Sakura Shoujo Stampede: A Year In Reflection
Oct 22, 2018 18:42:57 GMT -5
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Post by Kira Izumi on Oct 22, 2018 18:42:57 GMT -5
Ok, it's not been an exact year yet, we gotta wait till the 28th which is this sunday for that. But i wanted to get this out a bit earlier so it's not taking over the show results too much and so it's not overlooked by our new card and stuff. But yeah, this sunday it'll be 365 (and 1/4th) days (if you want to get technical) since we had our first ever show. Before i go any further i just wanted to let each and every single person who's joined us as a special one off match to our newest roster members. From our OG members, you know who you are 
thank you all so very much for giving me and this crazy idea a shot and a chance. Words can't express how grateful and thankful i really am for each and every single one of you joining me, joining us on this wild ride. Thank you to everyone who's ever even read our shows as well. You guys keep me going month by month and keep me motivated enough to get our shows out and going.
For those who weren't around last year, don't know or just forgot how SSS actually started, i'll tell you that now. It really just started from a simple post or conversation hype had brought up. He said to the effect i think we need more women wrestlers in the XHF. I believe it was pretty much something like that, than i got to thinking, why not make a womens fed? so i did,lol. That's how we pretty much came about. So... thanks hype for sorta giving me an idea and a push to start this place,lol. Now the actual name Sakura Shoujo Stampede, you're probably wandering where that name came about, right? Well it was actually a "fed" i had in this game called masters of the mat back in 2014 or 2015. The Sakura part of SSS came about because well, i like the cherry blossom or sakura tree and people in japan go to flock to see them in the spring, so the thought process i believe was like the sakura trees and blossoms they'll come to see our sakura, the matches and women wrestlers. Shoujo came from the japanese word for girl or feminine media (i.e. shoujo manga and stuff) and then Stampede came from me wanting a word to express action and something fast and hard, but not use wrestling or federation or anything... i don't wanna say cliche or common, but yeah those things,lol. Plus i liked the triple s aspect of the initials too.
Anyway let me quit talking and rambling about that stuff now. I'd like to talk about the early days of SSS a bit now too. At first it was just Kuroi, Hype, Me, Mox, Allyson, Steele, Duke/Danny/Alexis, and Zky/Rei/Cherry. our first card had only 6 people on it. we went from a high school gym in okinawa to nippon budokan IC wise. But to think we couldn't even book a tag match our first show to booking 10 woman tag matches on our one year anniversary show, it's pretty cool to think we've grown that much. And really we stayed as this small group of about 7 or 8 for a good while, Many came and many left after the first show and after the first ppv. Many feds have come and gone too.
From TGK to Wrestlegasm (twice) to even more recently SBW. Then we had individuals who did a one off and decided to stick around like Lisa and STRiFE. We had some who did a one off like Mad Dog, Suzuki, Areano, Bobby, the borgs, and many others i'm sure in the past and many more to come. SSS has always been about working with others and i'm very happy to of been able to work with those i did work with. Also a huge thank you to those who did work with us and those who may work with us in the future. So i kinda think being apart of the IJWF as well as the XHF is really fitting for us.
Personally for me there was allot of good things throughout SSS so far and some not so good things. I will say i'm more than happy to of never gotten any drama here. That makes me very happy to have not had any of that sort of stuff here. And i hope we never get that crap here. Back earlier this year when i was still in school it was very tough sometimes to get matches written and just get stuff done, i was struggling to even graduate from high school towards the end. The last day of school i was working in the class i was failing all day busting my ass off just to graduate,haha. so around those times it was very stressful, but i always had fun doing this and i hope you all have found something to enjoy too.
Being a fed head is allot more work than i thought and i feel many others think, not to toot my own horn or sound like i'm trying to get praise or anything like that, for many shows it's usually just me cranking out shows apart from graphics, i've always gotten help with graphics,lol. There were occasions where Hype, Vastrix, Mad Dog, Zky, Raiden and others would help write matches every so often but many things that you see and read apart from 99.99% of all segments not related to my own characters or any "authority/NPC" characters have been written by me. So... really this thing here is to try and get someone not already in shit loads of feds and already adminning and fed heading other places to maybe help a brother out if they can. I'll keep SSS regardless till it kills me and becomes a complete chore to even make the next card. But i don't want to put out something with such little quality it's a shell of what i know i can do and i know that we can do. So if you'd like to keep SSS going at a level we were a few months back with a girls night out and our first winter festival, then please if you have time, would like to help and don't run a fed or help another fed heavily then please maybe kinda sorta help write a match or two every once in a while? i don't look for grand epics or ppv quality stuff every show. Only on ppvs and even than only for title matches and higher up the card matches. undercard matches can be summarized, midcard matches can be more fully written matches or a mix of somewhat summed somewhat not summed matches.
There's also a rule i kinda put up already, but it makes me feel bad because i don't want to not have everyone on a card, but if i don't see segments or twitter stuff with the sss twitter tagged in it or if you don't help with matches or graphics or anything i'll quit booking you heavily if at all. I'm sorry for this, but this is to assure only those who are really wanting to be here and who are really wanting to be involved and stuff are booked and given the proper amount of effort given to them that they give to us. So i appologize if you don't get booked much or if you get left off cards. But it's starting to kill me booking so many matches and so many "huge ass tags" the last few shows. So again if your not booked much that's why, it's not that i want to leave you or anyone off the cards it's just i want to ensure those actually being active and putting in effort are getting their fare share and dues to them. (i hope this makes sense sorry if it doesn't)
So i'm gonna go on a long rant to thank allot of people here soon so... sorry for this long ranty/rambly mess of a post anyway,haha.
Kuroi- Thanks for officially being the oldest/longest member of our roster. As you were the first person to ever sign up for this thing. Thanks for giving this a chance and bringing us Ember Ferrari, the most perplexing thing i've ever seen. Maybe even more than thob or the trons or borgs. I mean she made the whole crowd and announcers puke in unison! Anyways thanks for sticking with us still. Sorry your title reign as tv champ wasn't that long or if it might of not been as long or great as others. I'll make it up to ya one of these days. Also thanks for actually getting me to the boards and to join AWF which in turn made this place a thing too.
Hype- Thanks Hype for being like... one of the OG members of SSS as well. You left us earlier this year, but your contributions and help will always be appreciated and Bodhi and co. will always have a place in our hearts and a spot on our roster. Thanks for helping with matches and even helping me come up with the first storyline/feud of SSS, with Bodhi and the then Kuroi Yami face each other. Also thanks for giving me the initial push and idea for SSS too,haha.
Zky/Rei/Misami- Thank you for joining us early on as well. Thanks for making our title graphics and for just helping with graphics for as much and as long as you did. It means allot and it's helped even more. Thanks for sticking with us all this time and for helping out with matches and stuff when you did too.
Duke- Thanks Duke for sticking with us for as long as you have and for continuing to ride this angled train. Thanks for giving us another foreign star and another SSS OG who's still with us. It really does mean allot you sticking here with us still.
Mongo- i guess i should thank him for opening up the XHF Network and keeping it going. So really with out you SSS or none of these other feds dead or alive would of gotten a chance, for better or worse.
Blackdeath- for our logo.
Mav- Thanks for helping out with graphics the past couple of shows too, it means a whole lot. Sorry if this is starting to sound like a broken record,haha.
Everyone else sorry if i didn't name you or anything like that, it's just gonna be a bunch of the same old thank you very much for joining and sticking with us this long kinda thing. I still appreciate any and all who've ever had a hand in SSS or a character in SSS. But seriously thank you everyone for giving SSS a chance and for sticking with us this long. Here's to next year and the year after that. I hope to keep her running for 5 years, maybe even 10 years!
ALSO! i wanna hear from all of you! weather you just joined or have been here since day one. I want your honest opinions so i can see how to go forward with SSS and to plan out our next year. Here's the questions i'd like for everyone involved in SSS to copy and paste and send to me via pm/dm on the boards, twitter, or discord. Especially if you're an active member of this roster. i'll give you till the end of november to get it done before i start bugging you and sending it out to you myself,haha. Again the questions below are for the roster members to DM/PM to me. please DO NOT REPLY to them and post it here. SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO ME PLEASE.
That's all for now. Thanks everyone. sorry this is long as crap. please roster members especially send me your answers to those questions by the end of november at the latest. ALSO! i have plans for an award show/ceremony kinda thing where we vote on the best show, best wrestler, ect. stuff like that to be apart of our show next year. Thanks for your time and more info on that as december roles along. Thanks again everyone. Here's to next year!
thank you all so very much for giving me and this crazy idea a shot and a chance. Words can't express how grateful and thankful i really am for each and every single one of you joining me, joining us on this wild ride. Thank you to everyone who's ever even read our shows as well. You guys keep me going month by month and keep me motivated enough to get our shows out and going.For those who weren't around last year, don't know or just forgot how SSS actually started, i'll tell you that now. It really just started from a simple post or conversation hype had brought up. He said to the effect i think we need more women wrestlers in the XHF. I believe it was pretty much something like that, than i got to thinking, why not make a womens fed? so i did,lol. That's how we pretty much came about. So... thanks hype for sorta giving me an idea and a push to start this place,lol. Now the actual name Sakura Shoujo Stampede, you're probably wandering where that name came about, right? Well it was actually a "fed" i had in this game called masters of the mat back in 2014 or 2015. The Sakura part of SSS came about because well, i like the cherry blossom or sakura tree and people in japan go to flock to see them in the spring, so the thought process i believe was like the sakura trees and blossoms they'll come to see our sakura, the matches and women wrestlers. Shoujo came from the japanese word for girl or feminine media (i.e. shoujo manga and stuff) and then Stampede came from me wanting a word to express action and something fast and hard, but not use wrestling or federation or anything... i don't wanna say cliche or common, but yeah those things,lol. Plus i liked the triple s aspect of the initials too.
Anyway let me quit talking and rambling about that stuff now. I'd like to talk about the early days of SSS a bit now too. At first it was just Kuroi, Hype, Me, Mox, Allyson, Steele, Duke/Danny/Alexis, and Zky/Rei/Cherry. our first card had only 6 people on it. we went from a high school gym in okinawa to nippon budokan IC wise. But to think we couldn't even book a tag match our first show to booking 10 woman tag matches on our one year anniversary show, it's pretty cool to think we've grown that much. And really we stayed as this small group of about 7 or 8 for a good while, Many came and many left after the first show and after the first ppv. Many feds have come and gone too.
From TGK to Wrestlegasm (twice) to even more recently SBW. Then we had individuals who did a one off and decided to stick around like Lisa and STRiFE. We had some who did a one off like Mad Dog, Suzuki, Areano, Bobby, the borgs, and many others i'm sure in the past and many more to come. SSS has always been about working with others and i'm very happy to of been able to work with those i did work with. Also a huge thank you to those who did work with us and those who may work with us in the future. So i kinda think being apart of the IJWF as well as the XHF is really fitting for us.
Personally for me there was allot of good things throughout SSS so far and some not so good things. I will say i'm more than happy to of never gotten any drama here. That makes me very happy to have not had any of that sort of stuff here. And i hope we never get that crap here. Back earlier this year when i was still in school it was very tough sometimes to get matches written and just get stuff done, i was struggling to even graduate from high school towards the end. The last day of school i was working in the class i was failing all day busting my ass off just to graduate,haha. so around those times it was very stressful, but i always had fun doing this and i hope you all have found something to enjoy too.
Being a fed head is allot more work than i thought and i feel many others think, not to toot my own horn or sound like i'm trying to get praise or anything like that, for many shows it's usually just me cranking out shows apart from graphics, i've always gotten help with graphics,lol. There were occasions where Hype, Vastrix, Mad Dog, Zky, Raiden and others would help write matches every so often but many things that you see and read apart from 99.99% of all segments not related to my own characters or any "authority/NPC" characters have been written by me. So... really this thing here is to try and get someone not already in shit loads of feds and already adminning and fed heading other places to maybe help a brother out if they can. I'll keep SSS regardless till it kills me and becomes a complete chore to even make the next card. But i don't want to put out something with such little quality it's a shell of what i know i can do and i know that we can do. So if you'd like to keep SSS going at a level we were a few months back with a girls night out and our first winter festival, then please if you have time, would like to help and don't run a fed or help another fed heavily then please maybe kinda sorta help write a match or two every once in a while? i don't look for grand epics or ppv quality stuff every show. Only on ppvs and even than only for title matches and higher up the card matches. undercard matches can be summarized, midcard matches can be more fully written matches or a mix of somewhat summed somewhat not summed matches.
There's also a rule i kinda put up already, but it makes me feel bad because i don't want to not have everyone on a card, but if i don't see segments or twitter stuff with the sss twitter tagged in it or if you don't help with matches or graphics or anything i'll quit booking you heavily if at all. I'm sorry for this, but this is to assure only those who are really wanting to be here and who are really wanting to be involved and stuff are booked and given the proper amount of effort given to them that they give to us. So i appologize if you don't get booked much or if you get left off cards. But it's starting to kill me booking so many matches and so many "huge ass tags" the last few shows. So again if your not booked much that's why, it's not that i want to leave you or anyone off the cards it's just i want to ensure those actually being active and putting in effort are getting their fare share and dues to them. (i hope this makes sense sorry if it doesn't)
So i'm gonna go on a long rant to thank allot of people here soon so... sorry for this long ranty/rambly mess of a post anyway,haha.
Kuroi- Thanks for officially being the oldest/longest member of our roster. As you were the first person to ever sign up for this thing. Thanks for giving this a chance and bringing us Ember Ferrari, the most perplexing thing i've ever seen. Maybe even more than thob or the trons or borgs. I mean she made the whole crowd and announcers puke in unison! Anyways thanks for sticking with us still. Sorry your title reign as tv champ wasn't that long or if it might of not been as long or great as others. I'll make it up to ya one of these days. Also thanks for actually getting me to the boards and to join AWF which in turn made this place a thing too.
Hype- Thanks Hype for being like... one of the OG members of SSS as well. You left us earlier this year, but your contributions and help will always be appreciated and Bodhi and co. will always have a place in our hearts and a spot on our roster. Thanks for helping with matches and even helping me come up with the first storyline/feud of SSS, with Bodhi and the then Kuroi Yami face each other. Also thanks for giving me the initial push and idea for SSS too,haha.
Zky/Rei/Misami- Thank you for joining us early on as well. Thanks for making our title graphics and for just helping with graphics for as much and as long as you did. It means allot and it's helped even more. Thanks for sticking with us all this time and for helping out with matches and stuff when you did too.
Duke- Thanks Duke for sticking with us for as long as you have and for continuing to ride this angled train. Thanks for giving us another foreign star and another SSS OG who's still with us. It really does mean allot you sticking here with us still.
Mongo- i guess i should thank him for opening up the XHF Network and keeping it going. So really with out you SSS or none of these other feds dead or alive would of gotten a chance, for better or worse.
Blackdeath- for our logo.
Mav- Thanks for helping out with graphics the past couple of shows too, it means a whole lot. Sorry if this is starting to sound like a broken record,haha.
Everyone else sorry if i didn't name you or anything like that, it's just gonna be a bunch of the same old thank you very much for joining and sticking with us this long kinda thing. I still appreciate any and all who've ever had a hand in SSS or a character in SSS. But seriously thank you everyone for giving SSS a chance and for sticking with us this long. Here's to next year and the year after that. I hope to keep her running for 5 years, maybe even 10 years!
ALSO! i wanna hear from all of you! weather you just joined or have been here since day one. I want your honest opinions so i can see how to go forward with SSS and to plan out our next year. Here's the questions i'd like for everyone involved in SSS to copy and paste and send to me via pm/dm on the boards, twitter, or discord. Especially if you're an active member of this roster. i'll give you till the end of november to get it done before i start bugging you and sending it out to you myself,haha. Again the questions below are for the roster members to DM/PM to me. please DO NOT REPLY to them and post it here. SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO ME PLEASE.
How do you think i am doing as a fed head?
Where do you want to see your character at by next year? (for example do you think you would like to see your character be a champion by next year? would you like to see them in a feud next year? change them from face to heel or heel to face?)
What can i do to make SSS better? (Ex. Longer matches, more house shows, really anything you think would make it be 'better')
Anyone you want to feud with or have a series of matches with?
Would you be willing to help write matches?
Did you enjoy the Mach 20 from earlier this year?
Would you like another tournament? If so what do you have in mind, if not why?
Do you think we should continue going out of Japan or do you think we should only go out of Japan on rare occasions? Do you think we should stay in Japan only?
Would you be willing to go and do special matches in/with other feds if the opportunity arises?
What's your honest opinion on SSS and what are your thoughts on the current state of SSS?That's all for now. Thanks everyone. sorry this is long as crap. please roster members especially send me your answers to those questions by the end of november at the latest. ALSO! i have plans for an award show/ceremony kinda thing where we vote on the best show, best wrestler, ect. stuff like that to be apart of our show next year. Thanks for your time and more info on that as december roles along. Thanks again everyone. Here's to next year!
