Chrono presents the Top Five Gaia Fed Moments
The moments that are still talked about to this day, for better or for worse.
Not exactly matches. Moments.
As always, opinions are just that... Opinions
Honorable Mentions:
The Legendary Tournament (EWA)
A concept that got 'almost' everyone involved (there were some controversial takes and removals) where multiple guilds championships would be merged into one single... Legendary Championship.
Controversial matches, among other things.
The climactic battle would accumulate with the finale of Matt Shanahan vs Brantley Summers
... Until it didn't, and everything stopped. ... EWA closed
While EWA came back a year or so later, the damage was done and it took even longer to begin to repair the rifts made.
But during the time EWA was gone, BBW rose to prominence...
Chrono takes over EEW / Jed shoots Chrono (EEW)
Chrono plotted with Kelly King, and had King take out the two GMs of EEW's shows, thus enabling Chrono to take control of all of EEW, in return Chrono gave King an EEW Championship match against the dominant Harli, in which King won...
The two year-long storyline cumulated with Chrono screwing Kelly King over and winning the EEW Championship, and moments afterward, Chrono was shot... By Jed. (As revenge for Chrono jumping to EEW from WWFG, and solo-ing the entire WWFG team by himself in an EEW vs WWFG elimination match years prior).
EEW was at its absolute apex at this time, where EVERYONE got booked, and everyone had storylines on all shows.
Chrono would eventually have his revenge, defeating Jed in the longest match in G-Fed history... But even more so...
Chrono would get his revenge by winning the WWFG Championship (once again) ... (and some would say the revenge got even more by causing... *See #3*)
Phoenix Saga (WWFG, EWA, ICW, WWE:E, X-Cup)
The Phoenix Saga, or the PF/Landry storyline
Between the raping of Phoenixfire (and tossing her off a bridge to die) by Landry
To Landry turning Mardy Wilkes-Booth into a ' Harley Quinn' type character
To the wedding of Chrono and Phoenixfire
To the Triple Cage match between Chrono, Summers, PF and Landry
To the Birth of Malice
'Dark' Phoenixfire
The resurrection of the Watch your step match
The Ironman Roulette
The 'Toddler' Drop
Chrono becoming the first (and so far only) person to win every single major title from every single major guild
'Team Awesome' winning the 2012 X-Cup
There were so many 'moments' in this four-five year storyline it's almost hard to pick 'one' single moment from it, so encompassing it all together seems fitting.
The Creation of EWA
The Creation of EWA (on Gaia) gave a lot of opportunities to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't get it, (and there are a LOT to list) when guilds were plagued by 'favoritism', you'd see the same four or five names always at the top of the card, a lot of talent went unnoticed.
In EWA though? They thrived, it was the breath of fresh air that was desperately needed. The guild was better structured than most, and everyone got a chance.
Anyone who had ever been anyone had been part of EWA at one point or another, the guild that spawned the most first-time champions in the history of gaia.
Sure there was some controversy (but what guild doesn't have it) but without EWA? The G-Feds would've died many, many, many years earlier than they did.
Without EWA, there'd be no (See moment(s) #5, #3, #2, #1 ), Legendary tournament, Phoenix Saga, etc.
Like it, or hate it, without EWA...
"Almost' every major moment that spawned from 2009 onward...
Would it even exist? That's 'really' hard to say.
5. FWD
Why is the formation of FWD a more important moment than the creation of EWA? Especially because without the former, you don't get the latter.
While true, it can be summed up with
" The shortest ran guild with the largest (and longest... TWSS) of impacts. "
The creation of FWD, was in a sense to parody the original NXT and to a degree, it worked, talents such as Omega, Dallas Cruz, Justin Amaze, Brantley Summers, Alastor Adonilm, Major Devastation, and Andrew Thorne emerged from the promotion
The group "Velocity", Ragnarok, as well as the Midnight Mauraders came because of FWD, in a time when the feds were slowly dying, FWD was the chance to get new blood into everything.
It was also the place where the 'Pantheon of the Gaia Gods' was first established, with Nuke Fusion, Matt Shanahan and Chrono Clepsydra
Most of all, it was where people actually helped new people, (unlike #4)...
This time things were done the right way, and for the most part, egos were cast aside.
4. Formation of the BCM
The BCM was a combination of three factions of gaia joining together (as well as adding other members), it was an elite super group that traveled to a now-defunct (and deleted) guild to help newbie RPers, it became a case of 'Biting the hand that feeds' and the BCM destroyed all of their guilds titles and made the "Urndisputed' title which the ashes of the guild's championships in an urn... On a title.
While it 'did' become a Power Ranger parody thing, later on, this was in a sense the spark that spawned many guilds, with the universal system of better matches, storytelling, and 'No Reals'.
It was the catalyst of spawning guilds like EWA, AOWW, ICW, PAW, PWS etc
The revival of older guilds like AWF, ICW, GWF.
A golden era of activity for other guilds.
Were there a lot of egos? ******** surprisingly, it was that attitude that drove people to 'out write' one another, to show who was the best, and competition brings out the best (and worst) out of everyone.
Matches became longer, people actually got invested more into actually doing more than just * I kick you in the stomach* as an action. Not to say it didn't or ever exist but after BCM? It became less prominent.
3. The WWFG Walk-Out
Perhaps the greatest act of rebellion in all of gaia fed history, where almost all of the top stars and more simply... Left WWFG. Were there reasons? Absolutely
Not many people remember the reason (without going back to look), but we all remembered that it happened and changed the course of history of WWFG (and several other feds)
2. The Cherry Picker (WWFG)
Everyone knows of what happened, a money in the bank match in WWFG featuring a cast of characters, rumors were that Justin Amaze was primed to win the match, and as the booker at the time... He was slated to win the match...
But Justin disappeared... So the solution was simple... Chrono made his (one of many returns to WWFG) with a cherry picker to elevate his long time partner Claire Hawkins to greater heights... And secure the win. Controversial? Yes
But could anyone remember anyone else in that match other than Claire and what Chrono did? Nope, no one?
Could anyone remember what happened in that match? No?
Are people still talking about it to this day? Yes. Absolutely.
1. The Death of St. Joey (EWA)
It's hard to argue that shortly after Joey lost the EWA Sprocket Championship (His only World title win) the character would be driven to that dark place where he blew his brains out, where it'd be a top moment.
I could go on and on about this moment, and the impact it had in multiple guilds but... We'd be here for days.
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