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Results:
I went ahead and recorded the results of my cards so far. These are after the "playtesting" days, where everyone has the same stats as those who purchased the game. All of it was legit a part of the game, the most surprising being the ending (I didn't have a clue that a battle royal would be on the card, but it made the most sense when one of the matches started with a Wild Card).
Card 1
Card 1 – Rating +4
JW welcomes the fans to the first ever show. Steed interrupts and runs down JW for the poor accommodations in the back (the snacks aren’t filling enough). Napoleon Drake comes out to defend JW and put Steed in his place.
Steed vs. Napoleon Drake – 8 minute Counter-fest! Drake proved to be a tough guy, even when spotlights found BATT in the rafters above the ring and he got a bit distracted. During the match, Mark Maverick came down to refocus Drake but it was too little too late as Steed hit his finisher. And Napoleon kicked out! But a heavy running powerslam ended the match one move later leading to Steed mouthing off at Mark and making an example out of Drake, or trying to, until Mark made the save and Steed ducked and ran.
Ivy League & Eldar Magnusson vs. LE & XS – 16 minutes. After an initial flurry of offense that took Eldar out, coupled with Sands of Pain coming down to watch the “first tag match” and mouthing off to Eldar, the Ivy League made a match of it. Eli tagged in but was stymied by the LE’s tag expertise. However, when JW came out and announced he wanted the match to be a “no DQ”, the Ivy League went to work as only they can. Eli ended the match with a count out after executing a reverse DDT to Ethan Hale on the stairs outside the ring.
Xerxes is in the backstage area talking to some of the workers. He’s asking about BATT, but no one will talk about him. Xerxes gets frustrated and says that he needs to know where BATT’s lair is, and if this BATT is the one. Drake comes back, still hurting from his match, and says he’s fought BATT for years and though he’s not seen him here, he knows it’s the only one who’d dare wear that mask. Anyone less would get killed. As they leave, BATT stares down at Xerxes from the rafters.
Peyton Lake vs. Tiburon – 5 ½ minutes. The old-school master, Peyton Lake, entered the arena demeaning Lucha Libre style (and the fans). Tiburon interrupted him, or his music did, and wasted no time in starting the match. Peyton opened by showing off a bit, going for 2 quick pin attempts that Tiburon kicked out of. Tiburon didn’t get off his game though, he overwhelmed Lake, at least until he went for his finisher. Lake moved (or used the referee to help him move) and Tiburon fell outside the ring. The ref was out. Lake uncharacteristically went out of the ring and did some damage before tossing Tiburon back in the ring and putting on his finisher, the Cobra Clutch. It took several rounds for a replacement ref to make it into the ring. By the time the ref did, Tiburon was out of it. When the ref checked, it seemed an elementary ending but Tiburon got his hand up at the last moment. Peyton locked it in tighter though and Tiburon had nothing left in the tank but a failed final attempt.
Sands of Pain assaulted Ivy League in the back yelling about how the Sands of Pain should’ve been in the first official tag offering, not these kids. Alpha Dawn made the save and the brawl led to the refreshment stand being emptied and wrestlers scattering everywhere, leading to a bigger brawl. We cut to...
Jamiliah Creed vs. Nigel Hawthorne – Match never gets started. Sands of Pain’s riot explodes down the rampway and into the ring as seemingly everyone from the back is entering for a major war. JW comes out and tells the crowd that he was going to save this surprise for later, but since everyone is in the ring now, he’ll move his timetable up.
Battle Royal – Steed was a machine in this matchup, staving off multiple attempts to eliminate him and frequently turning the tables on his opponents. He eliminated exactly ½ of the competitors in this battle royal (including fellow Main Event caliber competitors in Deacon and Mark Maverick). But as it got near the end, the tag teams seemed to have survived. Yasir of the Sands of Pain and both members of Alpha Dawn (Afano & Ayasha) were among the final 5 (w/ a surprising Peyton Lake rounding out the group). In the final flurry, Afano and Ayasha got the last laugh on their Sands of Pain enemy and then turned their attention on the dangerous Steed. With some quick double team moves, they were on their way to getting a free shot (and picking their opponent’s) for the tag titles until Peyton Lake caught Afano from behind and sent him outside the ring. Steed thanked Peyton for the help by sending the elder Lake over the top leaving only Steed and Ayasha. The Native American, Ayasha, made a run, but Steed proved that he was the MWC’s most dominant force when he tossed the last competitor out to gain 5 points and an early lead in the Point’s series.
I went ahead and recorded the results of my cards so far. These are after the "playtesting" days, where everyone has the same stats as those who purchased the game. All of it was legit a part of the game, the most surprising being the ending (I didn't have a clue that a battle royal would be on the card, but it made the most sense when one of the matches started with a Wild Card).
Card 1
Card 1 – Rating +4
JW welcomes the fans to the first ever show. Steed interrupts and runs down JW for the poor accommodations in the back (the snacks aren’t filling enough). Napoleon Drake comes out to defend JW and put Steed in his place.
Steed vs. Napoleon Drake – 8 minute Counter-fest! Drake proved to be a tough guy, even when spotlights found BATT in the rafters above the ring and he got a bit distracted. During the match, Mark Maverick came down to refocus Drake but it was too little too late as Steed hit his finisher. And Napoleon kicked out! But a heavy running powerslam ended the match one move later leading to Steed mouthing off at Mark and making an example out of Drake, or trying to, until Mark made the save and Steed ducked and ran.
Ivy League & Eldar Magnusson vs. LE & XS – 16 minutes. After an initial flurry of offense that took Eldar out, coupled with Sands of Pain coming down to watch the “first tag match” and mouthing off to Eldar, the Ivy League made a match of it. Eli tagged in but was stymied by the LE’s tag expertise. However, when JW came out and announced he wanted the match to be a “no DQ”, the Ivy League went to work as only they can. Eli ended the match with a count out after executing a reverse DDT to Ethan Hale on the stairs outside the ring.
Xerxes is in the backstage area talking to some of the workers. He’s asking about BATT, but no one will talk about him. Xerxes gets frustrated and says that he needs to know where BATT’s lair is, and if this BATT is the one. Drake comes back, still hurting from his match, and says he’s fought BATT for years and though he’s not seen him here, he knows it’s the only one who’d dare wear that mask. Anyone less would get killed. As they leave, BATT stares down at Xerxes from the rafters.
Peyton Lake vs. Tiburon – 5 ½ minutes. The old-school master, Peyton Lake, entered the arena demeaning Lucha Libre style (and the fans). Tiburon interrupted him, or his music did, and wasted no time in starting the match. Peyton opened by showing off a bit, going for 2 quick pin attempts that Tiburon kicked out of. Tiburon didn’t get off his game though, he overwhelmed Lake, at least until he went for his finisher. Lake moved (or used the referee to help him move) and Tiburon fell outside the ring. The ref was out. Lake uncharacteristically went out of the ring and did some damage before tossing Tiburon back in the ring and putting on his finisher, the Cobra Clutch. It took several rounds for a replacement ref to make it into the ring. By the time the ref did, Tiburon was out of it. When the ref checked, it seemed an elementary ending but Tiburon got his hand up at the last moment. Peyton locked it in tighter though and Tiburon had nothing left in the tank but a failed final attempt.
Sands of Pain assaulted Ivy League in the back yelling about how the Sands of Pain should’ve been in the first official tag offering, not these kids. Alpha Dawn made the save and the brawl led to the refreshment stand being emptied and wrestlers scattering everywhere, leading to a bigger brawl. We cut to...
Jamiliah Creed vs. Nigel Hawthorne – Match never gets started. Sands of Pain’s riot explodes down the rampway and into the ring as seemingly everyone from the back is entering for a major war. JW comes out and tells the crowd that he was going to save this surprise for later, but since everyone is in the ring now, he’ll move his timetable up.
JW: This new circuit needs a champion, and the only way to decide that is in the ring. The board has already ok’ed a concept, round robin style tournament, with people earning points for victories – 2 points for a pin or submission and 1 point for a victory via count out or DQ, with the top 2 point getters challenging for the title in 12 weeks at Origins. However, if we’re going to start this tournament early, we need to start big. 5 points will go to the winner of this… battle royal! And since it was the tag teams that started it, if one of them wins the battle royal, they’ll get to pick their opponent for next week’s Circuit Tag Team championship match.
Battle Royal – Steed was a machine in this matchup, staving off multiple attempts to eliminate him and frequently turning the tables on his opponents. He eliminated exactly ½ of the competitors in this battle royal (including fellow Main Event caliber competitors in Deacon and Mark Maverick). But as it got near the end, the tag teams seemed to have survived. Yasir of the Sands of Pain and both members of Alpha Dawn (Afano & Ayasha) were among the final 5 (w/ a surprising Peyton Lake rounding out the group). In the final flurry, Afano and Ayasha got the last laugh on their Sands of Pain enemy and then turned their attention on the dangerous Steed. With some quick double team moves, they were on their way to getting a free shot (and picking their opponent’s) for the tag titles until Peyton Lake caught Afano from behind and sent him outside the ring. Steed thanked Peyton for the help by sending the elder Lake over the top leaving only Steed and Ayasha. The Native American, Ayasha, made a run, but Steed proved that he was the MWC’s most dominant force when he tossed the last competitor out to gain 5 points and an early lead in the Point’s series.