Fictional Season 2 Coming January 2023

Rules

1.Worker Bidding

2.Broadcasting

Promotion Profile Points Builder

Challenge Sim Rules

The Jury

FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions

Sign Up & Set-up

S1: Each Promotion starts with $25,000,000 in the Bank. This can be spent on everything from Workers to Promotion "Pimping". First you have to set up your Promotion. This cannot be changed during the Draft. Money left over at the end of the draft is the “Starting Funds” of the promotion, so don't go bankrupt on a spending spree as you may struggle to survive even the first year.

S2: Each Player gets a User Character which they can use as an active wrestler, announcer or just a plain and simple behind the scenes Owner & Booker. This must be created before the draft begins and cannot be edited afterwards

S3: Before the draft starts, everyone will be asked to provide a list of workers to place in the draft. These will decide who will be in the early rounds. Workers can be added continuously untill the closure is announced via the Discord Chat. The workers who feature in each round will often be entirely random, however there may be a few Themed rounds such as Women’s, Tag Teams, Announcers or Referee’s.

S4: Each Promotions gets either the choice of Monlthy Events or Annual Event. If you chose Monthly you get an Event Importance of 30%. If you chose Annual you get 9 PPV’s at “Normal” level, 2 at “Above Average” and 1 at “Highly Regarded”. You can Upgrade the Levels of both and buy extra Monthly PPV’s. If you Chose to run both Monthly and Annual Events, only Monthly Events will be free. All Annual Events will be charged per the cost of the Prestige Set.
Each Promotion can also create its own belts, Television shows, Broadcasters and much more.

S5: The Drafting will take place using Google Doc’s and take advantage of the many options it offers. Any Announcements to do with the draft will be made in the Discord Chat Room. The Private Chat Room will be set up on the HoPW Discord so players can talk freely without spamming the GDS Thread.

Auction Rules

1.Worker Bidding

A: Bidding for a Worker is simple, just select their name in a dropdown section of the Auction poll. The winner is decided using an eBay style bidding of “highest wins''. All Workers Requested will be added, with no set time limit. The only ways to win is when you have the highest bid and the worker hasn’t been bid on for 24 hours. You then become the winner of that workers contract.

B: Maximum Bids for workers will be determined by Promotion Set up (Absolute highest being $9,999,999). The amount you buy a worker for will determine their contract price in the Mod. Winning a load of workers at $500,000 may give you a great line up, but will ultimately sink your promotion. When making bids on workers, you can increase their bids as often as you like, so long as its within 24 hours of the previous "Highest Bid"

Bidding will also have a Minimum increase limit.

$5-$1,000 is a minimum of $50 increase
$1,001-$2,500 is a minimum of $100 increase
$2,501-$10,000 is a Minimum of $250 increase
$10,001-$25,000 is a Minimum of $500 increase
$25,001-$50,000 is a Minimum of $1,000 increase
$50,001-$100,000 is a Minimum of $2,500 increase
$100,001-$150,000 is a Minimum of $5,000 increase
$150,001-$500,000 is a Minimum of $10,000 increase
$500,001-$1,000,000 is a Minimum of $25,000 increase
$1,000,001-$2,000,000 is a Minimum of $50,000 increase
$2,000,001-$5,000,000 is a Minimum of $100,000 increase
$5,000,001-$9,999,999 is a Minimum of $250,000 increase

C: Everyone can make multiple bids on a worker, it’s not a one hit wonder. However getting in early with a high offer might be a smart idea in some cases.

D: There is both an upper and lower Limit when bidding on workers. You will need to draft a Minimum of 25 (Staff and Roster) but a maximum of XX Overall. The Maximum number of workers you can draft will be decided by your promotion setup. The amount you can draft will be highlighted on the "Co" Page. Drafting over this amount will result in all workers costing x5 the price paid.
A Minimum of 20 Wrestlers, 1 Announcer, 1 Colour Commentator, 2 Road Agents and 2 Referees. Failing to meet the minimum will result in a $250,000 fine for each empty slot

E: If a worker only Receives 1 bid and that bid is under $10,000, Unlike Season 1, the price they sell for, will be the price of their contract.
This means winning a worker at just $500 will actually mean you only pay $500 upfront and each month.

F: In this draft you can pick workers from any area to join your promotion. Worker restrictions will be turned OFF.

2.Broadcasting

A: TV and PPV Deals will change in Season 3 onwards. Like Season 1, all bids will be public again, but unlike Season 1, Multiple deals on the same network will be auctioned at the same time.
Each broadcaster will only ever be listed once and if you miss out. So if you want "USA Network", it will only come around once.
Each Broadcaster will be auctioned with 1-5 slots available. This means the 1-5 highest bidders win and all pay the price they bid. 1 Winning Bid equals 1 TV or Event Slot. If you want to host 2 TV Shows and Events, you'll need to win 3 slots on a Network.

A Network will only sell, when the highest bid is timed out by 48 hours.

All Broadcaster Deals will come with basic settings, as Follows:
Time Slot: One Demand
Expires: 1 Year
Revenue Split: Decided by Promotion Setup
Minimum Quality: Decided by Promotion Setup

B: Community Broadcasters are an independant Broadcaster that you create but do not own. As a perk of creating one, you get 5 Slots with that broadcaster at a slightly better level than you would with a regular broadcaster, but not as good as a company owned broadcaster.

All Community Broadcasters will close Exactly 2 years after the Simulation Start Date.

Events and A-Shows Community Broadcaster Deals will come with basic settings, as Follows:
Time Slot: Prime Time
Expires: 2 Years
Revenue Split: 50% To Company
Minimum Quality: 50

B-Shows Community Broadcaster Deals will come with basic settings, as Follows:
Time Slot: Late Evening
Expires: 2 Years
Revenue Split: 40% To Company
Minimum Quality: 40

3.Promotion

A: Each Promotion is given a budget of $25,000,000 at the beginning of sign up. These funds will be used to shape your promotion and buy workers. You will be expected to buy the Prestige, Momentum, Extra Events, Arena’s plus PPV and TV Deals not to mention buying workers and more. You can over spend and go into negative funds, however the "Banks" will charge increasingly higher interest rates depending on how much over the $25m you spend

B: Remaining Money at the end can be used to buy Extra Events, Tag Team Exp, Own Networks, Arena's, Training Facilities and so on. But remember not to spend too much as you will have no money in the bank to start with

4.TV & Events

A: Events are now a Monlthy or Yearly setup only, there is no option to have both.
You can either have 12 Monthly Events at 9 Normal (10%), 2 Above Average (50%) and 1 Highly Regarded (70%)
or
1 Monthly PPV at Normal (30%), 1 Annual at Above Average (50%) and 1 Highly Regarded (70%)

B: Television Shows are Capped at 5, however your individual cap may be lower due to the Promotion Points Builder System

5.Workers

A: Worker Status

Injured Workers: All workers will be Eligible and have their “Injuries Removed”. Scandals Remain

Hiatus: All Workers who are on hiatus will be eligible for Drafting.

Left The Business: Unless stated otherwise, All workers will be eligible for Drafting

Non Active but doesn’t fit my Role for them: All “non-Active” or “Retired” workers who have Pushes that don’t suit your role for them, such as Eric Bischoff being “Authority” but wanting him to be “Color”. These requests will be granted.

Retired: Someone who retired through choice and not injury (Jamie Noble, Lita, Guido) Will all be considered to be Reactivated as Full Time or Part-time workers.

Others such as Steve Austin will not be allowed as they retired due to Medical Reasons.

6.Contract Setup

A: All the contract information is being set to the following guidelines:
- Random Expiry date (upgrade can be bought)
- Alignment set to be decided at random or by you at the end of the draft for $$$
- Gimmick set to database default.
- Gimmick ratings will be set Randomly (upgrade can be bought)
- Momentum set to Normal (upgrade can be bought)
- Mask set to None (upgrade can be bought)
- Iron Clad set to Decided by Promotion Setup
- Merchandise to Decided by Promotion Setup
- Show Bonus to Per Event Decided by Promotion Setup
- Creative Control Set to Decided by Promotion Setup
- Hiring Veto set to Decided by Promotion Setup
- Wage Matching set to Decided by Promotion Setup

7.Fines & Fee's

A Promotions can “Overspend”, however it comes with a cost. Overspending will incur interest fees. Those fees are as follows:

-$1 to -$10,000 = 25% Interest
-$10,001 to -$100,000 = 50% Interest
-$100,001 to -$500,000 = 100% Interest
-$500,001 to -$1,000,000 = 150% Interest
-$1,000,001 to -$2,500,000 = 200% Interest
-$2,500,001 to -$5,000,000 = 500% Interest
-$5,000,001 to -$10,000,000 = 1,000% Interest
-$10,000,001 to -$20,000,000 = 1,500% Interest
-$20,000,001 to -$30,000,000 = 2,000% Interest
-$30,000,001 to -$40,000,000 = 2,500% Interest
-$40,000,001 to -$50,000,000 = 5,000% Interest
-$50,000,001+ = 10,000% Interest

Remember that this means your promotion will start in an even bigger hole and may not make it the 10 years, meaning the promotion may not make it into the “Final Data”.

B: Fines and Fee's in one place
Failing to meet the 25 Minimum Roster: $1,000,000
Each Worker Short of Individual Roster Targets: $250,000 Per Missing
Failing to Set any on the "Required" Cells on the Promotion Page: $100,000 Per Missing
Bidding outside 24-48hr Time-out: $10,000 Each Time
Every Worker Sold in the Light Grey: x5 Cost Per Worker
Every Worker Sold in the Dark Grey: x10 Cost Per Worker
Bidding Over Limit (Worker Contract): $150,000 Each Time
Bidding Over Limit (Total Roster Contract Amount): x25 of the total above Roster Spend (If Roster Limit is $15,000,000 and your total roster cost is $16,000,000 you pay x25 on the $1,000,000 over)

8.The Auction

A: If you miss the end of an auction, it can be reopened by request, however throughout the whole draft you will only have 3 opportunities to do this, so act wisely. That workers bidding with reopen at the previous highest bid and will continue until its timed out by the 24 Hour Rule.

B: Bidding will work by opening a new Auction Room once a day until we reach 6 rooms. After that, once a worker is sold, their empty space will be filled by another worker from the "Un-Sold" list

C: All workers are Available Exclusively to the winning bidder. Unless you Share with another player, that worker is yours and will not be on any other roster.
You can however “Loan” a worker to a fellow promotion for a $$$ Fee $$$ which can be decided by the both parties. You can also create a “Pairing” where 2 promotions can share a worker using a Written Non-Exclusive contract. Example being the winner bids $300,000 and then splits the bill with it's “Partner”. Both Promotions then pay $150,000 for the worker but the Workers contract price will always be the original Bid Price of £300,000. This is a change to Season 1, however it gave an unfair advantage to group bidders.

D: Existing Arena’s will be put up for auction during the draft for everyone to bid on. Like Broadcasters, the time out period is 48 hours.
You can also create your own arena.

9.Alliances

A: Alliance's can be created Before or During a Draft. They can be created by requesting an Alliance Profile Sheet.
The Alliance Profile sheet allows you to create the layout of your alliance. The cost of An Alliance is $2m, however the cost is split between the members. So the more members, the cheaper the alliance.

Having an alliance also allows you to avoid the cap on the amount of shared workers in the draft. Without a draft a draft, promotions can share Upto 6 Workers.

Alliances can share upto 150 workers without cost

Where To Start

----- Step One -----

Joining the Draft Master Challenge via GDS or Discord and you will be sent your own private "Promotion Page". This is exclusive to you and you can continue to edit sections of it throughtout the draft.
Now Decide on a Promotion Name and Location
Decide how you would like to spend your $25Million on building your company. From Momentum and Prestige to Extra PPV's Your own Broadcaster or even Development Company. Just fill in the Form and post it. Remember to add all your PPV Events, Championships and so on.
Make sure you complete all the required sections of the Company and User pages before the Auction begins. Some sections have to be filled in before the draft can begin and some can never be edited again aftrwards.
When you create an “Owner/Booker” base it on either yourself or someone fictional. Nobody from the Wrestling world or Celebrities are allowed.
Decide on if you are going to forge an Alliance or just a Relationship ahead of the Draft beginning.
Place a vote on which TEW 2020 Mod will be the base for the current challenge

----- Step Two -----

Draw up a list of workers you would like to draft and post that list. It doesn’t have to be 100’s, but once posted, you won't have a chance to add to it until the later rounds.
Familiarise yourself with both the Auction Bid form that you have to use to place bids and the Auction Data sheet that lists all things related to the draft. This will include the active auction lots, workers who have been sold and to whom, broadcaster deals and more.

----- Step Three -----

After the Auction begins, Draw up a list of all workers you want for your promotion who haven’t yet been auctioned. Remembering Referee’s, Wrestlers, Announcers and anyone who you will need to fill your roster. They will all then be added to the draft where everyone can bid on those workers.

----- Step Four -----

Once all Auctions end, Trading will stay open up for the next 3-4 Days, where you can organise a trade with anyone. After 3-4 Days the Rosters will be locked and added into the games data.
Complete all sections of your Promotion Profile as this will be the last chance. Anything incorrect or missing will be as it will be, meaning no changing anything once Step 5 begins.

----- Step Five -----

The Challenge Begins and the Data will be simmed for 2 Years. A Copy of this data will be made and that will be the foundation of the Released Data.

----- Step Six -----

Every Year for the 10 Years, the data will be evaluated and awards will be given, which will be added to the “Release Data”. Awards will be given for a multitude of milestones reached. These range from growing in size or falling in size, to the End of the Year Awards, Whether your promotion is still in business or if your promotion falls into Debt.

----- Step Seven -----

The ”Release Data” which will be 2 years after the draft will be edited with all the Rewards for the milestones/Achievements reached over the 10 Year sim. That data will then be released to the players to tackle as they wish.

Promotion Profile Points Builder

Contract Points

Auction Bid Limit: The limit given here is the Maximum you can bid for a worker. Bidding more than your allowed limit will result in a fine and any workers own by over bidding will be up to other players if you can keep them.
Roster Size Limit: This is the Maximum number of workers that are allowed on your roster. Going over this number will result in everyone costing 5 times the amount bid
Roster Nomination Cloud: On the Draft Nomination List (Where you add workers to be auctioned) you have tick boxes under your promotion names. The higher your "Clout" number, the higher chance the workers you nominate will come up first
Contract Perk Disscount: When puchasing Momentum, Gimmick Rating, Contract Length etc, you can get a small but helpful disscount

Creation Points

Title Creation Prestige Limit: The Limit on how high you can set a Championships Prestige is decided here. It ranges from 50% Prestige all the way up to 100% Prestige.
Title Count Cap: This is where the amount of Titles you're allowed is set. With a Minimum of 3 at the very bottom, its possible even at the lowest to create enough titles to satisfy an early roster.
Tournament Titles Unlocked: Unlocks the ability to create Tournament Titles. Until this is unlocked, players cannot create Tournament Titles under any circumstances
Tag Team Creation Limit: Here you get a set limit of how many Tag Teams you can add to your page. If you have a limit of 12, but have drafted 15 already created teams, you will only be able to add 12 of them, its then down to the AI if they wish to add more.
Stable Creation Limit: Like Above, This is where you can be limited from 2-12 stables. The higher the number, the more you can create

Production Points

Broadcaster Deal Limit: Here you have the limit on how many Drafted Broadcaster Deal Slots you are allowed. This does not affect Company Owned Broadcaster Deals or Community Broadcaster Deals.
Broadcaster Timeslot Limit: Now here we have the selection of the Timeslot in which your show or shows air. From "On Demand" ONLY! all the way to the full selection "On Demand, Afternoon, Early Evening, Evening, Prime Time, Late Evening, Late Night, Graveyard".
Broadcaster Expire Length Limit: The length of the Broadcaster deals in the DMC vary between 1 and 5 years. Here is where you get the maximum limit a Broadcaster will give you.
Broadcaster Revenue Split Standard: No Longer can you pay to upgrade the returns a Broadcaster will give you. Now its decided when you initially set up your promotion. From as low as just 5%, all the way to 60%. This will be across every Auction Bought deal from B-Shows to Events.
Broadcaster Minimum Quality Standard: Again no longer being able to set it individually per show. The Minimum Quality is 1 set/fixed number for all shows you host. The better you set up your promotion, the better the deal you get from a Broadcaster.
Broadcaster Discount: Here you get to see what kind of Discount you will be given when chosing Timeslot and Contract length of your shows. Although not huge disscount, every little helps.

Booking Points

Event Prestige Limit: The Maximum Prestige you can give any event is decided here. 70% (Highly Regarded) to 100% (Legendary).
A-Shows Limit: Here you have a limit on how many A-Shows your company can host 1 being the least and 3 being the highest
Max TV Show Limit Limit: Here is the total number of TV Shows you can host. This is however 1-5 and ties in with the above that limits show numbers
TV Show Length Limit: The Maximum runtime for a TV Show is Decided here. 30mins to 4hrs
Event Length Limit: The Maximum runtime for an Event is Decided here. 1hr to 8hrs

Corporate Points

Unlock Create An Arena: Unlocks the ability to create Arenas. Until this is unlocked, players cannot create Arenas under any circumstances, You can however still buy them in the Auction
Unlock Create A Broadcaster: Unlocks the ability to create A Broadcaster. Until this is unlocked, players cannot create Company Owned Broadcasters under any circumstances, You can however still buy the Broadcasting deals in the Auction
Create A Broadcaster Discount: Here you can recieve as small disscount towards making a Company Owned and Created Broadcaster
Unlock Create A Community Broadcaster: Unlocks the ability to create A Community Broadcaster. Until this is unlocked, players cannot create Community Owned Broadcasters under any circumstances, You can however still buy the Broadcasting deals in the Auction
Unlock Create A Development Company: Unlocks the ability to create A Development Company. Until this is unlocked, players cannot create A Development Company under any circumstances.
Unlock Create A Facility: Unlocks the ability to create A Facility. Until this is unlocked, players cannot create A Facility under any circumstances.
Max Training Level: This sets the Maximum allowed Training level at any Training Facility or Dojo
Max Facilites Level: This sets the Maximum allowed Facilities level at any Training Facility or Dojo

Challenge Sim Rules

SR1: During the Challenge players will get yearly reports on how their promotions are doing and get rewards in the form of "Tokens" for hitting certain targets or milestones. These can inlude having a wrestler in the Power 500's top 25, Holding the Match or Event of the year and so on. These tokens can then be spend to enchance the final data (which is the year 2 sim, that is saves, converted to a mod and released as the official DMC data).

Tokens be spend on promotion funs, Momentum and Prestige boosts or a Free Network among some of the items your tokens can purchase

SR2: During play, from the third itteration of the DMC Series, players will be able to impact the ongoing play of the sim. At the end of each year players will be able to make 3 changes to their promotions. This could be exchaning in game currency for a Network upgrade or selling promotion popularity for a cash injection to a struggling promotion.
This and the Token system is all available on the Challenge Rewards Sheet.

SR3: For the First year, news will not be reported like previous seasons. From now on the yearly data will be shared for all to view in TEW 2020 by yourselves, giving you a hands on, closer look. The reason the data will not be shared at the end of season 1, is ti make sure we stick to the rule that no data is shared before Year 2's end.

SR4: Game World Starting Setup:
Global Economy: Low and Falling
Global Industry: Low and Falling

Regeneration: Dissabled
Auto Fix Imbalances: Enabled
Picture Requirement; Off
Area Battle: On Combined
Regional Battle: On Best Show
Restricted Areas: Semi
Injury Frequency: Medium
Randomness Frequency: Medium
Relationship Frequency: Medium
Death Frequency: Low
Kenny Deaths: Dissabled
Natural Growth Limits: Full

SR5: Rules on Survival
Company Folds in under 2 Years: Deleted From Database
Company Folds in 2-5 Years: Set to Insignificant and 50% of roster Randomly released
Company Folds in 5-8 Years: Set to Tiny and 50% of roster Randomly released
Company Folds in 8-10 Years: Set to Tiny and 25% of roster Randomly released

Promotions who are Bought out count as "Folding" as they were in financial collapse.

The Jury

During the Draft everyone has a free reign on bidding and such alike. However anyone playing outside the realms of reason can be flagged up and placed in front of the “Jury”. Everyone else then gets to decide if you should receive a Warning, Its Over Reaction, You should have a Fine or a Larger Punishment.

To call the “Jury” into service there must be at least 2 complaints.

For a Decision on what action to take, there must be a Majority vote of more than 60% of players.

Decisions are kept track of !!!Here!!!

Punishments Include

• Warning

• A Fine of $25,000 to $750,000

• A Bidding Ban Period of 12-48 Hours

• Stripping of a Worker

• Ejected (in the extreme)

Everyone who has been flagged up to face “Questionable” actions can plead their case. No action will be taken until everyone has Cast their vote.

The decisions will be made in private and delivered by myself, to save any players receiving hate from the person on “Trial”.

FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can i Have Monthly and Annual Events?
A: Yes and No, You can have upto 20 Annual Events or Monthly Events and 2 Annual Events. Its an Either/Or Choice

Q: Do i have to add TV Shows, Events and Championships?
A: No, You can leave them to the AI to create, or create them yourself for greater control and possibl advantage

Q: What happens if i dont draft the Minimum Required Workers by the end of the draft?
A: Plenty of time will be given to draft the minimum limit, failure to draft the minimum required workers will lead to heafty fines

Q: Do i have to take part in the "In-Play Spending" every year?
A: No, This is totally optional to all players. You can chose to not take part, offer one or two changes every few years or take full advantage and use it every year

Q: If after i join, i decide i dont want to take part or i have no time due to reasons outside my control. Can i leave the draft?
A: Of Course, Nobody is held prisioner and "Life Happens". Just let the host know and there will be no issues at all. If you drop out with no warning and fail to respond, you will be placed on the "Brown" List, aka a Sh*tty thing to do list. Make the list twice and you wont be welcomed in future drafts

Q: Something is wrong in the Final Modded Data, can i request it be fixed?
A: I always aim to get 98% correct when modding. If an issue is found and is fixable, i will always aim to fix it at the earliest point

Q: Does the Draft Master Challenge cost to Play?
A: No, The DMC will always be free. You can however donate via the Homeofprowrestling.com Website if you want ot say thank you

Q: Is The Draft Master Challenge Associated with Grey Dog Software/Grey Dog Games?
A: No, The DMC is in no way affiliated with GDS. The DMC also has no affiliation with any Wrestling Brand or Promotion

Q: Will the Draft Master Challenge be Exclusive to the Total Extreme Wrestling Franchise?
A: Right now TEW is the sole platform for the DMC, however with PWS and PWP on the Horizon, this will be continuously re-evaluated

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