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Originally Posted by Maluco
This feels like an excuse. Why couldn't they write an intriguing tournament? How are people not intelligent who want some thought put into these things? They are getting paid very well to do this, why can't it be done?
The only reason they didn't press the pause button was because it is a 9 month layoff and they couldn't, so no credit there.
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No excuse. It's just what they're doing. It's their established pattern and whIle there are a number of options that could be far better in execution, there's no reason to think that they would go those routes. Basically I think they decided to replace Rollins vs Reigns with Reigns vs Ambrose, keeping the Shield Brothers narrative with a bit of tweaking. They've gotten as close as possible to the match they wanted with as little disturbance as possible. Quite frankly I'm surprised they didn't just announce that Reigns would be keeping his spot then have Ambrose win a battle royal for the second spot., then immediately turn Reigns heel. The tournament will at least give the sense of a culmination to the PPV match. I cringed when an heard the tournament announcement because in WWE "tournament" is almost synonymous with "missed opportunity."