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Hey hey, party people! It's me again, coming to you live with the start of the Best in The Business nominations!

But seriously, it's that time again folks. Much like last year, I'm starting the nominations now instead of late in the year because far too often, matches and promos have been lost to the annals of time. People get mad that their works get forgotten, and after they remind people, others go "Oh yeah, that should've been nominated!"

This time, let's keep working on changing that.

Throughout the year, you may nominate multiple things. You can nominate as much as you like in every category, as long as it fits. You may also suggest a new category, if it's one that you think is needed.

Here are the confirmed categories for this year:

Superstar of The Year:
This category represents THE character that you think stood out above all the rest. Face or heel, this is the one that you loved to follow and enjoyed the work of.

Face of The Year:
This category represents that babyface that you rooted for everytime they were in the ring or working an angle. The fan favorite that had you wanting more! Comedic or serious, underdog or dominator. The only requirement this year is that they have extensive Face work in at least one guild.

Heel of The Year:
You love to hate them, and you hate to see them succeed. The heels of our group, the ones that make you despise their work, but you can't help but read it. The cheapskate, the dirty player, you know what I'm talking about. Like the Face category, there must have shown extensive Heel work in at least one guild.

Rookie of The Year:
"Who's this new guy? What's his character about? I dunno who he is, but I'm liking his work."

That quote basically describes this category. For the sake of simplicity, I will leave this to RPers that have entered our community AFTER the BiTB 2013.

RPer of The Year:
This one differs from all the above ones. This isn't just about the character or the things they've done, or the multitudes of characters they use. This one is also about the person behind the character. How fun they are to work with, how enjoyable their work is, their work ethic in their matches, so on and so forth. This is the one for that guy you respect on more than an IC level, and wanna work with more than anyone. As this is a more personal one, I won't leave it up to nominations. When you cast your first ballot, simply include who you think fits this one for you. Chances are I will keep them hidden and announce them at the end of the year, that way people don't feel swayed or anything of the such. Or I will boil it down to the last three and ask everyone to vote. We'll just have to see!

New Character of The Year:
This one's for the rookie characters that are in the hands of true veterans. The ones that prove that even when they put their main character aside, the one we know them for, they can 'wow' us in new ways. For this one, they must have debuted AFTER the BiTB 2014.

Tag Team/Faction of The Year:
This one is pretty self explanatory. Due to the lack of tag teams and factions at the moment, I've combined the two categories to help make it an actual category.

Match of The Year:
High impacts, tense cliffhangers, story-driven emotion, and tons of spots. Or, the match that just really hit a home run for you. This one is for the match that went above and beyond, and really showed off what the people involved could do.

Promo of The Year:
Promos are our bread and butter. We love 'em and they are the basis of all storylines. This one's for the promo that really got you engaged into a story and blew you away with the execution. Chemistry, spots, and overall well-written work is what this one heralds.

OMG Moment of The Year:
Sometimes, promos and matches aren't always the best, but there's a particular moment in them that blows you away. The rest was okay, but this one moment... it was legendary. The OMG Moment of The Year is just that. Whether it's a small promo spot that really just hit it home, or a spot in a match that made the entire thing worth reading. Or, anything else that might fit this category. I leave it to your creativity to decide what goes here!

WTF Moment of The Year:
Sometimes, we go "OMG." Other times, we go "WTF." Something's off with this moment, something's strange, or we just really got turned off or confused by it. Once again, this one is all about your creativity and how you viewed something.

Storyline of The Year:
I think this might be the biggest category of all. This storyline of the year. This one isn't for the longest story, but for the one that really blew people away. It could've lasted a few shows or not even make it passed one Pay-per-view, but if it's one that you really got engaged in all around, it belongs here.

Guild of The Year:
I feel like this isn't one we should focus on anymore, but it's a staple and I agreed to keep such. The guild that you loved to compete in above all else. Where you have the most fun, where you feel like you've succeeded the most, so on and so forth.

Biggest Flop of The Year:
Now this category might be my favorite, because it's one that we always try to forget. The flops. The screw-ups. The failed hype. The poor execution. This one is all about things that could've been, should've been, and would've been better, but fell short completely. Whether it's a character, tag team, match, promo, debut, card, guild, anything. Anything that had hype or you thought was gonna impress you that just fell incredibly short.


Now, I will go ahead and note this: You may NOT nominate Superstar, Face, Heel, RPer, or Guild of the year at this time. After July, I may open these categories up, but it is far too soon for any of those categories to have any nominations.

Have fun, nominate often, and keep it real yo'. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

Omg moment: Tim making a random appearance in this thread! Hey, buddy!

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Hahah. Gotta hand it to you, that's probably factually accurate. It's a shame, though, because what makes them such a disappointment is how talented the three of them are. But I'm still holding out hope that Bo Dallas does a program with them when he returns by taking credit for their success as WWE's original inspiration and tries to claim he's their leader. If that happens, all this fiddling around would be worth it.

I'd also contest that GFW is pretty bad, yes they've done one 'show' but it was really an NJPW show in all honesty. Like one year later and they've done nothing.

Right, pretty terribad that it's been around for a while and they've done nothing with it aside from one show that was NJPW talent

Jarrett's teasing another GFW announcement around Wrestlemania time, maybe it will be about next years Wrestle Kingdom and he's done for the year! xd

more like Tim making an epic return wink

that is just begging for a massive yes movement shitstorm. they're already having a massive break among fans from feeding him to roman even when roman is so not wanted that people rooted for RUSEV at the end of the rumble