Wrestlecrap, Powerslam and Botchamania in 2013

January 13, 2013 by maffew in Misc.

I’ve recovered mostly from MAGFest, so here’s the State Of Address for 2013:

  • I am now part of the newly reformed Wrestlecrap.com. This is a huge compliment to me, as the new handler of the site has basically gathered all the ‘names’ in the Wrestling Humour scene to be part of the wonderful Elephant Graveyard known as Wrestlecrap. Here’s my humble introduction and I hope the fans of the site enjoy my work as much as I enjoy making it. Some stuff for the site will need to have swearing and blasphemy removed due to RD Reynolds (the boss)’s day job as a Sunday School Teacher, but I promise the uncensored FAKKIN JESUS versions will be viewable on here/YouTube.
  • My debut article for Powerslam Magazine was deemed ”a success” by the Excellent Editor Fin Martin, so I will be returning. Huzzah! Sadly I missed the deadline for the next issue due to my American Trip, but I will be returning in the next one.
  • MAGFest was even better than last year and still continues to be one of the highlights of the year for me. It’s always hard to explain the mood at the place, so I’ll go with the ham-fisted ”Woodstock with games” description.
  • The first panel went…terribly due to the 1am drunkenness,  lack of video-screen, screening via wallpapered wall and no music. Luckily the second one went way, way better and had the dignity of being filmed (the first panel saw the cameraman leaving and switching the camera off as he left before it even started).
  • The No Mercy tournament had all 32 possible slots filled, with many more waiting for a place in the tourny. We had to fill two tournaments up and have the winners face off against each other Champions Carnival style. X-Pac vs. Steve Austin was the Final Finals which wasn’t surprising as both have the fastest taunts and the ability to do their finisher three times. Austin won with two Stunners and an X-Factor. A copy of Kayfabe Commentaries’ New Jack YouShoot was the prize for winning…but the guy left before he could receive it or before we could remember his name. Huh.
  • A montage of moments I filmed will be up soon. Along with the new (now old) Botchamania.
  • I’m back in Blighty now, so now I have the 67  Kickstarter pledges to fulfil. These fall into three categories: Thanking people, music choices and advertising. The first one will be easy as people had to leave a name when they gave money but not everyone who donated money left any details for the others. So if you left money, please e-mail me, leave a comment at the bottom of this or send a tweet so I can fulfil these in a way that’s easiest for both you and me. A Maffew always pays his debts. Unless it’s a student loan.
  •  Thanks again to everyone who donated!
  • Well, it’s 2013 and we’re not dead. Botchamania the video series will be continuing, along with my new WrestleMemories idea appearing infrequently, CZWaMania 2012 (natch) and hopefully Listamania will start as soon as I get the video titles I need.  The 10 Worst Matches of 2012 will be the first video in that new series so Kris Lewie will be happy people are talking about him again.
  • My website looks like something from Geocities, but my goal this year is to make it look like something presentable in 2012. This will finally mean a Botchamania Archive, which I think I’ve ignored/put to one side for at least two years. I have no excuses now. I have someone doing the website stuff for me, which is just dandy. It’ll take time, but it will happen this year.
  • Thanks to everyone reading this who continues to make Botchamania a ‘thing’. If it was all down to me, Botchamania would have lasted maybe four videos.


Thanks to Fernando Silva, as always!

  • Codster9

    I never knew what MAGFest was until you went there Maffew.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=747916997 Alex Meyer

    I like the website. It’s simple, loads quickly (which is important if there’s a lot of videos), and even works well on my cell phone. Idk, just my two cents. Take a leaf out of Google’s book.

  • VideoGeekJT

    Hey, this is JT… winner of the No Mercy Tournament (Austin). Sorry for walking out on you, it wasn’t intentional. I honestly didn’t hear about the tournament till around 17 minutes after it started, and just ran down to the gaming area to enter. Thought it was all for bragging rights till I read this post. Hell, I was so in the dark on what was going on, I didn’t even realize I was the overall winner till I read this post… only thought I won the 2nd tournament. I was just happy to play my favorite video game against some other people and see where I rank outside my normal circle.

    But like I said to you at MAGfest, thank you very much for hosting the tournament. Hope you guys are able to come to MAGfest again next year and host another tournament. It would be my pleasure to defend my title. :)

    • http://twitter.com/JTBlueShell J.T. Murphy

      I’m JT Murphy of 8bitX, here to point out this isn’t the same person as me. I was the Buh Buh Ray Dudley who lost to a very shrewd HHH player. Talk to you soon!

  • save_us_DaJ

    “Some stuff for the site will need to have swearing and blasphemy removed
    due to RD Reynolds (the boss)’s day job as a Sunday School Teacher”

    …and yet he runs a site called WrestleCRAP?

    I’m thrilled to hear it went well at MAGFest and that you’ve got such a busy 2013 planned, I look forward to it.

  • Franke Sisto

    Looking forward to everything maffew.  Again, it was an honor to meet you at MAGfest and play Starfox64/Lylat Wars with you and just shoot the breeze.  I’ll probably be there next year too… ’cause the convention was awesome. 

  • PlanBFromOuterSpace

    Were the participants in the No Mercy tournament able to double up on characters, or did the last guy picked get stuck with “Ho” or something?

  • http://www.oswreview.com/ OSW Review

    Congrats with WrestleCrap Maffew, that’s a big deal! It’d be cool to get facebook integration on the site for easier posting but it’s fine as is 

  • http://twitter.com/PoutineIdol Bill Taylor

    I’d love to see a botchamania MS Paint contest again.

    • http://www.facebook.com/christopher.young.125 Christopher Young

      THIS. But what? No Cornette face? Perhaps Zandig facing skyward and yelling out the Lord’s name…

      • PlanBFromOuterSpace

        That reminds me, if Maffew decides to make any changes to the opening montage anytime soon, I’d love to hear the Justice Pain “Whatever.  He’s somewhere right now…y’know, whatever…*mumblemumble* and I’m here with you guys, so…” comments about CM Punk.

        • PlanBFromOuterSpace

           Or at the very least “I’m not gonna shake your hand after you kick me in the balls!”.

  • grievousgeorge

    That was on last Smackdown?

  • SoWhat

    Not a single Fuck was given.

  • http://twitter.com/lordjoesnow joe mount

    make this white column bigger than the red columns either side!! It makes it impossible to view videos on half the screen! Best of luck for 2013 Maffew!