HI-YAH

[King Cucaracha 0]

Okay, so it seems everyone's using HI-YAH characters and HI-YAH titles now. So, in a lull during my oh-so enthralling day, I came up with an idea to basically 'flesh out' HI-YAH and use it like a second brand. Sort of.

 

 

Basically, what would happen is we'd create a new folder, like the HeldDOWN~! one but it'd be a HI-YAH one. In that folder there'd be a 'sign-up sheet' of sorts and anyone who's got a character or characters they know they're not going to use for the next two months, they put that name in the thread and they'd be officially on tour with HI-YAH. There'd be a maximum of 20 and a minimum of 10 or 12, to keep everything balanced. And basically, the premise is if a character is on tour with HI-YAH, they're on tour in Japan so they're not going to show up on HD every few weeks to get squashed. There'd also be a stats thread for 'HI-YAH regulars', they being the guys that never get used what-so-ever so will always be touring. This is the likes of The All American Boys, but also anyone who's been booked as a HI-YAH regular, like Kenji Kawada or James Blonde.

 

Once the roster is set, that's the touring group for the next two months. Every fortnight there'll be a small level show, posted in the HI-YAH folder, which would basically be me writing up results in a format something close to when Patty did a house show report last year. And at the end of every two months there'd be a big HI-YAH event at the Budoken Hall, the blow-off to the tour.

 

This would be basically the same as we have now. The booking thread would go up earlyish and the list of all available workers would go up. Basically, the big show would consist of the regulars, the touring workers, the HI-YAH HV Champion, the HI-YAH Tag Champions and maybe one or two big name guests if someone's desperate for it. People can write whatever match they want from that list. Obviously, you'd clear using the touring wrestlers with whoever controls them, incase they're planning on writing them. Those matches would be just like any other we do, except of course it'd be a Japanese crowd, Japanese set-up, all of that. And the show would go up in Home Entertainment.

 

The only difference is, the workers left on the list that aren't being written would have matches too. Just results, so 'Wrestler X beats Wrestler Y in 15:29 with the Spinning Do-Hiky'. But they'd be on the show regardless.

 

At the end of the two months, the cycle starts over.

 

 

The roster is full to bursting as it is with secondary, tertiary and beyond characters and they usually get one match every two months. Like this, they'd officially have a match every fortnight plus the big show at the endand would actually be 'doing something'. Then, as those characters would be 'written off' HDs for that time period, the HDs would focus more on the characters people are developing and would therefore expect to be seen on the TV show. The touring characters could be used on HDs in special circumstances, like tournaments, so long as it was explained that they're off the tour for this week or off the tour and replaced with so and so. So long as it's not a regular thing, in which case it defeats the object. And of course there can be promos to build the HI-YAH shows and matches. And there's no reason why touring characters couldn't have promos recording from Japan if really neccessary. Obviously, the HI-YAH Champions are exempt and can be used on HD shows. The regulars, if in a HD feud, can be taken off the next tour if need be and anyone can 'become' a regular if the character's dead in the water.

 

As far as writing, aside from me, it'd only mean a potential one or two extra matches for those who want them every two months.

 

I'm more than happy to be the 'HI-YAH Mod' or whatever and basically run the entire operation, post the shows, organise the threads, keep the folder clean, that sort of stuff. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. The workload would be pretty minimal, but it'd seem a lot richer in terms of quantity. Basically, I just need people to say it's a good idea and give me the okay to run with it, if they think it'd work.

 

(It would happen post-AngleMania, if people are cool with it, btw.)

[KingPK 0]

I think this is a great idea. At the very least, it keeps non-regular characters fresh in people's minds. You can even have a little HI-YAH Minute segment on HD that takes a brief look at the goings on over in Japan.

[Patty O'Green 0]

That's not such a bad idea. There sure are a lot of secondary characters floating around. I think people would go for it because it doesn't actually require much work on their part. Although it is nice to have an NRG lying around to squash whenever you feel like it.

 

But, Alf's also doing that wdw thing, sooooo I would imagine you'd have more then a few characters journeying over to that, maybe. I dunno, I don't really know how it would work. I'm sleepy and it's only like early.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Well, this wouldn't be a seperate brand as such. If anything, its more a way to better organise the roster. There's no reason why this and Alf's idea couldn't both run, there'd still be a good few unused characters (we only need like 20 to run a weekly show, 40 maybe for two, me and Tony could probably cover that alone hypothetically).

 

Maybe this idea can sit until after Alf's idea goes up and running, see if this is really neccessary.