#solo tabletop

The game is Face to the Mat, with some heavy homebrew and house rules. It mostly plays itself, I just assign stats and make occasional executive decisions. The game lends itself to some kinda silly storytelling- previous projects have felt very 90s WCW in both the good and the bad ways.

I'm still mulling over format, but I think what I'd do is play the shows ahead of time and take notes, then add some flavor and record them for youtube. I'm thinking like a ten minute "recap" kinda thing for the "TV" shows and maybe a bit more detail/length for the "PPVs." Kinda like the 90s where they'd have C-shows that were just the announcers going back over the latest developments. Visual presentation would probably just be me talking over a graphic, zatsudan-style. (unless people really wanna look at some behind-the-scenes spreadsheets?)

I'm a big fan of PLAAY, all this would be done with their stuff.

-16 teams of 10, probably based on individual fandoms (ie a Mario team, a Hololive team) but maybe some teams based on whole genres (an RPG team) or mediums (a books team).

-First round: they'll play each other in baseball (Express, if anybody actually knows the company). The losing teams will play each other in dodgeball. You have to win either one of those games to advance. (so 12 out of the 16 will survive)

-Second round: The teams are dissolved, it's now individuals. There will be a golf tournament and a tennis tournament. Both of those games have systems for narrowing down the field to a handful of finalists, so much like the first round, you have to accomplish that in either golf or the second chance of tennis to advance. I'll play out the whole thing though, it'll provide seeds for later.

-Wild card round: That won't quite be enough contestants to proceed, so I'll have some sort of runoff for people who didn't make the cut to play Fury Hardball (kinda an arcade-like baseball/cricket/wiffleball hybrid) for the last few slots. Details will be played by ear, since I won't have exact numbers until I get there, but we'd probably start with a couple dozen and narrow it to like 18.

-Semifinals: The surviving ~42 contestants have themselves a stock car race. Instead of a qualifying phase, starting positions will be based on results in golf/tennis/hardball. Top 30 advance.