Here are the rules for ALL 5 weeks of April, including the PPV: Overview for "The Rules" for the period of March 26 to April 29, 2001: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This month's theme is "Month of Returns". This month you will have one Pay Per View. It will occur on Sunday, April 29, 2001. On this card, your World Heavyweight Champion will have a PPV title defense. However the opponent for your World champ will be named later. This will give your champion only a couple weeks to prepare for his pay per view main event World Title match. "The Rules" for the week of March 26 - April 1, 2001: ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Your champion just had a tough battle at the PPV, but this week for the first time ever, your champion must defend his title in a rematch from the PPV. Therefore, EVERYONE on your roster INCLUDING your World Champion must wrestle on at least one television program this week. 2. Your live TV show should feature at least 2 additional rematches from last month's tournament. 3. Take a look at your rankings in TNM. Which ever wrestler is listed at the bottom of the rankings is in need of a push. Therefore, have them win all their matches this week. 4. Last month at the PPV you ran a promo for a "star heel" who will be returning soon as a "top face". Run that promo again on your live TV show this week. 5. Your hour 1 main event on live TV should be one of the tourney rematches from March. 6. Your hour 2 main event on live TV should be the PPV World Title rematch from March. 7. On your taped television programs, you should be sure that all your "Top Star" talent wins their matches this week. Also, your returning "Top Face" should cut a promo about one of your "Top Heel"s. 8. For your two house shows this week, you should bring in a pair of wrestlers that have NEVER teamed before to form a new tag team. "The Rules" for the week of April 2 - April 8, 2001: ----------------------------------------------------- 1. April 1st was the beginning of Daylight Savings in the US. Have a wrestler or a tag team show up late to this week's live TV causing them to miss their match. 2. Your live TV show hour 1 main event this week should feature a tag team match between your top team and the mystery team from March's PPV. 3. Last month a wrestler not on the roster refereed a match, have him make his wrestling debut on Live TV this week. 4. You were contacted by a current world champion wrestler from a Japanese promotion. You have agreed to hire him through this month's PPV. And as part of the agreement, he/she is required to have a title "unification" match with your company's World Champion. This will be your live TV main event this week. 5. For your two house shows this week, use "Top Star" talent that didn't work last week's house shows. Have one of the "Top Star" faces lose to a "Star" heel on at least one house show. "The Rules" for the week of April 9 - April 15, 2001: ------------------------------------------------------ 1. This week, you should bring in the former heel star you have been running promos for. He will be a "Top Face" now. Have him wrestle in the hour 2 live TV main event in tag team match. 2. If you haven't named the April PPV, give it a name this week. Use your World Champion to cut a promo about the pay per view and how he doesn't know who his opponent will be. Also during the promos, announce 3 additional matches on your pay per view (There will be 8 matches in all on this PPV). 3. The television stations around the country are reporting low ratings for one of your programs. Cut your TV programming by 1 hour beginning this week. Along with this cut in TV programming, release one of your "top stars". 4. On your live TV show this week, you should have a "special, one time only cause it is too dangerous" type match. This will be your hour 1 main event. 5. If you have a wrestler that gets injured at ANY of this week's cards, he will miss this month's PPV. 6. For your two house shows this week, use "Top Star" talent that didn't work last week's house shows. Have one of the "Top Star" heels lose to a "Star" face on at least one house show. "The Rules" for the week of April 16 - April 22, 2001: ------------------------------------------------------- 1. This week, you will announce the world title match for the PPV. If your current champ is a "top face", then look at your rankings and use the highest ranked "top heel" for the opponent at the PPV. However, if your champion is a "top heel", have him face the "top face" that returned earlier in the month at the PPV. Also announce 2 more matches for this PPV bringing the total number of matches to 6 of the 8 scheduled. 2. This week for live TV, the two competitors for the PPV world title match will be in a 6 man tag match for the hour 2 main event. Their partners will be two of your top tag teams. 3. Your hour 1 live TV main event will feature two "stars" that are going to be competing for a chance to become a "top star" beginning in May. 4. For this week's TV tapings, bring in a singles wrestler that isn't a "top star" that is from ECW. 5. For your 2 house shows this week, have your World Champion wrestle non-title matches on each card. "The Rules" for the week of April 23 - April 29, 2001: ------------------------------------------------------- 1. This week, you will have your fourth pay per view on April 29. Last week during the promos, you announced 6 of the 8 matches on your pay per view. This week on live TV, you will announce the rest of the pay per view card. One of these matches will be a match featuring the ECW wrestler brought in last week. 2. On your live TV show this week, you should have a variety of matches that will build up your pay per view card. You will want to build the heat for the matches at the PPV. 3. Your live TV show hour 1 main event this week should feature the ECW star that arrived last week. Start him in a short feud that will end at the PPV on Sunday. 4. Give your World Champion the week off from competing on TV so he can train for the PPV, but have him cut a promo on live TV about his PPV match. 5. Your live TV main event this week should feature the two tag teams that were in the main event last week. Have the challenger for the world title at the PPV as the special guest referee for this one. 6. This week, have all your "Top Star" talent win on the taped programs to help build them for the PPV. This will help get them over further on the PPV. 7. For your two house shows this week, use only 2 "Top Star" talents from your roster. This is because the rest of your roster is preparing for the PPV. 8. PPV Notes: You should have eight matches on this card. All of these matches have already been announced on this week's live TV show. By this point, you have probably either had someone quit, or you have had to fire someone. Before the PPV, sign them to a new contract and have them make a "surprise" entrance at the PPV. What to expect for May ---------------------- -A retirement from a top star. -Elevation of a star to a top star. -Some new talent entering your company. -Many more things...