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April 5th, 2021, 11:12 AM
#1
Wilfred's Debate Round 2 Match 3: Mikey Jones vs Mth
Topic:
Over the last year, we've seen a difference in WWE presentation that we hadn't anticipated: the lack of live audiences. Over the last 12 months, we've seen WWE present a product that was not impacted by a physical audience responses to storylines or performers. Certainly, in the television experience, this created less spontaneous reaction. Conversely, it granted more direct control of reaction and story to WWE writers and producers.
Your topic: Select a WWE wrestler (male or female) who has been most positively impacted by the lack of live audience. Demonstrate why the effect was more positive to your selection than to your opponent's choice.
RULES:
- You each have 24 hours to respond from the time a post goes up (please make BBF and myself aware of any potential delays). You may make up to 3 posts this round .A maximum word count of 400 words per post will be allowed.
- All posts must be staggered. You can't make your next post until the other debater has had their turn. As stated, replies should typically occur within 24 hours.
- No editing of posts allowed. Anything that is posted the first time is what will count so choose your words carefully.
-The first post for the second poster shall not directly rebut points made by the first poster in their initial post.
- Pictures, gifs and videos can be used in literally unlimited amounts to support your point. Information should be self-contained within your post. For example, you can't post a link to an article and expect people to go read it. Quote it in your post.
The order of posting will be determined by a coin toss. The coin toss has revealed that mth will be going first!
Judges for the Match:
Mr. Nobody
Badger
Virms
Last edited by Mazer; April 5th, 2021 at 3:38 PM.
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April 6th, 2021, 8:29 PM
#2
There once was a man named Bray Wyatt
whose ideas he just couldn't keep quiet,
so he told Vince McMahon
who said, “Let's do what we can,
without crowds, it's the best time to try it.”
Since he couldn't let them in, it was a great time to LET HIM IN.
No WWE superstar has benefited more from the crowdless era than Bray Wyatt.
WWE has never been more theatrical than during the pandemic and he is by far their most theatrical character. This period has allowed almost unlimited creativity with his character and he has thrived because of it.
Cinematic matches became a PPV staple thanks to the success of two prominent ones at 2020's WrestleMania, one of which was the incredibly experimental FireFly Funhouse Match.
Outside of this era, you can be certain this match would have never taken place but instead, thanks to the first crowd-free Mania, Wyatt was able to bring Cena into his unique world in a “match” unlike any other that allowed for a surreal journey that traversed through various locations and parts of both Cena and Wyatt's careers and even dipped into alternate realities.
Another later cinematic match with Strowman allowed Wyatt to shift between personas and delve into their past in a way no in-ring match ever could.
But Wyatt's advantages were not limited only to cinematic matches but now in-ring promos and encounters could utilize special effects and editing that could not have been done in front of an audience...
Instant transformations.
A Playground materializing and disappearing in an instant.
Light fixtures falling from the sky.
A ThunderDome filled with Alexa Bliss's laughing visage.
Flames. So many flames. Everywhere.
Oh yeah, and A MAN BEING BURNED ALIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING.
Love it or hate it, it doesn't matter, the fact of the matter is this:
Wyatt's pandemic era has allowed for a virtually unrestrained creative freedom that has allowed him to be and do whatever he wants in ways he never could if everything were normal.
It has been “a new normal” for everyone.
It has been anything but normal for all of us, and for WWE, and for Bray Wyatt...
...but Wyatt is anything but normal, easily the least normal superstar in WWE, and easily the one who has embraced and made the most of the most abnormal period in WWE history.
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April 7th, 2021, 4:00 AM
#3
OK at Madden
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