John Mathys

I asked the illustrious Pat Mulligan to describe the Yearly CCC event for all of us newer players. Here’s what he wrote:

What is the SRG CCC?

This is a question I get asked rather frequently by newer members of the community so let me explain. The CCC is a create a competitor competition created by Steve Resk as a community building tool and to help expand exposure outside of our normal player base. You get to create your own character, look and backstory, we then have an artist draw up a sketch and they are placed in distinct types of matches where the winners move on to the next round.

Round one is usually a fatal four way where a poll is put up on Facebook and you have 48 hours to gather votes being allowed to vote once per hour. Other rounds consist of meme wars tag matches and more. The purpose is to build up the characters so that come the finals we have a panel of independent wrestlers view video packages of all the competitors promos and decide the winner. The create a competitor competition is designed to foster joy in the community and to build characters unique to the individual and the community, where most gaming companies charge you just to have your likeness in their game we offer you the opportunity to add not just your likeness but a part of your creative spirit to the greater LFF community.

If the idea interests you, I urge you to take part. Contact Patrick Mulligan or Steve Resk for details.

You can contact Pat at: Stuman9@hotmail.com

That’s it for this week. If you have any questions or comments you can e-mail me at supershowdecks@gmail.com

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Rookie Year. I was working on something else for this week, but it’s taking more time than I thought it would so here’s something else I think would be nice for newcomers to be able to know: what are all these online things people talk about? Check the SRG Twitch channel to see when the shows start. Tournament Buy-Ins will be on the Supershow website under Online Events starting on Monday each week.

Monday: Consigliere Fights – This is a tournament night, any variations will be announced in the event description.

Tuesday: The Dojo – This is my favorite night of the week, the Dojo is a place to test your decks against the best around. On Dojo the house brings two people to defend against anyone in the audience that volunteers to fight them and has a Subscription to the channel. The Challenger plays for the chance to win any card in stock on the Supershow Website (minimum stock 5 required) and to Play It Forward another copy to someone else, if the Challenger loses that card goes on sale. Challenger selection is random, and over the course of the night involves 3-4 matches played with random stipulations drawn and voted on with Bits and then 2-3 Two Minute Matches played against both defenders.

Wednesday: Talk of the Universe – This is a show where the hosts go over everything that’s happened in the past week at SRG: tournament reports, Posts, Pictures, and Promos of the Week, new releases on the website, hidden gems in the store that have low stock or being restocked. They also interview people about events in the community and make announcements here.

Thursday: Expanding the Universe – This is a morning show where Boss designs new cards. If you have a Create a Competitor and are available to do the show, Boss will do it on here, which is a pretty good way to get hype going for your cards.

Thursday Night Fights – This is another tournament night, once again specifics will be in the event description.

Sunday: Sunday Night Fights – This is a night where a few matches are scheduled to play for the whole community to see. You’ll see Grudge matches, Title Defenses, and other important matches play out here.

Any time there isn’t something else scheduled, there’s always the chance that someone decides to run a pop-up event. Generally, this gets declared at some point the day of on the Facebook Discussion Group and you’ll need to keep a watch there or the Supershow Shop Online Events page to catch these.

These are the current shows in the Supershow Online Line-Up, though that could change and I’ll update this post to follow along.

Send questions, comments, or topics you’d like to see covered to me at supershowdecks@gmail.com

Welcome to the Rookie Year, where I answer questions I had when I started playing so you don’t have to bumble around like I am.

We’re going to start with basic deck knowledge. A Supershow Deck is a Competitor and 30 cards, most of the time you are allowed an Entrance card and to pick either Valiant or Newman Spectacles to bring along with you (there are stipulations that eliminate those deck additions, I’ll get into Stipulations later). We can break those 30 cards into ten blocks of three, a Strike, Grapple, and Submission that will generally follow the same patterns of use and are the same power level. Today I’m going to break those down a little, every block specializes in one thing, but will do others to allow for deckbuilding variety.

1-3) These cards are Leads that Stop Leads

4-6) Are Leads that Stop Follow Ups

7-9) These Leads are Utility cards and generally the second strongest slot in the deck

10-12) Leads that Draw or Bury cards or mess with the next turn roll, generally look at how many cards of a given type (Leads or Move Type) you have to activate the effect.

13-15) This is the Skill Stop slot. These are Follow Ups that Stop any card of a type if one of your Skills is higher than your opponent’s.

16-18) These Follow Ups work like 10-12, but they will look at other Follow Ups you have in play rather than Leads, they are a little more powerful.

19-21) This is your “See One, Stop One” Line of Follow Ups, they Stop a move type if your opponent already has a move of that type in play.

22-24) This is the “Power Slot”, the Follow Ups here have big effects like Recurring multiple cards to your hand.

25-27) Here are your Leads that Stop Finishers, Aaron would probably boot me from the site if I didn’t also mention the “School Boy” Line is here.

28-30) Here are your Finishers.

Alright, that’s a general overview of the makeup of each block of cards in our decks. Join us next time where I talk about…. I don’t know Spectacles, What we do Online, or Something else I’m too tired to remember right now.

Any comments or topic requests please send to: supershowdecks@gmail.com

Okay so we know how to play the game, but what about the various ways to have a match? Here I’m going to begin talking about Formats and Stipulations, which dictate the many, many match types you can have in Supershow.

Two-Player Formats –

One on One: This is the easiest and the baseline format. Two people enter the ring, one comes out. 

Tornado Tag: This is a one on one but your competitor card is a tag team, the stats double in range going to 10 through 20, and the gimmicks are stronger. Extremely strong singles competitors get promoted to this format.

Trios: An even more powerful Tag Format, in Trios your competitor is a three person Tag Team (or a Wrestling Bear). The Gimmicks are very strong and the stat line is tripled going from 15 to 30.

Multiplayer Formats – There are some special rules in multiplayer formats in general where you are allowed to help other players defend themselves.

• First, you may Bury your hand in order to use a Stop for a player that cannot stop a move coming at them
• Secondly, if a player is hit with a Finish, you may help them break out by rolling with them, if your rolled skill matches theirs, you add the skills together to see if that number is enough to break out with.

Triad: This is a three player format and the first where the normal game rules change.

• In Triad, if two players bump with the highest turn roll, the third player is considered out of the ring and that turn continues as if it were a two player match between the two that bumped.
• If, during the turn roll, the two losing players have rolled the same Skill -AND- their roll total is higher than the player that would have won, they may team up. In the team up both players get to play a turn against the non-team player, starting with the teammate with the higher turn roll.

Tag Team: This is a format where you and a team mate each play a Singles competitor against another team of two. This has the same “Tagging” turn roll rule as Triads matches but you may only tag your partner.

Fatal Fourway (and more): This is a multiplayer free for all format. 

• Any competitors that Bump on the turn roll have their total set to 0. The only time a normal bump where the players draw and reroll is if all players have bumped out (for example a four player match with two players rolling 9 and the other two rolling 5, all players are now 0 so a Bump occurs).
• Players may not “Tag” against another player in this format, but they can still Bury to use a Stop for someone else and Help with Breakout rolls.

So those are the formats we have in the game. There are lots of ways to spice them up, Stipulations can be added to any match type and you can see what they are HERE.

I’ll be diving a little deeper into individual formats and the various Stipulations, including strategies and card choices for them in later articles.

Have noob questions or things you’d like explored? Comments? Email me at: supershowdecks@gmail.com