Who likes Survivor Series?

[saintpat]

It is my least favorite PPV every year.

The entire format is unappealing to me. WWE makes up random teams and they have a match that pretty much never amounts to anything. The teams don't stay together, the interactions of guys who don't get along being on the same team is always predictable and rarely, if ever, advances a storyline in a way that couldn't have happened some other way.

I think there may have been a time when this kind of contrived team thing was more unusual and entertaining, but it seems to me just an extension of the throw-together-a-team tag or six-man matches that end Raw more often than not.

Am I alone in this view or are there people that look forward to this every year?

[BigWill]

I feel the exact same way.

[lewis1711]

You know what would make it cooler?

MORE STABLES.

I thought it was pretty cool for that reason in 1997 (yes other matches actually happened in SS 1997).

[acidgod]

It used to be a lot of fun back in the early 90s. It was built a lot better back then too. Sure, teams were thrown together based on individual feuds and still are, but with the backstage promos, sometimes seeing a heel team take out a member of the face team before the event, things like that made you feel like these really were guys working together as functioning teams for one night. Now it just feels like thrown together feuds with very little invested in making these teams memorable.

[Knailsic From Now On]

Survivor Series has always been my favorite pay per view I always liked seeing who'd be teamed together in the traditional tag match.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Maybe they should try to invent a new November concept PPV. How about they have three rings, with twenty wrestlers in each ring, sixty wrestlers all in all, and in every ring a Battle Royal is happening.

[YiHammer]

Oct 29, 2012 2:06:39 GMT -5 Non Banjoble Tokens said:

Maybe they should try to invent a new November concept PPV. How about they have three rings, with twenty wrestlers in each ring, sixty wrestlers all in all, and in every ring a Battle Royal is happening.

Would never work.

They should stack 3 cages on top of each other

[543Y2J]

I love the traditional survivor series matches, when done right they are epic

[Deleted]

I like it when it's booked correctly but it hasn't been booked correctly in a pretty long time. Survivor Series used to mean something.

[Dean-o]

I hate Survivor Series. In the old days it made sense, but in today's WWE there really is no appeal of a 4v4 match with guys we've seen fight each other 1,000,000 times before.

[Cronant]

I still like it.

But having 2 elimination chambers for Surivor Series would be so awesome, and it'd help erase the predictability of the February chambers.

[Next Level was WRONG]

Survivor Series matches have always sucked. The years were there was only one of them on the card was fine, but the years consisting of three to four matches of random teams of a billion people who have no connection with one another who are also suspiciously weaker than they usually would be falling to moves that wouldn't get a one count in a regular match? They were horrible.

[wildojinx]

I kind of liked the randomness of the teams. It meant you'd get matchups that would usually never happen (ie, hogan vs barbarian, dusty vs undertaker, warrior vs arn anderson, etc),

[WarChief]

As a guy who likes stables, this is the closest I get to having an interesting one every year.

[Essential1]

Back in the day it was great especially because of the gimmicks. Now it's just guys in trunks who have faced eachother before already and people get pinned too quick. If they could allow for people to get some decent time in there then I think it would still be fun to watch but yeah I've not enjoyed any of the 4v4s since the 90s really.

[Deleted]

Oct 29, 2012 23:47:48 GMT -5 Essential1 said:

Back in the day it was great especially because of the gimmicks. Now it's just guys in trunks who have faced eachother before already and people get pinned too quick. If they could allow for people to get some decnet time in there then I think it would still be fun to watch but yeah I've not enjoyed any of the 4v4s since the 90s really.

Yup, exactly.

[Deleted]

It's a PPV based on the same throwaway tag matches we have several times a week already. The fact that it happens to be elimination based does not make me more interested.

[siredger]

Used to like it when I was a kid growing up right up until around 1994. It's been a while since they've actually embraced the concept and booked a full card of 4 vs 4 or 5 vs 5 matches. If they were to just book 1 Survivor Series match a year, they should've scrapped the whole thing and get a new concept.

Hell, if they want to stick to 4 vs 4 tag teams or random tag teams, why not bring back War Games or the BattleBowl tournament?

[Rican]

I wish they would switch it up somehow.

An idea I had years ago was for them to designate 4 team captains who would spend the weeks leading up to Survivor Series drafting wrestlers. To keep it interesting they'd pick heels and faces, based on who they thought would benefit them the most.

Survivor Series would then basically be a tournament between those four teams, in addition to the world title matches and maybe one other. The winning team would have each member each getting a "wish" of some sort granted. Title shots, GM for a night, 30th spot in the Rumble, etc, as an incentive for the heels and faces to work together.

[Deleted]

I think the only times I've really actively cared about the Survivor Series are 2004, when the match actually had a good gimmick to it which they should totally use again, and 2010, when I was fully on board the Nexus bandwagon. Besides that, I don't like multi-man tag matches anyway (though why the hell didn't they do a Nexus tag match, anyway?), and usually absolutely nothing comes out of it other than a filler feud or two until the Rumble rolls around.