Trivia / Video Game Championship Wrestling

• Ascended Fanon:
  • Random comments on the Wiki or the Chat become canon if Bazza/TOH and/or the rest of the community decide to treat it as such.
  • Although ARENA had no actual plot, fans made their own stables and promos, leading to many rivalries that eventually found their way onto the show. Additionally, it wasn't uncommon for CAWs that debuted on ARENA to show up on EDBW eventually.
• Colbert Bump:
  • The Giant Bomb hosts are big fans of the series, and an interview with Bazza gave End Game 7 a very noticeable bump, with the stream hovering in the 3,000-3,500 viewers range for most of the night.
    • This actually happened once before: an article on VGCW, also on Giant Bomb, gave the famous rematch of 32-5 the highest viewer count in VGCW's history, with over 4,000 viewers.
  • The Super Best Friends Zaibatsu gave VGCW a shout-out on social media and their podcast after they got note that Zubaz took part in the Star Road 2 Tournament and won.
  • A large social media push on various websites for End Game X saw the viewer count reach nearly 5000 viewers for the final episode of the "Bazza Era".
• Creator Backlash: Bazza says that Season 8 is his least favorite season, saying that he 'got sick of doing it' barely halfway through.
• Creator Breakdown: In Season 4, as the result of huge backlash. Charles Barkley, after a rapid rise from jobber to multiple-time VGCW champion due to a glitch^note The Glitch Knee, in which as a joke, Barkley's CAW was redone to purposely have a weak leg to mirror the real life knee injury that ended Barkley's NBA career. Unfortunately, this led to WWE '13's AI constantly targeting the leg, which was more or less a waste of offense in WWE '13 as its programming made submission moves virtually impossible unless the submission was set as a finisher, ergo Barkley would get in more effective offense and win by attrition; a Royal Rumble win would serve as the catalyst for this to launch Barkley into the highest VGCW ranks., plot circumstances would vacate the title, which would set up a tournament to decide a new champion. The audience was hoping that they'd get a champion other than Barkley in the King of the Ring tournament to decide said new champion after Vegeta's Heroic Sacrifice. When Barkley did in fact get his title back, the fans rioted. It got so bad that Bazza put his foot down and threatened to cancel VGCW entirely. He eventually settled for finishing Season 4 and then taking a month-long break before Season 5. Fortunately, the fans seem to have learned and there have been no such incidents since, despite some unpopular results like Illidan winning Star Road.
• Defictionalization: The creators of Octodad (the game) are apparently fans of the show and included a poster in Octodad: Dadliest Catch displaying the VGCW logo and mentioning tryouts at the bottom (though the poster has VG stand for Virtuous Gentlemen). In other words, the entire show is canon in the Octodad universe.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The "Pre-Archive" era, natch.
  • As the years have passed, various clips and videos of the series that were on YouTube have since gone missing, whether it's due to channels going offline or the videos being deleted or taken down.
  • One particular fan YouTube channel was one run by a small group of VGCW fans who watched the show and gave their real-time commentary that they recorded during the live streams. However, they weren't particularly well-liked by the VGCW fandom at large, or by Bazza and the official VGCW keepers (to the point that they refused to link to their videos on the official Google Doc), and their behavior and attitude got steadily worse as time went on. This came to a head when their leader, who got sick of fans pestering him to cover WVGCW, which he was not interested in doing at all, uploaded a video showing him watching a short clip of the match between the male Bryn and Dr. Gero, mocking the division and its fans and—since he didn't know/care about the whole context behind the match in question—questioning why two men were fighting in a women's wrestling division. Needless to say, he and his group lost whatever remaining support they had left in the VGCW community, and they got sick of VGCW themselves, to the point that they stopped uploading videos and later shut down their channel, taking all their videos down with it.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: Fans used to submit character suggestions on the wiki. As of July 2013, twenty suggestions (nine male, eleven female) have made their debut. Unfortunately, they had to stop accepting suggestions and will now only accept CAW submissions on the forums.
  • In addition, all title sequences for the show were made and submitted by fans.
• Real Song Theme Tune:
  • VGCW, WVGCW, & EDBW's main themes come from WWE material: The Jim Johnston/Kromestatik version of Outasight's "Tonight" (which remained the WWE Raw theme until July 2016) for VGCW, CFO$'s "Take a Chance" for WVGCW (the WWE SmackDown theme since 2016) and "Roar of the Crowd" for EDBW, which is still the theme of WWE NXT.
    • Prior to the 2K17 era of WVGCW (season 10), the show used A.J. Lee's entrance theme "Right Now" as their main theme, a song that had not only long outlasted Lee's career in WWE, but Lee herself stopped using that song in 2011, before VGCW even existed.
  • The themes for some wrestlers also fall into this category, most notably "The Safety Dance" for Adam Jensen prior to Season 11, and John Cena's "Bad Bad Man" for Vegeta.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Wreck-It-Ralph ended up getting fired from VGCW because Disney was constantly taking down streams that featured his entrance music.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: More or less the primary appeal for the series. Bazza/TOH and BRYN often have to write new plots based on how the matches play out—or rather, how they glitch out. The entire plot was basically kicked off by Artificial Stupidity involving a Money in the Bank match. Eventually averted as a result of the shows becoming more pre-recorded: while the switch was done to improve production values in plot and intermission segments, it also gives the creative team more control over the plot-heavy wrestling matches and the ability to infuse the wrestlers' video game characteristics into the shows.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Bazza wanted Pokey Minch from Mother to appear at some point, but it never worked out.
  • It was also mentioned in the fun facts that Lee Everett and Seifer Almasy were planned to join up. Seifer did eventually show up in Season 6 along with the rest of the Disciplinary Committee: Lee, on the other hand, never did.
  • He had a tag-team storyline planned for Kefka and Donkey Kong at one point.
  • Bryn originally planned to hire Misty, Nina Williams & Juliet Starling, but never did due to the CAWs being of a lower quality.
  • Bazza stated that Kanji Tatsumi got into VGCW only after he couldn't download Sho Minamimoto or an updated version of Raijin from 2K14's servers. However, Raijin & Sho both later made their VGCW debuts the following season.
• Word of God: Bazza and co. occasionally will throw in some comments or background information on the show, which of course then end up on the Wiki.

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