Post by Staff on Jul 25, 2018 13:32:16 GMT -5
Valor Pro Wrestling is an indie wrestling federation touring Europe, Asia and the UK. The goal is to grow large enough to also tour the United States and Canada. We have Bi-Weekly Sunday shows called Blitz. The RP Deadline for these shows will fall on the Friday, at 10 AM before the show is due, and will feature a maximum of 2 RPs per character with a 2k word limit per RP. For tag matches, the limit is 2 RPs per tag team, or one per handler if it's a two handler tag team. (make sense?)
Word limits aren't mandatory. You can post a 1k RP if you wish, and you don't need to post a maximum of 2 to be successful. The best single scoring RP will be the score used to help determine the winner. Elsewhere in this guide you'll learn about the RP guidelines. Note that engagement is rewarded, as is posting the maximum amount of RPs per cycle, so is twitter activity, or submitting segments, or working angles with your fellow handlers, though the goal is not to cripple handlers who may be strapped for time.
Word limits aren't mandatory. You can post a 1k RP if you wish, and you don't need to post a maximum of 2 to be successful. The best single scoring RP will be the score used to help determine the winner. Elsewhere in this guide you'll learn about the RP guidelines. Note that engagement is rewarded, as is posting the maximum amount of RPs per cycle, so is twitter activity, or submitting segments, or working angles with your fellow handlers, though the goal is not to cripple handlers who may be strapped for time.
There are four championships, The Apex, the UnYielding, the Unleashed, and the tag-team championship, known as The Chimera Championship.
The aim will be to give each equal footing in terms of booking and hype, forgoing the notion that one is a tier above the other.
1. Don't take this seriously. A win or a loss is a win or a loss in a virtual wrestling game played for virtual stakes. If you take exception to a match outcome feel free to talk to staff and we can discuss the matter peaceably, RP Feedback will be available and should be taken with a grain of salt, but complaining won't get you far, and certainly won't compel someone to overturn the result you disapprove of.
2. 2 Characters per handler.
3. Staff Reserves the right to showcase your character in shows, and in other content on the site as necessary. You will never intentionally be disrespected.
4. RP; Angle; Submit Segments; Be active; Get involved. Your push is yours to push. Staff may propose angles from time to time in order to involve your character, but is not ultimately responsible for your character's success.
5. Only 1 RP may be posted within the 24 hours before the final deadline.
6. You may not use another character in your RPs without the permission of that character's handler.
7. Deadlines may change and shift based on real world circumstances. The goal is never to post a late show, but it may happen.
8. Swearing, Sexism, Racism, Homophobia, slurs, violence, and sexual themes and the like will be tolerated on a case by case basis. Your character can be a racist bigot if you so choose, but be aware that your promos will be aired on television, and will be subject to broadcast laws and simple decency.
9. Take realism into account. Yes, your character may be a time-traveling cybernetic organism sent back in time to kill someone, but why are the police not after this being, and more importantly, why is this creature wrestling in an indie wrestling promotion? In other words, suspension of disbelief works better with as few logical leaps as possible.
10. There has always been a debate in e-fedding about off camera/on camera content. In this fed, if you have off camera content, then it should be denoted as off camera and shouldn't be used by other handlers in their RP's. Furthermore, if your entire RP is nothing but off camera material, it should probably be on the CD board instead, and will ultimately effect your over all score. No matter what story you are trying to tell, this is a wrestling company, and if you aren't devoting at least 50% of your focus to your characters part in it, whether that be your current match or the events leading you up to this point, then you aren't doing your job as a performer. There are many here who have created the perfect blend of both, and if you are one of those that keeps everything on camera then simply keep doing what you're doing.
You may post a maximum of 2 RPs per cycle.
Tag Teams may post a maximum of 1 RP per character. One handler Tag Teams get 2 RPs, Two Handler Tag Teams get 1 RP a piece.
Each RP may have a maximum of 2000 words in them.
Staff doesn't care to count your words. Staff will read them and attempt to determine who wins and who loses a match based on what you write based off the grading rubric.
Stories, promos, shoot virtuosity. Write what you will, but see the below rules to see some of the aspects of a post that may not work.
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RP judging is subjective. The rubric for judging RPs in Valor Pro will attempt to be fair and balanced. The outcome of matches will be determined based on RP scores + Active Engagement scores.
The scoring system for matches is as follows:
ROLEPLAYS
RolePlay Judging, (1 - 5; 5 being exemplary, best in class, and 1 being the equivalent of a 'well, you tried your best'.):
Fed Relevance: 1 to 5 Points for involving the match in the post. Did you shoot on your opponent? Is your character nervous about the match that's taking place on ____ of ___ month? Does this person seem to have a wrestling career of some kind?
Entertainment Value: 1 to 5 Points for critical engagement. As a reader, was the post funny, frightening, or otherwise memorable?
Creativity: 1 to 5 points for distinction. Was it clearly creative, or unique or distinctive? (This is often weighted against what we've already read by any given character/handler. If you have a tendency of rehashing material you've already done.)
Character Development: 1 to 5 points for developing story/character. Fun fact: Character Development isn't something that only happens in blocked out moments in your post. It happens when your character, in their promo, describes their love of violence, or lack of love for violence, as an example. Sometimes this is clearer than others in posts. IS their a story arc your character is following, or are they unchanging? How clear is this?
Holism: the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the whole, or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts.
The promise is to not be arbitrary or capricious. Your loss won't happen because staff hates you, even if staff hates you.
TAG SCORE
Tag Team Roleplaying will be a combined score of the two RP's posted for the event.
ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT (Extra Points)
Twitter Activity: 1 point will be awarded for Twitter activity: Retweet shows, other posts. Feud. Activity is good. Some activity isn't as productive as others, though -- OOC Tweets don't count towards this score.
Fed Relevance: 1 to 5 Points for involving the match in the post. Did you shoot on your opponent? Is your character nervous about the match that's taking place on ____ of ___ month? Does this person seem to have a wrestling career of some kind?
Entertainment Value: 1 to 5 Points for critical engagement. As a reader, was the post funny, frightening, or otherwise memorable?
Creativity: 1 to 5 points for distinction. Was it clearly creative, or unique or distinctive? (This is often weighted against what we've already read by any given character/handler. If you have a tendency of rehashing material you've already done.)
Character Development: 1 to 5 points for developing story/character. Fun fact: Character Development isn't something that only happens in blocked out moments in your post. It happens when your character, in their promo, describes their love of violence, or lack of love for violence, as an example. Sometimes this is clearer than others in posts. IS their a story arc your character is following, or are they unchanging? How clear is this?
Holism: the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the whole, or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts.
The promise is to not be arbitrary or capricious. Your loss won't happen because staff hates you, even if staff hates you.
TAG SCORE
Tag Team Roleplaying will be a combined score of the two RP's posted for the event.
ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT (Extra Points)
Twitter Activity: 1 point will be awarded for Twitter activity: Retweet shows, other posts. Feud. Activity is good. Some activity isn't as productive as others, though -- OOC Tweets don't count towards this score.
Show Segments: 1 point will be awarded for submitting a segment for a show. In segments involving two characters, both handlers will be awarded a point. (These must be sent in on time at the deadline for a point to be awarded. The deadline for segments is the same as for RP's.)
Match Strategy/Angles: 1 point will be awarded if you're working a program/angle with another handler(s) and staff knows about it. This point can also be achieved if you send me match strategies for the match on the angle deadline. (One Week Before The Show)
CD Board: 1 point will be awarded if you post a CD on the Character Development Boards.
ANGLED RESULTS
Sometimes angles may be suggested by staff or requested by the handlers. In order for an angled match to move forward, all handlers involved must agree on the outcome. If the suggestion came from staff, and any of the handlers have a problem with the idea, then the angle WILL NOT move forward, and the match will become a legitimate contest following the RP rules. Keep in mind this is storytelling, and to that point sometimes a wrestler loses to someone, and then through tenacity and hard work, comes back to overcome that opponent later on. Sometimes a veteran beats a rookie because it's the rookie's first match. Sometimes its vice versa. Sometimes a win for your character isn't the best thing for the fed. This is the equivalent of taking into account what else is going on, sometimes behind the scenes, or angle-wise.
CD Board: 1 point will be awarded if you post a CD on the Character Development Boards.
ANGLED RESULTS
Sometimes angles may be suggested by staff or requested by the handlers. In order for an angled match to move forward, all handlers involved must agree on the outcome. If the suggestion came from staff, and any of the handlers have a problem with the idea, then the angle WILL NOT move forward, and the match will become a legitimate contest following the RP rules. Keep in mind this is storytelling, and to that point sometimes a wrestler loses to someone, and then through tenacity and hard work, comes back to overcome that opponent later on. Sometimes a veteran beats a rookie because it's the rookie's first match. Sometimes its vice versa. Sometimes a win for your character isn't the best thing for the fed. This is the equivalent of taking into account what else is going on, sometimes behind the scenes, or angle-wise.