9 Things You Need To Know About The G1 Climax 25 Tournament
8. How The Tournament Is Structured
Let's get to the bones of how the tournament is set up. First, its heavyweights only, NJPW does hold other tournaments for smaller wrestlers, for example: Best of the Super Juniors, but this is just for the big guys. Most of the people invited are the main event wrestlers or champions for NJPW; mostly domestic, and some international.
They have two blocks: block A and block B, with each one having 10 wrestlers. They use a round robin style where each wrestler will fight every person in their own block one time. Block A does not wrestle against block B until the very end. Scoring is by way of points: a win equals 2 points, 30 minute time-limit draw equals 1, and a loss is 0. If a tie-breaker is needed, it's determined by their head-to-head score.
The round-robin tournament starts on July 20, 2015 and ends on August 14, 2015. Whoever has the most points in block A takes on the winner of block B in the G1 Climax Finals on August 16, 2015.