Scenario Recommendation

[Octav]

Can someone please tell me some scenarios to play? What are the good ones? Thanks!

[paul_revenge]

Try one of the following:

- 2000 What if...

It`s May of 2000 and a lot has changed in the previous 4 months in the wrestling world. WCW has regained some momentum in the struggling war against the WWF and ECW has finally found a new platform to portray it´s hardcore content as they made a huge switch to USA Network after WWF switch to TNN. Initially USA signed ECW to upset Vince McMahon but soon learned that ECW can pull as well...

- McMahon Family Feud

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couldn't find the thread here, but it's a very good scenario!

Just read the introduction:

**SUMMARY VERSION**

The Fall and Rise of the McMahon Family

(The Changing of the Guard in the NWA)

**Important to the storyline of this scenario is the fact that ECW did not go bankrupt

**on April 4th 2001 (as in real world), but actually managed to stay in business.

**After having their TNN show cancelled in Oct. of 2000, Paul Heyman managed to

**find some "unnamed" financial backers by Jan. 2001 and also secured a new TV

**deal on a regional network. Although the company suffered a severe drop in

**image, Heyman managed to just barely keep them at Cult level while beginning

**to build his company again.

March 26th, 2001: As in real life, WCW is bought out by Vince McMahon and the

WWE and holds its final Nitro on this night.

April 2001 – April 2002: After the buyout of WCW, the WWE began to bring in

the WCW talent and also instituted the brand split between the RAW and

Smackdown shows. The brand split turned out to be an utter failure and put the

WWE into a serious tailspin.

During this time frame, ECW began to slowly recover and actually start gaining

slowly in public image.

May 2002: Jerry and Jeff Jarrett announced the formation of NWA:TNA which

would hold weekly PPV shows.

July. 2003: TNA airs its first TV show, IMPACT!, on Fox Sports Network.

Sept. 2003: TNA abandons the weekly PPV business model and holds its first

ever 3 hour PPV, Victory Road, on Sept. 7th to rave reviews.

Dec. 2003: WWE's Smackdown TV show is moved to Friday night's by UPN.

Feb. 2004: Smackdown is cancelled by UPN due to declining ratings.

Mar. 2004: WWE sees yet another decline in the attendance of their Flagship

PPV, Wrestlemania.

Apr. 2004: In order to cut costs, the WWE announces the release of some mid

card wrestling talent and cancels all overseas shows.

May 2004: Spike TV announces that it has no plans to renew WWE's RAW TV

show when the contract expires in July.

June 2004: The WWE reaches an agreement to move RAW to USA network

beginning the first week of August (after the final show on Spike).

July 2004: The TV contract for TNA's Impact TV shows expires and is not

renewed by Fox Sports.

Aug. 2004: The WWE airs it's first RAW on the USA network, billing it as a

"Return to USA network" Homecoming show.

Oct. 1st, 2004: TNA debuts it's new IMPACT! TV show on Spike on Saturday

nights.

Nov. 2004: The WWE officially falls back to a National level Promotion.

Dec. 1st, 2004: Spike announces that TNA's IMPACT show is moving to new

and better time slot on Tuesday nights.

Feb. 28th, 2005: USA network announces that it will not pick up an option for any

further episodes of WWE's RAW TV program when their current contact expires

at the end of March.

March 2nd, 2005: THE ONCE UNBELIEVEABLE, BUT NOW INEVITABLE

NEWS IS DELIVERED: Vince, Linda, Stephanie and Shane McMahon hold a

press conference from the WWE offices to announce the closing of the WWE

after the Wrestlemania PPV.

March 31st, 2005: The WWE officially closes its offices and releases all of

its wrestling talent and other employees.

**WOW! The WWE is gone! However, the void left by the exit of the WWE will set

**into motion a chain of events that will drastically change the wrestling landscape.

**Many new promotions will form and many existing one's will go out of business

**as you will see below.

April 15th, 2005: Jim Cornette holds a press conference to confirm that before

the WWE closed it's doors that he acquired the rights to Ohio Valley Wrestling

and many of the WWE's developmental talent from Vince McMahon under

undisclosed terms.

May 1st, 2005: Press conference in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Brett and Bruce

Hart hold a press conference to unveil the new wrestling company that they have

tarted, the Canadian Wrestling Federation (CWF).

May 5th, 2005: Not to be outdone, Eric Bischoff held a press conference in

Charlotte, NC, to announce that he had secured significant financial backing and

had formed American Championship Wrestling (ACW).

**In the months after the demise of the WWE and the startup of such notable

**organizations as ACW and CWF, only a few of the former WWE staff and

**superstars have signed with new promotions. However, it has been noted that

**many of the former staff members and superstars that were the most loyal to the

**WWE have declined offers from several of the largest promotions. The most

**common excuse for not accepting contract offer seems to be that they are not

**interested in getting back into the business at this time. Industry insiders take

**this as a sign that the WWE may indeed open its doors again – or at least that

**some of the former staff and wrestlers think so. Rumors abound.

Sept. 1st, 2005: Eric Bischoff announces that American Championship Wrestling

will hold it's first weekly TV show on the WB Network next week on Thursday

evening, Sept. 7th.

Sept. 11th, 2005: The Hart Family and the Canadian Wrestling Federation

proudly announce that the CWF has signed a TV deal for an early Tuesday

evening show on the Superstation WGN. The first show will air on Sept. 26th.

October 1st, 2005: Jeff and Jerry Jarrett hold a press conference and announce

the end of their TV contract with Spike TV for their IMPACT TV show, which TNA

decided not to renew. A new TV deal has been signed to move IMPACT! to the

UPN network.

Jim Duggan appears and goes on to announces that he is the spokesperson for

a group of investors that have purchased the NWA:TNA wrestling business and

that they will leave the NWA and rename the organization to Total Non-Stop

Action Wrestling (TNAW).

**After this announcement from the newly dubbed TNAW, industry rumors are

**rampant regarding the NWA organization and possible huge impending changes

**that might be coming soon.

**By Dec. 2005, TNW wrestling has really taken off and is by far the #1 promotion

**in the country. With a few more months of gain, TNW will become a global

**promotion. ECW and ACW have both recently become national promotions with

**ACW gaining quickly on ECW and threatening to take over the #2 spot. The

**CWF has also gained quickly and should become a national promotion very

**soon.

**BUT THEN THE WRESTLING LANDSCAPE FOREVER CHANGED…..

Jan. 1st, 2006: THE PROVERBIAL SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WRESTLING

WORLD WAS FIRED TODAY DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE HELD BY

THE MCMAHON FAMILY. Vince, Linda, Shane, Stephanie and HHH are all

present at the press conference and announced that THE MCMAHON FAMILY

HAS BOUGHT OUT AND TAKEN OVER THE NWA!

The McMahons would operate three different NWA territories:

Linda and Vince would run NWA: Big Apple, based in New York City.

Shane McMahon would run NWA: Lone Star, based out of Dallas/Ft. Worth.

Stephanie and HHH will run NWA: Hollywood!

**Holy Crap! What a bombshell! What this means to the industry is that all of the

**contract signing and talent raiding done by TNW and ECW after the fall of the

**WWE, in addition to the signings by the new ACW and CWF feds plus the new

**NWA promotions has put a serious dent in the image of many regional and cult

**level feds. Many will close while others will try to forge on at a much reduced

**image level. The biggest casualty was Ring of Honor which was forced to close.

**Other promotions that closed were IWA Puerto Rico and Full Impact Pro. NWA

**promotions, Cyberspace, Georgia Championship Wrestling and Pro Wrestling

**Express were closed by the McMahons and Canadian Fed Stampede Wrestling

**was purchased and rolled into the new Canadian Wrestling Federation owned by

**the Hart family. NOTE: I also removed the Mexican feds AAA and CMLL from

**the game to reduce the number of promotions.

Jan. 30th, 2006: McMahon press conference to announce TV deals for their

three NWA promotions..

NWA: Big Apple would have a late Thursday night show on FSN entitled RAW

Thursday.

NWA: Hollywood had inked a deal with MTV for a weekly Tuesday night show

entitled "Showtime!".

NWA: Lone Star would have a Saturday show on Sunshine Network which

would be entitled, "Saturday Showdown!"

All three shows will debut during the week of March 6th.

Feb. 2006: Two new backyard level promotions, Insane Backyard Wrestling

(IBW) and Backyard Wrestling Alliance (BWA), open up this Month.

Feb. 10th, 2006: TNW announces that it has reached an agreement with Fox

network to air a 2nd weekly show. This show will be called X-plosion and will air

on Saturday nights, with the inaugural show on March 4th.

March 1st, 2005: A strange happening in the wrestling world as an unknown

super charismatic manager Crowbar opens a backyard federation named New

Wrestling Innovations, along with his two best friends, Curt Jones and Johnny

Winner, who are both world class former Olympic wrestlers.

**Thus we have reached the starting point for this scenario, March 1st, 2006.

**Which promotion will you choose to guide? Are you interested in guiding the

**NWA and McMahons to new heights of glory? Or would you rather take another

**promotion and try to put the McMahons and their new NWA promotions out of

**business for good? The choice is yours. Good luck and I hope you enjoy my

**scenario!!

[Mancuerda]

You could try a fantasy scenario, like Fusient buying WCW or a Plague game where you lose most of your top stars.

Or you could pick a random year you enjoyed in wrestling, like 2004.