Specialty matches in 2009

[gallas]

This will also be erected into rule for 2009, but I'll shed some light on the guidelines for specialty matches in the new season. Specialty matches are only granted for long standing feuds that go longer then the typical 3 shows for a month. The longer your feud, the bigger matches you'll be able to get. A standard feud (3 Shows) can have it's climax with either a Steel Cage, Last Man Standing or Falls Count Anywhere (Hardcore). Anything past the typical 6 shows can climax in any of those matches as well as the more brutal 1st Blood match and the Backstage Brawl. This is to promote the all important realism in the league, as there's no Steel Cage matches every show in RL wrestling, and so to will that be true for XWA.

As for the new specialty match, The Inferno Match, as well as the XWA exclusive "Hacked" Specialties such as Hell Asylum (Formerly The Thunderdome Match) there will be STRICT and STRINGENT criteria for that match.

1. Your feud MUST go past 8 shows, NO EXCEPTIONS.

2. Do to the barbaric and violent nature of these match types, the loser of the match must "Be out of action" for at least 2 shows after. Because there's no way a human being can recover from this level of a pounding in said matches within just a week's time. (Example: Following the Thunderdome match between Dru Nedermeyer and Bryan Jasta, the characters we shelved for a full month as to show "realism", but they remained active IC.) You don't have to full shelve you character, they just can't compete for two shows so that they can "recover".

These "Extreme Specialty" matches are saved for the best of the best of XWA storylines, so you may only see 1 or 2 of them the whole season, which is realistic. And in order to have these matches available to you, you need to put the work in to carry your feud/angle beyond 2 months of the season.

As stated at the top, this will be amended into the 2009 Match Stips rules and revised as 3X and I deem fit.

[hc]

I was wondering about this subject, and your post makes absolute sense. Only the BIG feuds should get the big matches as climax matches.

[Kelon"Rasta Man"J.A.H]

this is the best rule ever. I love this idea because it gives a feud a good stand out.

[Kayn]

yea, I like this too, seeing a cage match every week is kinda lame, especially when it's not a PPV.

[Μyster Controversy™]

Yeah, I agree. I love this rule too. Just gets old seeing a steel cage or a hell in a cell match every week

[LUCAS STYLES.]

Just a couple of quick questions that popped into my head after reading the post.

Is the recovery period set for all levels of climaxing matches? As in, after 3 week feud climax, will the participants have to recover for the two week period or is that only for the Hell's Asylum and Inferno?

Also, do ladder matches fit in or are they fair game? I've always kind of seen them as big matches but thats just me.

If a feud goes say four weeks and then climaxes with a steel cage match, but the feud continues does the availability for matches stay at the four week level or do they have to work back up to have the speciality matches available to them again?

Those just kinda floated by as I was reading it so I thought I'd ask. I really like this idea though, it'll put a lot more value upon the matches which will lead to stronger feuds. Awesome idea.

[gallas]

The longer your feud goes, the bigger your match selection will be. If it goes beyond 4 weeks, it doesn't reset. If you have a feud that goes 4 weeks, then you and your rival break off and do something else, then return to your rivalry later in the season, it also doesn't reset. But if you start a new feud with someone else, it does. The recovery aspect is set only for those extremely physical matches. The ones that would take a toll on a person heavily in real life, which would be the "BIG" Matches, The Inferno Match, and XWA's biggest one on one matches, Hell's Asylum and the infamous Prison Break Match (Which is only dusted off for the BEST of the BEST of the BEST angles, hence we've only done 2 since XWA's inception, Ironic that Scott O'Dell was in both of them, eh? Need I say more.)

Ladder matches I didn't put into the equation because they are very rare amongst "Normal" competitors. You're more likely to see the match used in Tag Team or X-Gen matches (Which are more entertaining IMO). Also brought into the mix is the new Ladder Match ability, which pretty much makes he character that has it next to unbeatable in the match. (They fly up ladders, can snatch the object above down in just a matter of seconds AND can do some pretty vicious moves with the Ladder.) This also lends itself more to the X-Gen, as that's the very style X-Gen Wrestling encompasses. So we're more likely to see Ladder and TLC matches happen often between the X-Gen guys, hence it's not considered a specialty match because those kind of extreme contests will be what drives the X-Gen Division in 2009.