GTT
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The GTT is the prominent tournament of Primetime Central.
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History
GTT1 (Global Title Tournament)
PTC's first event, featuring 128 competitors.
The final round of GTT1 featured a matchup between Vampir Nosferatu vs Jay Phoenix. The match aired on PCW Friday Fusion on November 23rd, 2001. This has been the only televised GTT final to date. Vampir won the match and was crowned the first ever PTC Global Champion.
Vampir was later discovered to have used work written by another so was stripped of the title. GTT2 was launched soon after to again find a new Global Chsmpion.
GTT2
GTT2 started as a 128 person elimination tournament. Sadly, it became PTC's only unfinished tournament to date. White Mexican, Hessian, Seth Masters and Akiyama made the final four, however the tourament was abandoned after the four semi finalists had posted their required promos. It is believed that all judges bunked on their judging assignments.
GTT3 (Golden Turnbuckle Tournament)
GTT3 was won by Angelo Deville, last defeating Inphino Blitz.
GTT3 remains PTC's largest event to date, having had 256 starters. It also holds the record for the highest number of no-shows in a single round, with 86 people no-showing round 1. This is only a few short of the number of entrants in the entire GTT6 field.
GTT3 was the last event to be announced by former PTC owner, The Phantom Booker. It was promoted mainly as "PTC vs WO", PTC being the grouping of independently owned federations, WO being the grouping of federations owned by TPB.
GTT4 (its just "GTT" from now on, mmmkay?)
GTT4 was the first PTC event to be run after Argyle took full ownership of PTC from Trigger. It followed the Primetime Invitational Tournament, and was the first PTC event to receive its own website since GTT1.
GTT4 fielded 192 entrants and was won by Doctor Curiosity, who defeated Craig Goat and Exceptional Dave Hurst.
GTT4 featured the introduction of "theme words" in Round 1. Each entrant was given a single word and was required to use this word in their first round promo, either literally or as a concept. The majority of entrants embraced this requirement and had fun with it.
The brackets were named after signicantly high mountain ranges, with the concept being that winners of the brackets will have scaled a mountain to get there. Round 1 opponents were determined using random number functions in an Excel Spreadsheet, with one notable exception.
GTT4 is known for the handler of Magnum Wolf, who was banned, entering under another character, and getting banned again for excessive complaining and conspiracy theorising, before management knew who he was.
GTT5
GTT5 was won by Rich 'The Renegade' Rollins, who defeated Shanty Jones in the final. The other two semi-finalists were Seymour Almasy and Chandler Tsonda.
Rollins' achievement is noted as perhaps the most impressive achievement in PTC history, both in and out of character, due to not dropping a single vote throughout the competition, and taking out the winners of GTT3, the PIT, CW1, and GTT4 over the course of the tournament, along with other notable PTC competitors such as Paddy O'Shea and Jonathan Winters.
GTT5 had 128 starters, and required "Hype" by characters before they would be allowed to compete in Round 1. Entrants exceeded all expectations with this directive by embracing the concept and provided hype in writen, audio, graphic and video form.
The brackets were named after the mothers of four of the PTC administrators. First round opponents were determined by random draw from the "Veggie strainer o'doom" on PTC Radio. It was originally to have been done on webcam to demonstrate the integrity of the draw, but technical difficulties forced it onto radio instead. The draw culminated in the on-air punking out of two life-banned members who entered the tournament, hoping to get in without being noticed.
Rich Rollins, Global Champion at the time, won the right to choose his Round 1 opponent in Infinite Gauntlet. He aimed high and chose GTT3 winner Angelo Deville, and very narrowly defeated him. Both Rollins and Deville had requested that the match would also be for the PTC Global Title, however this request was denied.
Deville reentered the tournament by winning the Round 1 tipping contest, taking the only Round 2 playin spot available.
GTT5 saw the introduction of bounties. Several handlers pledged to donate an amount of money to the charity of choice of the person who eliminated the character that had the bounty placed on them. Between the charity donation prize money and bounties, GTT5 raised over $US500 for various charities.
Controversy surrounded early rounds of GTT5 in the form of Kasper Sky (previously completely banned from PTC) being entered on behalf of another trusted handler. This effort managed to curcumvent all technological checks for people who should not have been able to enter, but ultimately failed when Sky's handler bragged that he'd gotten past said technological checks and was narced out, and other people recognised his writing style.
GTT6
GTT6 has been the smallest GTT so far, featuring 96 entrants.
GTT6 was won by Jason Snow, who would then go on to win the PTC Unified Championship in the unification match featuring the final PTC Global Champion, Clinton Sage, as well as final PTC Extreme Champion, Dusk.
Brackets were named after AA Milne children storybook characters. The idea was suggested as a joke, but the tournament administrators shrugged their shoulders, said "fuck it" and ran with the idea.
Unlike GTT4 and GTT5, GTT6 featured no pre-Round 1 twist (hype, theme words). GTT6 did feature the introduction of staggered rounds, an idea blatantly stolen from the Total J-Cup tournament. This allowed the tournament to run far more efficiently than in previous years. GTT6 also featured a draft to determine first round opponents. This was held on PTC Radio, with Argyle doing MC duty and Pete, RJ and Lindz making the selections. Fun was had by almost all.
GTT5's winner, Rich Rollins entered GTT6 anonymously as Iblis, having won the coveted Round 3 playin spot with this character in Infinite Gauntlet. He defeated former Global Champion Saij but was defeated by Jason Snow in Round 4.
GTT6 featured the first and second Global Title defense ever allowed during GTT tournament matches. In a much hyped match, Kimbusa challenged Seymour Almasy, having won the right prior to the tournament by winning a bidding war and thus making the largest charity donation ($US60). Kimbusa defeated Almasy, and then defended against former champion Shadow in Round 2. After Kimbusa defeated Shadow, the Global Title was not again defended during GTT6.
GTT6 is also unfortunately remembered for the mass no-show in Round 2B. Other than this, GTT6 is perhaps the least controversial of all GTT's to date.
GTT 7
During 2007, PTC management stated that GTT would be rested, and thus would not be held that year.
It was announced on an edition of PTC Radio that GTT7 would begin on January 1 2008, however these plans were put on hold and CWT is being run instead.
There are no current plans to run GTT7 during 2008. The general feeling within PTC management is that if it can't be big, it can't be GTT.
