Interfed Rules and Frequently Asked
questions
We asked member federations follow these rules to ensure that everyone is competing in the same way.
4 Winds Wrestling is for e-Wrestling Federations that have written roleplays as their primary consideration for deteriming results. We prefer Roleplay (RP) and Hybrid-RP-Angle based federations so that everyone is competing on a similar level.
This would be based on a per federation basis. If you determine wins/losses MOSTLY by the submitted roleplays (RPs) for the match, then you're perfect for 4WW.
Yes. We don't allow the following for the federations themselves.
- They need to not be trying to do a online copy of an existing real world federations (WWF, AEW, old school WCW, ECW, etc).
- This means they must be an original federation.
- They must not allow 'Real Wreslters' to be used as characters in their federation.
- This means they need to be only Original Characters (OCs) and not use real wresters. This does not mean that characters can't be 'heavily inspired' by real wrestlers.
- At this time, we are not denying using real wrestler images for your characters. Although we highly encourage federations to use original or AI generated images to not be using someone else's copywritten materials.
We understand that running a federation is daunting, especially if you don't have a full staff. Due to this, we understand that some federations have started to use AI applications for writing their results.
So our take on AI for writing falls into two cases.
Match Results - The 4WW allows federations to use AI for results. However, the 4WW prefers to have matches that are actually written out when it comes to results for 4WW Titles. Contendership matches can be as the federation normally does.
This is a prefernce, but not hard written in stone.
If you don't have a match writer for a 4WW Title match happening on your shows, then we may be able to find a match writer to write the match.
Roleplays (RPs) - Written Roleplay Submissions should be written by the competitors for that match... it is a writing based competition. As such 4WW does NOT allow AI written roleplays to be submitted in competitions for it's titles or contendership for those titles.
Yes! Yes we do. However there are a couple of caveats or rules for a free agent competing for a 4WW Title.
- You must compete for the 4WW title in question ON a 4WW Member Fed's show using their rules for posting the roleplay(s) for the match.
- You must agree to defend that title on other 4WW Member Fed Shows if you were to win it.
- They must be an original character (OC) and not using a character that would be owned by the wrestlers or federations in the real world.
- This does not mean that your character isn't 'heavily inspired' by a real world wrestler. Just means don't use their name, move names, etc... come up with your own.
You don't have to deal with them. Run all of your communication through a 4WW Staff member. We've seen other interfeds fail due to drama between member-fedheads. If you encounter a problem, just let one of us know.
NO NO NO. The only thing that 4WW would have any say in is approving a challenge for a title, and your match writers going based on the decision by the judges to determine the winner. Everything else, we'll communicate with you. But YOUR federation is YOUR federation.
The perfect juding for a 4WW match would have the following involved. We want to start with at least 3 judges with a majority rules type decision making.
- The fedhead of the challenger
- a 4WW Representative
- A neutral party, not involved with anyone in the match.
This means that stablemates, or even others in the fed's of either competitor should not be invovled.
The neutral party could be someone from another federation, or an outside person brought in to read the roleplays.
Please note that the 4WW will make roleplay judging available after the match is over either privatly (to fedheads & competitors) or publicly (posted on the forums on this website) as requested.
Yes, there is a list. No it's not public at this time. As for what happens if you're involved in that situation, then the following is in effect.
Federations - if we decide we don't want to work with a federation, then it just won't be allowed to join the interfed. Members of that federation can come in as free agents. The federation is not allowed to us our intellectual property. That's it.
Handlers - Any characters owned by a handler who is on the list is not allowed to participate in 4WW Sanctioned matches. That's it. The rest of the federation can. We will have a discussion with the federation staff as to who we will not want to work with and why.