Editing Digital Championship Wrestling Federation (DCWF) (section)

=== A Good Future ===
Despite the problems of "Locked Up", MBC were delighted with the show, and agreed to screen the weekly Saturday event. This event would become known as "Saturday Showdown". The company found land on the "Davey Jones Locker" sim, and began building their new state-of-the-art arena. The company postponed events for 2 weeks, but Ivan Halfpint laid down a strict new policy for wrestlers. Until further notice, there would be no storylines or Main Events. Finally, building was completed of the new SLCW Arena, and the company formally opened the new arena on May 24th with its first event to be recorded by Metaverse TV. The company's biggest crowd turned out to see the event, and once again, was a success. The joint ownership of Alpin Criss and Ivan Halfpint had steadied the ship. Alpin's system had evolved and was growing quicker than originally expected. More wrestlers than ever before were flooding in, and interest of the company was growing. The company had also introduced its Women's Championship, and Tag Team Championship, which helped draw even more interest in the product.

The SLCW along with Metaverse TV obtained a spot of land for SL's 5th Birthday celebrations, which helped attract new fans and wrestlers. As the company passed through the summer months, things behind the scenes were in stark contrast to how things were going from the outside. Halfpint, without consultation of other wrestlers and staff, moved their weekly Saturday Showdown event to Sundays. The relationship between Halfpint and Eric Stuart was heavily strained, not just due to this decision, but because of other things. Despite this, the company was in good shape, and growing bigger than people thought it ever would.

[''Alpin's Comment:'' This was a good time for all of us. The SLCW was growing every day. There were also growing pains. Personalities were creeping up. People were starting to take things too seriously, including themselves. Ivan was struggling to keep a lid on the beast he let off the leash. I mean, by going with me and Eric instead of Mattie, he signed on to go the "take ourselves too seriously" route. But that just wasn't Ivan's basic nature, so his future with the SLCW was kind of predetermined.

Really, we ended up dealing with a lot of bad apples. Not the staff, but the general SL public. People would come in and grief us. They would harass our staff. Typical stuff that most fed's see at some point. Ivan didn't like banning people from his sim. Eric and I didn't like our people getting harassed. It's a tricky thing. We are all playing as pro wrestlers, but many of our staff were just kids. In the end, Ivan relented, but hindsight is 20/20. It was his sim, and it was great he listened to us, but he shouldn't have if he really didn't want to go that route. I think that Ivan often gave in to my requests because he felt I contributed so much with the system. Plus he's generally just an easy going guy, so he never approached things with as much a dog in the fight as Eric and I.

Navistar started showing up and commentating exhibitions for the wrestlers. After hearing him do his thing, Ivan and I created Warzone because we were so impressed by the commentary. You could tell he loved wrestling, and its history. So the transition to two shows was very smooth. At this point, we basically had three people doing shows. Ivan was focused on Showdown and Navistar on Warzone. Eric was constantly pushing the Free-Per-Views. Those were basically his chance to get input into organizing a match card. Plus they were great opportunities for him to show his stuff. Many of his set designs were great for those things.

I don't really know who else Ivan needed to consult with as far as staff goes. Ivan was running Showdown and Navistar was running Warzone. So Ivan moved Showdown to Sunday because its what he needed so that he wasn't overextending himself. Real Life comes first, and I remember him telling me he needed to do it because he was losing his entire weekend. Navistar and I gave him our support. Whatever Ivan needed he deserved.

Not sure what all the Ivan and Eric stuff is about. Eric was just head builder. Navistar and Eric were butting heads and Navistar ended up leaving over it. So Ivan had to deal with that mess. So far we had two managers leave for basically the same reason, and somehow I managed to convince Ivan to let Eric cover Warzone, instead of just cancelling it. I think that's when Ivan started thinking about leaving.]