Predisctions: Main event: Bret over Giant, because you want to keep hogan happy but at the same time you gotta take the belt off him at some point. Tag team champ: Faces of fear over mysterio and Ray, because it make sense to continue to build up the faces of fear as a dominant team, and it might a bit weird to have them lose to what seem like a makeshift tag. 6 man: royal tea and Hennig over Arn, smiley and eaton, because Regal is by far the guy that needs to be built up and pushed to the next level in tbis match, and a win against veterans would be very good. RVD over Bam bam, i know its weird but a fluke win leading to a rematch where you can have bam bam beating him senseless and rvd just never giving up until he is turned into mush is a classic yet cool and fitting narrative. Mortis and wrath over dudleys because i have a soft spot for kanyon and he is being cooking lately, a ppv win would be helpful to build the next gen of monster heel tag team. Sting &rick steiner draw vs sci-cotic just to extend the feud and add a juicy stipulation next match Malenko over luger, i know this one is counter productive given the huge gap in star power between the two, but malenko will always be reliable in the ring in some fashion whereas luger will only get worse, and bear in mind they are both aging, i would say mlaenko deserves it more since you can use him to put over other talents going forward in better matches than luger Bagwell over piper, piper may not like it but bagwell is way younger, has some room for improvement and has some good star quality, piper is not getting younger, and while he is good on the mic it is better to have him put over younger guys and transition him into a manager or an on screen personnality/authority figure

Chris Iobeast recommended your content on his video. I love InVasion rebookings, I did my own version too. I’m looking forward to watching yours unfold.

Oh my god, realising the invasion storyline is about WCW, but the real invasion is good ol' JR's takeover of the WWF!!! Hahaha. Another fun show; really enjoying this! Also, my latest video is up, I've timestamped the video where I've given you a shoutout 😀

"vince mcmahon struggled going off script"? Yeah mod i'm gonna have to disagree Edit Lol Jobber agreed with me

I'm enjoying the series so far mate

Great episode 👏🏻

Now that we have an actual WCW invasion, this series has left the starting blocks. I like the overall "outsider" feel of it thus far, of the WCW guys not really being part of the show, so much as just being there and interfering with the show. Makes it feel disruptive in the way that an invasion should.

Another Ruthless Jobber episode, Huzzah!!! Just remember no matter how you book this storyline, you'd have to try really hard to book it worse than the real thing, so you are gonna be fine in that regard. Just please no "Stalker DDP"!!!

Spicolli died young, probs why you’ve never heard of him

BTW, I'm throughly entertained for Sting vs. Eddie.

Push Jericho like cray cray. He's got all the skills, he's great if you are going to do a brand split too. Use him as one of the world title contenders or give him the championship.

Love Rey & Ray. That's poetry. Seems like a good lesson was learned with that main event, which would have graded out near 80 if the finish hadn't dragged it down. So, no biggie. You know you'll be able to get the grades otherwise. This show definitely felt very midcard heavy, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but just gives an overall unfocused feeling. Maybe it's just me but it didn't feel like there was a throughline for this episode to keep me pointed forward as a Nitro viewer. Nothing's bad, and there was some definite good, but I just had a bit of a blah feeling over the course of it. Maybe that's because I don't feel particularly attached to this Sting/lWo story at this juncture, so it didn't leave me as much to sink my teeth into. Oh well, that happens. You can't please everyone all the time. I'm looking forward to Road Wild nonetheless.

I think the problem is that you have too many guys you are building up at the same time and at the same time you are using top guys on pre matches the Jericho and Piper triple threat could have been a main show match B-shows could really help to build up the lower card guys like the Dudley's

Rey and Ray is hilarious and awesome at the same time

Acolytes Protection Agency Protection?

I’m with you on the Benoit thing, it’s a game so you play as you want to play, we all think he’s a scumbag for what happened but play the game as it is, Benoit was a phenomenal wrestler so use him that way, if people get butthurt how he’s used in a computer game, then they need to look at themselves really

Definitely check pops on WCW guys. The last time I did the Invasion in a TEW game, the popularity of the WCW guys were way lower than it should have been. There's a decent video on the KZbin of ten WCW debuts in WWE, and for a lot of guys the roof comes off the place. If you see that (especially watch DDP's debut and Booker T's) you'll see they were much more popular than the mod authors remember. Even DDP coming out as the stalker of Taker's wife(worst storyline ever), they boo the heck out of him until he removes the ski mask and the place erupts in cheers. Of course a few minutes later it's all ruined by the stupid stalker gimmick.

Regal "I'm sorry dear sunshine, I seemed to have picked up a little English Garden Flu" is the most William Regal in 2001 thing I could ever think of; great stuff! Hope this continues in storyline where it leads to Regal beating Jericho with a foreign object... ... the object being a garden gnome! Video should be out next week, I'll let you know when it's up 🙂

Ric Flair: "This is the Invasion." Cinema Sins: "Roll credits." *ding*

A shame you have to redo basically what youve done in the beginning of the save in order to not tank the ratings, but since you have some of your guys that are more popular, hopefully it will take less time for the shows to be of the quality that you can improve your pop

Awesome show, with a killer main event. The idea of not putting major stars against each other on TV is a little less important when you've got close to a dozen major stars. Buys a lot more breathing room, because realistically you could get well over a year's worth of big feuds out of them, and that's plenty of time to get a random TV main event or two out of the pairings that aren't at the tippy top of the card. Bret putting up a 95 certainly gives a lot of options for him to face off on TV, since even a talented midcarder should even out to a good grade.

"Everyone seems to be getting involved in everyone else's business!" A Great way to put together a show, and an awesome way to set up multi-man tag matches!

u gave up on the nwa 😢

Make sure angles are being judged by the strengths of the competitors and make sure angles are rated correctly. For instance, a brawl rated on fighting. I messed this up on 2020 for a while. Especially using preset angles, oi!

If you don't have a genuine plan for the women's division, try and sign Alundra Blayze/Medusa as she was WCW and left WWF and have her go for that title, or have WCW "sign" Jazz. She was ECW and only part of the alliance for a cup of tea, but if you use the thought that she "signed" with this new WCW, you could have her take the title off Chyna decisively and puts the WWF women on notice. This can also make the title a bit more serious for this time period, as opposed to the T&A spotlight and bathroom break title that it was at this time. Just a thought.

InVasion mod on TEW IX? LET'S GOOOOO!!! Really looking forward to this, I'll be sure to give this a shout out in my next video if you'd like?

Love the pairing of Hennig & Luger. Two guys that just consider themselves incapable of even the slightest shortcoming. If you wanted to do a cheeky little "get around the trademark" 90s move, you could tweak their team name to Totally Flawless, so that Hennig isn't running the risk of a pretend cease & desist from WWF. Interesting to see the main event go to a draw. Makes sense that Hart didn't win outright, because Road Wild isn't the place to pull out the first big Hogan/Hart match. Looking forward to seeing where you'll go with that. Also, setting up a potential short-term alliance between Booker T & Sting rocks. They'd be a super fun babyface pairing for whenever either one needs to call upon a friend. I always like having that sort of thing for guys like Sting, where they aren't in any sort of group, but they just make a bunch of pals among the other babyfaces. Hopefully this will turn around soon. We're still in the learning curve stage of TEW IX, which always makes for a bumpy ride.

WCW used "Hulk Hogan" as well, he only had the "Hollywood" name as his gimmick for nWo. Since he was essentially "too good" for wrestling and was making movies and going Hollywood.

I'm playing the same mod. The first thing I did was edit pop and skills of both wcw and wwf guys because whoever made the mod had things wrong. I bet converting from 2020 to 9 just made things worse. Relationships should be edited as well. The editing made the game more realistic and more fun. I can give you specifics if you like.

I love the idea of an NWA series! This is going to be great.

Nice to see the look behind the curtain here. I feel like the process is more interesting than the product with this type of challenge game, so I like seeing this stuff more than the results-style episodes you do with your other series. I'm having a good time with this one. Hope you are, too.

Solid rise mate keep going

That show went pretty well, road agent issues aside. Aldis/Drake main event delivered nicely.

Great show! I had a feeling the Hogan/Flair main event wouldn't get a killer grade, but still a satisfying conclusion to the show. Bret Hart went OFF on his match. If you do end up retiring this save, you'd better give me a Hogan/Hart match as a send-off :p I completely understand the frustration, and starting from scratch feels like a good way to go. This is the first time in TEW's long history that there was even the option of converting a save file from the previous game, and from what I've seen across KZbin, it's just sort of a lukewarm affair. Nothing is inherently wrong with how it's converting, but the changes in how match & angle ratings calculate just makes it feel awful in comparison. A new game that's only ever existed in TEW IX won't have that emotional baggage, and you'll be able to enjoy it for what it is, instead of carrying the memories of what once was. Honestly, I was worried about that when I saw all the TEW channels I follow say they were converting over right away. I understand from an algorithm standpoint why that makes sense for KZbin, but I immediately thought of all the version transition growing pains that have always accompanied this franchise and how it could suck the fun out of an ongoing game. I say that if you're not feeling it, don't try to grind it out for our benefit. I want to watch videos where you're having fun, whatever that means.

What I like is they've given the avatars names like Mr Smith

I usually dont have many stables but when i do it usually a manager, a main event, a mid carder & maybe a tag team

I hope this database gets converted to TEW 9

Congrats on 250 subs! Happy to be one of them. Another easy breezy episode of NWA Powerrr. Looking forward to the PPV. I'm with you on not needing the predictions for this one. A company of this size is more about just churning out shows and growing the product than it is about grand stories and drama. I always like this kind of "light" storytelling for this size of promotion, with the idea that if someone isn't a regular viewer, or is a first-time viewer, they can still just pop in and have a good time. I think you're capturing that vibe nicely.

Phillipe LeGrenier = fil-LEEP lu-gron-YAY

Ouch! Yeah, that "no associated storyline" penalty is a killer. Fortunately, it's an easy one to avoid, now that you know it's there. Besides that, it was a fun show. I like all the tag team experimentation. Some nice additions to the roster, and lots of potential for growing an exciting division. BASH AT THE BEACH World Heavyweight Championship Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Ric Flair Fingers crossed that this match delivers, because the promos haven't been lighting the world on fire the way we all would have expected. I'm about 40% on expecting an appearance from The Outsiders. That's where the interesting Ric Flair story lies, not with the Big Gold Belt. Prediction: Hogan United States Championship Booker T (c) vs. La Parka La Parka got the big win over Savage on Nitro, but I don't see the US Title changing hands with this little build. Maybe this is just Round 1 of a bigger program, but regardless, this is an establishment run for Booker T as a singles star. I'm expecting a decently long reign for him. Prediction: Booker T World Tag Team Championship Faces of Fear (c) vs. Los Locos vs. Royal Tea This is where I see the Mexican takeover striking gold. Royal Tea is still a work in progress, and Faces of Fear have now had enough of a run that it doesn't feel hotshotted. Prediction: Los Locos Cage Match Chris Jericho vs. Randy Savage Jericho's star continues to be on the rise, so I absolutely could see him getting the win here (perhaps to setup a huge US title feud with Booker), but man, Savage has been taking some serious L's lately. In the battle between my head and my heart, I'm going with my heart on this one. Prediction: Randy Savage No DQ Match Diamond Dallas Page vs. Sid Vicious Sid got the win at the last PPV, then weaseled his way into a suspension-saving draw. Now that his continued spot on the roster isn't on the line, it's time for DDP to get his heat back. He feels like the perfect person to join forces with another babyface who is fighting against the odds. Maybe Sting. Maybe Hart. Maybe he picks up the scraps of the Giant/Bam Bam blowoff. Prediction: DDP Bret Hart vs. Lex Luger While Liz having to go on a date with Luger would be interesting, this feud has served its purpose, getting Hart established on the WCW roster. I've said it before, and I am still on this train: Bret Hart is the ideal challenger for the big, BIG Hogan title program. Getting the win here sets him up to move onto those greener pastures. Prediction: Bret Hart Bam Bam Bigelow vs. The Giant Coin flip here for me. Goldberg came in and ate their lunch in the triple threat. Since then, this feud has been for second place. Prediction: Bam Bam Eddie Guerrero vs. Sting This is a hard one to call, as this would be a huge introduction for the lWo, but like... it's Sting. I'm going to go with a DQ victory for the Stinger, as Eddie's stablemates turn it into a beatdown. Sting's got to learn the lesson that he needs backup. Prediction: Sting Curt Hennig & Konnan vs. Norman Smiley & Syxx No secret that I'm a Hennig advocate. Why make things more complicated than that? Prediction: Hennig & Konnan The Demon vs. Goldberg GOLD-BERG GOLD-BERG GOLD-BERG Prediction: Goldberg

This is a cool game! I might have to pick up for some backstories to my potential novels. Thanks for the upload.

I really like this as an idea, and I think it lends itself well to the C-Verse, because as you said it's more about just grinding out shows and watching the budget more than telling stories and putting on an entertaining product (both for the in-game fans and for us). One nice thing about the C-Verse is that there are quite a few nobody wrestlers that have kooky, weird little backstories or characterizations in their descriptions that you won't find from real-world mods that tend to have generic descriptions of lesser-known people. It's an area where Ryland and the rest of the development team just have a bit of fun coming up with some nonsense, in a relatively harmless part of the database. So, approach this with a bit of levity, and I think you'll find the C-Verse can be rather enjoyable for this kind of game.

Enjoying the workmanlike feel of this series. Not built on high drama and complicated stories, but just pumping out enjoyable wrestling shows, with enough story to connect them together. Easy breezy. Oh, on a pronunciation note, Carly Colon's surname sounds like "cologne" ;)

I like how this feels sort of like an exhale after the intensity of the Alliance/nWo feud. Not trying to artificially keep the foot on the gas, racing from one high-stakes program to the next, but just letting the fallout happen organically. Kudos for that. That's good booking, and good storytelling. Sneaking Bret in the ring with Hogan one more time is a nice way to keep the seed alive for their inevitable title program, that's going to blow the roof off the joint. I can't wait. The Sting considerations are interesting, as he is in a weird spot on a roster that has people older than him all over the main event, while he's also no spring chicken. I don't think there's any harm in putting him in a short-term tag team, as a way to inject a little life into that division, before heading back to singles and mixing it up with the big dogs again. As you said, there's no reason he has to be moving out of the main event scene, so keep him warm, and heat him back up when there's a spot available. That's something the real WCW did a terrible job of, but I'm sure you can handle it better.

i'm like you mate 38-39 is the cap for top teer championship

Good on Sid, finding a way to stick around. Still unfinished business between him & DDP. Looking forward to a nice blow-off between them.

Thrilled to see you'll be continuing this series. Bye bye, Steiner XD

maybe bring in lance anoa’i & zilla to make a huge stable with jacob.

hire more young lions.

Love how easily digestible this series is. The shows just breeze by. I'm a big James Storm fan, so I hope you find a nice role for him on this roster. He's a great veteran presence at this point in his career, and someone that I feel like it makes sense to bounce between midcard tag and singles work, cycling through different young partners on their way up the card.