Really cool to see a nice early show. We live in exciting times in the eWrestling world. Although I'm pretty sure the real truth is Voss time travels to make himself look good.
Some general comments as I was reading through the show:
- As I said to Voss earlier, I really like the feel of IGC, it sort of mirrors the embracing of technology that a few of the indies have being doing recently to get there names out there with the podcast video shows. I fully expect there to be an IGC iPPV at some point too.
- Good commentary is somethings a tricky thing to pull of but I think that up and down the card, the commentary had an excellent flow and really do a great service the highlight both the matches and why certain spots happened. I'm not sure if you're planning to do it Chikara style with some of the touring roster who have matches early in the evening take up commentary for later matches or not but I think again, that might be something worth embracing.
- Can't complain about the match set-ups either, the in-studio stuff done did its job.
- I'm really excited to move on in this little IGCC shindig, I'm not exactly known for writing serious words in them RP things but I was really happy with the angle and approach I took to this and it's cool that it paid off. I would certainly say it was a hard earned victory because there was certainly an extremely good effort from Ernie and things could have been completely different for Seth if Sean had found the time to show up. Really this match was anyone's for the taking in my opinion and I'm surprised yet happy I managed to squeak by.
- That said, I'm going to be a slightly negative nelly about one thing. I'm in two minds about making this point because I can see exactly what Voss was trying to do and in a way it's fitting that Atken is still completely crushed even in victory especially given the nature of Jack Harris but...
Yeah, I'm not really a fan of the post match stuff from our match, just feels a bit like it took the steam out of mine and Ernie's efforts. I know Seth is an extremely talented writer but to me, that ending kinda read as "yeah, if Sean showed up, you guys would've been hella crushed". Took the wind from the sails a little bit.
Again Seth deserves to get his character shown as dominant but I think he had already done that match wise. Maybe I've been listening to too much Wrestling Observer shows recently but as I read the tag team post match all I could hear was Bryan Alvarez yelling "Why the hell should anyone care about Phil Atken progressing? He's already been made to look like a geek. He's a geek and if he wins the belt, he's a geek with a belt. Why would the fans care about that?"
I really don't like being that guy with that sort of thing, hate it in fact. I dunno, as I said, two minds but I'm going to be honest, that was my gut read on that one.
- On to more brighter and happier times. Really cool to see Sabre progress, I really like the gimmick of a masked gentleman about town. I thought Dragon Jones put in a great effort and I can imagine that none of these contests were easy for Voss to judge. I'm looking forward to a contest again Sabre down the line (this is how these qualifying doodles work right???), I think that'll be a fun one.
- Match itself again read really well. Good back and forth between the two, really giving a chance to show the drive that the IGC is instilling in people to prove themselves and represent their promotions. Always good to get some heel cheatery, even better when it backfires. As I said before, good contest with a hard earned victory for Sabre. Looking forward to seeing what else Sabre provides us with.
- I almost don't want to win the title with the threat of having Hornet sneak up upon poor Phil at a moments notice. Again, RP wise, this match had a great showing.
- The match again I think represented the efforts that Pete and Chad had put in, a really strong back and forth contest with a good ole fashioned babyface-style pump up for the victory. ta Seti should really know you never charge to attack a fist pumping face, that's them in hyper mode. You should run, run as far as you can before you get ensnared in their super powered strength. That young 'un may be making a name for himself in IWF but he must learn of the deadly wrestling traps!
Overall, I was hyped about IGC going in and I'm still hyped about it going out. I just really feel the whole thing nails the tone it's going for and that does a lot to help the fed along.