(Derek wrote these rules and continues to write them. Additional credit goes to the late PWW, Tim and Rick Garrard) JANUARY 1999 1) Out of the original 20 wrestlers if you still have some on your roster, release 3 from their contracts so they can work else where. 2) In November you had at least 2 elimination matches. Then in December you ran a match to come up with a single survivor. Now in January, this wrestler becomes the number one contender and should face your Heavyweight Champion. 3) As we you did in January 1998 there was a battle royal to decide the Heavyweight champ. Since you should already have a Heavyweight champion, run the battle royal to decide a number one contender to face the champ at the March PPV. 4) Since you have let go 3 superstars from your roster, bring in 2 new wrestlers to add to your roster. 5) Run a gimmick match between two or four (tag teams) of your wrestlers. 6) Set up a feud with a tag team and singles wrestler. Have a Handicap match between these three or make the singles wrestler face each tag team partner separately. FEBRUARY 1999 1) In January there was a battle royal to decide the number one contender to face your Heavyweight champ in March. Start a feud between the number one contender and another wrestler where the top contender spot will be on the line. The winner will then face the Heavyweight champ next PPV. 2) As you have a number one contender for your Heavyweight title, run a Triple Threat match to decide who will be facing the Tag Team champions next month. 3) Hire a female wrestler. 4) Look over your battle royal results. Build a feud and run a match with first man eliminated vs. the wrestler who eliminated him. 5) Again, looking at the battle royal results, find a wrestler eliminated 5 through 10 and fire one of them. 6) With your Heavyweight and Tag Team champs set to face opponents in March, run a match will ALL your title holders involved (battle royal, tag team elimination match, handicap match, etc.). MARCH 1999 1) Have the Heavyweight title match against the number one contender decided in Februrary. 2) Your number one contender tag team should face the Tag Team champions on the PPV. 3) One any one of your matches, bring in a special referee. 4) Hire a past Superstar to be introduced at your PPV. He can be in a match or just introduced. This wrestler should be signed to a short contract as he will be working until the end of May. 5) Release one of your tag teams. 6) Have a Tough Man type match. You can run a Brawl For it All, I Quit or Submission match. 7) Run a feud with the female wrestler in a Male vs. Female match. 8) Hire an Indy wrestler. APRIL 1999 1) Create a new stable of 4 or 5 wrestlers. You may hire one additional wrestler to help build this group. 2) To help advance this group, a title match should be given to a member or members of this new stable. 3) Hire a Superstar to face your Heavyweight champion. 4) Run a match between the Heavyweight champ and the new Superstar. The match should be a Death match where the winner is the Heavyweight champ and the Loser Leaves Town. 5) The Female vs. Male feud will continue. Hire a second female wrestler to partner with the male wrestler. Find a current wrestler on the roster to team with the other female. Run a Mixed Tag Team match on the PPV. 6) Let go two wrestlers. One should be a young star not making it in your circuit. The other is one of your jobbers or another young star. 7) After the PPV, strip one of your champions of his title for his actions outside of wrestling. This could be one of the two tag team holders forcing the tag titles vacant. MAY 1999 1) With a title vacant, run a tournament to decide a new champ. This could be a single-elimination or round robin tournament. 2) On the PPV, run 4 separate battle royals to decide 4 different winners. The number of wrestlers can vary and a wrestler can be in more than one of these battle royals. 3) Run a big match with the old superstar hired in March vs. another wrestler. This could be a tag team match as well. 4) Reform a tag team from the past using one wrestler on your wrestler with another you hire. 5) Run a Six-Man tag team using the new stable members formed last month. 6) Find an old foe for your Heavyweight champion to face on the PPV. 7) If you have any jobbers left, find him a gimmick to help promote him to bigger and better things. 8) One of your managers has hired a current wrestler to join forces with. A current wrestler already associated with this manager doesn’t approve but goes along with it. Start a heel/face turn for this wrestler to feud with this newest member. JUNE 1999 1) With 4 battle royal winners from May, run a match or matches to determine a number one contender for July. 2) Run a 4-on-4 elimination tag team match. The survivors will be used for the July PPV. 3) The old superstar hired in March needs to be released. 4) The team you reformed in May should get a title shot in June. 5) The feud started last month with the manager bringing in a new member to his group will on fold this month. Run a match with the new wrestler vs. the former wrestler of this manager. 6) In May, you gave a new gimmick to one of your hard working jobbers. Use him in a gimmick match. Any non-standard match is acceptable. 7) Out of the original 20 wrestlers hired in January 1998, most if not all are gone. Bring back one of them, only with a new gimmick. For instance, Hollywood Hogan could be brought back as Hulk Hogan or Scott Hall could come back as the Diamond Studd or Razor Ramon. JULY 1999 1) In June you had a 4-on-4 elimination match. The survivor(s) should begin a feud in one of the follow manners: - With a title holder - If more than one wrestler survived, against one another - The survivors could feud against members of their team that were eliminated - Against member(s) from the opposing team in a single or tag team match 2) From May there were 4 battle royal winners which competed in a match between the winners for the number one contender spot. Out of the 3 wrestlers not winning that number one spot, 2 of them should start a feud. The winner then will face the Heavyweight champ in August. 3) The number one contender resulting from the battle royals should face your Heavyweight champion on this months PPV. 4) Choose a tag team that isn’t winning. Split this team up a release one of the members from his contract. 5) Your jobber you have been promoting needs an opponent. Find on your roster a young star that can help in his advancement. Be aware, this former jobber will be getting a title shot in September. 6) With your two female wrestlers, run a Female vs. Female match on your PPV. 7) Look at the new stable you formed back in April. Find two wrestlers not on your roster to begin a new stable to compete against your current stable. These two wrestlers should be former partners of members of your current stable. AUGUST 1998 1) Last month you had a match for the number one contender. This wrestler should get his title shot at your Heavyweight champion on your August PPV in a Cage match. 2) You’ve split up a tag team and released one of the wrestlers. The remaining wrestler should begin a feud with another tag team. During the course of this feud, one of the members of this tag team will turn on his partner and side with the other wrestler to form a brand new tag team. 3) For July you ran a Female vs. Female match. Hire two additional female wrestlers to side with one of the two already on your roster. Begin building a feud for these three women to face some male counterparts for next months PPV. You will be running a 3-on-1 match, 3-on-2 or 3-on-3 Females vs. Males come September. 4) You’ve begun to establish a second stable in your circuit. Hire a third member to fit in with the two already a part of this group. 5) With three wrestlers together, you will need to complete the second stable with one or two more wrestlers in order to set up a Wargames or Tag Team elimination match for the September PPV. Not all members of each stable will have to participate in this September match because of title match requirements. 6) It’s time to let go of one of your managers. Release one of your managers. SEPTEMBER 1999 1) Now that you have build two stables, run a Wargames or Elimination Tag Team match with more than 2 wrestlers per team. The losing team will have a high price to pay. 2) Your Heavyweight champion will put his title on the line against that rising star of yours. The jobber that has been climbing the ranks over the past several months will get his deserved title shot. 3) The stable of three female wrestlers has been feuding with a male wrestler, maybe two or three. Run a handicap match with three females vs. one or two male wrestlers. If there are three men, run a Six Man tag match. 4) Hire a new manager. 5) This new manager should be bringing in a new star. Hire an Indy worker or wrestler that needs a new gimmick. Establish these two as contenders. Find an immediate feud for this new wrestler. 6) Bring in an old star from the past. During your September PPV, have him do a run in during one of the matches to set up a feud with this wrestler and another past wrestler. OCTOBER 1999 1) The three female stable you have, turn one against two or two against one. The 4th ladies wrestler on your roster will come to the aid to begin a 2-on-2 feud. 2) The Stables Wargames/Elimination match resulted in one team paying the price. All members that wrestled in the match for the losing stable are forced to leave the circuit and look for work elsewhere. 3) Back in June you re-hired one of the original 20 wrestlers and gave him a new gimmick. Give him a title shot, any title. 4) Recently you have split to tag teams up and have since formed a new team with a member from each of these teams. They have been asking for a title shot at your Tag Team champions. It is now time for the match at the October PPV. 5) Looking at your rankings, turn one of the bottom 10 wrestlers to help him win some matches. A new gimmick may be needed, but not neccessary. 6) With several titles out there between the WWF, WCW and ECW, hire one of the many champions not already on your roster. 7) Like last October, you created a special match for the October PPV. Use the same format or create a new match for this year’s PPV. NOVEMBER 1999 1) Look at your rankings. Using 4 of the top 10 wrestlers listed, have them involved in a Future Shock or roun robin tournament at the PPV. The winner will then go on to face the Heavyweight champion in December. 2) As tradition, run a Survivor Series match with a wild card format. Either randomly select 4 or 5 wrestlers per team or select faces and heels for both teams. 3) Another Survivor Series match should take place. This time include 4 tag teams, including your Tag Team champs. A member of each tag team should be on opposing teams. If one or both Tag Team champs is eliminated by pin or submission, one of the teams responsible for their elimination should receive a title shot in December. 4) Bring in another past star. 5) Run a tag team match with the a Past Star/Current wrestler vs. Past Star/Current wrestler. Continue the feud already started with the run in at the September PPV. 6) The surviving stable from the September PPV has been having problems within their ranks. Split the stable in to two group. 7) With two stables forming from one, each group should bring in a "surprise" member to join their group. Use the ‘m’ key during a match in which they will be surprise tag team partners for their respective stable. If necessary, change their gimmick to better reflect the stable’s description. 8) Finish out each stable with one or two wrestlers each from your current roster. DECEMBER 1999 1) After your Future Shock/Round Robin matches, a new number one contender was determined. This wrestler will get his shot at the Heavyweight champion at the December PPV. 2) The two stables formed in November, run a match or matches to go along with their feud. 3) Set up one of your matches as an Iron Man Match. 4) Another match you should run should be one of the following: - Ladder Match - Strap Match - Towel Match 5) Create a new title. This title should be a Ladies Championship title. Use two of your female wrestlers in a match to determine the champion. 6) Last month you had two past stars in a tag team match against one another. For December have run a singles match involving these two former wrestlers. 7) For the above match, bring in a surprise referee. Hire a wrestler and use him as a referee for the match. This wrestler should be someone that has been on a WCW, WWF or ECW PPV in the last 30 days which lost the match they participated in.