Race To The Top Tournament

[Viva La Luke]

I was just wondering who is everyones predictions to win.

The tournament is ment to make a new ROH main eventer so i really think Hero should win this it could benefit him greatly.
Strong cases could be made for Richards, Albright and Claudio i wouldn't mind either any off them as well.
A couple of people may want Steen to win it but with he's current feud with the Briscoes i cant see that happening.
I don't wanna see Quack win it even though iam big fan of he's it's just he isn't even a part timer and doesn't really deserve it.

Thoughts?

 

[Famou$ 187]

Whos all in it?

 

[Viva La Luke]

Bracket A
BJ Whitmer vs. Pelle Primeau
Davey Richards vs. Jigsaw

Bracket B
Erick Stevens vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland & Bobby Dempsey
Delirious vs. El Generico

Bracket C
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hallowicked
Matt Sydal vs. Mike Quackenbush

Bracket D:
Jack Evans vs. Kevin Steen
Brent Albright vs. Matt Cross

 

[Famou$ 187]

Bracket A
BJ Whitmer vs. Pelle Primeau
Davey Richards vs. Jigsaw

Bracket B
Erick Stevens vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland & Bobby Dempsey
Delirious vs. El Generico

Bracket C
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hallowicked
Matt Sydal vs. Mike Quackenbush

Bracket D:
Jack Evans vs. Kevin Steen
Brent Albright vs. Matt Cross

Bj Whitmer vs Jigsaw
Chris Hero vs Delirious
Hallowicked vs Matt Sydal
Jack Evans vs Brent Albright

Bj Whitmer vs Delirious
Matt Sydal vs Jack Evans

Matt Sydal vs Delirious

Thats how i see how the tournament is gonna turn out.
I would love to c Sydal win.

What you think?

 

[FlamesofFury]

I'm hoping Richards wins. Sydal would be cool to see as a main eventer but I would rather see Hero or Richards as a main eventer rather than Sydal. But here are my predictions:

Bracket A
BJ Whitmer vs. Pelle Primeau
Davey Richards vs. Jigsaw

Bracket B
Erick Stevens vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland & Bobby Dempsey
Delirious vs. El Generico

Bracket C
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hallowicked
Matt Sydal vs. Mike Quackenbush

Bracket D:
Jack Evans vs. Kevin Steen
Brent Albright vs. Matt Cross
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[Soulpower]

My money is on Hero to win it all, but it wouldn't surprise me to see Quackenbush win it and become more of a full-time member of the roster.

BJ Whitmer vs. Pelle Primeau (But wouldn't it be funny if Pelle won?)
Davey Richards vs. Jigsaw

Bracket B
Erick Stevens vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland & Bobby Dempsey
Delirious vs. El Generico (This will be a fun match)

Bracket C
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hallowicked
Matt Sydal vs. Mike Quackenbush

Bracket D:
Jack Evans vs. Kevin Steen
Brent Albright vs. Matt Cross

 

[Fatal 55]

Brent Albright all the way... he's got all the skills, great gimmick...

Along with the chance that he wins the NWA title he could become ROH's next big thing

 

[Montana]

Its kinda of a toss up with the strong candidates you mentioned. I would think Its between Hero and Albright.

 

[Viva La Luke]

Thats how i see how the tournament is gonna turn out.
I would love to c Sydal win.

Theres a lot of talk about Sydal leaving and going to WWE and if this is true i don't really want him to win as it would just be a waist of a push.

 

[Cynic Clinic]

Bracket A- Davey Richards
BJ Whitmer vs. Pelle Primeau (It's obvious. BJ's on a huge storyline losing streak and this will be his rock bottom)
Davey Richards vs. Jigsaw - Breezes into the Semi-Finals.

Bracket B- Delirious
Erick Stevens vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland & Bobby Dempsey
Delirious vs. El Generico

Bracket C- Matt Sydal
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hallowicked
Matt Sydal vs. Mike Quackenbush

Bracket D- Brent Albright
Jack Evans vs. Kevin Steen
Brent Albright vs. Matt Cross

Delirious and Sydal could meet in the semi's or the finals, but I don't think they'll win the tournament, so it'll be in the semi's. Brent Albright seems like they want him up and now's the time so we could see a new World Champion at Death Before Dishonor 5 Night 2.

 

[Viva La Luke]

Well Claudio Castangnoli won what are your guys thoughts on that?
I don't really mind it although i would have prefered either Hero or Albright over him.
It was a big surprise to me actually to see El Generico make it to the finals especially knocking off hero in the second round.

Here are the results for the RTTT Night 2.

RTTT Second Round Match
El Generico d. Chris Hero at 10:48.

RTTT Second Round Match
Davey Richards d. Pelle Primeau in 4:24.

RTTT Second Round Match
Jack Evans d. Brent Albright in 9:44. Albright's foot was on the rope but the ref didn't notice.

RTTT Second Round Match
Claudio Castagnoli d. Mike Quackenbush in 12:27.

RTTT Semi Final
El Generico d. Davey Richards with a turnbuckle brainbuster to move on to the finals.

RTTT Semi Final
Claudio Castagnoli d. Jack Evans in 9:09 to move on to face El Generico in the finals.

RTTT Final
12. Claudio Castagnoli d. El Generico in 18:47 to win the Race to the Top Tournament.

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Other matches

Danielson and McGuiness draft teams.
Team Dragon: AmDrag, Matt Sydal, Austin Aries and Mark Briscoe
Team Nigel: Nigel, Roderick Strong, Delirious and Jay Briscoe.

Team Dragon vs Team Nigel for $10,000. It is NOT an elimination match.
Team Dragon wins when Aries pins Nigel after a 450 splash in 20:39. It was 3 on 1 for a while as the Briscoes teamed up to beat everyone up then left and teammates Delirious and Strong then brawled to the back leaving Nigel on his own.

Daizee Haze d. Sara Del Rey, Alicia and Portia Perez when she pinned Portia.

Gran Akuma, Mitch Franklin and Ernie Osiris d. Rhett Titus, Alex Payne and Shane Hagadorn.

Erick Stevens d. Kevin Steen, Jigsaw, Hallowicked, Matt Cross and BJ Whitmer in 10:58 when he pinned Jigsaw.

 

[Montana]

I was pretty shocked to see Claudio win it. There was so many big names in the tournament, no one really expected Claudio to win it. El Generico too. I would have perfered Hero/Claudio though in the finals.

Nigel selecting strong and Delirous on his team wasnt too smart either, but i like that concept.

 

[Soulpower]

I'm surprised Claudio won it, because he's already getting a title shot in a couple of weeks, so its not like winning the Race to The Top would elevate him to the ME scene... But at the same time, maybe they wanted to build up Claudio as a threat to Morishima's title.

But the cool thing is this, El Generico and Castgnoli headlined an ROH show... Who the would hell would have ever expected that?