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The 275lb limit - so, if Bubba has to make weight, does Abyss? Does Joe? Kong just scrapes under, I think. Hoyt needs to drop a few pounds I think. Nash definitely does. You tell me how you can have the MCMG+BMJL win enforcing a 275lb weight limit and then have Nash wrestle on Impact, and the 350lb monster Abyss still wandering around. The Tomko thing - Christian told Tomko to take his shot. He never specified a time frame, IIRC. Tomko could have just decided to do it when it would actually have some impact.

OK, so Curry Man in reality is Daniels. At first sight of Curry Man in TNA I laughed out loud because I couldn't believe they'd come up with such a creative way of continuing the 'Daniels is fired' storyline of having him come back as Curry Man. Then I looked and saw that TNA's Curry Man has a little bit of black hair poking out from underneath his mask, hair too long for Daniels to have grown it back. And he seems a LITTLE thicker than Daniels, bodywise (but this could be because I now have a widescreen TV). Also, my wife (who unlike me has non-defective colour vision) reckons this Curry Man has a different skin tone to Daniels. He does the moves the same, but doesn't seem to dance the same... ...am I just missing something here that other people who pay more attention to TNA news know? Do they actually have someone else being Curry Man?

Boo-yah! Get on MSN, biatch.

Well, Johnny told me that he was going to be writing for the Clusterfuck. He didn't of course, but no-one did. I booked him here just in case - if we get nothing from him tonight (which looks very unlikely) we won't use him again.

OK, Taiga and IL, you have til midnight too. I'm blaming Landon for all of this, btw.

Gah. That's the last time I let Landon do a poster. Godawful lettering and no information. ALL THINGZ ARE DUE BY 7pm EST apart from those people who have talked to me already.

*spits on Alexander* I was just waiting for the right moment.

*Chews apple* Thas' not cool.

And a worthy response. I salute you, sir.

Manson is awesome, he just needs to be prodded into remembering it now and then. I honestly view him to be one of the best promo writers in the fed, in his character's own weird way.

It looks like we may be heading towards a consensus.

Well, that clears that up. I feel decidedly uncool. ...hey, why break a habit of 26 years?

I agree with Wildchild - the SWF was, is and should be about competition. Now, if two writers sit down and DECIDE they want to team up and do a pre-planned angle, that's up to them. However, if we all start running our own angles with our own characters then we lose that. And Landon, I know you're involved in the OAOAST as well, but that's what it's there for - people who want to do pre-planned stuff can do that, people who want to write competitively come here. Also, we're not saying that if we go for the change all tag teams MUST be one person Tod. What we're saying is that it gives us the option. Obviously, if we can get a functioning tag team of two people then those two people have half the workload each, so it should feel like a bonus to them compared to slogging it on their own (an argument Bo has put forward). On the other hand, Bruce has shown that you can still write a tag team yourself (and we've all covered for our partners here and there), and it'd give us more options. I'm inclined to lean towards the option of trying it and seeing how it goes, but we'll wait for further opinions. It looks like we've only garnered negatives from WC and Bo so far, I'd like to see if anyone else is against it.

Hmm, that would seem like a good mix.

I don't know what 'ilu' means. Guess I'm not down with the kids.

I think, WC, the confusion may have stemmed from the possible interpretation of your sentence. I mean, I wasn't (and still am not) sure whether it means "does S.I.N. need a manager? If so, I may be able to provide one" or "does S.I.N. really need a manager (which I would interpret to be Bo, since he's standing next to the guy), shouldn't he be on his own?" Maybe.

Oh, Michael, didn't I tell you? You've already dropped the New Blood Title You lost it when you cashed it in for your World Title shot. I was sure I'd told you that...

So, the Tag Titles are on VDN. With MANSON and Alexander fighting for the title (both deserving of that honour, I might add), we have no obvious challengers. Leading us to the question that has bugged us before - should one person be allowed to control both wrestlers within a tag team? I'll outline a few positives and negatives that I can think of: POSITIVES 1) No writing half a match, only to have your partner no-show his/her half. This can be incredibly frustrating and lead to a double no-show when half of each team actually wrote. 2) More unity. Previously tag teams have almost always been combinations of two different wrestlers who have had to grow together over time (see, Wild & Dangerous). The only exception I know of is TKO, where myself and Card created a tag team specifically to be an established tag team, who came in at the same time, as a team, with a unified gimmick. Unfortunately we fell prey to 1) above. For the most part however the SWF has had teams of a Benoit & Jericho make-up, rather than a Legion Of Doom, Hardy Boyz, Deuce & Domino (I know, I know) make-up. 3) The tag division can be revitalised, as we'd only need half as many people to get it running again. NEGATIVES 1) All the eggs are in one basket - there's no having a partner to cover for you, if you don't write, nothing will get done. In a similar way, there's no-one to bounce ideas off either. 2) It'll only work for tag team matches. We can't have both wrestlers in a team wrestling a singles match on one card, not unless the writer is REALLY dedicated. This will leave us slightly limited. 3) It's just not the SWF way. I'm not saying that "because we've always done it that way" is enough of a reason to stick to a practice if there are better options available, and I would encourage anyone adopting that line to think of other arguments, but there is something to be said for the notion of the Tag Titles going to an actual team who co-ordinate their writing efforts. 4) Tag team break-ups, a natural part of wrestling, would be difficult to handle with the same person writing both guys. In fact, since we are not looking at having someone control more than one singles wrestler, one half of the team would just have to be dropped. And even if we were to drop one guy after the finish of the break-up angle, having an entire angle orchestrated by one person with a pre-determined outcome and the matches written by them takes us away from the competitive foundation of the SWF and more towards the OAOAST environment. Please feel free to chip in with your thoughts, and to vote. This isn't a decision that we want to make lightly, and I'd prefer to have the system we have now and which we have always had in place work properly. Unfortunately, the Tag Champions have no obvious challengers and I'm not sure if I just want to throw together two people simply in order for us to have a division of two teams.

OK, left it late. I was on holiday for two weeks, deal. Who's about? Who wants a match? Any specific requests can be put in here or PM'd to myself or Landon (King Cucaracha, in case you're new/very old/forgetful). We're provisionally booking this for Thurs 28th Feb.

You have a move called 'Fat Girl Frog Splash'. Argue with me.

Markers and descriptions in, biznitches.

Picky picky. We didn't do Clusterfuck until the day of the show.

Awesome. The rest of it's good as well, but that's awesome.

*Looks at poster* ...I deny any and all involvement with the running of this place. *dry heaves* Landon, you are aware we're not in the 80s anymore, right? *realises Landon probably doesn't remember the 80s* Damn...

If there was any doubt that Michael Alexander is awesome, he also reads the Dresden files. I would take my hat off to you sir, if I could fit one over my mohawk.