2016 WrestleStock Open Invitational

[Lord Hastings]

The Unified Global Wrestling Coalition is pleased to announce the 2016 WrestleStock Open Invitational.

WrestleStock is an annual festival promoted by UGWC for the purpose of celebrating the wrestling community. This year the four day festival will be held at Patriot's Point in Charleston, North Carolina, the week of July 4th, 2016. Traditionally, each day of the festival has a different theme, with a variety of matches and activities being held throughout the grounds, with the World Heavyweight Championship being defended on the final day. For the third consecutive year, the final day of the festival will also feature the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

While WrestleStock has traditionally focused on history and legacies, this year UGWC invites all active wrestlers and promotions to join with the UGWC Entertainment Professionals to celebrate our vocation. There are two ways to participate.

First, UGWC invites any active wrestler to participate in a featured match at the festival against a member of another promotion, or possibly a member of the UGWC roster itself.

Additionally, UGWC invites other promotions to hold a sanctioned match at the festival as well.

These spotlighted matches will take place throughout the festival, with the most outstanding performers to in a match with the winner being recognized as the 2016 WrestleStock Cup Winner.

Last year's WrestleStock Open featured participants from EPW, OWF, UGWC, WWA, and free agents from throughout the industry. The winner was Jesse Williams, representing the Outsider Wrestling Federation.

UGWC is excited to extend this invitation to all members of the wrestling community.

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How this will work:

Handlers: Any individual from any e-fed may sign up to participate as an individual. You will be given a match against another individual from a different home e-fed, potentially from UGWC itself if any members choose to participate. Depending on the volume of participation, multi-person matches may be scheduled. You will be expected to write and post one roleplay during the week of June 27, with a deadline of July 2. Winners will be determined by the UGWC moderators.

Promotions: If a promotion would like to have a featured match from their promotion be hosted at the event (both title and non-title acceptable) they may do so. Winners of these matches will be determined by the featured promotion's fed-head.

Sign-Ups: A specific thread will be set up on the Roster Board here for individual handlers to post bios and announce their participation. Fed-Heads interested in having a featured match should PM me directly or PM our twitter account.

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

[Lord Hastings]

Additional information is as follows for the 2016 WrestleStock Open Invitational.


What is it?

The WrestleStock festival is a multiple day event held on a fairground. This year for the first time the event is being held at Patriot's Point in North Carolina, as part of Cypress Morgan's America...Fuck Yeah! Tour. During the event, multiple rings are set up all around the grounds, with a featured ring hosting most of the described action, but additional matches may be occurring at the same time elsewhere on the grounds. As this is a festival, there is often also autograph signings, musical events, carnival games, or other similar thematic activities occurring on the grounds.

The WrestleStock Open is an open invitation for any e-fed character to participate in the event, intended to be a celebration of e-fedding. Individual handlers may participate in a match against another individual handler, or any promotion may have a match from their promotion featured at the event.


When is it?

The event will be held during the week of July 4, and is tentatively scheduled to begin on July 7, but subject to what writers are able to produce as this event is often a significant undertaking. UGWC typically takes a week off after PPV events to allow both a breather for everyone as well as cushion for the event writers.


Individual Handlers

Sign up here. On or about June 27, match-ups will be revealed. Participants will write one official roleplay between June 27 and July 3. Roleplays in UGWC stress quality over quanity and place value on character development, storytelling, and relevance to the match. There is no minimum or maximum length, nor is there a requirement as to format. This roleplay should be posted to the Offical Promo Board. Participants may write an unlimited number of unofficial roleplays, and are encouraged to do so if they would like. If you would like to repost a recent or "classic" roleplay for your character that would help an unfamiliar reader to understand them better or place them in context, you are welcome to do so, but please indicate as such. These unofficial roleplays will not be judged or influence the outcome of matches, but may help us all to appreciate the official roleplay better. Unofficials should be posted to the Unofficial Promo Board.

Winners of these matches will be selected by the UGWC owners and mods with respect to the aforementioned criteria. UGWC members may opt to participate as well if they so choose.


Promotions

Any promotion may have a match hosted at the event. The owner of the promotion will determine the winner, and as such will be subject to criteria as determined by the owner. Fedheads should contact me directly.


Questions?

Ask!

[Jason Tacker]

Are we doing themed days similar to how the first wrestlestock went down?

[PKA]

Awesome. I created a thread on our boards to see if anyone's interested. s1.zetaboards.com/warpedwrestling/topic/6059145/1/