cero2k wrote:
Tag Team Division - Just like Red said, nothing comes close to the ROH tag division, it does feel really clustered sometimes, but I love how almost everyone feels like a strong team. What the hell are they waiting to do a tag team tournament. Maybe instead of SOTF?
Not instead of SOTF. SOTF is too big a deal to replace with something like this. What they should do with SOTF if move it back to one night and run it as an iPPV.
But a tag team tournament would be a really good idea, though. They haven't done Tag Wars in a while. If they do it as four qualifies and then an elimination match to set up a #1 contender, they've already got:
MCMG
Addiction
Briscoes (or War Machine)
ACH/Sydal
Bucks
ANX
RPG Vice
reDRagon
Or, if you want to be even more ambitious, a full-on return on of the Race to the Top Tournament:
MCMG
Addiction
Briscoes
ACH/Sydal
Bucks
ANX
RPG Vice
reDRagon
Silas/Bruiser
Bob/Hughes
HOT (Lethal/Daddiego)
Cedric Alexander/someone who he pays to team with him (Roddy?)
Whitmer/Colby
That's already fourteen, and then you could throw in Moose/Cheeseburger as one team and see if you can get Liger-Mask in from New Japan (maybe you do this during the G1).
Tag Wars would be a great way to fill up a weekend. A Race to the Top Tournament would need to happen over a triple-shot, IMO (they have one coming up in early June, but that's right towards the end of BOSJ so they'd probably lose reDRagon, RPG Vice, the Bucks, and Sydal, plus the ability to use Liger-Mask so they'd have to do a different triple-shot) just because so many tag matches would make it feel way too repetitive for two nights. The first night will by necessity have to be eight first-round tag matches and that will be what it will be, but I think the second night would really suffer if you had to squeeze three rounds into it (that's seven matches) plus you'd have to do something with everyone who was eliminated night one plus the guys who weren't in the tournament in the first place.
Best way to do it would be like this:
Night 1- eight first-round matches, plus a six-way between guys who aren't in the tournament (Cole, Page, Rush, Cabana, Castle, Dijak?) with the winner getting a title shot on the next weekend IF he wins doesn't get pinned the rest of weekend.
Night 2- Second-round matches, fallout from night 1
Night 3- semifinals and finals plus other fallout from night 2
(The fallout could be stuff like someone getting a TV Title shot for pinning the champ, matches resulting from people screwing each other on finishes, or even a gimmick like "if there is a team that loses all three of their matches in one weekend, they are out of ROH forever")