Editing Digital Championship Wrestling Federation (DCWF) (section)

=== Stumbling Blocks ===
St. Valentines Massacre was highly successful and attracted another large crowd. Although, in the days following the event, the promotion started to encounter problems in and outside of the company. First, wrestlers from rival company SWE were spreading rumours about other staff inside the SLCW and about the system that Alpin Criss was developing. This had come shortly after the company began promoting its second house show a couple of weeks after their first Main Event. Commissioner and part owner Mattie McCullough disappeared after booking the card, and Ivan Halfpint was on holiday going into the event. Griefers had attacked the arena hours before the show which eventually become known as "Hell Saturday". The event did go off without any hitches, but in any case was still dubbed a major disaster. McCullough never returned, and therefore, Ivan Halfpint decided he must take full ownership of the company. Halfpint decided that Eric Stuart must now become a bigger head in the company and appointed him Head Builder. Stuart set out to build a brand new arena on the same patch of land. The company then began promoting its 2nd Main Event show "April Fools Hardcore Rules" in which every match would be a hardcore style match. While building went on, the company did not hold any events. During this time, a number of new faces began working with the company, and Alpin Criss continued development of his wrestling system, which evolved by the day.

The building of the new arena had finished in time for April 5th, the date of the Main Event. As the wrestlers prepared for the show, Second Life shut down for maintenance. The grid never went back online until the scheduled start time of Noon SLT, and therefore the show was postponed until the next day, putting some of the matches into chaos. Fortunately, the event on the Sunday once again went off with success. The Main Event saw Alpin Criss fail in his attempt to take the World Championship off Sidney Washborne in a First Blood match. The SLCW then decided to hold weekly Saturday House Shows, which would evolve into "Saturday Showdown" at 12pm SLT, with "Main Events" on the first Saturday of each month.

The company used these shows to build up to "Locked Up" on May 3rd. The planned Main Event was to see Buger Shan formerly of the Living Dead faction face off with Sidney Washborne in a Cell match for the World Heavyweight Championship. As always, good crowds turned out for the Saturday events and matches were put on with success. During this time, Ivan Halfpint had began negotiations with SL television channel Metaverse TV, who were interested in airing the weekly Saturday events on their station. MBC had planned to attend Locked Up to see how their events went, and to see the quality of the product. The SLCW Arena was transformed into a prison yard for the event, and another good crowd was beginning to turn out. Unfortunately, this, and the quality of the mainland sim on which the company had its arena caused major lag problems. Matches were ruined and couldn't flow due to the problems. This all culminated in a "horrible" Cell match Main Event match between Buger and Sidney. Buger did go onto win the World Heavyweight Championship, as planned, but the company decided that it was time to find a new home. It was then announced in the company, that Alpin Criss had developed a large enough stake in the company to become joint owner.

[Alpin's Comment: "Hell Saturday" was crazy. We showed up to the sim and there was all this stuff all over. Nobody had rights to return it, and Mattie didn't show up. So we basically just wrestled around it. Lesson learned ... Deed the land to Group.

Early on it was really getting heated. Mattie was really upset because Eric kept going on about how amateur his and Ivan's building was. To be honest, none of us had any building skill. Eric was a legitimate builder. To compound the problem, Mattie and Ivan really didn't care about getting bigger or having a more professional build. There was a big ego clash between Eric and Mattie, and Ivan was stuck. One one hand, he didn't really care about having the best promotion ever. He just wanted to have fun and enjoy it. Both of them came close to banning Eric and just moving on, but I liked Eric, saw potential like he did, and didn't want us to sell ourselves short. I lobbied hard to not only keep Eric, but to let him be head builder. Really all that meant was that we would go with Eric's stuff instead of Mattie's. Mattie got the message, and left to form Power and Glory Wrestling. He was one of many who would leave SLCW and drop 30,000L or 100,000L or whatever Gavin was asking for his broken EPW system. When that thing didn't work, and with real life requiring more his time, Mattie left.

The First Blood Match was tough. Sid and I were going to end with his finisher (a cutter bulldog) onto a steel chair. We practiced so hard trying to get the alignment perfect. The last spot lagged, and by some miracle my head hit the chair. I'm sure we all had those moments at one point or another, and it's definitely one I will share with Sid for all time. We both gave thanks to the wrestling gods for that one.]