Official Rules and Discussion
May 24, 2010 22:47:17 GMT -5
Post by Byrntrigan on May 24, 2010 22:47:17 GMT -5
- 10 hour Draft Windows
SHOULD give you enough time to get through work or sleep but if not its just a game so we keep things moving. First clock starts 12 AM EST Sunday night/Monday morning, June 7st. As always I don't see the harm if the first pick feels like picking early or Dead or Eco, etc. But the first clock won't start until Monday regardless of where it is in the draft. If your clock runs out you can pick as soon as you can but the rest of the draft no longer waits.
- 40 roster spots. 2 spots MUST be filled by announcers and announcers can NOT serve other roles. While you must designate 2 guys announcers you don't need to do that during the draft. So if you draft Gorilla Monsoon as an announcer but decide later you want him to wrestle, no problem. Just draft another announcer.
- The other 38 spots can be filled how you see fit. Wrestlers, managers, referees, authority figures, guest enforcers, ring crew, whatever.
- Only singles picks. No tag team picks. If the partner of your guy gets taken, thus is life in a draft. Trade for back-to-back picks if you're that scared.
- The Tito Ortiz Rule:
You can draft anyone who has participated in wrestling but you can ONLY draft them for what they did. So Lawrence Taylor wrestled a match so he's fair game to wrestle in this draft. Tito Ortiz was only a referee so that's all he can do in this draft. Pamela Anderson couldn't do anything but walk a wrestler to the ring. This however works on a rising scale of participation. So if you draft a wrestler and want him to be no more than a manager? You can do so, even if he's never managed in his career. The scale of participation works like this, from lowest to highest with a wrestler being free to do anything and a special guest being able to do nothing more than appear.
Special Guest > Guest Crew Member (Referee, Timekeeper, etc) > Performer (manager, authority figure, announcer, etc) > Wrestler
- The Randy "The Ram" Rule:
Anyone who has wrestled is eligible regardless of career, but they must have wrestled for a REAL wrestling promotion, program, or event. Certainly we've seen any number of fictionalized wrestlers and promotions but these are not eligible. While I realize WWE's program is fiction and there's a theoretical contradiction here, WWE itself is real and there is the rub. So no Spider-Man from his film. No Randy "The Ram" from The Wrestler. No Nacho Libre or Ready To Rumble, or heaven forbid, God, or Yahweh (for Ziggy and Solly). Just actual wrestling stuff.
- The Chickenshit Heels Rule:
The drafted wrestler must actually exist as a real person, even if a fictionalized character. So no efed characters, no inanimate objects, no pets, and absolutely no "God" just because Vince is insane.
- The Bunny Rule:
User clocks out 1 clock, no biggie.
User clocks out 2 straight - 4 hour clock for remainder period.
User clocks out again, auto-skip.
Byrnie is a Douchebag addendum - If you are abusing the spirit of the bunny rule, I can and will be a douchebage and toss your ass into the second level of bunnydom. Don't be a douche - leave a list.
- The JobberBlitz / Real Life Rule
If you for whatever reason end up leaving in the draft and basically leaving us high and dry with, let's say 5 skips in a row, your roster at that point will seed the Add / Drop.
- The Honest Abe Rule
Wrestling in amateur bouts in your backyard or other makeshift venues does NOT make one eligible. This is a PROFESSIONAL Wrestling Draft. This also eliminates Olympic wrestlers and your high school wrestling coach. And regardless of whether you collected beer money, sold tickets to dumbasses, or aired your match on Youtube or Public Access, that didn't make it "professional."
- You draft the person, not the gimmick.
If a wrestler portrayed multiple characters you get access to all those characters. If 2 wrestlers portrayed the same character than either one or both may portray the character, and you must make clear which you are drafting.
- Trade Rule
All trades must be placed and confirmed in the trading block thread. It makes it easier to track all the fucking wheeling and dealing you people do you Monty Hall-esque bastards.
- The "AA's An Asshole" Rule:
If you have multiple picks in a row you do NOT get the sum total of the clocks. If you have 2 picks in a row you get 10 hours. If you have 3 you get 10 hours. 4 you get 10 hours. Etc. Once you make ONE pick your clock runs out and the next guy is free to pick. This rule is simply intended to speed up the draft and make sure we don't sit around waiting a long time for someone who isn't around, or keep a player from wasting time. They still have the original 8 hour clock.
And YES, if you read this far, I did basically steal this from Lucky.
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As part of the Super P Cup each federation MUST enter 2 wrestlers into the Super P Cup Super Battle Royale. This will be entered into TEW by Lucky and he will let the simulator decide who will become Super P Cup Champion (think Super J Cup).
The Battle Royale will be run after 10 rounds, and the winner of it will automatically become the number 1 seed in the showdown portion and be able to use the Super J Cup strap as a gimmick in their Fed. We thought this might be a cool gimmick and a way to make this years draft different.
You will also need to submit 2 wrestlers to enter into the Super J Cup Tag Tourney. They do NOT need to be a real tag team from real life. TWE will again decide the tourney. This will happen after round 25. The winner of the tag tourney will again get to use the tag straps as a gimmick in their Fed, as well as receive first draft pick in Round 41 - The Venue Round.
The wrestlers used in the Super J Cup are eligible for your own Fed's card. Only stipulation is you CAN'T use the 2 wrestler submitted into the Super P Cup Battle Royale for the tag tourney. 4 separate wrestlers must be submitted.
You must change your card each round in voting. If that means you run the exact same card, but change nothing but match order - you qualify in the spirit of the rule. You don't change anything - DQ. I obviously don't want to do this, so if you aren't down to change at a minimum match order - I ain't doing it for ya
At the very end the very last round (41) will be used to draft venues as well, so no going and claiming venues before then.
SHOULD give you enough time to get through work or sleep but if not its just a game so we keep things moving. First clock starts 12 AM EST Sunday night/Monday morning, June 7st. As always I don't see the harm if the first pick feels like picking early or Dead or Eco, etc. But the first clock won't start until Monday regardless of where it is in the draft. If your clock runs out you can pick as soon as you can but the rest of the draft no longer waits.
- 40 roster spots. 2 spots MUST be filled by announcers and announcers can NOT serve other roles. While you must designate 2 guys announcers you don't need to do that during the draft. So if you draft Gorilla Monsoon as an announcer but decide later you want him to wrestle, no problem. Just draft another announcer.
- The other 38 spots can be filled how you see fit. Wrestlers, managers, referees, authority figures, guest enforcers, ring crew, whatever.
- Only singles picks. No tag team picks. If the partner of your guy gets taken, thus is life in a draft. Trade for back-to-back picks if you're that scared.
- The Tito Ortiz Rule:
You can draft anyone who has participated in wrestling but you can ONLY draft them for what they did. So Lawrence Taylor wrestled a match so he's fair game to wrestle in this draft. Tito Ortiz was only a referee so that's all he can do in this draft. Pamela Anderson couldn't do anything but walk a wrestler to the ring. This however works on a rising scale of participation. So if you draft a wrestler and want him to be no more than a manager? You can do so, even if he's never managed in his career. The scale of participation works like this, from lowest to highest with a wrestler being free to do anything and a special guest being able to do nothing more than appear.
Special Guest > Guest Crew Member (Referee, Timekeeper, etc) > Performer (manager, authority figure, announcer, etc) > Wrestler
- The Randy "The Ram" Rule:
Anyone who has wrestled is eligible regardless of career, but they must have wrestled for a REAL wrestling promotion, program, or event. Certainly we've seen any number of fictionalized wrestlers and promotions but these are not eligible. While I realize WWE's program is fiction and there's a theoretical contradiction here, WWE itself is real and there is the rub. So no Spider-Man from his film. No Randy "The Ram" from The Wrestler. No Nacho Libre or Ready To Rumble, or heaven forbid, God, or Yahweh (for Ziggy and Solly). Just actual wrestling stuff.
- The Chickenshit Heels Rule:
The drafted wrestler must actually exist as a real person, even if a fictionalized character. So no efed characters, no inanimate objects, no pets, and absolutely no "God" just because Vince is insane.
- The Bunny Rule:
User clocks out 1 clock, no biggie.
User clocks out 2 straight - 4 hour clock for remainder period.
User clocks out again, auto-skip.
Byrnie is a Douchebag addendum - If you are abusing the spirit of the bunny rule, I can and will be a douchebage and toss your ass into the second level of bunnydom. Don't be a douche - leave a list.
- The JobberBlitz / Real Life Rule
If you for whatever reason end up leaving in the draft and basically leaving us high and dry with, let's say 5 skips in a row, your roster at that point will seed the Add / Drop.
- The Honest Abe Rule
Wrestling in amateur bouts in your backyard or other makeshift venues does NOT make one eligible. This is a PROFESSIONAL Wrestling Draft. This also eliminates Olympic wrestlers and your high school wrestling coach. And regardless of whether you collected beer money, sold tickets to dumbasses, or aired your match on Youtube or Public Access, that didn't make it "professional."
- You draft the person, not the gimmick.
If a wrestler portrayed multiple characters you get access to all those characters. If 2 wrestlers portrayed the same character than either one or both may portray the character, and you must make clear which you are drafting.
- Trade Rule
All trades must be placed and confirmed in the trading block thread. It makes it easier to track all the fucking wheeling and dealing you people do you Monty Hall-esque bastards.
- The "AA's An Asshole" Rule:
If you have multiple picks in a row you do NOT get the sum total of the clocks. If you have 2 picks in a row you get 10 hours. If you have 3 you get 10 hours. 4 you get 10 hours. Etc. Once you make ONE pick your clock runs out and the next guy is free to pick. This rule is simply intended to speed up the draft and make sure we don't sit around waiting a long time for someone who isn't around, or keep a player from wasting time. They still have the original 8 hour clock.
And YES, if you read this far, I did basically steal this from Lucky.
-----------------------------------------------------------
As part of the Super P Cup each federation MUST enter 2 wrestlers into the Super P Cup Super Battle Royale. This will be entered into TEW by Lucky and he will let the simulator decide who will become Super P Cup Champion (think Super J Cup).
The Battle Royale will be run after 10 rounds, and the winner of it will automatically become the number 1 seed in the showdown portion and be able to use the Super J Cup strap as a gimmick in their Fed. We thought this might be a cool gimmick and a way to make this years draft different.
You will also need to submit 2 wrestlers to enter into the Super J Cup Tag Tourney. They do NOT need to be a real tag team from real life. TWE will again decide the tourney. This will happen after round 25. The winner of the tag tourney will again get to use the tag straps as a gimmick in their Fed, as well as receive first draft pick in Round 41 - The Venue Round.
The wrestlers used in the Super J Cup are eligible for your own Fed's card. Only stipulation is you CAN'T use the 2 wrestler submitted into the Super P Cup Battle Royale for the tag tourney. 4 separate wrestlers must be submitted.
You must change your card each round in voting. If that means you run the exact same card, but change nothing but match order - you qualify in the spirit of the rule. You don't change anything - DQ. I obviously don't want to do this, so if you aren't down to change at a minimum match order - I ain't doing it for ya
At the very end the very last round (41) will be used to draft venues as well, so no going and claiming venues before then.
