Post your introduction promos~!

[Sly 0]

Mine is located here...

 

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=52899

[Smartly Pretty 0]

I didn't have an introduction promo. I debuted in a #1 contenders match.

 

And one.

 

And then ELM slayed me. But really, isn't that how it always works?

[Toxxic 0]

Done

 

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=49559

 

The following thread also features area-specific football chants as performed by Va'aiga, and my first interaction with Muzz making me realise how awesome he was.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=35653

 

"We played flashlight tag...and I WON~!"

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Didn't have one: my debut was a JL dark match.

[janusd 0]

Didn't have one: my debut was a JL dark match.

 

Seconded.

[Sly 0]

Well... surely you guys had some sort of promo along the way that actually explained your character, right?

[Golgo 13 0]

It's on my old computer. Somewhere on IGN also. The gist of it was me coming out after the main event and declaring how awesome and ready to take over the fed I was. Hindsight, etc. Just a typical n00b promo.

[Chuck Woolery 0]

My amazing intro promo involved Snow Demon sitting on a couch making fun of Ted Flink.

 

Poorly.

 

This was followed by my debut, where (if I'm remembering correctly) I ran some guy over with a snowplow and then hit him with my finisher... a La Magistral cradle. Which was called the Snow Plow.

 

Seriously, it's all on IGN, and it's pretty spectacular.

[Chuck Woolery 0]

Double.

Edited May 30, 2006 by Chuck Woolery

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Well... surely you guys had some sort of promo along the way that actually explained your character, right?

No.

[Sly 0]

Well... surely you guys had some sort of promo along the way that actually explained your character, right?

No.

Well... aren't you the boring one, then.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Maybe, but that has nothing to do with it; I just don't enjoy writing promos.

 

I joined this fed to write matches, not to RP; RP-ing does jack-all for me.

[Sly 0]

It's an effective way to tell a story, though. I just find that it adds a certain something when a person has an actual background to them... something to build off of, you know. And it gives them a depth outside of the ring, too.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

It's an effective way to tell a story, though. I just find that it adds a certain something when a person has an actual background to them... something to build off of, you know. And it gives them a depth outside of the ring, too.

What do I need build for? I've managed to be involved in a handful of extended feuds without WC's "real life" having much, if anything, to do with them. In fact, I did about a four-month program with Pretzler and another four-month program with Hawke that basically just consisted of the three of us writing matches. They may never win FOTY, but that's never been a goal of mine.

 

Promos have their place and everything, but I just don't think that they're essential for a character or a feud to get over: one of my favorite feuds ever in the history of the fed (Danny/Mak) had basically no promos whatsoever.

[JJ Johnson 0]

Pretzler promoed pretty heavily in that, if I recall. But other than that, I'm taking your view on this, except for when you're just building to one match - as I am with Va'aiga - and promoing is really the only way to do it.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

I wouldn't say that he promoed "heavily." He probably did a handful of show promos; he definitely didn't do any board promos, which I think would be more in line with the sort of "add depth to your character" promos that Sly seems to be talking about here.

 

I concede the point for a one-shot, though; be rather hard to build up to a one-shot without promoage.

 

Hey Danny (or someone else who's into puro), do they do a lot of promoing in Puro, or do they rely mostly on the matches themselves to tell/sell the story?

[Sly 0]

Perhaps I came off as being a jerk somehow, but when I stated my opinion, I just wanted to share my opinion. I didn't mean for you to try to crush it by any means possible and thus waste another thread on the community board.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

 

I wasn't aware that that's what I was doing...

[Sly 0]

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

I just mean that I thought we were having an interesting discussion; I didn't realize that you interpreted that as me trying to "crush your opinion by any means possible," or "wasting" your thread.

 

Mea culpa.

[Sly 0]

I'm sorry. Here, let's have a moment of bonding by making fun of Zed instead.

 

(12:36am) (@Zed) If you couldn't get it up, you'd be worried, too.

[JJ Johnson 0]

I'm pretty sure stories are all wrestling in Japan.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

Of course, none of us can speak Japanese, so it doesn't really matter anyway.

[Bruce Blank 0]

I've seen a bunch of FMW tapes and yes the stories are all ABOUT wrestling (no spilled coffee) but they're not limited to the matches - pre & post match shenanigans, backstage interviews & angles.

 

it's not as big as in the US but it's there