As a preface, Im sorry I wasnt able to show up for last class, but the general notes and the pictures I could make NO sense of, but I worked on one more version of the story. 

Tia’s father is a great wrestler, and she looks up to him. He’s been the reigning champ for as long as she can remember and he always boasts about how well he does alone and is too good to accept help. She emulates him where she can, such as picking fights at school. She wants to be just like her father and be the best the same way he is.

Being the champ, her father is challenged often and Tia watches her father taken down challenger after challenger over the years. A new challenger has a team alongside him. Tia’s father, being prideful, accepts the challenge, believing he’s good enough to take on a team. He’s done so before and he can do it again. This time though, he’s surprisingly defeated and this team and their leader, El terrible, take the title as champ. 

Tia’s father, and her entire family are disgraced as a result of the loss, and her father returns to their home, out in the country. He’s a lot less prideful as he was and is essentially a broken man. Tia, who is equally bullheaded as her father wants to reclaim her families honor, but she also wants to be the champ herself. She wants to take on this new champ and reclaim all that they’ve lost. 

Her father is beyond sure though, that she can’t do it. She’s learned wrestling from hi her entire life, and if terrible defeated him, he can beat her. Tia concedes this and, angrily, does not venture out to take on terrible and his team. By the end of this conversation, she was willing to let their families honor go, but a commercial comes on broadcasting terrible challenge. A tournament to take his place, he’s so proud of his team (and mostly himself) that he’ll take all comers. It’s a team competition and by that fact alone Tia is barred.

This infuriates her and she decides that she in fact cannot let this loss stand, and she MUST compete. She pulls together a team of fellow wrestlers. She doesn’t hold them in the highest regard, but there aren’t many wrestlers near her home. Only fans. The team she pulls together consists of a nerdy kid, Flaco, His brother, and a girl that she used to beat up as kids, Lupe. (the girl from the storyboards.) Flaco and pequeño have both been fans of Tia from day one, and learned wrestling because of that. (flaco is the autograph kid)

Her father actually sees this team as an opportunity for tia, as while he was defeated, he was alone. Maybe team along side a skilled team can take the title. He and Tia puts the team through a crash course to advance their skills. There is a butting of heads (mostly a result of Tia’s bullying past) but they do learn each others strengths and weaknesses and reluctantly, learn how to cover for each other. Even if they don’t quite like each other.. 

They travel into town and enter the competition and, through their combined skills they’re able to start to grow a relationship but Tia and Lupe still have many problems with each other despite being the teams best wrestlers. The first match they breeze through, as they can all compete. Theres a day  between each match and they all go out to eat, all bragging about their win and give reluctant compliments. Flack and pequeño are more enthusiastic than the girls in their praises. Tia notices that Lupe used many moves that tia used to use on her and feels a twinge of guilt but its dashed. She basically gave Lupe her win.

The second match is difficult, as it’s a tag team match and flaco and his brother team up immediately. This leaves tia and lupe to work together and it’s in this match that they really bond, because they have to seriously depend on each other. In the break between the second and third matches Flaco and P go out for food again but Tia and Lupe stay back to nurse their wounds. Lupe tries to extend an olive branch and thanks Tia for  something specific during their fight and Tia gives her pointers, now that she knows that she’s using mostly her own moves.

The third match they’re able to breeze through now that they get along. This fight is almost like a game to tea’s team. They’ve got all their kinks worked out and they’re able to not only support each other but bolsters each others skills.

Now it’s Tia's team vs el terrible’s team. In this match it’s clear that terrible ’s team is made of all very skilled wrestlers, but they don’t cooperate well. They continuously fight and they’re not organized, and so at times they disrupt each other or generally mess up the teams flow. They won the title through brute force alone, but now facing off against another team of skilled wrestlers and they’re challenged.

There’s multiple attempts by Terrible’s team to divide and conquer Tia’s team but they’ve all learned each other’s strengths and weaknesses and as a result they’re able to lock these attempts. The fight is hard but eventually the scales are tipped in tia’s favor however because her team functions as a unit and together, they’re able to separate as a strategy and hold off attention from Tia and Lupe so they can perform an ultimate move. A dive bomb so powerful that it destroys the stage and wins them the match, and the title.

and then tia and lupe smooch.


Cast list

1. Tia  Diego
2. Tia's Father Bill
3. Tia's Mother David
4. El Terriblé
5. Lupe  Diego
6. Lupe's Sister David
7. Flaco Diego
8. Pequenño  Diego         
9. New Wave
10. Ninja
11. Glam
12. Hip Hop
13. Round One team Jade
14. Round One team Jade
15. Round One team Jade
16. Round One team Jade
17. Round Two Team Elizabeth
18. Round Two Team Elizabeth
19. Round Two Team Elizabeth
20. Round Two Team Elizabeth
21. Round Three Team Deangelo
22. Round Three Team Deangelo
23. Round Three Team Deangelo
24. Round Three Team Deangelo
25. Ref Paul
26. Ref Paul
27. Announcer Bill
28. Announcer Bill
29. Announcer Kid Paul
30. Announcer Kid Paul