>>16862377Like who cares, let people skip the preliminaries if they really don't want to see new matchups.
Are they going to cancel their sloppa subscriptions right before the big top 16 ultimate ass blaster tournament because the starting matches involved jobbers? I don't fucking think so.
And the writers are TERRIFIED of letting all their talent condense into one big blowout because it creates more definitive tierlists and lets people say "well no my guy is the best you're wrong to support flippy shitter because he lost to big lunk in the top four".
Why?
Kayfabe is dead and wrestlers are crying on Twitter exposing the biz daily, talking about if someone is "in shape for a title push" or "performing at the top level" or "enough of a draw" IS the new mark draw.
Tournaments are great for that. Have a huge one every three years. If you need a "big match" for the prelim shows to keep people who are buying tickets happy, have a women's title challenge at each show full of prelims, or a lightweight flippy midget division championship, or whatever you need to do.
And you can make it work by having the womeme championships offset by half a year from the men's so there's always some big hype.
Everything being 90% hypebeast buildup 10% fake fighting buildup is fucking lame and gay.
It's a problem that transcends wrestling, no one can be sincere anymore.
Take another example, non western, non wrestling:
There's a DLC for this game called Sleeping Dogs which is like a Kung Fu cop version of GTA 5, sort of.
The DLC is the Zodiac Tournament and it's all about the styles of martial arts and themed like old Kung Fu movies. So you get there, do a couple of free-for-all fights and like one actual duel with special mechanics vs a Muhammad Ali stand-in, then get poisoned by a femme fatale and have final gimmick fight under a spiked crushing ceiling. Great reference to cheesy tropes but WHERE THE ACTUAL KUNG FU DUELS, SQUARE ENIX
Writers are "too smart" to put the meat in the meal
