END OF DAYS 2023 IS HERE!
Sept 3, 2023 1:54:42 GMT -5
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Post by Dave D-Flipz on Sept 3, 2023 1:54:42 GMT -5
Ladies and gentlemen ... it is time for END OF DAYS! The tournament that makes stars and puts you in the history books with the other champions and special events winners. Over the last few years there have been some changes made to this format, and a lot of crazy themes and gimmicks. So this year we have a simpler theme, something to take us back through the history of the event. In fact that is the theme. It's all about history. Each of the four weekly shows leading up to EOD Proper will be a theme song and a theme of a previous end of days event! That's right people, the events will line up as you see below - and keep in mind you are free to volunteer to host a show as well, adding your matches and commentary to the card and the event gets posted in yours AND the global forum. Great way to get eyes on the product you guys are putting out. IF ANY FEDS WANT TO COHOST ONE OF THE OPEN WEEKS PLEASE CONTACT ME, MONGO, JESSE, MARTY, AND SCORPS BY SEPT. 15!
WEEK 1 - OCTOBER 1 - COHOSTED BY TAPOUT
This event will feature the first round of the singles tournament, and half of the first round of the tag tourney. 6 matches in total. In homage to the old days of XHF EOD events, there were no stipulations, so every match will be a standard match. Perfect for the possible hosts. The theme of the event is wrestling, so this one gets a normal stage set up. It will take us to Salt Lake City, Utah - a moderately short distance from Vegas - and the theme song is Born with Nothing, Die with Everything by Papa Roach. This event is a throwback to the May 2003 End of Days, the 2nd ever! Fittingly the winner of this event, Lance Storm, got an X*Crown shot at the next PPV.
WEEK 2 - OCTOBER 8 - open for hosting
In homage to the May 2004 event, week 2 will be at ... well Shea Stadium doesn't exist anymore so Citi Field in New York City, NY! Everything is glitzier and glammier in the Big Apple which is why that show was filled with no DQ and violence so every match will be a no DQ match! Again this will be round 2 of the singles tournament and round 1 part 2 of the tag tourney, that's 4 singles and 2 tag matches! The theme is New York glitz and grime and the song is Duality by Slipknot. This one is open to be hosted still so let us know if you want to team up for this one. Oh and this one was won by William Spencer.
WEEK 3 - OCTOBER 15 - COHOSTED BY WUK
ANd now we hit the Network era. This event will pay homage to 2021 and End of Days Battlefield! We return to the war zone of Normandy! Or rather the beach where the warzone was. The theme is of course combat and war and the setting will reflect that. All matches will have a combat/war theme. The song will be Mammoth WVH with "Don't Back Down". This will feature the semifinals, 2 singles and 2 tag matches.
WEEK 4 - OCTOBER 22 - COHOSTED BY C.A.R. AND THE ATHLETIC CUP
This event will be co-hosted by CAR! We get an athletic cup race and a pair of finals matches for a short show. And h2f has decided we need more boats. So we will pay homage to End of Days 2022 and the elements theme with water! The theme song is Rain When I Die by Alice in CHains and the location will actually be a different location in order to facilitate the theme of water. Paying homage also to EOD 2018, Shipwrecked, we will be on the XHF Sailbarge off the coast of San Pedro, California! Our two finals will have water and boat themes and the race? Well wait for h2f to open signups Oct 1!
PPV - OCTOBER 29 - RUN BY XHF NETWORK!
And finally we get to something new! Looking to the future we head to Sacramento, CA. Fittingly our theme song is something XHF has never done ... "Banks of Sacramento" by Nathan Evans! This one will be a stripped down affair, fed title matches will of course be able to be whatever you want in terms of gimmick but the X*Crown match, tag title match, JHW match, and Phoenix match will ALL BE STANDARD ONE FALL and the Hardcore title match will be standard hardcore rules. Feds are welcome to send in one match for the card and it can be any match, not just title matches. Put on the best show! As a note: The X*Crown match will be champ vs. EOD winner, the tag will be champs v Tag Team Annihilator winner, the JHW match will be the champion after WUK's match now, and HKW's in Sept. vs. the rep ... FROM DINOSAUR BONES!
But ok, so we all know the End of Days Tourney is intense so let me recap the rules. Every match will be ONE PROMO of up to 2.5k words! For tag matches it's one per teammate. However, looking forward to this year being a lot more busy than usual we are allowing people who handle BOTH characters of a team to choose to do ONE promo since we will be averaging the scores from teams. For the X*Crown match, this will become 2 promos of unlimited length! For the tag title match it's one per teammate, if you control both? Do 2. The JHW rules are still 1.5k max and one promo. For Hardcore and Phoenix, see the respective Fed heads of JRok and GUNS.
FOr the tag team Annihilator the round up is EXACTLY the same as last year. 8 teams. 2 first round matches week 1, 2 more week 2, from there it's semi finals week 3 and finals week 4. THIS IS OPEN SIGNUPS, THE FIRST 8 TEAMS TO SIGN UP WILL GET IN WITH THE ONLY EXCEPTION BEING IF THE TAG CHAMPS LOSE IN SEPTEMBER THEY CAN CHOOSE TO TAKE THE 8TH SPOT FROM THE LAST SIGNUP!
For the singles EOD tourney! 16 people, the first round consists of 4 fatal-4-way matches. Unlike last year it is not going to be written as 2 people eliminated. In this case it will be the first 2 to get a pinfall advance! How does this change it for you the RPers? It doesn't, we're still taking the top two promos for each match, but this makes a bit more sense logically in kayfabe. After that week 2 is the quarterfinals, week 3 is the semi finals, week 4 is the finals. And we will be reordering the brackets after week 1 so you don't have to promo against the same person 2 weeks straight!
SOOOOOO what does this mean for you fed heads? Well each fed with active participants and at least 2 shows earns a free entry. So here's how that breaks down:
1) JRoK
2) GUNS
3) CAR
4) SCCW
5) TAPOUT
6) WUK
7) HKW
8) Dinosaur Bones
9) DTF
10) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
11) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
12) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
13) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
14) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
15) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
16) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
Now we will have the sign ups posted and feel free to sign up if you want to join no matter what. Because if a fed chooses you as a rep we'll simply move you out of the at large and into that rep slot. If a fed decides NOT to have a rep then that slot becomes an at large! So sign up ASAP regardless if you wanna rep your fed then talk to your fed head! Sign ups will close September 15 at 6PM Eastern
FED HEADS!!! I need your rep choices by 6PM September 15 so we have time to build brackets and get graphics done! Promos will open for week 1 as soon as the first card goes live on Sept 17. Promos for the tag team matches in week 2 will open up then as well so all first round matches. After that happens for each new week, promos open AS SOON AS THE SHOW IS LIVE FOR THE PREVIOUS WEEK! The deadline for EVERY WEEK INCLUDING PPV will be THE THURSDAY BEFORE THE SHOW AT 11:59PM PACIFIC TIME!
Sign ups will open once the posts go live in the XHF Roleplays forum. Feds if you want to submit matches for the main card on the 29th have them submitted to the global admins by October 15. And Dinosaur Bones, make sure your JHW rep is in by then as well. Also GUNS and JROK make sure the Hardcore and Phoenix title matches are submitted by then as well.
THANKS EVERYONE AND HERE'S TO A GREAT END OF DAYS!
-D-Flipz
WEEK 1 - OCTOBER 1 - COHOSTED BY TAPOUT
This event will feature the first round of the singles tournament, and half of the first round of the tag tourney. 6 matches in total. In homage to the old days of XHF EOD events, there were no stipulations, so every match will be a standard match. Perfect for the possible hosts. The theme of the event is wrestling, so this one gets a normal stage set up. It will take us to Salt Lake City, Utah - a moderately short distance from Vegas - and the theme song is Born with Nothing, Die with Everything by Papa Roach. This event is a throwback to the May 2003 End of Days, the 2nd ever! Fittingly the winner of this event, Lance Storm, got an X*Crown shot at the next PPV.
WEEK 2 - OCTOBER 8 - open for hosting
In homage to the May 2004 event, week 2 will be at ... well Shea Stadium doesn't exist anymore so Citi Field in New York City, NY! Everything is glitzier and glammier in the Big Apple which is why that show was filled with no DQ and violence so every match will be a no DQ match! Again this will be round 2 of the singles tournament and round 1 part 2 of the tag tourney, that's 4 singles and 2 tag matches! The theme is New York glitz and grime and the song is Duality by Slipknot. This one is open to be hosted still so let us know if you want to team up for this one. Oh and this one was won by William Spencer.
WEEK 3 - OCTOBER 15 - COHOSTED BY WUK
ANd now we hit the Network era. This event will pay homage to 2021 and End of Days Battlefield! We return to the war zone of Normandy! Or rather the beach where the warzone was. The theme is of course combat and war and the setting will reflect that. All matches will have a combat/war theme. The song will be Mammoth WVH with "Don't Back Down". This will feature the semifinals, 2 singles and 2 tag matches.
WEEK 4 - OCTOBER 22 - COHOSTED BY C.A.R. AND THE ATHLETIC CUP
This event will be co-hosted by CAR! We get an athletic cup race and a pair of finals matches for a short show. And h2f has decided we need more boats. So we will pay homage to End of Days 2022 and the elements theme with water! The theme song is Rain When I Die by Alice in CHains and the location will actually be a different location in order to facilitate the theme of water. Paying homage also to EOD 2018, Shipwrecked, we will be on the XHF Sailbarge off the coast of San Pedro, California! Our two finals will have water and boat themes and the race? Well wait for h2f to open signups Oct 1!
PPV - OCTOBER 29 - RUN BY XHF NETWORK!
And finally we get to something new! Looking to the future we head to Sacramento, CA. Fittingly our theme song is something XHF has never done ... "Banks of Sacramento" by Nathan Evans! This one will be a stripped down affair, fed title matches will of course be able to be whatever you want in terms of gimmick but the X*Crown match, tag title match, JHW match, and Phoenix match will ALL BE STANDARD ONE FALL and the Hardcore title match will be standard hardcore rules. Feds are welcome to send in one match for the card and it can be any match, not just title matches. Put on the best show! As a note: The X*Crown match will be champ vs. EOD winner, the tag will be champs v Tag Team Annihilator winner, the JHW match will be the champion after WUK's match now, and HKW's in Sept. vs. the rep ... FROM DINOSAUR BONES!
But ok, so we all know the End of Days Tourney is intense so let me recap the rules. Every match will be ONE PROMO of up to 2.5k words! For tag matches it's one per teammate. However, looking forward to this year being a lot more busy than usual we are allowing people who handle BOTH characters of a team to choose to do ONE promo since we will be averaging the scores from teams. For the X*Crown match, this will become 2 promos of unlimited length! For the tag title match it's one per teammate, if you control both? Do 2. The JHW rules are still 1.5k max and one promo. For Hardcore and Phoenix, see the respective Fed heads of JRok and GUNS.
FOr the tag team Annihilator the round up is EXACTLY the same as last year. 8 teams. 2 first round matches week 1, 2 more week 2, from there it's semi finals week 3 and finals week 4. THIS IS OPEN SIGNUPS, THE FIRST 8 TEAMS TO SIGN UP WILL GET IN WITH THE ONLY EXCEPTION BEING IF THE TAG CHAMPS LOSE IN SEPTEMBER THEY CAN CHOOSE TO TAKE THE 8TH SPOT FROM THE LAST SIGNUP!
For the singles EOD tourney! 16 people, the first round consists of 4 fatal-4-way matches. Unlike last year it is not going to be written as 2 people eliminated. In this case it will be the first 2 to get a pinfall advance! How does this change it for you the RPers? It doesn't, we're still taking the top two promos for each match, but this makes a bit more sense logically in kayfabe. After that week 2 is the quarterfinals, week 3 is the semi finals, week 4 is the finals. And we will be reordering the brackets after week 1 so you don't have to promo against the same person 2 weeks straight!
SOOOOOO what does this mean for you fed heads? Well each fed with active participants and at least 2 shows earns a free entry. So here's how that breaks down:
1) JRoK
2) GUNS
3) CAR
4) SCCW
5) TAPOUT
6) WUK
7) HKW
8) Dinosaur Bones
9) DTF
10) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
11) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
12) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
13) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
14) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
15) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
16) OPEN SIGN UP FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
Now we will have the sign ups posted and feel free to sign up if you want to join no matter what. Because if a fed chooses you as a rep we'll simply move you out of the at large and into that rep slot. If a fed decides NOT to have a rep then that slot becomes an at large! So sign up ASAP regardless if you wanna rep your fed then talk to your fed head! Sign ups will close September 15 at 6PM Eastern
FED HEADS!!! I need your rep choices by 6PM September 15 so we have time to build brackets and get graphics done! Promos will open for week 1 as soon as the first card goes live on Sept 17. Promos for the tag team matches in week 2 will open up then as well so all first round matches. After that happens for each new week, promos open AS SOON AS THE SHOW IS LIVE FOR THE PREVIOUS WEEK! The deadline for EVERY WEEK INCLUDING PPV will be THE THURSDAY BEFORE THE SHOW AT 11:59PM PACIFIC TIME!
Sign ups will open once the posts go live in the XHF Roleplays forum. Feds if you want to submit matches for the main card on the 29th have them submitted to the global admins by October 15. And Dinosaur Bones, make sure your JHW rep is in by then as well. Also GUNS and JROK make sure the Hardcore and Phoenix title matches are submitted by then as well.
THANKS EVERYONE AND HERE'S TO A GREAT END OF DAYS!
-D-Flipz