BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“Fan Interaction Goes Wild!”
The WWE has been hard up for being “interactive” and having their collective finger on the pulse of social media. They’re always kind of late to the game, but when they get on board they hammer it into the ground. WWE has annoyed us with Twitter, Tout, YouTube, etc. Some people cry about it and take too much of their life to bitch about an announcer on a wrestling show plugging something more than they’d like. Kids, grow up. Real men don’t bitch about things like that. They make it a drinking game!
With their recent efforts at being contemporary they have their “APP” now. They’re trying REALLY hard to be interactive and get everyone on board. They have a lot of fan voting segments to pick opponents for people, pick match types, and all sorts of randomness. It still feels like a work, but I appreciate the efforts. The problem is on the horizon.
WWE WILL, without a doubt, hammer this shit into the ground. I had a horrible thought that the WWE will go over board with “fan interaction”. I loved “Cyber Tuesday” and “Cyber Sunday”, but this will go bad.
Imagine the WWE letting the fans have COMPLETE interaction. Random lucky fans will get to COMMENTATE the matches via live streaming! We’d all love to hear teenage stupid asses try to call matches. Kids screaming. Shout outs to grade school classmates. Music in the background. Weird “call in show” feedback. It’d be GREAT, right?
And why stop there? Let’s let the fans REF the matches via tout and live stream! The fans at home have to count three! We know that’ll work out juuuuust fine, right?
Maybe the WWE shouldn’t let the fans be anything more than fans. It’s worked this long….
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