Editing Digital Championship Wrestling Federation (DCWF) (section)

=== The New Regime ===
Halfpint had told peers that he was thinking about leaving the company and handing over full ownership to Alpin Criss. In late July, things started to change around the SLCW. Eric Stuart had more power in what happened in-ring, which saw the now popular and infamous "Anarchy" group of Stuart, Mike Freeman and Waroop Bravin begin. Ivan Halfpint's involvement was much less than what it used to be. Finally, even with the success of the company's first Rumble match in mid August, Halfpint resigned as SLCW owner.

Alpin Criss became full Owner and installed Eric Stuart in the new General Manager position. The company became more of a business in a way that Criss and Stuart envisioned SLCW to be. Criss and Stuart had a good relationship, and this saw the company succeed. Metaverse TV was receiving its highest ratings from airings of Sunday Showdown, crowds were steady and the talent was brilliant. With this new regime, things started to change quickly. Sunday Showdown once again became Saturday Showdown, and as of October, Main Events ran again. This was a big move for the company, that was welcomed, and was a big decision business wise that worked.

World Heavyweight Champion at the time, WolfPR Magne, was not the most popular wrestler, and the relationship between him and General Manager was not to be desired. This strained relationship eventually reached breaking point at "Danger Zone" in October, when Waroop Bravin failed to show for his scheduled World Championship match. With this, Magne refused to go out and wrestle in his Buried Alive match with another opponent. Taking actions into their own hands, Anarchy members Eric Stuart and Mike Freeman decided to aid their fellow member, by dressing as Waroop and WolfPR respectively. "Waroop" won the match, thus in turn, making him the World Heavyweight Champion. Just 2 weeks later, WolfPR left the company, and Waroop was officially recognised as the new World Heavyweight Champion

Around this time, new talent such as Tenzan Karu, Shiva Auerbauch, Sini Nubalo and Wolfy Kessel were making their name on the scene. Talent continued to flood in and business was booming. Even with crowds nowhere near as high as before, the company was as big as it ever had been. The company continued to put on high quality events, and eventually events in December would change the SLCW forever.

First off, Tenzan Karu became World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated World Heavyweight Champion Waroop Bravin, after losing to Vince Easterwood, in Vince's debut match on WarZone. Then, at the December Main Event "Blizzard", which featured the first ever SL "Elimination Chamber" match for the brand new International Championship, which was won by Morpheus Shelman, the company garnered its biggest ever crowd of 47. The atmosphere around the promotion couldn't have been better. It felt good to be part of the SLCW.

[''Alpin's Comment:'' Actually this is inaccurate. I was also leaving the SLCW. I was at the point where I wanted to flex my own building muscle, but any attempts of it with the SLCW just ended up with me and Eric bumping heads. I created a new federation, the VWA, complete with stage and ring area, and I told Ivan I was leaving. The only problem was Ivan was looking for a way out, too. We honestly had a long conversation where we were basically deciding who would stay with the SLCW and work with Eric and who would run VWA on their own. Neither were in a rush to stay or leave. In the end, I gave Ivan the VWA. He didn't want to work with Eric. I wasn't going to make him, and I didn't want the SLCW to fold after all it had been through.

Wolfpr was hillarious. I'm beginning to figure out where most this information came from, because it has a particular slant that seems familiar. We all loved Wolfpr. Eric thought the guy was ridiculous. Wolfpr hated Eric. You gotta love Wolfpr, though. He loved wrestling more than any of us. Which is why he deserved to be champ and I think he did great at it. He even gave up his "furry" avatar for us.

The crowds were getting smaller. At this point, Eric had banned all the guys who worked with Ivan at VWA. He also banned all the guys that were looking into Seth Cameron's outfit. Basically, we were banning everyone but our own guys. I tried to implement a "no permanent ban" policy, but this was pretty much ignored by everyone with ban rights. Hense, a majority of the people who would support our shows weren't even able to come onto the sim. It should be noted that Ivan's events, although not following the WWE format, were packing sims with 50 or more people. The wrestling wasn't as good, but the spirit was much better. They were enjoying themselves. In fact, SLCW guys would go to the show, so we basically helped them pump up their own numbers.

(Eric's Note: Most of those that were banned were for other reasons, like harassment, griefing, and the like. I very rarely banned anyone, and I never once banned someone just for being part of a different fed. WolfPR was banned after he continually refused to work a match, which put personal reasons over the "love of wrestling".)

I can't say I was feeling as high as I guess everyone was. Eric was becoming more and more difficult to work with. I was also becoming difficult to work with, because I felt extremely stifled. My building skills were coming along, and I was looking for a way to start putting my own work out there. Somehow, the GM and Head Builder title trumped the Owner one in that argument. The Staff was great, though. I mean, we had the best group out there, as far as talent. I just wish we didn't jump the shark. Remember the ring of steel match? ...

What had started as a federation grounded in the wrestling was becoming more and more about the gimmick. We were basically knocking-off Smackdown vs Raw. Worse, our storyline's were coming from the WWE dirt sheets. I was really upset we were going that route. I tried desperately to shift gears, but without Eric's support there was no way to influence the actual shows. So basically I just started pushing more and more people to do exhibitions. This got even more resistance. Unfortunately, things would get more heated, because my building skills were sufficient to do a lot of what we did for our main shows. Our exhibitions would have videos, pyro, lighting, the whole nine yards. This really caused friction between me and Eric.

And I was also upset that we were going to VWA shows and basically harassing people. We were doing it to Seth's outfit as well, and they weren't even off the ground yet. There was no reason for any of that, yet here we were, supposedly the biggest and best of them all, engaging in that kind of behavior.]