It is with a heavy heart that WZCW is officially closing its doors, for good.
There is a large part of me that suspects most people saw this coming. For over a year, WZCW has been on its last legs. We have tried various fixes, including but not limited to putting the World Title on the line in a special Lethal Lottery, hosting open forums, and moving websites. We as a team had many discussions about what we could do, and even if we should keep it going. In the end, we came to a decision, and that decision is that WZCW has reached a point where it is no longer a priority for most of its members and we wanted to make sure we had a definitive end, one worthy of such a special place. More on that later.
For over a decade, WZCW has been a premier e-fed. Often times, e-feds flame out in a year, if that. They are plagued with politics. They often end in the middle of cycles with no explanation. Numerous people put in work, both seen and unseen, to make sure that WZCW was an enjoyable place for all. Once upon a time there were end of year awards on WZ that people took seriously and WZCW won Best Section on multiple occasions. We had a history of colorful characters and well written storylines that rivaled those of actual wrestling promotions. It even became a running joke about which idea WWE would steal from us next.
In some ways, there is an irony in the timing. Just as various upstart and independent are moving up in the wrestling world, we decide to close our doors. The truth is, many of us have simply grown up. Not in the way that wrestling, or even fake fake wrestling as we call it in jest, is childish. Many of us found WZCW at points in our life where we had a lot of free time, where many of us didn't have the responsibilities we have now. Many of us have found full time jobs, have children, have graduated college, have gotten married, many of the things that often take a priority to hobbies. And that's okay. We knew WZCW couldn't last forever.
So to give WZCW the final send off it deserves, we will be hosting one final show. We are going to be pulling out all the stops RP wise. You can RP for any character from your history you want. Want to RP as multiple characters from your past and present? Go for it. We will be holding a battle royal for each title, including a Mayhem battle royal with Mayhem rules. At the end of the night, the four winners will battle in a match to determine the Ultimate Champion. All RP rules are out the door. You wanna drop all the swear words you ever had to hold back? Go for it. Wanna kill children? Have at it. Just go absolutely crazy to give your character the send off you want. I will note that killing your character at the end of the RP would disqualify them from the show, since they would be, you know, dead, but we won't stop it if that's what you want. Anyone who is not currently an active member and reads this, feel free to RP one last time. Know someone who you want to message to bring back a character for one last battle royal pop? Shoot them that message. That even goes for Jam, Remix, and Dagger!
For this show we will make the deadline December 21st. The show will air around the New Year. Seems appropriate to end a decade of WZCW just as planet Earth rings in a new decade. If you would like to use the RP you used this round, we will allow you to do so. We know it can be hard to find time around the holidays to RP and many likely made time for this recent RP.
We will be giving every character who appears on the show one last segment to tell the world of WZCW farewell, so please feel free to send us that message. We are fine with writing that segment, but this is your goodbye so we prefer if you would write it.
We will be making a thread so that you can post your out of character goodbyes to the fed. We will be keeping the Discord open, as we have a close community and very much want to keep in touch.
So from everyone on the current team, we thank you, everyone. It has been a beautiful ride.
