[jawbreaker]

Originally Posted by MF83

No offense to guys like smitlick but simple "x vs x - *" with no reasoning posts are just useless in my opinion. Even the shortest blurb to go along with it helps us get a sense of relativity and understanding of why you feel a match is as good or bad as it is.

I don't mind what smitlick does generally because he's good about giving explanations when asked and having been around here long enough I know his tastes well enough to know what to expect from a match based on what star rating he gave it and he rates so many matches that I'd never be able to sit through that I won't begrudge him just posting star ratings and such (particularly in the DVD thread), but yeah when you're coming into the MOTYC thread it is always always always better to have some words about a match.

even if it's just "thought x dragged on too long, and I didn't care for y, though z was a lot of fun" that's immensely preferable to "***1/4" imo

[Zatiel]

Originally Posted by Russian Hooligan

El Generico vs Kota Ibushi (DDT Special 2012) ****-****1/4

This was my favorite match the two have had against each other yet. Ibushi's big DDT was sick as hell. Several counters that harkened back to past encounters, being ready for each other's big stuff, or finding cleverer ways to get it in. In the last third, Ibushi also looked more upset and invested than I can ever remember him being in a match before, way ahead of his Hino and Ki matches. It wasn't just a gutcheck, but like he was really shaken up and feeling it.

[smitlick]

Originally Posted by MF83

No offense to guys like smitlick but simple "x vs x - *" with no reasoning posts are just useless in my opinion. Even the shortest blurb to go along with it helps us get a sense of relativity and understanding of why you feel a match is as good or bad as it is.

I personally don't have the time to write long winded reviews for every show I watch. I can provide feedback to anything if asked but I really struggle to find the time to watch them let alone write essays on why this weeks Greg Excellent match was bad or how many times Ruckus botched moves...

Originally Posted by jawbreaker

I don't mind what smitlick does generally because he's good about giving explanations when asked and having been around here long enough I know his tastes well enough to know what to expect from a match based on what star rating he gave it and he rates so many matches that I'd never be able to sit through that I won't begrudge him just posting star ratings and such (particularly in the DVD thread), but yeah when you're coming into the MOTYC thread it is always always always better to have some words about a match.

even if it's just "thought x dragged on too long, and I didn't care for y, though z was a lot of fun" that's immensely preferable to "***1/4" imo

This too... I often find that unless its actually something from some of the longer time posters here like Seabs/You/Kingcrash etc I usually skip through explanations unless theres something completely different about the rating compared to other times I've seen the match reviewed.

[Russian Hooligan]

Tetsuya Naito vs Kazuchika Okada (NJPW G1 Climax Day 2) ****1/4

[Bubz]

Russian Hooligan...WF's first Koslov mark?

[Rah]

Originally Posted by Bubz

Russian Hooligan...Koslov's first mark?

FTFY

[Violent By Design]

Hey, where do the older MOTYC threads go?

[Groovemachine]

They're un-stickied, so they'll just be floating around in previous pages of the Other Wrestling threads.

[bigbuxxx]

2011's is linked in the first post of this thread and 2010 first post of last years thread.

[Seabs]

They got mass archived. I've moved them back no so just go to the first post of each one and you can get back to 2008.