RUMBLE 2024 IS HERE! INFO INSIDE!
Mar 7, 2024 7:07:52 GMT -5
Mongo the Destroyer, Random🎲McConalogue, and 1 more like this
Post by Dave D-Flipz on Mar 7, 2024 7:07:52 GMT -5
XHF NETWORK IT IS THAT TIME AGAIN! I know we are still in the process of putting together the memorial show and that this has been a rough few months for our dysfunctional family. Rest assured we intend to make that memorial show one to remember. And maybe even something more permanent next year depending on what we end up doing with our April baby ...
Yes it is time to talk about the Rumble. There is a 50/50 chance that this is the last one we will be running. The logistics of this match are insane. Anyone who has tried writing one will tell you it is DAMN hard to keep track of 20-30 characters while trying to do everyone justice and make it fun to read. And frankly we have been having issues GETTING writers. This match is a fucking process let me tell you. I would know, I wrote one 2 years back. Ask mosler, it's his favorite rumble he ever won. So the admins are discussing maybe retiring the concept to make things easier. As you have noticed the admins have been going through some lean times as well. Mongo is busy (and realistically he is much better served as our editor and show framework guy) plus ... we're his dirty little secret mistress from his wife so ... Randy isn't really active on the match writing front and acts as our main tie breaker. We've had a few admins burn out or leave for various reasons. Through it all Mongo and I have been trying to hold hit together but it always hurts when we lose a coworker. Dylan, Scorps, Vasty, JJ ... we've been rotating through a lot. Now this year is the first time MArty and Jack will be thrown into the judging fire for this crazy event and honestly between the five of us admins? It's getting harder to eke out time to read THAT much as intently as we have to for judging and ESPECIALLY for the rumble. 5 RPs per character (max, there's usually less), anywhere from 1k to ... well Hype at his peak is a 10k monster ... trying to organize all our thoughts to form a coherent rumble, taking into consideration storylines leading into the show from the individual feds or throughlines set up by the promos, taking into account your spots and trying to make sure the match isn't backloaded with all the fun. Put simply it's a lot. So ... this will be a litmus test for if we can continue this tradition in 2025. But for 2024??
The show will include 3 matches. A JHW title match between the champ and a rep from TAPOUT. A global tag title match featuring the champs vs reps from CAR. And of course ... the rumble. We will be at the Little Caesar's Arena in Detroit, Michigan (if you can't figure out why that's on you) with a capacity of 22,000. The theme song is "Warriors of the World United" by Feuerschwanz feat. Angus Mcfife, Saltatio Mortis, and Melissa Bonny
So what are the rules for the rumble itself? Well they've been updated a tad this year. Signups are open ... now ... over in the XHF Roleplays forum. You will note there are THREE sign up tiers. We are limiting all handlers to TWO serious challengers to prevent burnout. Tier 1 is your serious challengers. Tier 2 is for people you want in the match to further a story or to use their presence as a future story, but you don't intend to promo to win with them. Tier 3 is for you to throw us some fodder/jobber characters for me to have fun with and to be eliminations for the others. WE ARE ALSO ALLOWING OUTSIDERS TO SIGN UP FOR THE FIRST TIME! If you stopped in for the memorial show or via another fed or advertisement, feel free to pop into our rumble for the network's top prize! Hence the theme of warriors of the world united! TO ALL SIGN UPS: WHEN YOU SIGN UP PLEASE INCLUDE A LINK TO THE BIO YOU WANT US TO USE TO WRITE THE MATCH, OUTSIDERS SHOULD POST A BIO IN THIS LINKED FORUM - also please have an entrance theme and wrestling style with a few basic moves and signatures for me to play with?
TIER 3: Jobbers, no promos, expect them to be in comedy spots or used to put over others.
TIER 2: ONE PROMO MAX up to 2k words - I will give them a fair showing you expect from low to mid carders in the Royal RUmble.
TIER 1: UP TO TWO CHARACTERS PER HANDLER - UP TO 5 PROMOS WITH A WORD LIMIT OF 3K PER PROMO! - If you post AT LEAST ONE promo I will give them a good showing you expect from an upper midcarder or main eventer. TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN THE X*CROWN WE WANT TO SEE AT LEAST 2 PROMOS!
SIGNUPS WILL END MARCH 29 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN - PROMO PERIOD WILL RUN FROM SATURDAY MARCH 30 THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 20 AT 11:59PM EASTERN!
Of course the X*Crown champion will get to enter the rumble last and is automatically entered - though with the belt in SCCW and being determined via RNG, feel free to sign up even if you are champ in case of the worst happening. The defense should be happening inside the signup window but ya know, just to be safe.
Oh ... also you'll note I said for "me" to have fun with ... yeah I'm a glutton for punishment and this is my big sendoff, the final big thing I am going to be writing before dropping my output down to one match per PPV. So for the first time, a rumble writer is writing a second rumble. So send me any spots, strategies, entrances, quirks, rivalries, info here on the board or on discord once promos get going.
That's basically all I got for all y'all. Thanks for all your participation, please have fun, and enjoy another of my insane attempts to top myself...
Yes it is time to talk about the Rumble. There is a 50/50 chance that this is the last one we will be running. The logistics of this match are insane. Anyone who has tried writing one will tell you it is DAMN hard to keep track of 20-30 characters while trying to do everyone justice and make it fun to read. And frankly we have been having issues GETTING writers. This match is a fucking process let me tell you. I would know, I wrote one 2 years back. Ask mosler, it's his favorite rumble he ever won. So the admins are discussing maybe retiring the concept to make things easier. As you have noticed the admins have been going through some lean times as well. Mongo is busy (and realistically he is much better served as our editor and show framework guy) plus ... we're his dirty little secret mistress from his wife so ... Randy isn't really active on the match writing front and acts as our main tie breaker. We've had a few admins burn out or leave for various reasons. Through it all Mongo and I have been trying to hold hit together but it always hurts when we lose a coworker. Dylan, Scorps, Vasty, JJ ... we've been rotating through a lot. Now this year is the first time MArty and Jack will be thrown into the judging fire for this crazy event and honestly between the five of us admins? It's getting harder to eke out time to read THAT much as intently as we have to for judging and ESPECIALLY for the rumble. 5 RPs per character (max, there's usually less), anywhere from 1k to ... well Hype at his peak is a 10k monster ... trying to organize all our thoughts to form a coherent rumble, taking into consideration storylines leading into the show from the individual feds or throughlines set up by the promos, taking into account your spots and trying to make sure the match isn't backloaded with all the fun. Put simply it's a lot. So ... this will be a litmus test for if we can continue this tradition in 2025. But for 2024??
XHF RUMBLE! APRIL 28, 2024!
The show will include 3 matches. A JHW title match between the champ and a rep from TAPOUT. A global tag title match featuring the champs vs reps from CAR. And of course ... the rumble. We will be at the Little Caesar's Arena in Detroit, Michigan (if you can't figure out why that's on you) with a capacity of 22,000. The theme song is "Warriors of the World United" by Feuerschwanz feat. Angus Mcfife, Saltatio Mortis, and Melissa Bonny
So what are the rules for the rumble itself? Well they've been updated a tad this year. Signups are open ... now ... over in the XHF Roleplays forum. You will note there are THREE sign up tiers. We are limiting all handlers to TWO serious challengers to prevent burnout. Tier 1 is your serious challengers. Tier 2 is for people you want in the match to further a story or to use their presence as a future story, but you don't intend to promo to win with them. Tier 3 is for you to throw us some fodder/jobber characters for me to have fun with and to be eliminations for the others. WE ARE ALSO ALLOWING OUTSIDERS TO SIGN UP FOR THE FIRST TIME! If you stopped in for the memorial show or via another fed or advertisement, feel free to pop into our rumble for the network's top prize! Hence the theme of warriors of the world united! TO ALL SIGN UPS: WHEN YOU SIGN UP PLEASE INCLUDE A LINK TO THE BIO YOU WANT US TO USE TO WRITE THE MATCH, OUTSIDERS SHOULD POST A BIO IN THIS LINKED FORUM - also please have an entrance theme and wrestling style with a few basic moves and signatures for me to play with?
TIER 3: Jobbers, no promos, expect them to be in comedy spots or used to put over others.
TIER 2: ONE PROMO MAX up to 2k words - I will give them a fair showing you expect from low to mid carders in the Royal RUmble.
TIER 1: UP TO TWO CHARACTERS PER HANDLER - UP TO 5 PROMOS WITH A WORD LIMIT OF 3K PER PROMO! - If you post AT LEAST ONE promo I will give them a good showing you expect from an upper midcarder or main eventer. TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN THE X*CROWN WE WANT TO SEE AT LEAST 2 PROMOS!
SIGNUPS WILL END MARCH 29 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN - PROMO PERIOD WILL RUN FROM SATURDAY MARCH 30 THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 20 AT 11:59PM EASTERN!
Of course the X*Crown champion will get to enter the rumble last and is automatically entered - though with the belt in SCCW and being determined via RNG, feel free to sign up even if you are champ in case of the worst happening. The defense should be happening inside the signup window but ya know, just to be safe.
Oh ... also you'll note I said for "me" to have fun with ... yeah I'm a glutton for punishment and this is my big sendoff, the final big thing I am going to be writing before dropping my output down to one match per PPV. So for the first time, a rumble writer is writing a second rumble. So send me any spots, strategies, entrances, quirks, rivalries, info here on the board or on discord once promos get going.
That's basically all I got for all y'all. Thanks for all your participation, please have fun, and enjoy another of my insane attempts to top myself...