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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 1, 2017 20:43:07 GMT -5
When a lot of rpers came to the XHF, it was like a paradigm shift for them. Due to the BDDWF's origin at the NM board there were a lot of unique elements to the XHF that basically became the trend for a lot of feds later on.
1. RP/Show styles. We only had one rp forum and it was just a pit of everything. There were rps for matches, rps for character development, and rps for fun and everything you produced may or may not have counted toward your match (hint, you had to at least mention your opponent in passing). If you put out 10 high quality rps a week, your name was Reeshi and you crushed everyone beneath your iron will. If you put out one high quality roleplay every two weeks, you were probably Rage hoping to bank off of the "quality not quantity" clause (often times successfully). And if you put out non-stop garbage everyone hated you for a while, but also tried to help you and work with you because 1)it was an easy win and 2) XHFers trained new guys frequently. But it was insane. There were no official time windows other than "the closer you get to the show, the less likely your rp is gonna count for a lot." Which was funny, because it accidentally eliminated the problem of "sandbagging" (though many complained of being sandbagged not knowing the match had already been booked).
2. Along with that was how matches were made. Nothing was pre-booked in XHF (except tournements/Cruiserfeds/and some world title matches). Everything was done in the rp forum. You wanted a match? Challenge someone, do an open challenge, or kick down the commissioner's door.
3. Real and Original Characters. Coming from the NMM Board, we were sort of forced to accommodate everyone. This became especially needed when the NMM Board's wrestling forum fed closed and there were a bunch of rpers who used real guys. We just let them all in. And somehow Chris Kanyon (who we specifically mentioned in the rules as the definition of a "not believable enough" world champ) became world champ.
4. ezBoard. ezBoard was just coming up and we grabbed onto it at the perfect time. It allowed people to be in 20 feds with the same guy without having to make new accounts; something I still think is ez/yuku's greatest strength. Proboards has it now too, but its more linking than actual global-ness.
5. Creative freedom. The XHF was operated in a very "hands off" way. Roleplayers had a crap ton of freedom with their content. The only suggestion we made was that they keep it within the realm of prime-time television (specifically banning sex,drugs, and major crimes). But other than that, people were free to do whatever they wanted. Heck, you can see that in action here with Venom's deep introspective rp series getting interrupted by Doc being as Docish as possible only for him to also be interrupted by Shogun-Tron almost certainly sticking his nose into my Nelly rp, lol. That's XHF style, baby.
6. Unique booking. With our titles (especially the World title) we didn't just put them on the rper of the week (Ultimate title/X*Crown excluded). But instead we only shifted the title onto people who had proved themselves to be reliable both in rps and in their personal character. They were people who were team-players and didn't complain when they'd lose a match. They were people who'd rp the same no matter where they were on the card. And the rpers noticed, they saw these people as the living legends they were; it was an extremely effective booking decision. If you wanna know why Harry won basically every title, that's why.
We were revolutionary in effeding...but, times change.
The XHF's rp system was rough and a lot of guys couldn't stand a chance at becoming world champ unless they made serious dents in their schedules. So one of the first shifts I noticed was that people were starting to want to go back to more structured rp systems. Most notably, we lost a lot of guys to NCW's 2 rp a week between x time and x time structure. It was reliable and predictable and far less stressful. Plus, NCW and other feds were pre-booking matches; you just rped against whoever you were put against (as opposed to having to make your own match). People can say that they left because of booking issues or problems with admins, but none of that had changed; I feel it was that rp/match systems that did it (I still love the XHF's style btw- even if it means more losses for my characters).
ezBoard got hacked and everyone left. We were the only fed left standing after the hack because somehow we had gone relatively unscathed (and props to NMM for figuring out the ezAlgorithm for how posts were made so that we were able to backdoor into deleted posts and restore them). Even after upgrading to Yuku, the reputation had already been tarnished. Plus Proboards were making a huge comeback because they had upgraded the backend a bit to make board editing more flexible. A lot of people moved to Proboards (and when we reopened, so did we).
Our booking style pissed off a lot of people. But I always stood by it because the only reason why people were pissed was that it WORKED. Fed-hoppers couldn't win the world title because they couldn't concentrate. Jackasses couldn't win because they were dicks and complainers. It kept guys from taking the title to another fed and desecrating it (though it did happen once, you know who you are). Was it fair? I'd say yes, because that's how a real fed books. But a lot of people didn't like that and wanted to be able to win based on their rps alone (which, to its credit, made Nelly beating Ace in a submission match on his 6th year anniversary oh so sweet in NCW). We lost a lot of people to that too.
So now, things have changed again. I've been camping at reddit's r/efeds for chances to swoop up prospective member feds but...there's some problems....
1. Now Proboards has fallen again, lol! From what I hear, Zetaboards has more flexibility (people still get wooed by crappy feds with a website-feel) and there's a startling amount of feds that just sit on Facebook, which doesn't even seem like a good format. Heck, I've seen feds on reddit- reddit ain't designed for feds!
2. The rp pit is more dead than ever, lol. Most feds these days (reddit garbage not included) have everything super categorized. Like we had the rp pit and the "XHF shows" section later on but now there's more and more segmentation. Each show has an rp forum, there's "website" material, "tv" material, "dirtsheet" material. I don't know if you've been to the IWF (the new NCW) but there's so many rp forums I don't know where the real rp forum is, lol. I get lost on the board and don't want to have to figure it out.
3. Social media. Back towards the end of XHF, a few guys were running twitters for their characters. Now it's like a requirement. I've visited a few feds and most of them have a section in the application for "Character's social media accounts." I find this especially amusing because the rp pit is out of favor, but its spirit lives on in people having to basically shed their lives to keep their character up, lol. In fact, some feds operate ONLY on social media posts; with those counting as the rp. It's a strange new world.
4. So, when XHF opened, we were using real and original wrestlers. The pendulum went a little further and as we were closing around 80-90% of feds were original characters only. But now it's swung back, HARD. Most feds I see advertised are real-wrestler exclusive. It's frustrating, because a lot are just opening and we could corral them here if not for that weird sticking point.
Efedding has changed a lot in nearly 20 years. I wanted to share my recent findings and hear what you guys thought of all the changes. Are they good, bad, destiny? Have you noticed any other trends over the years?
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Post by Slainmaker on Apr 15, 2017 18:17:59 GMT -5
Never really paid attention to any other e-feds. Got to be different to stand out. Have a lot more interest in the real life promotions with a distinct interpretation of wrestling (ECW / Lucha Underground / Chikara) than the TNAs or assorted indies that just try to join in.
Was always open to the idea of pre-booked matches in small amounts. In my mind a few oddball six-mans to open shows could have fixed a few tiny issues. Newbies struggling to get involved, open challenge every week syndrome, introspective or non-traditional rping styles that don't lend themselves to matchmaking, a soft glass ceiling (perspex?) from established names always pairing themselves off with other established names etc. Also the Lesnar schedule of month of promos leading to one match would be quite popular so you could end up with, for example, someone putting in great stuff for two solid months but end up with jack because of a couple of bad match-ups.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 15, 2017 20:00:28 GMT -5
Yeah, even back in the day I thought about pre-booked matches, but there wasn't really a clean way to insert them into our cards and explain them. I was looking through the old war rooms and realized that even with matches set up our style a lot of people didn't realize their matches were on the cards, lol.
As it is about other efeds; the more I look around the more I realize just how revolutionary the XHF was. And that wasn't all me. You (Ish), Game, Millennium, Sanders, and BDD set the standard before I came in and then us power three built off that in an Xtreme way. But our style was grueling, lol. It really was a test for if someone could hang in a fed long-term. Even for the admins- I remember Game didn't even have a personal life until he took himself completely away from the XHF for a while and suddenly realized he was also a high school student, lol. So to those of you who did admin at XHF; my hats off to you- people only remember a few admins, but everyone worked their tails off and that should be recognized. I hope that one day the XHF Network can birth the new generation of revolution in efedding that we've made a name with.
This might be a difference of opinion, but I only see two issues on there, lol. I thought newbies having trouble getting started was part of their training and the non-traditional rping was something I loved about the XHF that a lot of other feds (still) lack (though the super introspective stuff was not my style). Like most boards have a "character development" section, but since there's actual matches to rp for and since the CD rps are separate- who's gonna read that? XHF's rp pit I thought was a solution to that problem.
But, I do agree that open challenge syndrome was a problem, especially in the last couple of years and the glass ceiling thing really bothered me. That's why I didn't like the XHF Civil War storyline, because I felt like it was established guys fighting "rookies" who were also already established.
I know with Congo's X*Crown series I specifically tried to face different people as much as possible (hence why I limited people's chances to 2 matches each.
Speaking of the X*Crown, Ish, hat's off to you. I'm pretty sure the X*Crown was your idea and I still have yet to see any fed have anything even close to it. I remember when it was pitched I dug my heels in and hated the X*Crown. I have never been more happy to be wrong, lol.
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Post by Slainmaker on Apr 17, 2017 18:00:24 GMT -5
You can tell the X*Crown was my idea because it was a straight puro rip Turned out better than I thought it would when it kept on growing. I may be drinking the XHF kool-aid here but I can't think of any examples real or fictional of two titles that sat alongside each other at the top of the card as comfortably as the XHF and XC. The XC was distinct historically, functionally and even visually. We all knew the XHF was running the show and their title would probably go on last, but we also knew that was home turf bias and the XC champ would have a legitimate claim to being the better man. As someone with a pet peeve about midcard championships that don't mean being the best of anything that impressed me. I did a bad job of communicating back there. Big fan of non-traditional rping and I think we all tried to encourage that if that's what worked for someone but it's a lot easier to get into matches when your character is hanging around in the ring with a microphone. You were saying you didn't like the idea of a CD forum that didn't count towards matches but it'd kinda be the same situation here because if you stuck to CD there would be no matches for it to count to. Now I've typed it out it's not actually that big a deal I think I was just trying to pad out my list. I'll second all the admins doing a great job and putting in serious work. If people like me and you were around so long it was because we were backseat passengers while others were putting up shows, running the place and creating the environment for others to enjoy. That's a big ask and no one can keep that up forever so let's not pretend longevity matters. The War Room was boring because everyone was so decent and the pay was shit so thank you all.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 17, 2017 21:26:19 GMT -5
And that's it exactly, we ran the X*Crown differently than the XHF title and in made it feel different though still extremely powerful. It also helped out a lot because there were a lot of great rpers who'd have a heck of a time getting the XHF title because we booked that like we'd book a real fed (total overness, backstage behavior, potential fueds, time until the next multi-man, etc) and it heavenly favored the champion. But the X*Crown was designed to go to the best RPer for that match, and I remember that although there were some paper champs, there were a few times where the X*Crown guy was doing better than the XHF guy.
Every time you made a suggestion I auto-dug-in my heels on you and tried to stop it; then again, 90% of your ideas were stuff you saw on Japanese wrestling that week, lol. But I will say that the X*Crown was pure genius and more unique than any Japanese equivalent. Also, Cruiserfest. When the WWE did the cruiserweight classic last year I kept thinking about our first Cruiserfeds tournament- but ours was what...round robin double knock-out or something like that? I remember that people didn't like the format- but I thought it was cool. Then we build on Crusierfest well with different gimmicks each year. Both really cool ideas.
I absolutely agree and it couldn't have been said any better, Ish. Big props to everyone who kept things going all the time.
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Post by Rage (aka NoMercyMaster2001) on Apr 18, 2017 1:50:16 GMT -5
Yep, myself being a prime example of that in fact. That's the one thing that Rage never accomplished his entire career was to hold the XHF Title itself, and a lot of the reason for that is because guys like Reesh/MGK/Velez/Venom were all just SO insanely well-rounded/polished altogether that they literally maintained a stranglehold on that belt during the entirety of my prime, lol. But, the brilliance of the whole situation was that, on the other hand, I DID manage to still cement my legacy in a completely different way, that being through capturing the X*Crown (which rewarded my excellent short-burst smack talk RP ability rather than months-long longevity which was never my strong suit anyhow) from Rat at one point. Other than beating Millenium for the original Ultimate Title at NoC, that X*Crown win will always be the proudest day of my life at XHF. That's how much the X*Crown in general and having that other available path to top-notch success genuinely meant to me, I remember being obsessed/in awe with that whole concept of it containing like 10 different fed titles within the same championship, I'd never seen anything remotely like it before whatsoever. AND since one of the championships included in it was Rage's beloved BDDWF/XHF Ultimate Title itself, that's why it all fell seamlessly into place storyline-wise and the character was equally obsessed/driven with always attempting to get his hands on it throughout his entire career, he was never truly "complete" unless he had that Ultimate Title within his grasp in some form or another. So all in all that truly was the greatest e-fed invention ever with the X*Crown, it allowed the admins to defy all common e-fed logic and keep EVERYONE excited/satisfied with 2 completely separate, yet equally awesome main event-level title chases going on at all times, having the XHF/X*Crown titles share the spotlight IS undeniably the reason that XHF thrived to the point where we legit had like 40-50 fully active RPers during the absolute peak of the company, once newcomers caught wind of that whole setup they instantly wanted to begin climbing the ladder themselves in order to eventually be involved and that in turn kept things flowing right along to perfection with feuds/opponents constantly rotating in and out at just the right pace and both titles meant more for it since they played off each other flawlessly.
Oh and I definitely remember when we did the Cruiserfests too, my god those were awesome too with getting to finally see all the little dudes back then in XHF get their well-deserved moment in the sun as well finally. So no doubt, as soon as I saw WWE running that Cruiserweight Classic of their own a year ago, I was instantly reminded and so proud of the fact that WAY before they had even remotely considered this concept, XHF had already done it and done it well MANY years beforehand. Just like we did with the Night Of Champions PPV, which WWE also ended up conveniently copying later on, lol. I'll definitely laugh my ass off if someday WWE does "just so happen" to create their own X*Crown too, which I wouldn't put it past them to also do at some point, but that would even further confirm my belief that XHF was one of the best e-feds in history period, and we were so ahead of our time too so to speak, we came up with so many different ideas that nobody else would've ever thought of in a million years, what a collection of gifted minds we had running the place, not to mention, the countless amount of jaw-droppingly talented RPers we were blessed to have in the fold through the years.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 18, 2017 2:44:27 GMT -5
Yeah, the X*Crown was built for RPers like you NMM, great guys who can whip it out hard but aren't really suited for the grind. On top of that, there was this constant tension on both titles because usually the XHF Champ would defend every week and with that many matches there was always the chance he'd slip up; and with the X*Crown's booking style everyone knew the title could change hands any time. Y'know, WWE has their own "ultimate" title now, but Brock's not doing anything with it and we can still pretty much guarantee he's gonna hold it for a while. Nah, that ain't XHF style Vince, that's a mistake.
Y'know, that's one of the things that makes the X*Crown so amazing. Because it's been nearly 10 years now and the XHF title means something to us, but might not for others. The X*Crown though, that could come back tomorrow and be the hottest title again because it's so big from a physical standpoint. That's why with the XHF Network, I decided to use the X*Crown as the global title just because it's bigger than any one fed.
Well, we got house of horrors this month (which I'm sure was an XHF match at one point); and I'm still waiting for the greenhouse to show up, lol. That NoC thing really...I mean, C'MON! Maybe Smackdown will have Overheated as their summer fun ppv, lol. I still remember we had Destruction/Mueller in a greenhouse and A MONTH LATER WWE did HHH/Jericho in a HiaC. There's gotta be a mole somewhere on our roster, lol.
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Post by Rage (aka NoMercyMaster2001) on Apr 18, 2017 22:33:24 GMT -5
Oh man I had somehow forgotten all about that GREAT and oh-so-savage Greenhouse match too, lol, I'm pretty sure Rage took part in at least 2-3 of those matches, I distinctly seem to remember Destruction also facing him in it in an all-time classic level bout just like he did with Mueller. And no doubt that there were WAY too many "coincidences" back then with XHF guys' real pic bases soon facing each other after they had previously feuded at XHF, lol, I absolutely remember how that HHH/Jericho storyline went down immediately after Des and James had faced here, so bizarre indeed.
Precisely. The X*Crown is just so special in every way and has that extra aura around it, particularly because like I mentioned, one of the titles included in it is the Ultimate Title, which is the only championship to technically span the entire existence of XHF other than the XHF Title itself, it originated in BDDWF which is the true birthplace/origin of XHF altogether anyway, and numerous certified legends held that strap while it was still a standalone title.
Yep big mistake there I completely agree, there will only be 2 guys period that he is allowed to drop it to at some point, those being...Roman, and Braun...that's it, lol. Much as I love Seth, Bray and Balor to death too, there's just realistically no way that Vince will ever allow Brock to lose to any of those 3 clean, not gonna happen, even as Seth's #1 fan I can admit that point blank, lol. I still think that entire trio will all end up becoming Universal Champs nonetheless, but it won't be via pinning or submitting Brock himself, that honor is already reserved for the Chosen 2 unfortunately. But, I'm loving Braun right now obviously, so I hope it'll be him rather than Roman who becomes the next guy to defeat Brock straight up.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 18, 2017 22:44:30 GMT -5
NoC 1's ME was Millennium vs Rage in a triple-tier greenhouse, wasn't it? Or was it a triple-tier HiaC?
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Post by Rage (aka NoMercyMaster2001) on Apr 18, 2017 23:19:22 GMT -5
Yep, just went back and double-checked now at the BDDWF board on that, and not only was it a Triple-Tier Greenhouse match, but it was ALSO 3 Stages Of Hell, with the Greenhouse serving as Stage #3, good grief that match was siiiiick. Also, I DID in fact face Destruction in that other Greenhouse match that I was thinking of, that one was at NoC II exactly a year later when we faced for the US Title. Wow, that's incredible that I was actually involved with both of the first 2 NoC Greenhouse matches ever, plus, I won them both, hehe, now that I went back and re-read some of that match with Destruction, that one is definitely my #3 biggest win behind the Millennium/Rat Bastard victories. I just loved facing Destruction over and over back then, those 2 flat out went to hell and back with each other, I can see why Carlos had no personal life back then as you mentioned earlier in this thread, he was just as into and invested in with both Des/Velez as I was with Rage/Matt Hicks back then, lol, fully developing those characters literally became what all our personal time revolved around. And I'll never be able to thank both Reeshi/MGK enough for being the BEASTS that they were non-stop in the RP forum, they were what fueled me to stay active and keep evolving myself too for so long, damn I loved those 2 so much. It was truly a spectacle how EVERY single RP those 2 pumped out was a novel, yet, it kept you riveted with no exceptions. And Steve/Carlos were gifted in that exact same way, the only difference being that they found their own niche through utilizing the exact opposite approach with much shorter overall RPs in length, but their RPs packed the same punch because every bit of what they said you could tell came straight from the heart and had that certain rare soulful/inspirational feel around it. Oh and I think there's a strong case to be made that Reeshi was quite possibly the GOAT of XHF due to sheer dominance, I notice that the NoC 2 XHF Title match he lost to Scorpion was the first time he had lost at all in SIX MONTHS at the time. Daaaaaaaaamn, I'm still convinced that Tommy was some sorta cyborg RPer sent to us from the future or something, like literally our own Terminator, I mean, normal human beings aren't supposed to be THAT immune to defeat, LOL.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 19, 2017 1:28:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I absolutely believe that Reeshi was actually a robot programed to spit out amazing rps. I mean, how was he able to do it with such frequency? And he was super humble OOC, so when he got the championship, we all knew he'd be on top for a while.
You forget too that for a while Game was also pretending to be his younger "brother," and rping as a tag team with him too.
MGK and the new generation were awesome as well- it's easy to overlook them, but one shouldn't. You can literally go to any time in XHF's history and start reading shows and rps and be wowed; I think that's a legacy to be proud of
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Post by Rage (aka NoMercyMaster2001) on Apr 19, 2017 13:45:28 GMT -5
Yep, there was no other possible explanation, lol, he was a machine, and unless you had the mind-numbing capability with words in that way that he did, you were destined to be steamrolled by default. That's why I LOVED when MGK finally came along while Reesh was still also in his prime years, the RP battles those 2 waged were like XHF's version size-wise of Big Show vs. Braun Strowman, Reesh was Show as the old guard trying to keep standing his ground no matter what it took, but it was clear that MGK was the wave of the future just like Braun, he was the first guy besides Scorpion who could mentally challenge Reeshi to that degree, so it was awesome seeing Tommy actually pushed to his true limits and getting his cage fully rattled so to speak at long last, since so many others like Rage, Destruction and Mongo had all tried in vain to do it, but nope, ultimately none of us had anything for that behemoth, lol, only Scorps and MGK had what it took to dig down deep enough to go toe to toe with this guy for an extended period of time during a feud. And you couldn't be any more correct that Tommy is sincerely one of the nicest, most humble guys that ever was in XHF period, so that's why nobody really minded at all that he enjoyed the god-level of success that he did with both Reesh AND that other juggernaut Platinum-Decoy tag team, because not only did he earn it 110% every step of the way, but he was worthy on a personal level of being considered our GOAT.
Ohhhh yeah I was trying earlier to put two and two together with the whole Dark Parade thing, since I also remembered that it was supposed to have been Carlos' "brother" doing those RPs, so yeah, no wonder that team was always so silly good just like the rest of his characters, it was him all along, LOL. And speaking of which, I also happened to re-read that short farewell speech that Destruction gave immediately after that final NoC showdown that he had won against Reeshi, and wow, what an emotional way to sum up everything XHF symbolized in basically just one paragraph, we had every aspect of society portrayed by someone at some point during the company's original run, and every single real-life WWE personality (not to mention countless other companies like TNA/ROH back then) ended up at some point or another being used VERY effectively by somebody within the fed. And speaking of which, I notice the original XHF board is now creeping up on soon reaching exactly, 4 Million, yes, 4 f'n MILLION overall views now. Not to mention the 87,000+ posts that took place there too according to the stats at the bottom of the board, geez, both those numbers in particular are just staggering beyond all imagination, I highly doubt there is another e-fed across the entire internet that can approach, much less surpass, both those achievements. We truly had it all and were on top of the world altogether during those first 8 years, and back then none of us could've even realized in the heat of the moment what was unfolding overall at the time either I'm sure, lol, but at least now in hindsight, we most certainly do.
For sure. That next generation midway through the early 2000's that notably included MGK, AJ Phoenix, Kevin Hardaway, Spike Kane and Reckless Jack (among a slew of others) turned out to be JUST as good as the previous one as it turned out, they arrived on the scene extremely motivated to carry on the XHF legacy long-term and they proceeded to do exactly that, right up until the end. And as you say, any point whatsoever during XHF's initial stint was one well worth going back and re-reading these days, the fact that we have nearly 30 different RP archive forums (which are ALL jam-packed with legit classic RPs) on that old board is a Testament (pun intended there as a shoutout to Dave/DT's awesome XHF tag team by that name, lol) to the encyclopedia of non-stop greatness that that old board truly entailed. I'm so glad that both that board and the BDDWF one somehow mostly survived that vicious Ezboard attack and still live on indefinitely into the future now, so even though hardly any of the great PPV match graphics from back then work anymore, we still have the on-paper archive of XHF fully intact.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 19, 2017 20:40:03 GMT -5
You honestly have no idea how big of a deal that was for me at the time. The way we booked the XHF Championship was always called into question because it was not always given to the best rper at the time- but yeah, Reeshi's run really made the belt look good and was a big help for us. Got a link handy? I'd like to check that out. I recently went to check out the old TXA board and...it's basically nothing, kind of like the NM board. We got off so darn lucky in that attack because the XHF boards were virtually untouched; all the more surprising because we actually had a ton to lose. I still consider our coming out unscathed to be some sort of an act of God; to him be praised, lol. Yeah, I'd actually like to fix those graphics back up; but I don't have anyone who'd do it, lol. I'd ask the dude who made our new layout but he uses imgur and I've lost my trust with them- even though I'm pretty sure imgur is usually forever, lol. Our archives are so amazing, every time I go there just for a peek I end up staying for a few hours- and being so many years removed from it all, all the content seems new and fresh again. You guys should check out stuff by that um...hold on, let me check his name....ah, ok, "Mongo the Desserter" (sp?) his stuff is really fun
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Post by Rage (aka NoMercyMaster2001) on Apr 19, 2017 23:01:44 GMT -5
Yeah it was just part of that final NOC broadcast itself, Des got on the mic here after the match and cut such a great promo to capture the entire essence of XHF as a whole: xhfboard.yuku.com/topic/14301/The-XHF-Presents-Night-of-Champions-VII-33008?page=-1lol yeah, it was some sort of higher-power at work with sparing us total obliteration during that hack, I think we did lose a relatively small chunk of archived RPs/shows but otherwise, it was as if nothing ever happened, so God is definitely a diehard XHF fan. Yeah that totally should be the next major project you do involving the XHF mothership board, that would be amazing as hell to actually be able to visualize every single PPV match again with proper pic bases applied as you're going back and re-reading them, that's literally all that board is missing now since the rest of it is fully up-to-date again. And I still cannot thank whoever it was enough that made that final banner on top of that board too, that banner encompasses EVERYONE noteworthy from XHF's entire original span, that thing is glorious. There must be at least 50-60 different former title holders squeezed onto it, lol, nuts.
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Post by Slainmaker on Apr 23, 2017 18:40:45 GMT -5
I'm completely fine with WWE feeding on scraps from our overflowing ideas table. Mostly because if our lawyers start kicking up a stink that might draw attention to that table and our entire format being stolen from them in the first place.
We must have had hundreds of unique gimmick matches over the years. If I get bored I'll compile a list and see how many we can actually remember (I was just looking one up mentioned in the XHF title changes because it rang a bell and it took me far too long to realise I invented it.) The freedom of a fantasy fed was rarely used as consistently as when match writers were given outrageous structures and stipulations with the ability to take advantage of them with no concern for fatalities. I was never a prolific match writer but I remember matches like those being a creative challenge I enjoyed. The whole hardcore thing was playing itself out of wrestling at the time, but especially now that wrestling has started being sensible in that area it makes sense for a fantasy fed to flaunt it.
Reeshi wasn't the only guy to shift into beast gear but he certainly stuck out as being the first. As said he was a great guy and thank God because you don't want that kind of power being used for evil. I remember feeling like I should be throwing in the white towel on his behalf. It was a bit of a JR show-ending rant in my head. 'Yeah you're still champion, but at what price!? Where's your humanity? Think of your family they just want to see you again. You're rping yourself into an early grave, and for what? The XHF Championship? Well I hope you're damn happy.'
NMM it's been a pleasure to read your reflections in this thread. You've been our superfan all along and I'm sorry to say I used to take that passion for granted. The word I associate most with my time in the XHF is work but you're proof that all of our efforts paid off.
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