G1 Climax

The G1 (Grade One) Climax is a professional wrestling tournament held by the New-New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion. It is currently held as a round-robin tournament where the two highest scoring competitors meet in the Final to declare a winner.

Tournament History
The first G1 Climax was announced at the same time as the creation of New-New Japan Pro Wrestling on May 28, 2016. During the announcement, it was revealed that the winner of the G1 Climax would be crowned the first New-IWGP Heavyweight Champion. The matches took place at house shows across Japan apart from the final, which was held at Ultima Lucha. On August 2, 2016, former New-Lucha Underground Champion, Paige, revealed that she had signed to New-NJPW, in the process revealing Funaki's plans to hold a Women's G1 Climax for a Women's Championship. Nothing was made official until Episode 2 ("Shots Fired"), when Joshua Hall and Taka Michinoku revealed that a tournament would indeed be taking place and more house show events had been scheduled to accommodate for the number of matches, but no further word about a Championship was made. The second G1 Climax was revealed to have significantly less participants than the first, with just one block of six competitors, as compared to the two blocks of eight competitors from the first tournament. On February 27, 2017, a press conference was held by Funaki, New-AAW owner and promoter, Colt Cabana, and the New-IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, Jordan Burroughs, revealing that a cross-promotional G1 Climax would happen during New-NJPW's off-season. Several major announcements were made, including that both NLU and N-AAW would be represented in this tournament and would host official tournament matches, Jordan Burroughs revealed he would be defending his Championship in every match he was in and finally, the Final would take place at Ultima Lucha Dos. If the New-IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion is in the final, it will be a Championship match. If not, the two finalists will compete for a Championship match in the Main Event of New-NJPW's first special of Season 2, The New Beginning in Sapporro. The third G1 marked the return of the two block system, two blocks of six particpants.

Point System
The winner of the G1 Climax is decided using the below point system.

Pre-Season One Edition
Participants in the tournament were announced on May 30, 2016. Also introduced was the original point system.

Season One Edition
Participants in the tournament were decided by qualifying matches, starting from episode 2 ("Shots Fired").

Pre-Season Two Edition
Participants in the tournament were announced on March 29, 2017. Most entrants were entered into the tournament by publicly expressing their interest and intention in joining the tournament. On Episode 11 of Sunday Night Lucha Thing, due to the result of Itami/Mundo, Funaki changed the countout point system, resulting in the currently used system.

Bonus Point Matches
Pre-Season One

Eliminations
Elimination Tag Team Match 16 Man Battle Royal Elimination Order