Please read these carefully - this should explain everything you need to know about EWI
By EWI Commissioner Neil Scilley Last Revised: December 2, 2001
APPLICATIONS
1. When filling out an application, make sure to fill in all fields on the form. If a field didn't have a purpose, it wouldn't be there. Your e-mail address is an absolute must so that I can contact you to let you know if you have been accepted.
2. All wrestlers must be original. If you are planning to sign up Shawn Michaels or Owen Hart, you are wasting your time. Don't give your wrestlers nicknames like "Stone Cold" or "Big Sexy", because these will also be rejected.
3. Offer a somewhat detailed description of your wrestler. One line does not tell me anything about your character, and will often lead to your application being rejected. Putting down "My wrestlers like X-Pac" or "He is the same as Val Venis" will get your application deleted and you will not be accepted.
4. After submitting your application, please do not begin roleplaying until you have been contacted by the commissioner. I do reserve the right to reject applications, and the roleplay board is to be used only by EWI wrestlers. If you post on the message board before hearing from me, your application will automatically be deleted.
5. If your application has been accepted, I will notify you by email. After that point, you must post your first roleplay within 72 hours or your application will be deleted and you will lose your spot. Too often people submit applications and never participate. This creates extra work for me, so I am putting this rule in effect so that I can tell which applicants are serious and which ones are not. Your first roleplay will be evaluated by me, and I reserve the right to retract any offer of acceptance if I don't feel that it is up to a minimum standard.
ROLEPLAYING
1. The most important factor in deciding your success in the EWI is your roleplaying. All roleplaying must be done on the roleplay board. We do not run roleplays through email, and promos on TV shows do not count. In EWI, quality is much more important than quantity. The more you post, the more likely it will be for you to have success, but if you don't have much to say, don't say anything at all. Save up your comments over two or three days and work them all together into one quality interview segment. One outstanding
roleplay will do more for you than four of five weak posts that don't say much or develop your character. Make your character interesting.
2. People often ask me what, to me, makes up a good roleplay. Any roleplay that makes me laugh out loud will be held in high regard, but humor is only one way to make a good interview. The most important thing is to stay in character. Portraying a dark, mysterious, Undertaker-like character in one interview and then lounging at the side of a swimming pool at your mansion in
the next will do you no good. Pick a persona and stick with it. Try to develop unique characteristics for your wrestler. As the Commish of another fed I was in once said, if another wrestler can read your post and know who wrote it without having to read your name, you have made yourself distinguishable from the others and have established your character. Be creative, do different things, but stay within the persona you have created. For more, visit my E-Wrestling Tutorial.
3. There is no pre-set minimum for the number of roleplays you should post. That will be left to you, and as I said, quality counts over quantity. However, if you are inactive for any more than a week, I will want to know why. If you are going to be unable to post for an extended period (ie. vacation), make sure to notify me privately. Your absence will not be held
against you as long as you tell me in advance and you will not be fired for inactivity as long as I know you will not be posting for a certain period.
4. Roleplays will be mostly uncensored, but there are a few guidelines that must be followed. Any racism whatsoever will lead to you being fired on the spot without exception. It doesn't matter who you are, you will be fired for uttering racial comments. This also includes any derogatory remarks based on religion. I have only ever had to fire one handler for this, for making jokes about Nazi Germany, and I hope I never have to do it again, but I will not hesitate if this kind of language goes on within your roleplays. The only other thing that you should be conscious of are any sexually explicit details you post in your interviews. Use your own judgment for what is acceptable, but consider that nobody wants to read the play-by-play of the time your rival's girlfriend gave you oral gratification. If you have any questions about this, I will be happy to answer them, either privately or on the out of character message board.
5. STAY IN CHARACTER. This is of the utmost importance. If you are continually going out of character with complaints about the fed, other wrestlers, or other handlers, it WILL work against you and could lead to you being fired. If there you have a problem with me or another wrestler, bring it to me privately. If things get strained enough between two wrestlers, I will instruct you to ignore one another and stop responding to one another's posts. The roleplay board is not to be filled up with handlers airing their dirty laundry. Three accumulated OOC posts will mean that you automatically lose your next match. If you have three posts accumulated at the time you leave the fed, you may be signed to a match without your concent in order to use up these credits. Extensive OOC posting on the roleplay board can and will get you fired from EWI.
6. There can be no use of another handler's wrestler without their permission.
MATCHES
1. There is one card per week in the EWI, with one additional PPV event every month. The weekly card takes place on Sunday and is titled EWI Collision. Match signing for Collision takes place on the roleplay board. Once the results from one week are posted, a post will be added to the RP board indicating that you can sign matches for the following week. Read this post, as it will set out any mandatory title defenses that are to take place, mention any specific matches that have already been set, and announce any special matches (such as a battle royal, for example) that will be taking place that week. PPV match signing, on the other hand, will take place on the PPV Challenge Board. An announcement will be made on the PPV Challenge Board once signing for an event is open - this will usually take place within a day or two of the previous PPV's results being posted. Matches are made official once they have been posted by me on an official lineup.
2. This is a booked fed, meaning that the results of matches are decided by a booking committee. This committee will be comprised of myself and two others, all of whom control wrestlers in this federation. Matches will be decided on a vote of the committee with a simple majority required to determine a winner. The Commissioner retains the right to veto any title changes voted on by the committee. There are two things that contribute to the determination of who wins and who loses:
a. STRATEGIES: Strategies are not the primary deciding factor in your matches, but they are absolutely essential if you hope to stand a chance. IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT A STRATEGY BY THE SPECIFIED DEADLINE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MATCH. If your strat does not give the writers a reasonable amount of material with which to write your match, I will not accept it and your match will be treated as if you have not sent in a strat at all. Very few people I can think of would fit this bill on a regular basis, but there are some. Since I know you expect the writing staff to put some time and thought into your match writeup, I insist that you put some time and thought into your strategy.
b. ROLEPLAYING: Roleplaying is the main consideration in deciding your matches, and when I say roleplaying I am looking for quality over quantity. It's easy to post a short 10-12 l ine interview every day, but posts of this length are rarely even worth reading since they won't develop your character and aren't long enough to offer any meaningful angle development. Your best bet is to post 2-3 long, developed interviews per week, and put up short replies to other wrestlers' posts whenever you can. If you do this, you will be fine in terms of quantity. Quality, I'm afraid, is something that's harder to define. See above for some guidelines on what makes up a roleplay...hopefully that will tell you what we're looking for. Again, feel free to visit the E-Wrestling Tutorial.
3. Run-ins and sneak attacks on matches are allowed, but will not always have an impact on the outcome of the match. Run-ins will usually only sway the outcome of close matches. They may be used for write up purposes quite frequently, but it will be rare that an interference strategy will actually determine the winner and the loser. Wrestlers will be allowed to perform run-ins quite freely as long as there is a reason for your wrestler to interfere in any particular match (ie. running feud or upcoming match). This reason must be specified on your interference strat.
4. If you sign a match, you are committed to it. You can not no-show your match, forfeit, or give your match to another wrestler. If you sign a match and leave EWI before it comes up, the match will still take place and you will be jobbed. It is not fair to your opponent who has taken the time and effort to roleplay and submit a strategy to not receive the match he expected for his efforts.
5. Specialty matches must be reserved for special occasions (ie. longstanding feuds or major title matches). Overuse of gimmick matches causes them to become stale quite quickly, so when a major feud is looking for a big blowoff match it is hard to find a suitable style that has not been overused. Gimmick matches accepted on the roleplay board may be changed to standard matches at the sole discretion of the commissioner should he feel that there is not suitable cause for the use of a specialty match in a given instance.
6. To win a title, you have to have a significant margin of victory over your opponent. A title will not be allowed to change hands on a close call. You should also remember that you will have to be fairly active if you expect to win a title. If you are coming off an extended period (a week or more) without RPing, take a couple of weeks to get going again before challenging for a title. Winning a championship should be seen as a reward for making a significant contribution to the fed, and someone who is not posting is not making the effort necessary to earn such a reward. Ideally all the champions will be active all the time, since they are the ones receiving the biggest pushes at any given time, but I am willing to let a championship stay with a dormant titleholder if the guys challenging him are only posting scarcely themselves. We'll just wait until a deserving wrestler comes along to unseat the champion. If a title is changing hands every week, it becomes meaningless. This should cut down on the number of title changes and make holding a Championship more meaningfull. There are minimum requirements a wrestler must meet before he can become elligible to win a championship. Before a wrestler will be allowed to win a singles championship, he must have at least five singles victories. In order to win the world title, you must have at least TEN singles victories and have a winning percentage higher than 50%. *NOTE* This rule will be waived until further notice as the federation is just opening and no one will meet these requirements for several weeks.
TITLES
1. There are four titles in EWI: World, Universal (the EWI equivalent to the WWF
Intercontinental title), Hardcore, and Tag Team. Each title
must be defended at every PPV event. There are also rules for defending each title on Collision shows:
a. World Title: Must be defended at least once between PPVs. It can be defended in specialty matches only with consent from the commissioner.
b. Universal Title: Must be defended every three weeks. It can only be defended in standard matches except with consent from the commissioner.
c. Hardcore Title: Must be defended at least once between PPVs. It can be defended in any kind of hardcore match, but not in standard matches.
d. Tag Team Title: Must be defended every two weeks. Can only be defended in specialty matches with consent of the commissioner.
2. Fulfilling the title defense obligations will be left up to the champion, but if they fail to meet the requirements, the booking committee will book title matches for them.
3. Although title vs. title matches are discouraged, they will be allowed. Any wrestler holding more than one singles title will be not be required to defend the belts simultaneously in the same match, but may be forced into two matches on one card to make defense requirements. The fact that the wrestler is fighting in two matches in one night WILL play in determining the outcome of whichever match is fought later in the card (a fatigue consideration if you will).
COMPLAINTS
1. Any complaints of any nature should be sent to the commissioner privately via email. If you lose a match you thought you should have won, contact me. In most cases, I can give you an explanation of why you lost. Everybody wants to win, but sometimes that's not the case. If you have a general complaint about the way something is going in EWI, tell me. I will either explain to you the reason behind whatever it is, or I will rectify it. The message boards are not where you should post your complaints. This is to be used only for roleplaying. I don't hold your complaints against you, unless you do it on the message board. I would rather address the problem than lose a handler because of something that could have been fixed.
YOU NEW??
1. When you come to EWI, don't try to win the world title right away. It won't happen. Too many wrestlers come and go in efeds for this to happen. You need to prove yourself first.
2. After you have been accepted, go on the message board and do a long interview to introduce your character. This may take longer than regular interviews, but keep in mind that you are trying to get yourself noticed. If people don't respond, don't get discouraged. People will often read your post just to see what you're all about, but quickly dismiss you because you are new. It may take a week or two for you to get recognized, but once you
do, it will be worth it.
3. Work your way up the ladder. Don't try challenging the top contenders right away, because you aren't likely to beat them early on in your career. They are the top contenders because they have put a lot of time and effort into EWI, and have proven that they can be successful. The rankings list the status of every wrestler in EWI. Find someone you think you can compete with right away and throw out a challenge. Find someone who is just starting out, or someone who has been struggling. Even if you lose your first match, the experience you gain
from the first feud will help you. It might even lead into another feud, more matches, and you will be on your way. Open challenges from rookies can be ignored, so take the first step and go after somebody. Let success come gradually. It doesn't take six months to win a title, but it doesn't happen overnight, either. The same thing goes for people who have been hit with a
losing streak. Start over again. If you have had a lot of matches without much success, stop shooting for title shots and main event matches and take some lower profile fights. Work your way up rather than trying to make that jump all at once, since it will be very difficult to do that.
This covers pretty much everything you need to know. If you are ever unsure about anything, don't hesitate to contact me and I will do what I can to clear things up for you.
