over the next while.

D.Q

Id like to be involved if possible.

SlickRic

i'd love to man, but i just don't think i'll be able to contribute properly time-wise.

i can't wait to read it though. judging by similar threads in the past it should be a genuine slobberknocker.

Bounty Hunter

DieselQueen wrote: »

Id like to be involved if possible.

good on ya, added to the list of bookers (see the OP in the stickied thread).

SlickRic wrote: »

i'd love to man, but i just don't think i'll be able to contribute properly time-wise.

i can't wait to read it though. judging by similar threads in the past it should be a genuine slobberknocker.

hopefully youll be right, and sure you can always get added to the creative team down the line when your time constraints are less than at the moment. Although at some point i will, to borrow a term from the mob, close the books on new members to the BWE creative team, so that people dont have to wait months to write another show, but right now the more the merrier imo.

DM_7

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

good point, that will be what this thread will be for you can pass ideas by the rest of the creative team here.

Although you may want to obviously phrase your questions in a certain way so as not to fully give away your plans for your show before you get to post it. For instance you could ask if anyone has any plans to debut someone from FCW or something like that soon before you introduce a new wrestler incase you mess up future plans (maybe not the best example).

I guess some common sense will need to be adhered to. obviously only a certain amount of matches can be built for a ppv for example and more of those matches will have to be announced in the earlier shows so if you have a later week youll have to just focus on improving already announced feuds.

Im sure we will improve as we go too but sure some of the fun will be the clusterfukc-ness that might occur at times with the real feeling of what will they book next and how will the next person follow up how the last show just ended.

Maybe PPV matches should be limited to 3 or 4 for each show. We don't want a massive PPV causing us to run out of matches feuds etc.

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

Maybe PPV matches should be limited to 3 or 4 for each show. We don't want a massive PPV causing us to run out of matches feuds etc.

understand where your coming from there and maybe we should put a limit on matches but id suggest something like 7 per PPV not 4 as well there are Tag, Womens, Divas, IC, US, ECW, HW, WWE champs alone in the WWE (although perhaps the ECW champ wont be involved as its just Raw & SD) and 4 would mean atleast 4 of those belts not being defended at each PPV.

I guess again we will just have to use some sort of common sense and not just book the as many of the biggest matches we can on each upcoming PPV's so as to save them for bigger PPVs etc. Similarily we wont just introduce a new ME feud for each PPV as we want to be better than the real bookers and realise that a series of matches in a feud like in the recent CM Punk vs Jeff Hardy feud is better than just seing what next big match we can book.

Of course all these things can be discussed in here. say I introduce a new rivalry in my episode of BWE Raw and despite being a polite fellow you think maybe we could do without that extra feud atm, then say so here and if others agree, the next person can write it out or put it on ice somehow till later.

Im not the authority on all these things though and appreciate people making suggestions like this

DM_7

Sorry I meant 3 or 4 from Raw and 3 or 4 from Smackdown. So around 7 like you suggest

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

Sorry I meant 3 or 4 from Raw and 3 or 4 from Smackdown. So around 7 like you suggest

a well then yes i fully agree

Bounty Hunter

seing as its the 1st week and we dont have any previous to base our actions on, I thought id mention that seing as the Spoilers are already out for SD its possible to already start thinking about what your (The Cannibal) going to put in your show as you now have what the first BWE Smackdown will follow on from.

Obviously though even if you do write it up beforehand id suggest holding on posting up your show till Furious Red has posted his, especially when you consider that the tag champs will most likely be appearing on both shows so despite the fact that they are already facing MVP/Henry at Breaking point you will still most likely be using them on your show and might want to refer to what they just did on Raw.

speaking of the tag champs i'd suggest that we probably just rotate who gets to book what they are doing for PPVs. this month it will have to be the Raw bookers as their match has already been announced but with them being the only people who will be on both brands it could lead to future booking conflicts so i guess the easiest thing to do would just be to say that next month its SD's turn to get a shot at the belts on PPV, then back to Raw etc unless we end up with a rematch situation etc but that can be talked over in this thread.

again i come in to make a lil point (The cannibal obv doesent have to wait till SD airs to write his) and then end up writing a long post.

DM_7

I have a a couple of questions for answer/discussion

Are we sticking with the WWE rosters?

If a guy gets suspended (Like Rey) is he off BWE also? If its not decided yet I say yes.

Also are we staying similar to wwe's roster placements. Or are we going down our own road and potentially having a Jack Swagger or Miz as champ without winning a title on WWE Raw.

Bounty Hunter

DM-ICE wrote: »

I have a a couple of questions for answer/discussion

as i keep saying its not down to just me so hopefully others will give their opinions

Are we sticking with the WWE rosters?

I would think yes although with the possibility of of promoting people from FCW and ECW (as we arent making our own BWE ECW), but we would want to do this sensibly and only call up a new roster member (danielson, Low Ki, Sheamus etc) every so often and not every week/show.

If a guy gets suspended (Like Rey) is he off BWE also? If its not decided yet I say yes.

I would also say yes as it adds to the challenge and keeps it as a viable comparison to the real thing. For instance it would be easy to write a better SD if you had Edge at your disposal but unfortunatley he is injured.

Also are we staying similar to wwe's roster placements. Or are we going down our own road and potentially having a Jack Swagger or Miz as champ without winning a title on WWE Raw.

I'd imagine we would start with similar placements but if collectivley (as it will be pretty hard to push someone without the support of the other writers) we believe that a mid carder should be pushed to the main event then i see no reason for it not to happen just cos the WWE wont be doing that.


we should hopefully have our first show in the next few days too with furious red prob posting before Raw actually airs monday

DM_7

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

I would think yes although with the possibility of of promoting people from FCW and ECW (as we arent making our own BWE ECW), but we would want to do this sensibly and only call up a new roster member (danielson, Low Ki, Sheamus etc) every so often and not every week/show.

That makes sense

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

I would also say yes as it adds to the challenge and keeps it as a viable comparison to the real thing. For instance it would be easy to write a better SD if you had Edge at your disposal but unfortunatley he is injured.

So thats two yes'. If anyone thinks differant please say so.

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

I'd imagine we would start with similar placements but if collectivley (as it will be pretty hard to push someone without the support of the other writers) we believe that a mid carder should be pushed to the main event then i see no reason for it not to happen just cos the WWE wont be doing that.

I never thought of it like that, if everyone gets behind someone then it will be natural for us to make them a bigger star so it would work out well.

D.Q

i want to push khali to the stars

DM_7

DieselQueen wrote: »

i want to push khali to the stars

You will need a big Rocket Ship.

flahavaj

DieselQueen wrote: »

i want to push khali to the stars

Can you leave him there once you've pushed him far enough away?:pac:

Furious-Red

Im nearly finished writing up Raw so it should be up later on