With the round-robin tournament beginning tonight, AEW just announced the 12 competitors for the event, that will end at World's End on December 30th.

The 12 men will be divided into two, six man groups.  The Gold League, and the Blue League.

Here's the field.

Gold League

Jon Moxley
Swerve Strickland
Mark Briscoe
Rush
Jay Lethal
Switchblade Jay White


Blue League

Bryan Danielson
Eddie Kingston
Claudio Castagnoli
Brody King
Andrade El Idolo
Daniel Garcia


The rules are that the matches will have 20 minute time limits.  Three points will be awarded for a win, and one point for a draw.  Plus, everyone will be barred from ringside.

And here are the first slate of matches scheduled for tonight, all in the Gold League.

Jon Moxley vs. Mark Briscoe
Swerve Strickland vs. Jay Lethal
Rush vs. Jay White

Oh and also, the fallout from Full Gear.

Guessing at 3 points a win Tony does not plan on doing any meaningful draws.

Some non-CC matches scheduled for tonight...

Orange Cassidy, Hook, & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Daddy Magic, Cool Hand Ang, & Jake Hager

Ruby Soho vs. Skye Blue vs. Anna Jay

Danhausen is teasing that he will appear tonight.

Also announced that Rampage & Collision will air in a 3 hour block on Saturday in direct competition with Survivor Series.

Tony looking to finish 2023 with some tomfoolery. I’m here for it.

I thought Danhausen was fired for bootlegging t-shirts <.<

And what a time for wrestling 7 hours or wrestling for Survivor Series and Punk on none of it.

Any ringside interference not only results in a loss, but a point deduction.

I wonder if we'll get any of that in this tourney?

Nov 23, 2023 1:07:18 GMT CM Punk'd said:

Any ringside interference not only results in a loss, but a point deduction.

I wonder if we'll get any of that in this tourney?

Probably after a ref bump spot or something

Wonder will Lethal get any points in this set. And in under 25 minutes 7 different championships have been shown and one hidden one.

He is not cleared to wrestle then how was he going to defend at the ppv for MJF.

that commercial featuring anthropomorphic pop tarts with a death wish hoping someone would eat them was fairly disturbing

IT'S DANHAUSEN!!!

I guess Jake still likes his hat.

was... was that supposed to be an adam cole heel turn?

Nick Cage and Cageasaurus?

Fusion dance?

Nov 23, 2023 1:27:28 GMT X-zero said:

He is not cleared to wrestle then how was he going to defend at the ppv for MJF.

Tony Khan "MJF is too injured to wrestle tonight. The AEW Championship must be awarded to Jay White."

Adam Cole literally on crutches "I will wrestle in MJF's place!"

Tony Khan "I see nothing wrong with this."

Is nick going to be called "Unpretty Nick Wayne?"

So while this weird ceremony is happening, someone fill me in on what I missed while I was at taekwando. I saw Swerve beat Lethal and I saw Danhausen came back with Hager's hat. I missed the rest.

Nov 23, 2023 2:01:06 GMT RT said:

So while this weird ceremony is happening, someone fill me in on what I missed while I was at taekwando. I saw Swerve beat Lethal and I saw Danhausen came back with Hager's hat. I missed the rest.

"Luchasaurus lost that match for us and you need a new identity, Luchasaurus is a loser name and I don't want to hear it anymore"

also: nick wayne on a pole match?

Nov 23, 2023 2:01:06 GMT RT said:

So while this weird ceremony is happening, someone fill me in on what I missed while I was at taekwando. I saw Swerve beat Lethal and I saw Danhausen came back with Hager's hat. I missed the rest.

Orange/Hook/Shibata won the trios match, and MJF/Joe has been booked for World's End.

Not giving him the name Nick Cage was a miss opportunity.

i have no idea how this logistically would work but since he has abandoned the luchasaurus name for killswitch, he needs a new non-dinosaur mask

Who is the real villain here?

Nov 23, 2023 2:09:14 GMT X-zero said:

Who is the real villain here?

That maniac Adam Copeland conchairto'd a young man in front of his mother and father without hesitation. Christian Cage would never.

Nov 23, 2023 2:13:01 GMT RT said:

Nov 23, 2023 2:09:14 GMT X-zero said:

Who is the real villain here?

That maniac Adam Copeland conchairto'd a young man in front of his mother and father without hesitation. Christian Cage would never.

Good pick but the mother is worse had she shielded Nick. Adam wouldn't have done it.

If Swerve wasn't in this set I would want Rush to win it.

I am hoping this use this to elevate Rush.

I hope Toni's acceptance speech gets cut off by the orchestra for taking too much time.

Nov 23, 2023 2:27:51 GMT CM Punk'd said:

I hope Toni's acceptance speech gets cut off by the orchestra for taking too much time.

somebody called it

The Mox/Briscoe match is probably gonna go less than five minutes, given that there's not much time left.