What's the words to "Kumbaya" again, I mean...other than "Kumbaya"?
Never mind...
Anyway, I was going to comment on this "Axl" stuff but it looks like you guys have resolved that. I'll probably comment on it anyway.
Shane, I don't think anybody here ever said you shouldn't be able to pick your own feuds, just don't try to do them all at once. Like TG was trying to say, and John, and others... concentrate on who you have one show before moving on and RPing against somebody else before you've had the match with the first guy.
The problem I see is that, you get booked to "wrestle" Joe Blow. You RP against Joe Blow but Joe Blow doesn't RP back, Joe Schmoe is RPing so you pick a fight with him. And you focus on guys that are involved in other storylines (like Kobe for instance)
Sure, you can still have you feud with him, but do it in time. The build up now is SMP vs. Kobe. This is just like "real" wrestling, except it's not.
You don't see, for example, Shawn Michaels having a match with The Undertaker at Wrestlemania and cutting promos on Chris Jericho. Right?
We can make it as "real" as we want it, but the fun part about it is we make fun of how stupid professional wrestling can be sometimes. Low budget = humor to a lot of us. Crazy matches = fun. Stupid characters = more fun. Stupid characters fighting each other in crazy matches with low budget promotionals = BOB = FUN FOR ALL THE BOYS AND GIRLS!
Sometimes, I think you take this stuff way too seriously.
Relax, have fun, make us laugh. That's the point of having a good time here.
Half the shit I write I do it to amuse myself and like one other guy. There's so many "inside jokes" in my stuff I couldn't begin to tell you them all.
Don't plan your feuds. Pick your foes, talk some smack if you want. Whatever. You don't have to plan the entire year in advance. Half of what makes this stuff funny is booking by the seat of your pants. Last minute, you know?
Hear about a chimp ripping a chick's face off, gets shot by police, see the cartoon in the New York Times about the dead monkey and one of the cops saying to the one that shot him, " I guess we're gonna have to find somebody else to write the next stimulus package". Hell... put it in the show that week. You can't do stuff like that when it's scripted until December.
Some guys RP all the time and never mention their opponent, but it's still funny.
There's no rules here, except to have a good time and to entertain the other poor souls that have accepted BOB as their lot in life.
Re: March Mayhem 2009. No, I'm not having it on a goddamn rooftop.
(WELCOME BACK GREAT AND SAM, SAM!)
The tournament will work like this according to SMP who emailed me earlier today:
SMP has picked North Carolina to represent him whether they are the overall number one seed or not. Why? The have a history of choking. Roy Williams did too until 2005. What could be better? Besides, they were pre-season favorites, so it makes sense they'll choke.
The "guy" that knocks SMP out of the tournament (except if it's in the FINALS) will
NOT become the OWCTM, much like the defending National Champion in hoops loses in the second round, the team that beat them in the second round does not win the National Championship in the second round. Make sense?
Only the winner of the tournament gets the ONLY WORLD TITLE THAT MATTERS.
The recaps will be quick and short, especially after the first weekend as I'll have about 33 matches to do in a couple of days before the second round kicks off the following week.
It'll be something like this, say Axl has Oklahoma and Oklahoma wins (depending on if they DON'T play Oklahoma State in the first round)
The Sooners win a blow out. Then Axl kicks the ass of whomever to reflect the game's score. OKLA Wins by 10? Axl gets a cheap victory by devious means. Wins on a buzzer beater? Axl school boys the dude and pulls his tights after getting beat up all night.
They recaps will be "highlights" of the first round, find and read the original March Mayhem for a good idea on how this is going to work.
It's not going to be a full show, there's too much going on in a span of three weeks to pull that off. When the numbers go down around the Final 8, I may put in a little more action, but don't hold your breath. I'm lazy. Ya dig?
Have fun, pull for your team! Cleveland St. could make you THE ONLY WORLD CHAMPION THAT MATTERS!
Good night!
J