It's solo only, although the friend should be able to join as your opponent. Unfortunately the way game code is set up, I don't think it can support teams AND countdown modes without breaking

hey, are you able to play this mode with a tag team/handicap or is it solo only? would really like to play this one with a friend

In game options -> Cast you can set it up to 50, also you can use this mod to increase that limit even further https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3100696744

how do you get a bigger match (i.e more wrestlers?)

But if you want to modify the match rules, I added a mod config option that enables the locked match rules.

The next on my mind is a some kind of roguelite mode, where the goal is to defeat every character on the roster through randomly generated matches, but I guess after that I could try experimenting with a tournament mod.

I decided against surprise entrants option, because I added the seed option instead which should let you have fight the same characters as long as you also pick the same player wrestler.

Tournament mode next? I've always thought it's what Wrestling Empire is truly missing.

essentially how it works is if you spawn in 5 characters, itll be a 10 man match with the other 5 being random, nonrepeating ones

Honestly I haven't thought about that, I might have to investigate it

dude this is fucking wild 😭 i ALWAYS set up matches like this and you turned it into its own gamemode?!

i dont know how it works as i 1. havent played it yet and 2. dont know how it was made behind the scenes but if you want more enemies have you considered the surprise entrants option? it essentially doubles the character count