Post by the2ndevil on Sept 25, 2016 22:51:13 GMT -5
I think I figured out what my issue with TNA's Grand Championship is (besides the fact the tournament finals were a foregone conclusion from the very beginning)
It's trying to be World Of Sport, but it's just... not very good at it. To compare, here' a World Of Sport match I found on YouTube, split into three videos.
It's got some similarities, like the three minute rounds, but where I think the Grand Championship matches falter is by only having three rounds. World Of Sport had 8 rounds, and needed two falls to win, and cases where it did reach end of regulation, which the match above did (Yeah, I know. Spoilers for a match that happened in 1987) it did go to a judge's decision, but it didn't have the convoluted points system. There were two judges on the outside, if they were split, the match's referee was the final judge.
It's not a bad idea. It just needs some tweaking of the execution.
It's trying to be World Of Sport, but it's just... not very good at it. To compare, here' a World Of Sport match I found on YouTube, split into three videos.
It's got some similarities, like the three minute rounds, but where I think the Grand Championship matches falter is by only having three rounds. World Of Sport had 8 rounds, and needed two falls to win, and cases where it did reach end of regulation, which the match above did (Yeah, I know. Spoilers for a match that happened in 1987) it did go to a judge's decision, but it didn't have the convoluted points system. There were two judges on the outside, if they were split, the match's referee was the final judge.
It's not a bad idea. It just needs some tweaking of the execution.
