Critical Club Presents - Organization Thread

@soak Sure I can help with the booking too! I'd be glad to help.

If you guys need commentary id love to provide some. If anyone wants to join me even better

Word. Not to play contrarian, but I have this concern as well. If this is just... see as you go, awesome? But it seems a lot of decisions are just kinda being made unilaterally without any really discussions. Momentum is good and this kind of activity is much preferred to the wasteland this forum has been for a while but it seems things are just... moving forward without much actual discussion about things.

None the less, I'm happy to throw my name in the hat for future committees and I'm also happy to provide any kind of promotional/splash screen/ring work along with Hana. I'm also happy to stream when/if I'm on the committee.

I think a rad compromise might be to, say, depending on the committee, have some months where rings are created by Hana or someone else and used for that month. That can be up to the committees depending on themes and such, but to just... disregard her participation outright seems strange. I'm not for having just one ring or arena or whatever for the matches on a card but I feel like there's a compromise rather than just disregarding it outright. Whether that's some matches featuring it, or some months featuring a ring or arena design that everyone uses, it would be rad.

I can also make ring graphics if necessary.

I will mention that my ability isn't as up to snuff as it used to be, and sometimes I get lucky with my results.

Both of these suggestions are good ones, and totally doable in this current format.

I think the idea is to leave matches completely open (thus the idea of having them submitted to the committee). There isn't any reason for instance a Warrior Pro title match can't be on one of these shows (other than Doc Wyatt being a dick and me not wanting to give him anymore exposure than he already has). The fed owner would simply need to submit that match for the show.

Your other suggestion is also good, with one caveat. Right now one of the biggest complaints in tournaments is an edit maker getting stuck with a "bad" or more accurately "incompatible" edit. So we'll have to figure out the best way to handle that so both people don't feel screwed out of showcasing their edits in a match that didn't work. But a few dedicated matches on the card for "Free Agents", or people that couldn't find a match partner, is definitely worth exploring.


I get that some people think this call to action is too fast. Its also good to move while people are motivated and energetic about the idea. Maybe this format won't work. Thats ok, we'll adjust for the next one. There are A LOT of things that still haven't been figured out. Like when we'll actually run this show. Or how we'll actually have people submit matches. Or what the name will be (suggestions welcome). So don't think the brainstorming or suggestions needs to end. All that's happened so far is an outline of how to start, and a few volunteers trying to help coordinate the boring logistics.

Oh Im fully aware, hence why I went with the 'random pool' idea at all. If you dont do that, then you get instances where 'nobody wants to work with [Edit maker]' and instead just out someone from stuff rather than accepting all comers.

Also, I dont actually dislike pre-recording (Hawk did it in 49th and I think it works fine), it's more just the thought of 'its a giant mixtape' rather than 'an event.' Shrug.

I can understand Will and Severla's reservations as to things being done a certain way or too quickly, and frankly agree with at least half of what they post said in their posts but I feel like it'd be better to make mistakes and learn from them and do better each go round rather than 2 months go by and half the people's interest fades off into oblivion. There's nothing to be lost from jumping on the opportunity to put something together here and now and use it as a blueprint for how to, or how not to continue next time.

Xemyr even mentioned in the Discord that he feels like pre-recording can be an easy way out because you can just pick the best version of a match and not promote logic discussion/criticism that way. There's no reason whoever it putting together a show can make the decision to give each match one shot at recording (no do-overs), or for that matter streaming it live if the match booking doesnt call for anything complicated or require anything that those doing the show can't handle.