Now you've decided to go ahead with your e-fed, it's time to learn about the different styles of results that you could use.
•RESULTS
With written results, most people skip right to their own matches, which is bad since they don't pay much attention to the rest of the show. The best way to get people to read your show is to make it realistic. You don't see a guy who was in some kind of outlandish match such as... A barbwire hell in a cell match, come into a match the next week, and wrestle perfectly fine... That's practically impossible.
Next is list of ways you can write your matches/shows.
• Simulated Results.
Where's the love? Where's the devotion to making things "real"? Imagine this is what Jim Ross and Lawler sounded like on TV everynight... would you watch? It sounds like two robots making an effort to sound human. Plus they alway tend to repeat moves and really don't have much imagination. If you are a lazy bastard you can find simulators by searching your favorite search engine for the words "sim", "simmed match", "simmed results", "zeus", "simulator", you might want to include wrestling in your search. I'm not going to bother listing any here. Sorry.
•Play-By-Play Matches
For example, pretend that you're reading everything Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler say and do. Also pretend that you're reading everything that the ring announcers, referee, wrestlers, crowd, bell ringer and anything that happens during a wrestling show is in written words. This is what play by play results writing defines as. I've talked to a lot of fed heads who write this type of results only during their eFeds pay per views to make them "special" and/or live. It's really tedious and tends to burn out fed heads who have to write these things weekly. As you can probably tell, I like recapped results. It's really up to you.
With play by play, you want to have dedicated commentary. My personal staff were the ever 'witty'; Buddy Greye and the straight man; John Jolson. It provided the traditional formula for Straight & Color Commentary that real wrestling uses. Even though Jim Ross now makes lots of stupid jokes now. There is usually a man who calls each move and action and a man who keeps things interesting with comedy. It's traditional, but you can do what you want.
•Recapped Show
An example would be; reading WWE RAW or Smackdown recaps on WWE.com. Some fed heads who are more into realism would post their results as if they are actually transcripting an actual event that already took place instead of pretending to play out the event in text like "play by play". Some of the benefits to writing recapped events are that they are shorter and a lot less detailed than play by play. In other words, you don't have to come up with creative commentary from your imaginary ring side broadcasting staff. There are some dedicated fed-heads who tend to disagree with this. You want to use interviews sent in by your wrestlers and any strats that they request. Make sure to write details about what happened during each match.
Whenever writing a match or show, you have to pay attention to what your wrestlers write in their roleplays such as, if you see that a certain wrestler wants to make his opponent tap [And is the better roleplayer], make his opponent tap out. Also remember or write down each wrestler's finishing moves or move set so you don't forget them. And finally don't just have people "cheering" for no reason, don't pretend you are the best federation in the world, unless you really are...
When judging, pick up on the following points.
# Always judge the creativity over anything else.
# Look at how it's presented. Presentation is a plus.
# Check spelling, even though it shouldn't matter THAT much.
# NEVER judge html. It's not a factor.
# NEVER judge humor over intensity or vice versa. Rather look at how well it's written.
# BE FAIR! Never let a buddy win or a family member just because they are close to you.
# Don't reveal who wins until the results are posted. Even if they beg you.
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