Allied Home Video Archives

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This page contains archives of past AWI events; the contents are periodically updated (or, more often, backdated, as older cards are located, edited, and processed), and listed here in reverse chronological order.

Reading AWI Cards

The following information applies only to AWI cards published after January 1st, 1998. Prior to this, different administrations were in place, using less standardized formats.

AWI cards are in plain (ASCII) text format; as some ASCII artwork is used (mostly in the opening montages), viewing these cards in a monotype font is recommended. Some special notation is used in writing AWI card transcripts:
AWI Mission Control
Archives
Bulletin Board
News
Player List
Title Lineages
Top 10s
Who's Who
Who's Been

Camera Work

Essentially speaking, a card consists of two forms of text -- that representing the "video feed" (what you would be seeing on your TV screen) and the "audio feed" (dialogue, voiceover, music, etc.). The former is primarily indicated by text within (curly) braces, for example:

{Kyle Esprit taps Frederick Holland on the shoulder; Holland
turns around, and Kyle nails him with the 9-iron.}

AWI cards typically make use of two forms of camera cut. The first is a "short range" cut, used to redirect the camera's attention to a different area of the same locale. For example, the ring interior, the ringside area, the aisle & entrance, the interview platforms, and the announcer's booth or table are all considered parts of the same locale, despite not (usually) fitting in one camera shot. This form of camera cut is noted by placing location labels between pairs of inverted angle brackets, as such:

>>RINGSIDE<<

The second kind of camera cut is a "long range" cut, used to mark complete changes in locale -- such as from the arena to the locker rooms or street outside, or to just about any pre-recorded segment. This is indicated by a horizontal rule:

=======================================================

Occasionally, captions or other simple video effects will be called for. The notation

<CAPTION>:     AWI Line of Fire

would indicate that "AWI Line of Fire" be superimposed as a caption on the current camera image.

Sound Engineering

When someone visible on camera is speaking, a label consisting of their name surrounded in (square) brackets is printed; paragraphs beneath this, otherwise unmarked, represent their speech. For example:

[Rod Allen]
Ladies and gentlemen, speaking on behalf of Allied Wrestling
International, let me welcome you to tonight's show!

A speaker who is not visible on camera (i.e. is doing a voiceover) is indicated by indenting both the label and the text:

        [Justin Escobar]: The big man picks up poor Digger
        Douglas -- and POWERS him down! WHAT A MANEUVER!!!

The Video Shelf

2 0 0 0

Line of Fire 2000 (2-6-00)

Line of Fire 2000 (1-29-00)

1 9 9 8

Danse Overture Special (10-30-98)

Line of Fire #7 (10-23-98)

Line of Fire #6 (10-16-98)

Line of Fire #5 (10-9-98)

Line of Fire #4 (9-26-98)

Line of Fire #3 (8-15-98)

Line of Fire #2 (8-1-98)

Line of Fire #1 (7-17-98)

International Incident PPV (3-16-98)

AWI Explosion (3-3-98)

AWI Mission Control (2-27-98)

AWI Explosion (2-17-98)

AWI Explosion (2-6-98)

AWI Armageddon (2-5-98)

AWI Mission Control (2-4-98)

AWI Explosion (1-22-98)

AWI Armageddon (1-15-98)

1 9 9 7

AWI Armageddon (10-22-97)

AWI Armageddon (8-14-97)

AWI Explosion (7-28-97)

AWI Armageddon (7-23-97)

AWI Armageddon (7-11-97)

Spring Stampede '97

AWI Video Magazine (5-11-97)

AWI Explosion (4-21-97)

AWI Explosion (2-16-97)

AWI Explosion (1-13-97)