Riot 409: Season 11 Opener

[Pugh]

This show was damn near perfect...

 

Not knowing that you guys were having a number 1 contender tourney kind of sucked.

 

I also wasn't here for a year and am not interested in a number 1 contenders tournament as much as I am for being stability to the e-fed as a whole.

 

Ron Portman will be a newly developed character and I think that it was a good idea to bring him in. The story was fitting of a Smythe move and in the end if I had Raze's entrance theme it would have been great TV...

 

Not a huge fan of the commentary and I would rather the music than to hear people who aren't in character talking over the fighting so most times I just left it off. But I'm sure it's a work in progress and it will get better.

 

I'll review the show late4 tonight!!!

 

But we were all in character!

[Mr.Sensation]

Serious, oh smythe ooof.

[Bobby Minio]

THE MINIOTES:

 

Opening Portion: Sensation is a bumbling heel and the crowd doesn't care. Our Hero is super over though. I sorta wish we used either the ECW arena or NXT arena because a smaller crowd would give him more of a Heyman vibe and I feel like that's what he brings to the table.

 

Great idea for an opening match. Great way to bring a big name back. Post match angle with him was maybe too subtle unless that was specifically intended. You guys are both smart enough to know better than to do an announcer table spot at the top of the show though, but it led to a chuckle from me at the beginning of the next match. Match was alright, one guy showed a lot of rust and it was the wrong guy.

 

I'll rate this combined with the matching segments since it was all the same bit.

 

:cool::cool::cool::cool:

 

KD vs Ryu: KD's promo was fire. I think that's helped by it being audio. I sorta wish we all had audio promos but I realize how cringy that would be, so lets not do that. KD is going to be eating rooks alive this season. Daps to Spider for holding it down for me with some botchy springboards. Decent match, KD is a legit powerhouse and it looks great in matches. I hope the other big men have a similar style.

 

:cool::cool::cool::)

 

Jookie Segment: Citing gimmick infringement for stealing my unnecessary assault of arena staff bit. That's some hostile locker room though.

 

Cut-Throat / Crossbones Segment: No offense to the rest of OCW but I can comfortably assume this is going to be the best segment on the show and that shouldn't come as an insult. Also if this character doesn't adopt a new pirate name every season I'll burn this fucker to the ground.

 

Nathan Carter vs Jookie Marley: Minor nitpick but the fact that the issue of language with the TV deal already came up and just came up again feels awkward, then again, I know how this stuff tends to happen so it's no one's fault. If Jookie was booked tonight, why did Security not recognize him and why did he have to assault the guy? Not like the dude is a ladder... So Nathan Carter is DX era Shawn? Wait he's got a little Dalton Castle here too. Not that there's anything wrong with that. DTF is officially a OCW 'catchphrase' now. Nathan Carter will be the next rook that Suda eats up and spits out. DOES WONDERS FOR THE CAREER. :mad: Suda is definitely going to eat this rook after seeing Carter using diva spots. Jook's having a hell of a time with this rookie. Nathan and I have a lot of the same moves and I get it, similar builds, but I'm gonna have to do some work on my moveset to vary that into the season. Carter is no selling Jook. I think it's safe to call that an upset, solid debut.

 

:cool::cool::D

 

Pacifica Segment: HA, another rook smells Jook's blood in the water. EAT KID EAT!

 

DY Nasty segment: Alright, credit where credits due, this is giving the Pirate segment a run for it's money. I dig the angle, I'm a sucker for injury stuff, obviously, I am the concussion keeeyid... and the production of this was solid. Didn't go the hokey funny route I would have gone to get a pop, straight to business. Great way to get your sophmore season rolling.

 

Ryu segment: Speaking of concussions, someone check in on this MMA fighter before he Warmachine's his girlfriend.

 

Mugen Segment: Told ya Our Hero was a bumbling heel. MUGEN 2016. First C4 mention on the show.

 

Smythe vs Raze: I dig Smythe's look here as Canadian bad guy, but solid arena botch. Solid heel work on the stick. Oh god it just dawned on me... Raze is Ryback. Oh and here comes... uhh... Ron Portman? He stole Smythe's chain gimmick. I have no idea what's happening right now. Wait... Smythe let Biker bro 8 take his spot in the tournament? WHAT A FUCKING HEEL. :D Jay is hot. He's earning the name "CommentaryTaker" with this burial. Smythe... This is some next level shit. There's like 6 reasons this was a big fuck you to OCW and kayfabe and most of all Raze. On the other hand, you delivered it perfectly and it's hilarious so I gotta admit I have mixed feelings on the whole thing. I do think Smythe should just pick up the New Jack gimmick of playing a song over his matches this season. Oh god the commentary team walked out. This most epic match of the show was Raze against a fucking teamster.

 

:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

 

Buddy Burns Segment: Security and the black folk are having a hell of a night. Buddy Burns just jobbed to a maglite. He's my new favorite OCW character. The whole world is watching, Terminal 5 security!

 

Matsuda Towers Segment: Suda is living in the lap of luxury while Minio receives a full cavity search with an M16 aimed at his face. :( Suda's negotiating his Brock contract, I'm predicting February will be Suda Month on the OCW Network. Hell of a tease for 402.

 

Crowe vs Pugh: Crowe loses all of his street cred with that Hollywood Undead shirt. This dude might be better suited for a stable with Nathan Carter than Trance. Pugh went from Ziggler to Johnny Ace in a year. I would be a lot more excited for a Dan vs Steve match if I wasn't like halfway through this damn show. Solid match, though I feel like we've seen it a lot.

 

:cool::cool::cool:

 

The Monster Segment: Very well written, interesting character introduction but, this is the third hooded man we've seen on the show tonight. If they're not related, I don't even know what to think.

 

Xander Rane Segment: Fedora? Ehrm. Cool to see a lot of people introducing their characters in various promos and vignettes though. The roster is huge.

 

AC Cobra: Gamer Gimmick... Maybe you should borrow Xander's fedora. CoD product placement... Did Cobra just shoot on his IRL job or something? :confused:

 

The Family Segment: I like this angle a lot. Trance throwing obstacles in the way of his challengers. Raze is on fuccboi status, getting cucked out by Trance to his face though. Trance should be more afraid of Raze, oh well!

 

Main Event: Arguably the 2013-2014 NA Title scene in this main event match. This is another match I feel like we've seen a lot but at the same time, it's a good way to kick the year off, and both of these guys have a World title run in them. Perhaps the fact that Our Hero is borderline illiterate has something to do with us losing our TV deal? Lots of product placement on this show, you could barely tell we had no media presence for the better part of a year. I feel like we missed an opportunity here with Pugh on commentary, watching his stable mate get thrown around at ringside. Could have been jawwing with Buffness, especially since they might meet up later in this tournament. Jay has gone full Angry Vince after the Smythe debacle. Now suddenly our PG-14 deal is just us paying censors? Jaysin is one biased motherfucker. Accuses C4 of corking the bats but then just overlooks a dirty pin from Sean. Despicable. I like seeing Sean opt out of the Superkick party only to take a vicious suicide dive to the spine. That might be the legitimately only distraction illegal object attack I've seen in OCW. These two are murdering each other. This might be Sean's year, Mugen is looking good but Buffness looks driven. Awesome match climax. Watch RUSHTV.

 

:cool::cool::cool::cool::)

 

Closing Thoughts: We should officially declare the 'rule' that the recording player turns off the in-game commentary. I get the criticisms of the commentators. They need characters and they need to get IN character, outside of sort of tongue in cheek dialogue, they need to get into character as if they're not just watching video game wrasslin.

 

The X-Divison could be a LOT more interesting with the re-balanced reversals system. I almost wonder if we should limit it to 3 reversals max just to make it more important to pick your comeback spot.

 

Good Riot, welcome back, but goddamn do those matches add up. I wish we could shave off 2 to 5 minutes from every match just to give the show a bit more of a brisk pace, but still solid.

[Mr.Sensation]

THE MINIOTES:

 

Opening Portion: Sensation is a bumbling heel and the crowd doesn't care. Our Hero is super over though. I sorta wish we used either the ECW arena or NXT arena because a smaller crowd would give him more of a Heyman vibe and I feel like that's what he brings to the table.

 

Great idea for an opening match. Great way to bring a big name back. Post match angle with him was maybe too subtle unless that was specifically intended. You guys are both smart enough to know better than to do an announcer table spot at the top of the show though, but it led to a chuckle from me at the beginning of the next match. Match was alright, one guy showed a lot of rust and it was the wrong guy.

 

I'll rate this combined with the matching segments since it was all the same bit.

 

:cool::cool::cool::cool:

 

KD vs Ryu: KD's promo was fire. I think that's helped by it being audio. I sorta wish we all had audio promos but I realize how cringy that would be, so lets not do that. KD is going to be eating rooks alive this season. Daps to Spider for holding it down for me with some botchy springboards. Decent match, KD is a legit powerhouse and it looks great in matches. I hope the other big men have a similar style.

 

:cool::cool::cool::)

 

Jookie Segment: Citing gimmick infringement for stealing my unnecessary assault of arena staff bit. That's some hostile locker room though.

 

Cut-Throat / Crossbones Segment: No offense to the rest of OCW but I can comfortably assume this is going to be the best segment on the show and that shouldn't come as an insult. Also if this character doesn't adopt a new pirate name every season I'll burn this fucker to the ground.

 

Nathan Carter vs Jookie Marley: Minor nitpick but the fact that the issue of language with the TV deal already came up and just came up again feels awkward, then again, I know how this stuff tends to happen so it's no one's fault. If Jookie was booked tonight, why did Security not recognize him and why did he have to assault the guy? Not like the dude is a ladder... So Nathan Carter is DX era Shawn? Wait he's got a little Dalton Castle here too. Not that there's anything wrong with that. DTF is officially a OCW 'catchphrase' now. Nathan Carter will be the next rook that Suda eats up and spits out. DOES WONDERS FOR THE CAREER. :mad: Suda is definitely going to eat this rook after seeing Carter using diva spots. Jook's having a hell of a time with this rookie. Nathan and I have a lot of the same moves and I get it, similar builds, but I'm gonna have to do some work on my moveset to vary that into the season. Carter is no selling Jook. I think it's safe to call that an upset, solid debut.

 

:cool::cool::D

 

Pacifica Segment: HA, another rook smells Jook's blood in the water. EAT KID EAT!

 

DY Nasty segment: Alright, credit where credits due, this is giving the Pirate segment a run for it's money. I dig the angle, I'm a sucker for injury stuff, obviously, I am the concussion keeeyid... and the production of this was solid. Didn't go the hokey funny route I would have gone to get a pop, straight to business. Great way to get your sophmore season rolling.

 

Ryu segment: Speaking of concussions, someone check in on this MMA fighter before he Warmachine's his girlfriend.

 

Mugen Segment: Told ya Our Hero was a bumbling heel. MUGEN 2016. First C4 mention on the show.

 

Smythe vs Raze: I dig Smythe's look here as Canadian bad guy, but solid arena botch. Solid heel work on the stick. Oh god it just dawned on me... Raze is Ryback. Oh and here comes... uhh... Ron Portman? He stole Smythe's chain gimmick. I have no idea what's happening right now. Wait... Smythe let Biker bro 8 take his spot in the tournament? WHAT A FUCKING HEEL. :D Jay is hot. He's earning the name "CommentaryTaker" with this burial. Smythe... This is some next level shit. There's like 6 reasons this was a big fuck you to OCW and kayfabe and most of all Raze. On the other hand, you delivered it perfectly and it's hilarious so I gotta admit I have mixed feelings on the whole thing. I do think Smythe should just pick up the New Jack gimmick of playing a song over his matches this season. Oh god the commentary team walked out. This most epic match of the show was Raze against a fucking teamster.

 

:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

 

Buddy Burns Segment: Security and the black folk are having a hell of a night. Buddy Burns just jobbed to a maglite. He's my new favorite OCW character. The whole world is watching, Terminal 5 security!

 

Matsuda Towers Segment: Suda is living in the lap of luxury while Minio receives a full cavity search with an M16 aimed at his face. :( Suda's negotiating his Brock contract, I'm predicting February will be Suda Month on the OCW Network. Hell of a tease for 402.

 

Crowe vs Pugh: Crowe loses all of his street cred with that Hollywood Undead shirt. This dude might be better suited for a stable with Nathan Carter than Trance. Pugh went from Ziggler to Johnny Ace in a year. I would be a lot more excited for a Dan vs Steve match if I wasn't like halfway through this damn show. Solid match, though I feel like we've seen it a lot.

 

:cool::cool::cool:

 

The Monster Segment: Very well written, interesting character introduction but, this is the third hooded man we've seen on the show tonight. If they're not related, I don't even know what to think.

 

Xander Rane Segment: Fedora? Ehrm. Cool to see a lot of people introducing their characters in various promos and vignettes though. The roster is huge.

 

AC Cobra: Gamer Gimmick... Maybe you should borrow Xander's fedora. CoD product placement... Did Cobra just shoot on his IRL job or something? :confused:

 

The Family Segment: I like this angle a lot. Trance throwing obstacles in the way of his challengers. Raze is on fuccboi status, getting cucked out by Trance to his face though. Trance should be more afraid of Raze, oh well!

 

Main Event: Arguably the 2013-2014 NA Title scene in this main event match. This is another match I feel like we've seen a lot but at the same time, it's a good way to kick the year off, and both of these guys have a World title run in them. Perhaps the fact that Our Hero is borderline illiterate has something to do with us losing our TV deal? Lots of product placement on this show, you could barely tell we had no media presence for the better part of a year. I feel like we missed an opportunity here with Pugh on commentary, watching his stable mate get thrown around at ringside. Could have been jawwing with Buffness, especially since they might meet up later in this tournament. Jay has gone full Angry Vince after the Smythe debacle. Now suddenly our PG-14 deal is just us paying censors? Jaysin is one biased motherfucker. Accuses C4 of corking the bats but then just overlooks a dirty pin from Sean. Despicable. I like seeing Sean opt out of the Superkick party only to take a vicious suicide dive to the spine. That might be the legitimately only distraction illegal object attack I've seen in OCW. These two are murdering each other. This might be Sean's year, Mugen is looking good but Buffness looks driven. Awesome match climax. Watch RUSHTV.

 

:cool::cool::cool::cool::)

 

Closing Thoughts: We should officially declare the 'rule' that the recording player turns off the in-game commentary. I get the criticisms of the commentators. They need characters and they need to get IN character, outside of sort of tongue in cheek dialogue, they need to get into character as if they're not just watching video game wrasslin.

 

The X-Divison could be a LOT more interesting with the re-balanced reversals system. I almost wonder if we should limit it to 3 reversals max just to make it more important to pick your comeback spot.

 

Good Riot, welcome back, but goddamn do those matches add up. I wish we could shave off 2 to 5 minutes from every match just to give the show a bit more of a brisk pace, but still solid.

 

Too many great one liners, which is why your going to be one of the BEST op ed writers for Dat Pew PEW

[Matsuda]

He adapted to getting his face kicked in and having a lazy eye.

 

That swine shouldn't have broken up my title reign. The couple of weeks that seperate my otherwise three year reign are like pock marks on the Mona Lisa.

[Parker]

Overall not bad for a season opener, lots of things to build on , so I give it a 3/5 Forrest eye rating.

 

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[Pugh]

Special shout out to the rookies. I wasn't sure what to expect with so many new guys but they're all driven and they're all showing promise. Hope it continues

[Leon Valentine]

Just been watching the last part of Riot this morning before work, I don't have time to do a lengthily review because I am about to start a 9 hour shift and when I get home Turmoil will probably be up. So just going to do some shout outs.

 

I love the new Riot template. It's nice how everything is on one page.

 

I liked how the first match was the OCW Championship match. A good way to start the show.

 

Aries has an awesome attire.Trance could be holding the belt for along time.

 

KD looks badass in this game and could be a serious contender for the OCW Championship. Spider I love the gimmick, didn't like the start of the theme but it sounded better once you were in the ring. I love the move set and the quality you bring into your matches. I hope this is the year of Spider.

 

Jim Black is still going.

 

Cut Throat has the most real look out of anyone I have seen. Everything looks real and think you have done a really good job. I'll look forward to see him in some upcoming story lines.

 

Nathan Carter took Jookie to school. A great way to make a impact, Jookie is defiantly no pushover, he has beaten me over the years. I just like to say I think you did an awesome job at commentating Nathan and I agree with Tibby about spider joining the team. That would be awesome.

 

D.Y Nasty suffered a injury but he's coming.

 

Adapt or die? #Neverforgetlotus!

 

So glad Mugen is still using that theme. #Mugenforpresident!

 

Smythe is a creative genius. #AlphaHeel.

 

Ron Portman was whooping on Raze but the thirst got one over on you Smythe.

 

MATSUDA!!!

 

I was hoping to hear "Cry little sister." :( Pugh looks so different now. After watching this Pugh defiantly still has it.

 

Sean McGee!!! You need to come out to the superman theme :(

 

Mugen changes attires and this was a really decent match. I loved the bit where Sean hits the ref and gets mugen with a weapon. It reminds me of something I would do haha. #Cerberusforlife.

 

If I missed anything out I apologize as running out of time.

 

Just like to say really great job to everyone here for bringing OCW back. I can't wait to see what more of the new guys bring to the table. I would really like to see Tibby come home. We need Tibby and others from the Ambition era to bring the fight to the family.

 

On a last note I will give credit where credit is due and think Pugh has done a great job with the show and has been a big part to the resurrection of OCW alongside Jay. Even before the game going months back, you have constantly been working to make this place active again. Good job.

 

That's it from me, great job everyone and keep it up.

 

Leonheart.

[Dimsmore]

Not sure if this was said already... Or at least I didn't see it.

 

 

KD is the ONLY person in OCW that is 100% believable with a Audio RP. Solid job brotha.

 

 

Riot as a whole was a good kickoff to this season.

[Bloom]

Not sure if this was said already... Or at least I didn't see it.

 

 

KD is the ONLY person in OCW that is 100% believable with a Audio RP. Solid job brotha.

 

 

Riot as a whole was a good kickoff to this season.

 

I'd really like to yell Nesquehoning, one more time.