Editing Digital Championship Wrestling Federation (DCWF) (section)

=== Into the New Year ===
As the company headed into 2009, the promotion looked forward to reaching its 1-year anniversary of holding events in February. The company announced its first ever "WrestleFest " Main Event on February 7th. Dubbed as SLCW's answer to WWE's "WrestleMania", this was to be the company's biggest ever show. With this, the company moved into a brand new arena, and obtained a full sim, complete with training centre, club and mall. The company promoted a bumper card which saw Alpin Criss challenge Tenzan Karu for the World Title in an "I Quit" match. As well, Mike Freeman defeated International Champion Morpheus Shelman and Celtdan McMahon in a Triple Threat match. Katheryn Blackadder also won the Women's title defeating Sini Nubalo and the first Chaos For The Contract battle royal saw Big Evil Mandelkorn win a contract for championship match. WrestleFest I was a massive success and was a big day for the promotion.

After WrestleFest, it announced that Alpin had purchased a full sim for the SLCW to be based and would be opened in March. This was great news for the promotion as it now enabled it to have its own base without interference.

[Alpin's Comment: This was an intense time. Seth Cameron was getting ever closer to opening up his big federation, and all his stuff was professionally done. His system was getting off the ground and he was going to open with a Wrestlemania type Free-Per-View, the name of which was going to be "WrestleFest." There was a big fight between me, him, and Eric over that, because he felt like we ripped off his name. Unfortunately, Seth ended up getting very sick and requiring pretty serious surgery. He was to leave Second Life (tm) for some time. We dodged a major bullet.

The greatest thing we did the entire time was our training facility. I'm still really proud of it and everyone who helped with it. At its height, we had some of the best wrestlers in the business (Misaki, Katheryn, Morpheus, Vince, Celtdan, Ari) helping to train all the new recruits. It was a slick operation, and a lot of the best wrestlers out there today went through it. Everyone did amazing work, and the wrestling was absolutely wonderful during that time frame.

Not really sure what Eric purchased. Eric never contributed money to buy anything. In his defense, neither Ivan and I would have taken any money from him. He was hard nosed enough about getting his way when the only stake he had was his time sacrifice. When Ivan ran the SLCW he paid Tier. When I ran it I paid it.

(Eric's comment: Templates, lighting systems, pyro systems, uploads, builders tools, props and prefabs, and more were purchased using intake from the SLCW Store, and some of those things weren't cheap, like the 20k alone we spent trying lighting systems to ensure we got the best, lowest lag system. Paying tier is wonderful, but that "only stake" of my "time sacrifice" included training, moderating, booking, building, recruiting, managing, marketing, designing, and numerous other things, all without seeking any sort of return.)

This is also around the time that I had Katheryn Blackadder sign us up for SL Showcase. Our traffic went through the roof for about a month and a half when we got featured on it, and things were great.]

[Celtdan's comment: About the "WrestleFest" name thing, I remember coming up with that name originally in about mid-2008, and the first few times I suggested it to Eric, he wasn't too sure about it as he felt it was quite generic, which of course it is. But eventually after pushing it to him, and nobody else really coming up with a name that we could agree on, it was decided we should go with that. I certainly don't remember hearing of Seth planning in any case to use the "WrestleFest" name, as I had came up with it almost out of the blue.

The time we were on showcase was great. I remember logging on and people would just be streaming in to the arena seeing all the vendor shops we had, climbing up the stairs into the large arena we had at time. Exhibitions were regular, and nearly every member of the roster, if not all, was involved regularly in a match. People were volunteering to ref, to commentate and wrestle, and made the experience. I always feel a buzz from loads of people coming into the arena before a show whether I would be wrestling, or now, commentating, because you know that more people are going to get to see or hear what you're doing, and hopefully enjoy it. One of the great things about SL wrestling is, that even if the wrestling matches are sometimes not the highest quality, there's still going to be a decent entertainment level from the commentary, the other fans and the characters portrayed in the ring.