GTT
The GTT is the prominent tournament of Primetime Central.
History
GTT Tournaments
GTT 1 (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.
GTT 2
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.
GTT 3
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 approximately 80 people no-showing round 1.
GTT4
GTT4 was won by Doctor Curiosity, who defeated Craig Goat and Exceptional Dave Hurst in the finals of a 192 entrant tournament.
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.
GTT 5
GTT5 was won by Rich 'The Renegade' Rollins, who defeated Shanty Jones in the final.
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.
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.
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 is also unfortunately remembered for the mass no-show in Round 2B.
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.