I. Our League

PACIFIC COAST WRESTLING is an e-wrestling league in which the players, called handlers, create fictional characters and send them into the squared circle to do battle. As a handler, your wrestlers belong to YOU. You decide their characteristics, script their lines, and choose their career paths.

Most of you who are reading this probably know how this works and have done it before.

However, the UNIQUE thing about PACIFIC COAST WRESTLING is that it is a REGIONAL promotion which seeks to emulate the old "territory" style wrestling that used to be found in Portland and in other cities across the United States and Canada, before pro wrestling became a national phenomenon.

Forget "Attitude." Forget "Extreme." In our neo-classicist world, the good guys are still good, the bad guys are still bad, and the grandmothers in the front row are still furious at them -- furious enough to threaten to stick their umbrella into that part of the bad guy's anatomy where the sun don't shine!

Matches take place in the GRAPPLEARIUM, a converted former bowling alley which has definitely seen better days. The audience sits in folding chairs, and the action happens in a battered, blood-stained ring. The announcers sit behind the audience in a fenced-off, elevated area called the CROW'S NEST, accessible via a long ramp. That's also where interviews (and ambushes) take place.

There is nothing fancy about our promotion. Production values? Debatable. There's no pyrotecnics, no light shows, no Titan Tron. The entrance music is blasted over scratchy speakers. When all the lights go out, THAT's considered a special effect. There IS a TV monitor up in the Crow's Nest for use in angles and interviews. That's it.

PCW was around before, back in 1996 ... same founder (Curt Kipp). It started in February and ran through September or so under the Pacific Coast Wrestling banner, then morphed into Psychotic Champsionship Wrestling under new real-life management (Rick Boncek, Mike "'n Shit", and a succession of others). The attempt to go national was a success but ultimately bankrupted our fictitious owner and the place closed.

The original real-life founder is back and wants to do this again, hopefully for longer than the first time. A saner schedule (see below) may hopefully make that happen. In any event, WE PROMISE TO NEVER GO NATIONAL AGAIN! "Regional" is what brought us netwide acclaim.

PCW (then and now) is not-so-loosely based on the old Pacific Northwest promotion which a man named Don Owen (rest in peace) ran for several decades in real life. The TV show, Portland Wrestling, was a Saturday night stable for generations of blue-collar Portland fans. This is our tribute of sorts.

SOME BASIC INFO ...
President: Curt Kipp (grapplearium@yahoo.com; AIM: Flairicho)
Web site: www.oocities.org/grapplearium
Archive: www.yahoogroups.com/groups/grapplearium (visit archive web page to subscribe and receive matches)

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II. Our Schedule

We have two "shows" which are sent by e-mail to all league members and anyone else who wishes to join our mailing list. You'll get something in the mail every Saturday (unless there is a break in the schedule). (Speaking of break in the schedule, we do not plan to run during the summertime. We'll be on break until we start again in the fall.)

PCW: LIVE AT THE GRAPPLEARIUM -- Every other Saturday night. It's a 90-minute show broadcast on (fictitious) KRCT, Channel 23, Rose City Television, at 11:30 p.m., after the news. We call the Grapplearium the "House of Action" and our wrestlers help us live up to that name.

PCW: OUTLOOK -- Every other Saturday night. On the weeks when there's no live action, KRCT presents taped interviews from the PCW wrestlers.

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III. Our Requirements

Handlers are expected to participate actively if they wish to remain on the PCW's (fictitious, duh) payroll. Here's what it takes:

APPLICATION -- There's an application at the bottom of this player's guide. Fill it out and send it to grapplearium@yahoo.com. Not everyone will be accepted. We reserve all rights.

INTERVIEWS -- Smarks call them promos. What's a smark? We don't know. At any rate ... wrestlers are expected to submit interviews for PCW OUTLOOK. Don't write a novel. Just get your point across. WHERE TO SEND 'EM: All interviews go to grapplearium@yahoo.com. Since the show comes out Saturday, these are due 9 a.m. Saturday morning Pacific time (noon Eastern). Try for earlier if you'd be so kind.

STRATS -- OK. We can't avoid using a "smark" term -- and one used exclusively by e-wrestling handlers for crying out loud -- here. STRATS. Short for strategy. Briefly outline what you would like your wrestler to do during his match, or for that matter, during someone else's match. Strats will be followed, altered, discarded or ignored completely at our discretion. Really, we'll try to work it in if it makes sense and is not utterly ridiculous. ("I wuld like Red Dragen Ninja tu pin Brody Thunder with one fingger.") WHERE TO SEND 'EM: All strats go to grapplearium@yahoo.com. Due Tuesday, 9 a.m. Pacific (noon Eastern).

CHALLENGES -- If you wish to challenge someone to a match, write grapplearium@yahoo.com.

FANS -- If you don't want to participate, but just want to read along, be a PCW fan. Subscribe to our listserv. Browse our Yahoo list and complete the sign-up process.

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IV. Our Rules

The league founder plays killjoy (not to be confused with "Kiljoy"). Play nice!

1. LANGUAGE. We're providing entertainment for blue-collar families. So feel free to use "hell", "damn", and "ass" (not to mention "bitch") in your interviews. But don't use "shit" or "fuck". Don't even asterisk them out. And remember if you do use "hell", "damn" or "ass", it's a big deal. If you use "bitch" it's a REAL big deal. If you're a bad guy, people will boo you. And if you're the good guy, people will scream their approval at the top of their lungs. Any other borderline bad words, use your common sense. If they'd run it on free TV, you can probably say it.

2. PRODUCTION VALUES. Our show is built around wrestling. Wrestling in a run down former bowlling alley. There's no huge screen at the entrance aisle. There's no pyro. Write accordingly. Keep with our "regional" style.

3. BITCHING. All decisions by the league owner are final. Please don't whine constantly or you will get something those smarks call "job duty". Constructive feedback is welcome but whining isn't. Those of you who have been in e-wrestling leagues before know what we mean.

4. BREVITY. To be honest, we're not going to have novellas for matches. Nor should we for interviews. Keep them short and simple. It is our goal to keep things nice and tight so that everyone reads everything and is entertained by all of it. Revolutionary for e-wrestling, eh?

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V. Our Cast

The key players. Getting to love them. Getting to know all about them ...

EUGENE CURTIS -- Play by play announcer for PCW: LATG. A balding, mustacioed man in his early 50s who calls things down the middle as best he can, but sympathizes with the good guys (sometimes quite openly) and is disgusted by any attempt to cheat. Loves "scientific" wrestling and takes each move seriously. He regards each match as a game of "physical chess."

LARRY "CHAINSAW" GAINES -- Color commentator for PCW: LATG. Fiftyish man in salt-and-pepper beard and white bowl cut. Delights in the delightful and the dreadful. Has a beer in his hand and lust in his heart. Not unwilling to take the occasional comedic pratfall which reflects his odd personality. Former wrestling legend who terrorized good guys with his Logging Company stable. You might have heard of his son, Gunnar "Grizzly" Gaines. If you haven't, he will make sure you do.

JIM RUSS -- That's "Russ," with a "U". Jim gives us recaps of the non-televised matches on every edition of PCW: LATG. Certainly a strange man, Jim has set the world record for most transplanted testicles in his scrotum. He's undoubtedly our own special treasure. Write his creator.

OWEN MCDONALD -- Rest in Peace. Former PCW owner who died in 2002. He ran the place for decades. He willed the boarded-up Grapplearium, still under his ownership, to his closest living relative -- his nephew.

JEFREY MCDONALD -- Owen's nephew. Having watched this stuff all his life, this twentysomething just HAD TO reopen the federation upon inheriting the Grapplearium from his uncle. Have six years at The Evergreen State College up in Washington State prepared him for the harsh realities of business? Long hair. Ponytail. Patchouli. Birkenstocks. Spoiled demeanor which belies his "hippie" trappings.

BOB SANFORD -- Hard-working referee for every PCW match. A bit fat, fortyish, dark hair, walrus-like moustache, striped zebra shirt. Attempts to enforce any rule violation that he sees. Doesn't see them all. Won't take outright abuse from the competitors. On occasion, he WILL kick a hand that illegally grabbed the rope to force a break, and so forth. Will try to confiscate foreign objects before they are used, and so forth.

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VI. Our Belts

Go for the PCW gold by trying to earn one of these belts. As the promotion starts up they will not all be available at first. They will be phased in. Watch for details.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP -- Numero uno. The top prize. The guy who holds this belt is THE MAN. The belt's lineage includes such proud champions as Tarot, "Misery" Dennis Douglas, Judge Dread, Super Scott and Unknown. As the Psychotic Championship Wrestling world title, it was passed on to champions such as Dark Destroyer, Gunnar Gaines, Christian Kingsworth and Matt Harris. Now it's back as a regional belt again. Don't say "world champion." Say "Northwest champion," and say it loud and proud.

NORTHWEST TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP -- This belt is defended every TV show in 15-minute time-limit matches. Those who can keep it for a long stretch can earn much respect.

NORTHWEST TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP -- Find a partner and kick some ass! This belt is for the best tag team in PCW.

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VII. Our Application

Fill in the requested information, put PCW APPLICATION: WRESTLER'S NAME HERE as the subject, then e-mail to grapplearium@yahoo.com. Dat simple! Our writers will call upon the biography section to provide detail about your character during matches, so make it good. For tag teams, send us one app for each man. Send them as separate e-mails in case the team breaks up later. Tag teams consisting of two singles wrestlers from two different handlers are encouraged, but conventional tag teams are welcome too.

Note: After your application is accepted (or even before, if you want), please sign up for our Yahoogroup. This is the only way to receive PCW mail, but don't worry. It is an easy process. Just click on the link and the web page will walk you right through everything.

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WRESTLER'S RING NAME:
HANDLER:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:

HEIGHT:
WEIGHT:
BILLED FROM:
THEME MUSIC:
APPEARANCE:

Attributes:
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Choose one (with an x):
[ ] FACE [ ] HEEL

Grappling style (aerial, technical, brawler, etc.):

Split 25 points among these five attributes (all are equally valuable):
Power:
Speed:
Agile:
Brawl:
Brain:

Moveset:
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FINISHING MANEUVER:
Describe it (if necessary):

Other favorite moves:
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BIOGRAPHY:

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