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Gold Rush 2009
Topic Started: Dec 16 2009, 10:02 PM (2,462 Views)
Flouzemaker
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Wow.

Yes, I stayed awake to read it, and yes, it is 6 AM.
I'm a freak.




*SPOILERS AHOY, SO READ HR3 BEFORE READING ON!*

- Start off with a darn good AE flash, except for a word or two that rightfully should have been BLEEPED in a UWF context.

- Then, we move on to the Gamma Ray - Elliot ladder match, without a doubt the best match anyone has ever written for Gamma Ray. Loads of fun from beginning to end (to me, of course). The only possible reproach I could give is not selling the Thrillseeker Bomb enough (and Kidd making a one-line appearance in the entrance), otherwise it's by far the best Gamma Ray match ever.
I suppose that because I have such a shoddy memory I completely forgot what I stratted, so just about every thing took me by surprise.
Most notably, I entirely forgot I stratted that James Brown-style victory celebration. It was even goofier than I had dreamed!

Then, a top notch (obviously last minute) Juan Vasquez promo. And despite the fact we could see it coming due to board convos and such, the dedication went well, and came across as both heelish and non-gratuitous.

Then...

Jer, seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
You were writing the penultimate match, here, man. The sub-main event. This match is supposed to feel important, placed this late in the card and with an important title on the line and everything, and it has to be good. However, it's meant to whet our appetite for the main event, dude, not make the last match look like an afterthought!
I know... when you're writing a match, you're doing it out of context, and you can't guess beforehand what the other matches, most importantly the main event, will look like.
But seriously, the pre-match banter itself was longer than the habitual Beeby match. That _must_'ve been some kind of hint! Had it been the last match of hour 1 or hour 2, a match this preposterously epic could have worked... but in the "second to last" slot? It's just mean.
That said, so long as enough people have not already sent in their ballots, it certainly is a contender for match of the year.
It's just that, you know, how did you expect the main event to top this, man?


Hm.
Kyle Lee as UWF owner? Does that mean that MBC and UWF are merging or something?


Afterwards, the Main Event was pretty much doomed. It would have needed to be twice the length of Whitecross-Martin to keep up, and a Main Event that freakishly long would have worked against it.
The only other way to save the Main Event would have been to have Gamma Ray appear and beat the crap out of cancer kid. Nah, I kid, as it seems most rather dislike the Irradiated One, maybe even that wouldn't have done it. Besides, that evil plan died an ugly death the moment Saratoga predicted it would happen.
Instead, some guy named Serge shows up, and he beats up the wrong people?
Well, I'm sure we'll get some clarifications in due time.

And if the DaMann victory leads to a tournament for the World Title, I'll have to stop making predictions in the future, to be sure I don't spoil anything for anyone.
;)

A superb show. It's just too bad it came out so darn late. :P
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Flouzemaker,Jan 1 2010
06:34 AM

Then...

Jer, seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
You were writing the penultimate match, here, man. The sub-main event. This match is supposed to feel important, placed this late in the card and with an important title on the line and everything, and it has to be good. However, it's meant to whet our appetite for the main event, dude, not make the last match look like an afterthought!

That's probably what they told Savage and Steamboat in 1987, but did the wrestling fans care? :-)

The main event was a four-way train wreck with one of the trains being a barely-able-to-twitch cancer victim, one had more injuries than the entire Atlanta Falcons roster, and one whose primary weakness is "very little stamina" (INSERT BLANK SPACE FOR OBVIOUS RETORT HERE). It was gonna be closer to Hogan-Andre than Savage-Steamboat anyway.

I like both Derek Martin and Gabe Whitecross a lot, and so I wanted to write them the best match I could. That's how I write on PPVs. Any further discussion will be directed to the dancing banana. :banana:
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Picky,Jan 1 2010
12:23 PM
I thought Quebeccers like wine, not whine!

Thank you, Lassies and germs; I'll be here all week!

Hrmmmm... Efflux needs an arch-enemy. His powers were caused by radiation...

Hey Flouze, what do you do on Saturday nights? :superman:
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Picky,Jan 1 2010
12:23 PM
I thought Quebeccers like wine, not whine!

Thank you, Lassies and germs; I'll be here all week!

Whining Quebecers is a cultural tradition, just ask the rest of Canada.
That's the price of conquering a French nation. Their commonly used tactics of retrograde advance won't win them a lot of wars, but they'll nag and irritate you until you no longer want them and their lands.
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JeremyS,Jan 1 2010
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Picky,Jan 1 2010
12:23 PM
I thought Quebeccers like wine, not whine!

Thank you, Lassies and germs; I'll be here all week!

Hrmmmm... Efflux needs an arch-enemy. His powers were caused by radiation...

Hey Flouze, what do you do on Saturday nights? :superman:

It varies.
But I don't know what an efflux is.




But, btw, while the Steamboat-Savage comparison has it's merits... there were two other matches between that one and the Main Event.
That kind of match has always been why the WWF used to put a kind of "throwaway match" right before the main event. One of the rare exceptions was the Micheals vs Razor ladder match right before Hart vs Yokozuna at Wrestlemania IX.
Most of the WrestleManias have a very short match right before the Main Event - there are exceptions, of course, as this is only a rule of thumb not a law, but rarely do they ever outshine the actual main event.

You'd normally start the card with your 2nd or 3rd best match to warm up the crowd good at the beginning of the show. Have your 4th best at the mid point, 2nd/3rd best 3/4 of the way into the night, and close off with your main attraction. Then, you separate those matches with less important bouts, or matches you assume will be less exciting.
It's a format that typically works so well for wrestling I'm surprised most e-feds have not adopted something similar.



... And what the heck would Tumaffi ever do with stamina? Five minutes into the match, no one's left standing anyways. They're usually squished somewhere inside the canvas or something...
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Flouzemaker,Jan 1 2010
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JeremyS,Jan 1 2010
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Picky,Jan 1 2010
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It's a format that typically works so well for wrestling I'm surprised most e-feds have not adopted something similar.

It probably just stems from the fact that crowds in E-Wrestling never tend to die off or tire themselves out, unless specifically intended to do so. In most cases, it's a hot crowd from start to finish, so pacing like that doesn't really seem to be an issue. Good on any fed-head that does so, but 90% of readers probably wouldn't pick up on the detail anyway.
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JeremyS,Jan 1 2010
09:12 AM
Flouzemaker,Jan 1 2010
06:34 AM

Then...

Jer, seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
You were writing the penultimate match, here, man. The sub-main event. This match is supposed to feel important, placed this late in the card and with an important title on the line and everything, and it has to be good. However, it's meant to whet our appetite for the main event, dude, not make the last match look like an afterthought!

That's probably what they told Savage and Steamboat in 1987, but did the wrestling fans care? :-)

The main event was a four-way train wreck with one of the trains being a barely-able-to-twitch cancer victim, one had more injuries than the entire Atlanta Falcons roster, and one whose primary weakness is "very little stamina" (INSERT BLANK SPACE FOR OBVIOUS RETORT HERE). It was gonna be closer to Hogan-Andre than Savage-Steamboat anyway.

I like both Derek Martin and Gabe Whitecross a lot, and so I wanted to write them the best match I could. That's how I write on PPVs. Any further discussion will be directed to the dancing banana. :banana:

And just like at WMIII, the fans were just as captivated by immobile and injured wrestlers in the main event doing basic moves as much as they were by Steamboat and Savage. ;)

Tumaffi was the good base for people to bounce off of and I guess Vasquez was there to keep everything plot related moving along, leading us to the dramatic finish.

All Epstein and DaMann had to do was not lose a limb until the finish, really. :beer: :bleh:
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Kickair,Jan 1 2010
01:37 PM
It probably just stems from the fact that crowds in E-Wrestling never tend to die off or tire themselves out, unless specifically intended to do so. In most cases, it's a hot crowd from start to finish, so pacing like that doesn't really seem to be an issue. Good on any fed-head that does so, but 90% of readers probably wouldn't pick up on the detail anyway.

Yeah, that's certainly true enough.

Besides, putting a show out in multiple parts completely changes things as well. Real wrestling cards mix things up because people will be sitting there for 3 hours straight.

In our case, Gold Rush was technically three different shows with three openers and three main events.


That said, I do prefer when a card doesn't start with a jobber squash match or something. A solid offering like Osbourne-Kidd is more like it.
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The whole show was really good! Hour three was amazing in itself. It started off with darn near the perfect promo from the champ and ended with a bit of a shocker. And you all wonder why we call Jer the E-W freak of nature. ;)
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The whole show was really good! Hour three was amazing in itself. It started off with darn near the perfect promo from the champ and ended with a bit of a shocker. And you all wonder why we call Jer the E-W freak of nature. ;)

And here I thought it was because he had extra fingers with which to type faster.

Seriously, thanks to everyone who contributed to the PPV, whether by flashing, stratting, inspiring or matchwriting. By 1am this morning I wasn't entirely sure if the quality of the last hour's matches was up to par (save for Jer's match, unquestionably one of the greatest matches of the year), but everyone else seems to have dug it so I'll just be quiet.

As a whole, I'm very happy with Gold Rush '09. Like someone else said earlier, it's just too bad it took this long to get out. Here's hoping 2010 brings an end to a "decade of deferral" and I can start getting shows out in weeks, not months.
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KliqerT,Jan 1 2010
09:22 PM
Codered,Jan 2 2010
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The whole show was really good!  Hour three was amazing in itself.  It started off with darn near the perfect promo from the champ and ended with a bit of a shocker.  And you all wonder why we call Jer the E-W freak of nature. ;)

And here I thought it was because he had extra fingers with which to type faster.

Seriously, thanks to everyone who contributed to the PPV, whether by flashing, stratting, inspiring or matchwriting. By 1am this morning I wasn't entirely sure if the quality of the last hour's matches was up to par (save for Jer's match, unquestionably one of the greatest matches of the year), but everyone else seems to have dug it so I'll just be quiet.

As a whole, I'm very happy with Gold Rush '09. Like someone else said earlier, it's just too bad it took this long to get out. Here's hoping 2010 brings an end to a "decade of deferral" and I can start getting shows out in weeks, not months.

2010 wouldn't bring and end to your era of deferral, but you could. ;)
But if cards started coming out on time for real, then *I* suddenly wouldn't be able to keep up anymore.

As I said, I feel the ladder match did everything it was supposed to. It was fun, long but not excessively so, and setting the table up perfectly for the show's main event: Whitecross vs Martin.
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Thanks for giving Brett some key spots and stories this year Mike. That little tag story run was fun.
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KliqerT,Jan 1 2010
06:22 PM
Here's hoping 2010 brings an end to a "decade of deferral" and I can start getting shows out in weeks, not months.

8 weeks instead of 2 mon... wait a minute!
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