Participants will draft wrestlers to pit against each other and create their own supercard.
Draft will go 15 rounds. Fill six or seven matches.
Participants will have:
A world title match
A mid-card title match
A tag team title match
3-4 non-title matches; can be gimmick-free, can be gimmick matches, your call
**I AM NOT GOING TO VETO A SINGLE PICK IN THIS DRAFT. I WILL ALLOW PEOPLE TO PICK AS THEY WISH AND LET THE FIELD SORT OUT HOW WELL YOU DID AT THE END.**
Guidelines of what is expected
World Title Match
This should be at the top of your card. If it isn't, you've probably done something wrong. Former world champions recommended, but I mean you can argue your case for why your non-champion is a legitimate player in this match if you want to go that way.
Midcard Title Match
This can be tricky since as we well know, many superstars navigated their way through an Intercontinental Title or US Title reign before striking it back. So here's how it is: you can put any such people in your midcard title match if you like. But you're getting THAT edition of them that was part of the midcard title scene before they ever became a big star. This is just for one card, so their future that we know they went on to have is irrelevant. They are a midcarder on your card.
Tag Team Title Match
Tag teams will be drafted TOGETHER, and when drafted together they can ONLY compete in your tag title match. You're getting the team at the time that they tagged together...so if you get a wrestler during his humble tag team beginnings, that's all he is on your card is that humble little tag wrestler.
Acceptable teams to pick include established teams that didn't win tag team gold at any point, and any team (established for a long time or not) that DID win tag team gold.
Please note that your tag team title match is intended as a midcard bout. If it outshines your world title match, then that will feel angleshoot-like and will reflect negatively on your draft as a whole. But again, everyone else will sort that out. Roll the dice at your own risk.
Clock
Four-hour time clock. Clock doesn't run from midnight to 8:00a EST. However, if your window rolls into like 12:15a, I'll probably not give you the whole night as a dead zone.
If you are skipped, your clock reduces to three hours for the remainder of the draft. Once you've caught up, if you get skipped again, your clock is at two hours. Another skip after catching up and it's 90 minutes, another skip beyond that and it's at an hour.
If someone outside of the US wants to petition for lenient clock treatment because these are clearly America-centric clock guidelines, then I'll be happy to be flexible. But for those of us in America, those are the rules.
Late Registration
I will allow others to join in while the first round is still in progress. I'll cap it outright at 12. Anything up to that point is good. When the first round ends, the field is locked and nobody else will be able to join.
Format
Standard snake format applies: ABBAABBAABBA and so forth.
Goal
Everything factors in. Will your card draw attendance and buyrates? Will it be great to watch? Does it flow together well as a card?
At the completion of the draft, I ask that all voters participate in a vote deciding the winner. Everyone will rank the rest of the drafts excluding their own, and we'll figure it out that way. We usually abandon these without ever voting on anything, but I'll try to get everyone to participate in this at the end.
Current List of Participants, Not Yet in Draft Order
1. disko
2. Dylan
3. LKJ
4. Judy
5. DWetzel
6. Burdz
7. darO
8. isolated
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10.
11.
12.
Eight is enough to go with, so I'll roll with eight if that's all we get. Would be cool to get at least 10 though. I will rand the draft order when we get 10 or when 9 a.m. EST rolls around (approximately 10 hours from now), whichever occurs first. At that point I'll post the draft order and the #1 pick will be on the clock.
Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...iZkRtdFE#gid=0
Incomplete as of this original post, but it will be up and live shortly after the draft order is randed.
I have left it publicly editable by anyone who goes to the link. Please input your own picks when you make them.
Again, you can sign up in this thread at any point before the first round ends. If you want in, please say so sooner than later, because obviously you can only have a high pick if you're in on the rand. If you join late you'll be added to the end of the draft order, and those already in the draft who haven't picked yet will get priority to move back if they want to for any reason.
