2013 Mid-Year Grand Slam Tournament Draw!

The 128-fighter Grand Slam tradition returns for the first time since April's Grand Prix Warm-Up! It's a mid-year medley as the league prepares for a packed Summer season! Tournament 31 begins the summer festival June 24th with a week-long elimination bracket! Then the Duo Division gets the doubles spotlight as July 3 marks the 2nd Anniversary of the original Championship Tournament! The tandem tour will recreate the bracket of the original crowning, with a second half built around a random draw of some of the biggest Duos of today! Then it's all capped off with Supercard 38: Royal Roulette (July 14) and the annual major event of All-Star Summer Showdown 2013 - August 18!

Four hand selected seeds bookend a bifurcated elimination bracket filled with 124 completely randomly drawn competitors! The Ratt tops the tour as reigning Undisputed Champion and natural choice for the #1 seed! Defending Grand Slam touranment winner The Great Genku positions at the opposite end, while recent ranking contenders The_Purple_Bunny [#3] and Lord m0s [#4] take their seeded placements at the middle of the bracket!

A generous random draw has seen some of the biggest names evenly distributed throughout the Grand Slam bracket! Former champions like DaMo, Kron, Hokey & Mime have plenty of room to rise back to the top! The next phase of contenders look just as likely to stake their claim: Artanix, DECEPTION, Jammer2Omega, Y2Knickxasawrrrr & more all riding a wave of Supercard success into the mid-year tournament! King Mimik tentatively returns to the picture, looking to undo a history of tournament misery as he claws his way back to the winning record!

Current KFL Champion Sekktor starts things off with a seasoned but irregular opponent in Shinnokxz. The Duo Division Champions ease into their solo campaigns with opponents more likely to cause trouble in the specialized duo realm: CaTigeReptile faces Leroy (partner of Mark), while McDaniel meets nif (longtime ally to Liam)! With one more Friday Night Fights scheduled before Tournament 31 -- #4 seed Lord m0s may be the holder of the KFL Champion when the tournament action kicks off!

Tournament 31 will mark the first Grand Slam since the retirment of 3-time tournament winner and Hall of Famer: Crow! His legendary status as a tournament favourite lasted right up to retirement -- capped off with a runners-up loss to Genku in the final of 2013 UGP Grand Slam! Also leaving a gaping hole will be 2012 Master's Series winner and fellow Hall of Famer: Violent`J! The "ICWW Immortal" is far from alone in this respect, with Statix and Shamrock representing the last competing members of the invading legends. In a particularly intriguing twist of fate, the recent partnership has been drawn to face each other in Round 1! Tensions between the 10 year rivals re-emerged at Supercard 37: The Test after a Duo Divison loss to the classic alliance of Kron & Porygonix.

"Iron Man of Conquest" ElJobber will be another major omission from the draw, having been absent from competition since losing a gruelling Championship Rules Iron Man Endurance Match to The Ratt at Ultimate Grand Prix III! His return to competition remains uncertain.

With victory over the 128 Grand Slam format so valuable to forging a legacy in The Great Arena, no fighter will shed any tears for those who are no longer with us! Only those who give their lives to competition have the right to call themselves the best in the league! Round 1 is the first step toward immortality!

First Round feature matches include: Nephrite versus VenoMark; TonyTheTiger versus Shen_DuHBK; Ken versus DeathScepter; Chiefin versus SubMan799; Shamrock versus Statix; Chromatose versus DECEPTION; MKR versus foahchon; blacksaibot versus Baraka_MK; Dolce versus Murdoink; ZachAngel versus Mark; "Mad Dog" Onryo versus Stealth-Ninja! Current Project Punch-Out challenger little-mac will have his work cut out for him when he meets Jammer2Omega! [Project Punch-Out will go on one week hiatus while the tournament occurs.]

Tournament 31: 2013 Mid-Year Grand Slam First Round Draw:
1. The Ratt [#1] versus MercWithMouth
2. Kiara85 versus bfk
3. blacksaibot versus Baraka_MK
4. Benjamin versus ArtemisFlow
5. Unknown265 versus J-Spit
6. Ken versus DeathScepter
7. Pink_Ranger versus jaytea
8. Buster versus UlcaTron
9. Abaddon versus Scott-Howell
10. unixpunk versus Jax
11. GohanSon versus State of the Artanix
12. King Mimik versus xtactics
13. redman versus DarknessDragon
14. Mime versus Piccolo
15. CeeKay versus Simon
16. NightHawk versus ThirtyThr33
17. Bloodysinner versus Kron
18. MKR versus foahchon
19. "The Guardian" CaTigeReptile versus Leroy
20. ShingoEX versus BilboFett
21. LordSkarlet versus Shujinko
22. STEROLIZER versus "The Prophet" Jironobou
23. hydraslash versus Killswitch
24. Menas versus "The Charmed" Hokey
25. buragas versus kororaa
26. Bee_07 versus Rise of the DaMo
27. TheMetinPorta versus legoslayer10
28. Philip94 versus Celeste
29. nav-gone versus Kairyu
30. "The Prodigy" nface versus mwgrant0
31. "Mad Dog" Onryo versus Stealth-Ninja
32. Barbara versus Lord m0s [#4]
33. "True #1" The_Purple_Bunny [#3] versus EasterBunny
34. ZachAngel versus Mark
35. Dolce versus Murdoink
36. Jason_Voorhees versus "Pegaso" Zentile
37. JRF versus "Big John" Bofh
38. deadpool versus Torchia
39. Nephrite versus "The Harbinger" VenoMark
40. Learn versus sucka
41. Skaven13 versus Red_Spaniard
42. fraysol versus SlumDunk
43. Ghostdragon versus Eko
44. NovaStarr versus Exthalion
45. kingjolly versus Politics
46. deadly versus Porygonix
47. muttonhead versus "The Manhunter" MINION
48. avenger45 versus rxvt
49. "The Predator" TonyTheTiger versus "The Red Cyclone" Shen_DuHBK
50. Mandijadeee versus Jerrod
51. Shamrock versus Statix
52. IAmAce versus Sarten-X
53. Chromatose versus DECEPTION
54. Methuselah6463 versus CCShadow
55. jack4813 versus vaiisekk
56. Shinnokxz versus Sekktor
57. "The Upset Machine" Chiefin versus SubMan799
58. proXade versus giandavil
59. Liam versus Angelia
60. nif versus McDaniel
61. LadyRaiden versus jackle86
62. Y2Knickxasawrrrr versus GreenLantern
63. Jammer2Omega versus "Project Punch-Out" little-mac
64. Asesino versus The Great Genku [#2]