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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
I’m sure this has been talked about before but did they really have a 6 team mini-tournament in order to decide who gets a first round bye in another tournament?
So the team who won the first tournament had to wrestle two matches for the right to wrestle one less match.
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It was pretty convoluted.
If I had to guess AEW probably didn't have enough teams available at the time to do an 8 team tournament and needed a quick storyline excuse for the bye.
Young Bucks and Lucha Bros would have given them 8 but Lucha Bros are not officially signed and also have AAA stuff to take care of. LAX gives them 8 now but at the time it wasn't guaranteed they'd sign with AEW.