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What was your best card rating?

JoeDesertratPosted on 09/25/05 at 06:06:09

I recently ran a Battle Royal card in one of my circuits. I have 70 wrestlers in the circuit and wanted to have a HUGE Battle Royal to determine the next #1 contender but discovered of course that the maximum # of wrestlers in a Battle Royal is 50 or so. Instead I split the card into two Battle Royals with an even spread of wrestlers by rating with the two winners to meet in a match to determine the #1 contender. This actually works out better for the storylines I have going.
Anyway, both Battle Royals ended up with a ***** rating and therefore the card was a ***** card. The best I've previously done with normal cards was a rating somewhere in the ***'s.
This got me wondering how other's fare with their card ratings. What are your best cards? How old are the circuits in which the cards took place? And do you book yor circuits or not?
Critic of the DawnPosted on 09/25/05 at 06:41:23

My best card ever was my final NDW card entitled The Crowning 2005.  Because nearly every match was fantastic, the show ended up with a rating of **** 1/4.

More recently, LIW had their best ever show, which featured two ***** matches in a row at the end of the card between LIW's top talent and some of the biggest names from Japan.  This card ended up with a *** 3/4 rating, which is pretty damn good.

Both of the above circuits are mostly unbooked and done with more or less random rosters including a number of real slugs.  I've seen circuits on the boards that routinely score upper *** to mid **** card ratings, but they're usually made up of nothing but incredible workers.  That's cheating, in my book.  Hell, LIW's top worker has a Workrate of 95, and they only have one wrestler that high, and 6 out of 34 wrestlers have Workrates of 70 or below.  3 of those could be qualified as top stars in LIW (Edward Chastain, Ron Harris & Don Harris).  So when I hit ***+ as a card rating, I know I'm doing something right.

Eric "Critic of the Dawn"
Snabbit888Posted on 09/25/05 at 08:06:16

Highest I had was **** 1/2 for the Gold Rush supercard in GCW.
91Posted on 09/25/05 at 11:10:47

**** 1/2 for one show, though with the level of guys involved in that one, I suspect Crit might accuse me of cheating. :P

And in answer to your other questions, my circuit is seven years old and I book it, though not nearly enough recently.