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Summer Adventure Tag League

Summer Adventure Tag League

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Summer Adventure Tag League is an annual professional wrestling tag team tournament held in the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate since 2007. It features a round-robin first round, after which the top four teams participate in the single-elimination portion to crown the winner. Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino, used the prize money from the first tournament to establish the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship. The 2011 version featured a single-elimination tournament, while the 2012 version featured tag teams consisting of three people.

Results

List of winners

2007

The 2007 Summer Adventure League featured ten teams, and was held from 5 August to 26 August. The top four ranked teams from the round robin round qualified for the single-elimination semi-finals. The two winners of the semi-finals met in the final to decide the winner.[1][2]

More information Results, Doi Yoshino ...
Knockout round
Semi-finals Final
      
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino Sub
Taku Iwasa and Kenichiro Arai 13:24
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino Pin
Shingo Takagi and Cyber Kong 23:52
Shingo Takagi and Cyber Kong Pin
Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka 16:42

2008

The 2008 Summer Adventure League featured nine teams, and was held from 9 August to 28 August. The top four ranked teams from the round robin round qualified for the single-elimination semi-finals. The two winners of the semi-finals met in the final to decide the winner.[3][4]

More information Results, YAMATO Kong ...
Knockout round
Semi-finals Final
      
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino Pin
Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka 10:24
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino Pin
Shingo Takagi and Dragon Kid 25:52
Shingo Takagi and Dragon Kid Sub
YAMATO and Cyber Kong 14:10

2009

The 2009 Summer Adventure League featured nine teams, and was held from 1 August to 26 August. The top four ranked teams from the round robin round qualified for the single-elimination semi-finals. The two winners of the semi-finals met in the final to decide the winner.[5][6]

More information Results, Takagi YAMATO ...
Knockout round
Semi-finals Final
      
Shingo Takagi and YAMATO DQ
Yasushi Kanda and Kenichiro Arai 9:20
Shingo Takagi and YAMATO Sub
Masaaki Mochizuki and Katsuhiko Nakajima 19:25
Masaaki Mochizuki and Katsuhiko Nakajima Pin
Masato Yoshino and BxB Hulk 13:26

2010

The 2010 Summer Adventure League featured ten teams, and was held from 30 July to 25 August. The round robin round featured two blocks of five teams each, and the top two teams from each block qualified for the single-elimination semi-finals. The two winners of the semi-finals met in the final to decide the winner.[7][8]

More information Block A, K-ness Yokosuka ...
Knockout round
Semi-finals Final
      
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino Pin
K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka 10:38
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino Pin
Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi 19:16
Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi Pin
Shingo Takagi and YAMATO 14:18

2011

The 2011 Summer Adventure League featured twelve teams, and was held from 3 August to 7 August, covering three shows; the format of the League was changed to a single-elimination tournament.[9] Four teams received a bye into the second round.[9] Kotoka qualified to be Don Fujii's partner by beating Shisa BOY, Super Shenlong and Eita Kobayashi.[9]

First round Second round Semifinals Finals
            
Akira Tozawa
BxB Hulk
Pin
Taku Iwasa
Kenichiro Arai
13:58
Tozawa
Hulk
Pin
KAGETORA
Shisa
12:38
KAGETORA
Super Shisa
Bye
- -
Tozawa
Hulk
Pin
Kid
Yoshino
12:51
Shingo Takagi
Susumu Yokosuka
Pin
Cyber Kong
Tomahawk T.T
13:34
Takagi
Yokosuka
21:06
Kid
Yoshino
Pin
- -
Dragon Kid
Masato Yoshino
Bye
Tozawa
Hulk
Pin
Mochizuki
YAMATO
25:08
Don Fujii
Kotoka
10:51
Naruki Doi
Yasushi Kanda
Pin
Doi
Kanda
Pin
Gamma
Swann
12:02
Gamma
Rich Swann
Bye
- -
Doi
Kanda
10:02
Mochizuki
YAMATO
Pin
Naoki Tanizaki
Kzy
Bye
- -
Tanizaki
Kzy
13:01
Mochizuki
YAMATO
Pin
Ryo Saito
Genki Horiguchi
22:59
Masaaki Mochizuki
YAMATO
Pin

2012

The 2012 Summer Adventure League featured eight teams with three members instead of the usual two. The round robin round features two blocks of four teams each, and the top team from each block will qualify for the finals to decide the winner of the tournament while the last team from each block will face each other to determine the last placed team.[10][11] Super Shenlong III qualified to be Shingo Takagi and YAMATO's partner by beating Chihiro Tominaga. The tournament was held from 2 August to 19 August.[12]

More information Block A, Points ...
Last Place

Mondai Ryu, Kzy and Cyber Kong lost to Ryo "Jimmy" Saito, Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! and Naoki Tanizaki in 16:31 to become the last placed team

Finals

Akira Tozawa, BxB Hulk and "Naoki Tanisaki" pinned CIMA, Gamma and Magnitude Kishiwada in 23:21 to become champions

2013

The 2013 Summer Adventure League reverted to teams of two members, and was held from 7 September to 28 September. The round robin round featured two blocks of four teams each, and the top team from each block qualified for the finals.[13] The Block A match between Shingo Takagi and Akira Tozawa versus Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino ended in a no contest with no points awarded when Doi turned on Yoshino and joined Mad Blankey. This caused Yoshino to team up with the Former Super Shenlong III: Yosuke Watanabe for his final Block A match against Masaaki Mochizuki and Don Fujii.[14]

More information Block A, Yamato Hulk ...
Finals

T-Hawk and Eita defeated Yamato and BxB Hulk in 19:26 to become the interim Open the Twin Gate Champions.

2014

The 2014 Summer Adventure Tag League and was held from 5 September to 23 September. The round robin round featured two blocks of four teams each, and the top team from each block qualified for the finals. During the tournament Kotoka was injured on their last match and was replaced by Yuga Hayashi.[15]

More information Block A, T-Hawk Eita ...
Last Place

Ryotsu Shimizu and Yuga Hayashi lost to Kzy and Naruki Doi in 11:53 to become the last placed team

Semi-finals Final
      
Eita and T-Hawk Pin
Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi 19:44
Eita and T-Hawk 23:21
Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu Pin
Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu Pin
BxB Hulk and Masaaki Mochizuki 18:22

2015

The 2015 Summer Adventure Tag League and was held from 5 September to 27 September. The round robin round featured two blocks of four teams each, and the top team from each block qualified for the finals. On September 9 Cima was injured and was replaced by Takehiro Yamamura.

More information Block A, Dragon Kid Flamita ...

Knockout round

Semi-finals Final
      
Naruki Doi and Yamato Pin
Ryo "Jimmy" Saito and Sumo Fujii 10:38
Naruki Doi and Yamato 24:46
Jimmy K-ness J.K.S and Jimmy Susumu Pin
Jimmy K-ness J.K.S and Jimmy Susumu Pin
Akira Tozawa and Masato Yoshino 16:20

2016

On July 7 it was announced the 2016 Summer Adventure Tag League and it will be held from August 6 to September 10. The round robin round featured two blocks of six teams each, and the top team from each block qualified for the finals. On July 24 it was announced that Kotoka would miss the tournament due to facial injuries and Cyber Kong will replace him as Shingo Takagi's place and Osaka06 (CIMA and Gamma) replaced the team of Mondai Ryu and Cyber Kong.

More information Block A, Susumu Kagetora ...

Knockout round

Semi-finals Final
      
Naruki Doi and "brother" YASSHI Pin
Gamma and Cima 10:12
Naruki Doi and "brother" YASSHI 19:23
Dragon Kid and Eita Sub
Dragon Kid and Eita Pin
Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora 11:34

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