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📺 Shows and Events

Shows and Events

Shows are your week-to-week engine. Big events are where feuds peak and legacies are made.

🗓️ Weekly Shows

Use weekly cards to:

  • Advance rivalries.
  • Build contenders.
  • Test rising talent.
  • Set up your next major event.

Big Events

Save your biggest payoffs for major shows:

  • Title changes
  • Feud endings
  • Major turns and betrayals
  • Breakout wins for future stars

🧱 Easy Card Structure

  1. Hot opener to wake up the crowd.
  2. Story progression in the middle.
  3. Strong semi-main to raise stakes.
  4. Main event with clear consequences.

🔄 Booking Rhythm

  • Don’t repeat the exact same match every week.
  • Rotate talent to protect condition.
  • Keep one clear “headline feud” per show.

Use the Calendar Screen

The Calendar is your control tower:

  • See upcoming events in one place.
  • Jump directly into event setup.
  • Review past event results from earlier dates.

🤖 Auto Book

Short on time or unsure where to start? Auto Book builds a card for you — and the better your staff, the better the card. Your Head Booker and GM raise the overall booking IQ, while Writers and Road Agents produce individual matches for your home roster and travelling talent respectively. See 👥 People for how staff skill translates into Auto Book quality.

🌱 Development Shows

Mark a show as Development to run it with prospects instead of your main roster. If that show has a GM assigned — or your company has a Head Booker — it gets pre-booked automatically a day before it airs, so it's ready without you having to open it yourself. You can still edit the card manually before it goes live.

Commentary Team

Every live show is called by a commentary team. It is resolved in this order:

  1. The show's own commentators (or the PPV's).
  2. The promotion's key-staff commentators.
  3. Fallback: two COMMENTATOR staff picked from the promotion's roster.

The fallback pick is seeded by a hash of the promotion id, show name, and event date. The same two people call the entire night and re-opening the show does not reshuffle them. The fallback team is never saved. It is recomputed whenever needed, so assigning real commentators in Key Staff always takes over. If the promotion has no commentators at all, the broadcast simply runs without attributed commentary.

Show Intro

When you start a show in Live Event, a Going live dialog opens before segment 1. The show's logo bursts onto the screen, then the dialog shows the commentary team and 2-3 broadcast-open lines, revealed one per second, with the commentators alternating (A, B, A). Press Space or Start show to begin. There are 8 intro variants in two families:

  • Weekly: the "It's {dayOfWeek} and you know what that means! Welcome to {showName}!" family. Only used by regular weekly TV. The day comes from the event date.
  • Arena/event: "Thank you so much for joining us, live from {arena}, it's {eventName}!" and similar. Weekly shows can draw these too. PPVs and special events use this family only.

The variant is picked from the same seeded hash, so it is stable for a given show and date.

Who Speaks What

Each random segment event (RSE) template is tagged with a voice: dialogue (first-person) or narration (third-person).

Part typeDialogue templatesNarration templates
PROMO, INTERVIEW, ANNOUNCEMENT, HYPE, CONFRONTATION, INTERRUPTIONSpoken by the talentCalled by the commentators
FIGHT, VIDEO_PRODUCTION, TRAINING_HIGHLIGHT, TEASER, INJURY, and all match beatsn/aCalled by the commentators

Rules of the road:

  • Scripted lines are always the booked wrestler. They are never reassigned to a commentator. In a TEASER the name and avatar are masked as "Mystery Voice", but the line is still theirs.
  • Commentators alternate only on commentator beats. Talent lines do not advance the rotation, so a promo interleaved with narration never breaks the A, B, A, B order. The same rule applies in the intro.
  • Fights and brawls are never "said" by the wrestlers.
  • Only commentators ever join the commentary team or the intro. Interviewers and ring announcers are never pulled onto the desk.
  • Narration that mentions the interviewer uses the booked interviewer's name. If no interviewer is booked it says "the interviewer", and it never borrows the ring announcer.

Ringside

Managers and other ringside companions appear next to the wrestler they accompany, both on booking cards and in the Live Event participant columns, so you can see who's at ringside for each side.

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