Editing Digital Championship Wrestling Federation (DCWF) (section)

=== The Split ===
In mid-April, the DCWF finally began to tear apart. Even with things looking good on the outside, with events continuing to be succesful, the story was not so bright behind the scenes. A public voice chat argument between Eric and Alpin started to make people feel that the end was in sight. And on the week of April 21st, 2009, the landscape of the most successful promotion in Second Life changed forever. On Wednesday, after thinking his options over, Eric Stuart handed in his resignation from the DCWF, leaving Alpin Criss in sole charge, should it have gone through. But then, two days later, things changed for the worse. Alpin Criss decided that he was also to leave the DCWF, thus leaving the promotion without a recognised owner. It was decided later that Friday, that Eric Stuart was to continue on with the DCWF, and a mass meeting with staff was held to decide the future of the company. It was almost unanimous that rebuilding should commence immediately, and a day later, land was purchased and the rebuilding process began. The creation of an in-house wrestling system started, and work to get the promotion back to the good old days began.

[''Alpin's comment:'' The above is not entirely accurate. First, the timing of who left is backwards. I told Eric that I was leaving the DCWF at the end of the argument that ended up being the final straw for me. The grind had strained our relationship, and we had been fighting more and more. The final straw for me was a deal between us and SLTV (now Treet.) SLTV had been sweet talking me for over a month to do a weekly show. the entire time Eric resisted, despite the fact he would frequently demand that I should "fire" Metaverse for being so incompetent (at the time Metaverse had not taped a show in several weeks, which really bothered Eric, even though I felt they weren't obligated to tape shows any more than we were to do them.) After strongarming Treet into several concessions, the only thing keeping the deal from going through was the fact they wanted to co-produce a new show, World Avatar Wrestling, as opposed to just taping DCWF Warzone. Eric flat out refused, and told me that I to go along with what he wanted or to get out of his way. Having had enough, I told him the DCWF was his and that I was leaving. Since it was late I told him I would transfer all the rights to the groups to him the next day. When I logged on, Eric had sent out a notice of his resignation.

I find it a little insulting that there's a rumor I left for money. I paid a full tier for nearly 6 months. That's over 600,000 Linden. If there was any money issue, it was that I had begun resenting the fact that I was paying all the bills and yet I was having to constantly fight with Eric over the silliest things. If I tried to build something for the DCWF to use, it became a turf war with him, and ultimately I got tired of shelling out that much money for that much aggravation.]

It was projected the company could re-open in mid May, but as time went on, the projected re-opening date changed day after day, week after week and eventually month after month. Despite efforts to open the promotion as quickly as possible, the rebuilding process didn't go as smoothly as hoped. Even with this, morale was high and excitement was building. Finally, in early August, the system had been developed to a point that Applications were accepted for the first time since the closure. An immediate boom of new applicants saw the promotion begin to take the final steps towards reopening. At this time, a brand new promotion, HKWF, had just started, and was looking to rekindle interest in the SL Wrestling business once again. A number of former SLCW/DCWF starts worked with the promotion, and helped the company's image grow. It was announced a few short weeks later that September 12th was the day that the DCWF would once again re-open its doors to the public. A massive re-opening show was planned and interest around SL was growing