| Apr. 17th, 2008 @ 11:53 pm The Rap Sheet - BCW 3/28/2K8 |
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The Rap Sheet – from the Mad Conservative
AWA Brew City Wrestling
3/28/2K8 Waukegan, WI
Long flight north for a weekend of video gaming…
Well, this was the time of year where I made a trip up to Wisconsin for the yearly Midwest Gaming Classic held in Oconomowoc. The event was moved up three months earlier than the previous year so that there would be fewer conflicts with folks booking rooms for weddings and other receptions, plus the nice weather in June usually has people run outside doing outdoor stuff. So late March allowed more people to book rooms and stay the weekend to do the gaming classic. There were a different set of vendors this time around than last year, glaringly missing was Atari Age which always had a big booth with a ton of homebrew games. Strangely not one of the local wrestlers down here who are way into gaming didn’t come up for this despite letting them know about it.
Since I was staying the weekend, decided to attend the wrestling event that was held nearby that Friday evening, which was Brew City Wrestling. I’ve attended one other event of theirs which also happened to be when the MGC was being held. Sometime or another BCW hooked up with the current version of the AWA which WWE is trying to have shut down because they’re supposedly using the name illegally. More on that later. Tickets to this event were pretty pricey at $20 a piece, which nearly matches the low end of WWE ticket prices. I thought it would actually hurt the draw, as I’ve witnessed folks around Springfield were not willing to pay more to see a wrestling show. Around the time when the show was supposed to start I counted about 85 people. For a city like Milwaukee, that’s not a lot of people to me, and lesser shows that I’ve been to have drawn a lot more. Supposedly the Brewers were playing that night, but I have a bit of trouble believing that drew people away. Official attendance including latecomers put a bit higher than that, 115 or so.
Live from the AMF Bowling Center, your ring announcer is someone who’s name I never got, and seems the ceiling appears lower than I recall it being. And people are allowed to smoke indoors! UGH! Illinois had banned indoor smoking and geez, the smoke filled the place forcing me to sit near an exit door where fresh air was coming in. I advise anyone reading this review to look at it from the standpoint of someone going in to see a show for the first time without knowledge of what happened at prior shows or what the running angles are. And that’s what any company has to deal with if they’re trying to lure new fans to watch their show.
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