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I'm leaving for work in under an hour, so I left my pick with Matt D, goc and Grimmas. I have no cares who puts it in, just wanted to make sure it was somebody who was around within that 5 hour window and wouldn't hold things up needlessly.

I would like to request Stan Hansen on the 30th of July.

Two arguments so far have really caught my attention. The idea that there is a drive to consume is absolutely spot-on to me. But I have certain things I am looking for in the wrestling I am driven to consume. A number of snowflakes is not one of them. I've said before that Kawada vs. Hansen and Tully vs. Magnum are my two favorite wrestling matches. Those matches contain everything I need at the most basic level to enjoy wrestling. Would I give them both *****? I honestly don't know. I could watch each again and come up with new details to add to the old ones that I absolutely love and write a short essay on them. And then do it again in a few months with a different review from the last. The reasons I love or like a wrestling match are far more important to me than how much I enjoyed it. So when I read somebody else's reviews I look for details that I would see and fall in love with. I don't care one bit how many snowflakes are attached to the end. Does that make me different from most? I have no idea, but it's how I approach wrestling. As for not watching wrestling in a bad mood I have my views on that. I won't watch a MVC match in a bad mood because I'm likely to shit all over it mentally or in writing. Even their better matches rub me the wrong way if I'm unhappy going in. But watching something that is up my alley immediately perks me up and brings me back to a better mood. So I'm not entirely against watching wrestling when I'm a bit pissed off as long as it's something that I know won't make it worse.

My pick is used up because I took a tag team in 11.

That's an interesting idea for sure. Having an outsider in some kind of governing position may work well.

I'd just like to be part of the NWA.

I think I've got a pretty good main event/midcard tag division going on in Montreal. I need to fill in blanks for sure, but I have feuds for a while and some good sources of outside talent to keep things fresh. It's just that it took this long to build even the majority of a good tag division and I haven't gotten any jobbers picked as of yet. Trying to go singles may have proven a bit easier in draft #1.

For some reason I can't make any kind of link work on this. On obsessedwithwrestling.com there is a referees list for various promotions/territories that seems pretty comprehensive. If someone knowledgeable about the Montreal territory in the 80s could point me at a few of the refs active around 83 that would be greatly appreciated. I figured anyone looking for a good ref list would appreciate the link and perhaps some guidance from those a bit more familiar with their territory than they are if that is the case.

Montreal selects Gino Brito and Tony Parisi.

Montreal selects Pierre Lefebvre.

He's gone through KrisZ a few times on things. There's always that route as well.

I don't rate matches with stars or any system. I decide how much I enjoyed the match. I look at the structure and what they were trying to accomplish with the match and decide how well the workers did. I also think about the moments/spots that stood out to me and why. Putting a number of stars or a grade or a number of anything on it seems useless to me. I don't feel the need to rank and order wrestling matches. That feels like work. I just know what I like or don't and try to analyze matches to find out what causes those reactions. How may snowflakes anyone puts next to a given match means very little to me. Once I start seeing four or more I may put some thought into tracking said match down or rewatching, but I just don't care to describe matches in those terms.

I am out on booking them.

Don't fall for it!

There's going to be friction in something like this for sure. I feel like the only way your roster is something bad is if you don't like it. If you have idea about how to book it and they work it doesn't matter if you have *no* big names as far as national ambitions go. Part of the fun is seeing how people approach the different aspects of this. I do like how I could see myself working talent trades with every promotion given their rosters. And in all fairness to Parv the WWF always did have an all-star feel to the way their main event scene worked. I will agree that there has been some needless trolling at times, but I think we were all aware that was going to happen. And it makes it worse when you're pissed off that your next three picks just disappeared to begin with.

Parv does have a really good all-star promotion going for sure. I had hoped to grab either DeLuc or Bravo after building my tag division, but it fell through. I had to go with option #3 that could have waited another 3 or 4 rounds instead.

Montreal selects Armand Rougeau.

Either he's going to work a lower card program with Jordan or becomes his tag partner. That is, if they don't take a turn for the WWE and change directions completely.

I needed a manager that fit the Tongans. Albano seemed like the guy.

The International Wrestling Association has no problem with the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers traveling to Texas on 7/31 instead of 7/29.

I actually calculated Leduc and Dino Bravo just about right. I figured this was my round to take them or lose them. And they went a few picks before I had the chance, so yeah. It's okay, just would have been nice to have that secondary draw when I didn't have the Rougeaus around. It just ended up shooting Albano up by a round or two is all.

Montreal selects Captain Lou Albano.

I am up next, correct?

Honestly I'm just happy things have gone well since the Ronnie Garvin debacle. LaFon & Brunzell to me had two really great aspects to it. 1. LaFon as a young, high flying babyface could learn a lot from a guy like Brunzell. And the team just seems right. 2. LaFon is a great heel who can one day turn on Brunzell and create a feud in the process. The tag feud with the Tongans seems like a good way to get both into prominent roster spots as faces and heels also. I didn't think I'd be as lucky as I was with my first 7 picks netting me 4 really good (on paper, for the role they are designed to play) tag teams. I was thinking I'd have to scrounge over the next few drafts to find viable tag teams.

Phil LaFon (soon to be Dan Kroffat)