EVOLVE releases tournament information

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EVOLVE will crown its first champion on April 5th at WrestleCon at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ. We will now release the first significant information on the tournament:

Format:
-The EVOLVE Title Tourney will closely follow the NFL conference playoff format.
-This means the 1st and 2nd seeds will get byes.
-There will be two wildcard matches with the winners facing the 1st & 2nd seeds in the semi-finals.
-The winners of those two matches will fight in the finals to determine the first champion.
-It is possible that the lower seeded wildcard match will be a Freestyle, which would make getting a higher seed even more important.

Eligibility & Seeding:
-The seeding will be determined by a combination of Record and winning % with the EVOLVE Leaderboard used in tiebreaker situations. We understand there will not be a perfect system, and any issues will be resolved on the Dragon Gate USA events in California.
-A wrestler must have competed on no fewer than six (33% of total) EVOLVE cards to be eligible. This is to insure that the competitor has at least been a semi-regular over a span of time in EVOLVE.
-An exception to the 33% rule is the possibility of sending out an international invitation to the tournament.

We will have much more on the tournament in the upcoming weeks. This card has a special 4 p.m. start time and is at a great, centralized location. There will also be several non-tournament bouts on the card.

(Source: WWNLive alerts)

 

[Bort]

Only 6 wrestlers in the tournament? Sounds solid, though. Hopefully Sami takes it.

 

[Stopspot]

Agreed. Sami should take this. He'd work well as the face of Evolve. Taylor would also work but I am not sure if I'd like him as champion with his current jokester gimmick.

 

[Bort]

Sami said in his promo after the Gargano loss that "Evolve Title is the last resort", so that tells me he may take it.

 

[Stopspot]

Now that you mention it I remember that. That makes Callihan pretty likely. Who else do you think might take a spot? AR Fox seems likely considering his win/loss record.

 

[Bort]

I'd normally say Davis, but crowds don't care about him, and I think Gabe realizes that.

 

[Stopspot]

I'd normally say Davis, but crowds don't care about him, and I think Gabe realizes that.

Yeah which is sad considering the monster push he had this year. One would think he'd be able to connect with the crowd with a push like that but he is such a charisma vacuum.

I think Taylor will be in the tournament, Generico and or Del Sol are also likely in my eyes, as well as Ricochet.