Not Cornette?
1. Do we want to collapse the Male and Female WWE Superstar of the Year into WWE Superstar of the Year?
2. Should we cut out Best Gimmick, "What a Maneuver," or Best Theme Music? I like that we acknowledge these other pieces of the wrestling world, but I don't know if anyone's passionate about keeping them.
3. Are "Carny Motherfucker" and "WWE Promotes Murderous Dictatorships" redundant categories?
Also I agree with this.We don't have that many people that'll go to bat for WWE to get their own special treatment anymore, so I would collapse all of those.
Since its the end of the decade should we also do a few other categories like "Wrestler of the Decade" and more importantly "Carny of the Decade."
Also I agree with this.
Seperate from the year awards is fine.I was thinking about doing a wrestler of the decade award, but for another occasion. Like set some rules on who can participate. Like being active at least 7 if the 10 years of a decade and so on
It's December, which means it's time for the annual Carny Awards, our community's recognition of all of the carny bullshit that the conflict play industry provides over the course of the calendar year.
The goal is to have the Carnies decided by January 2020 and posted in the January OT. To do that, we'll need to spend this week on determining categories, next two weeks on nominations, and the last two weeks on voting. Voting will be done via Google Form, as we've done in the past.
Advocacy is strongly encouraged! Since we have a pretty good set of representatives for joshi, lucha, EuroGraps, and ULTRAVIOLENCE, I think our Carny Award lists could look fairly different from, say, the Post Wrestling end of year awards.
It all depends on the nomination process. Want to advocate that Nick Gage is the male wrestler of the year or that Tokyo Joshi Pro is the promotion of the year? Nominate and post your reasons why!
Speaking of Tokyo Joshi Pro, last year, I broke Tokyo Joshi Pro out from DDT but kept NXT in with main roster WWE. Given how much more NXT has been integrated into WWE programming this year, I think that the same distinction should apply. If you feel strongly, post in this thread and tag me. Work is busy this year, but I'll try to read everything that I can.
So, by Sunday, December 8, we need to have final categories for the 2019 Carny Awards. Here were last year's categories. I always feel like there are too many categories, but I don't know where to cut. Some questions to consider:
1. Do we want to collapse the Male and Female WWE Superstar of the Year into WWE Superstar of the Year?
2. Should we cut out Best Gimmick, "What a Maneuver," or Best Theme Music? I like that we acknowledge these other pieces of the wrestling world, but I don't know if anyone's passionate about keeping them.
3. Are "Carny Motherfucker" and "WWE Promotes Murderous Dictatorships" redundant categories?
If there are no changes, then these are the categories that we'll roll with for the 2019 Carny Awards.
Male WWE Superstar of the Year
Female WWE Superstar of the Year
Best Male Non-WWE Wrestler of the Year
Best Female Non-WWE Wrestler of the Year
Best Tag Team of the Year
"The Drizzling Shits" Award for Worst On-Screen Performer
"The Rusev" Award for Most Underutilized Performer
"The Hot Take" Most Overrated Wrestler of the Year
Comeback of the Year
"The King Kong Bundy WrestleMania 2 to 3" Fall from Grace Award
Most Improved Wrestler
"The Big Show" Award for Please Retire
Best Gimmick
"The Bray Wyatt Is Sister Abigail" Award for Worst Gimmick
"What a Maneuver!" Award for Coolest Move/Dive
Best Theme Music of the Year
WWE Match of the Year
Non-WWE Match of the Year
"The Jenna Morasco vs. Sharmell" Award for Worst Fucking Match
Promotion of the Year
Show of the Year
Best Angle
The "WWE Promotes Murderous Dictatorships" Award for Angle That Made You Ashamed To Be A Wrestling Fan
Gif of the Year
WrassleERA Community MVP Award
The "I'm Marking Out, Bro" Legit Shook Moment of the Year
"Carny Motherfucker" of the Year
Fun 'n' Playful Carnyism of the Year
Yes! This is a perfect award for Seth.No to all your questions.
We need the Geek of the Year category.
If the list that Violet posted is anything to go by, Cody.More interesting would be, who's the WORST wrestler of the decade?
Yep, Yuna is a hoss. 💪Just watched the Chris Brookes Ichigaya match, great stuff. Want a full Brookes/Suruga singles match soon pls. Also, unless I'm misreading her, Yuna seems like the wee hoss type I'm fond of
Just watched this as well, fun wee match I enjoyed with some prime doggo content at the start
Really? I can't think of anything worth mentioning.
Oh sure he became a carny but he hasn't used his new powers.Child hood wrestling fan who wrote into observer turned billionaire who goes into the business on a network that previously directly competed with wwe
It's not Seth territory but it's pretty carny
Sure but I think Cody out carnies them, he power played and now is at the same tier the real elite.Young Bucks for landing the big money mark and out-carnying Vince.
Kenny Omega took a step back and has just come off as another wrestler, the Young Bucks likewise have tried to give the other tag teams more shine. In comparison Cody has consistently put himself and people his friends with in the spotlight. Maybe Cody will eventually payback Kenny for all of the things Kenny has done to help Cody, but I wouldn't trust the son of a wrestler.
More interesting would be, who's the WORST wrestler of the decade?
More interesting would be, who's the WORST wrestler of the decade?
Bray Wyatt.
True shit wrestlers come and go and lose their place. Bray has been consistently getting work and top billing despite being shite and never having a noteworthy match for the right reasons.