End of CWE

End of CWE is regarded as the official closure of the E-Fed in 2005. What is covered here is the real life reason for closure as well as the storyline reason for CWE closure.

Storyline Reason For Closure

Near the end of 2005, Alexander Arcane went insane after being haunted by the spirit of Darkspade. After literately provoking Darkspade to showup- even visiting Darkspade's surrounding neighborhood and manor- Alexander Arcane was treated to a host of bizarre happenings.

Finally, on the first and last BWA Halloween Terror event- Darkspade returned which shocked the world and it appeared as though Spade was vamped with extraordinary powers! Alexander Arcane however, snuck into the elimination match and won the event when a truck smashed into the ring and made DNA, Gojinn and Darkspade get eliminated.

With Alexander Arcane CWE Undisputed Champion, the world would never be the same. Alex abused his right as champion and promoter and proclaimed himself champion for all time. Because of this, Alexander broke the pact that was made with Kizmat.

Then on the last CWE is MAD, on December 5th 2005, Gojinn won the right to face Alexander for the title- but Alexander officially declared that Gojinn will never have a shot. Kizmat came out and broke the pact officially- Alexander's title disappeared and then the lights cut off. Alexander, Kizmat and the CWE Undisputed belt disappeared into folklore. This was the official storyline ending of the CWE.

Real Life Reason For Closure

For nearly 5 years worth of producing amazing events and facilitating an e-fed that captured the minds of many great players and created concepts that are being used by other e-feds to this very day- why and how did CWE end in 2005? The e-fed suffered from several problems:

• 1. To be able to do anything on the e-fed, the player had to be advanced from the start. Most of the roster members were veterans and new players, which are critical to the lifespan of an e-fed, couldn't get into the gameplay.

• 2. Certain officials went over the line with pushing their point of views and their beliefs on how the e-fed should be ran. For many years the CWE Owner was able to direct the e-fed both systematically and in-story. But after being overwhelmed with everybody becoming veterans, they all wanted this or that to be done with no regards to the way the game play was already established.

• 3. There was a strained trust between the CW Owner and the CWF District Promoter. Originally, the CW Owner wanted to push the idea of using columns to help tell the story of the e-fed and to combat some of the bad tabloid created from another e-fed directed toward the CWE.

To combat the slander from the other e-fed, the CW Owner created a news force (called: CreaturePost) which consisted of: Promoter's Corner, Crumpets and Controversy and Viper's Pit. At first, the authors did not want to write because of time reasons- but in the end The Pit took over the project. Crumpets and Controversy & The Pit were original works by the authors- however, the Promoter was to maintain the status of 'Editor in Chief' so that the columns did not stir on the wrong track. The columns were suppose to be fair for everybody and not to control how one gets pushed.

In addition, the CW owner had personal feelings towards an e-fed that mimicked the CWF e-fed at that time- and he didn't enforce anything said directed towards that e-fed because the CWE E-Fed was defending itself from the slander from the other e-fed. CWE had a right to defend itself which was why that was allowed. Overtime, however, bad blood between the e-feds disappeared but the Pit was left unchecked.

The CW Owner started to not trust the author of the Pit because of the unusual connections between one particular player and the pushes that was done in the columns. Also when the roster wasn't finishing matches or not participating to the columnist's standards- the columnist would start ranting out the roster. Furthermore, no matter what the promoter did or tried to do for his own characters- they were not even summarized in The Pit.

Many other players were also not covered even if they did in fact do work in the e-fed. The reason for them not being covered, even in a summary, was because the author wanted to assume complete creative control over the column and to choose whoever the columnist felt should be covered. Though it is logical to say that the author should choose who to cover- the columnist played favorites and largely poured all of her energy into a select few.

This conflicted with the e-fed's goals to be fair to everybody no matter what. The column became too personal and even too powerful literately controlling the game- after several attempts to bring this to light and address the situation with warnings- the columnist quit when the promoter wanted guidelines to be written out so that even though the columnist could still express freely as an artist- the guidelines would have eliminated the issues with more professionalism in how they are handled.

Some feel that the columnist used this as a scapegoat to help rip the CWE a part and to blame everything on the E-fed Promoter. Ironically, since the issue of creative rights was the motive behind the mass breakup- an e-fed was made secretly months before the CWE was forced to be closed for little use. The e-fed made mirrored nearly- if not all- of the mechanics of the CWE and even styling of the board; and copy+pasted words right off of the CWE E-Fed site (such as the official CW Hall of Fame inductions). Apparently, creative rights goes to those that think they are in the right and not to anybody else.

• 4. Issues with Godmoding also caused the end of the CWE because players became extremely sensitive to their own works and wanted to be the best. People began to cry "godmode" even if a match had no godmodding in it- confusing Darkweight matches as godmode matches because the players used a lot of fictional moves to play with. A lot of sensitive issues came about and it felt that a godmode witchhunt spread rampaid in the e-fed. Finally, the Promoter tried to establish a rule called: Energy Rings that would regulate the usage of magic and special moves- but a lot of players got offensive about a rule that restricted their writing and shunned the rule and the Promoter.

• 5. "Real life" reasons was said to be the reason for players leaving the e-fed. However, though there were some players that really did leave because of schooling and real life, many of them used this as an excuse to go off to another e-fed controlled by the ex-columnist of The Pit.

To this day some people blame the Promoter for closing the e-fed down and all of the problems the e-fed had. However, most if not all of the problems the e-fed faced was because of the issues outlined. The big reason why people left was because they choose sides. The Promoter didn't know about another e-fed being created using CWE system until 5 months after the CWE ended. Nobody contacted, emailed or made an effort to talk to the promoter to hear his side of the story. The CW game came back as a result of the promoter wanting to write again and to honor CWE.

Even despite all the wrongs did to the CWE, the promoter of CW wanted to have a friendship with the e-fed that was created and a co-operation years later was talked about between the two e-fed heads but was pulled at the last minute after people refused to bury their hatchets.