Tournament 68: Mid-Year Grand Slam - Day 1

Day 1 of the 2016 Mid-Year Grand Slam proved to be a mostly by the numbers reveal of the first half of the randomly drawn bracket for Round 1! #1 seed and reigning Undisputed Champion DECEPTION was comfortable in his defeat of Jauger, while #3 seed and recently anointed #1 contender VenoMark ended the day's action with an emphatic +MAX impact against Celeste!

There were three devastating MAX Damage results on Day 1: Ratt bounced back from Supercard 80: Tower of Power XVI, unleashing a Hall of Fame performance against ermac. European Union fighter Chromatose surprised everyone when he annihilated Corrupt MINION! Not far behind was The Great Genku, whose +25 assault shocked everybody by sending Duo Division upstart Menas to the injured list!

Other favourites starting their tournament on the right note: Hokey, "The Guardian" CaTigeReptile, "The Fallen" LordSkarlet, DaemonX, "American Dream" Scott-Howell and United: DArqueBishop. 2016 Fighter For Europe Nephrite was the closest to a shock elimination, taking a hard loss from Alliance face: The_Hurricane.

Tournament 68: Round 1 - Day 1 Results:
1. "The Hitman" DECEPTION (c) [#1] d. Jauger [+5]
2. Loopster d. Shinnokxz [+1]
3. SubMan799 d. Mojo6 [+1]
4. United: DArqueBishop d. Jax [+1]
5. "The Dude" Baraka_MK d. Red_Spaniard [+1]
6. MercWithMouth d. giandavil [+2]
7. Bronzie d. little-mac [+1]
8. proXade d. Unknown265 [+3]
9. GohanSon d. VR-FIST [+2]
10. NosajSamoht d. Zedox [+1]
11. McDaniel d. Baraka407 [+1]
12. Benjamin d. acez [+1]
13. "The Fallen" LordSkarlet d. MattHardy [+4]
14. Chromatose d. Corrupt MINION [+MAX]
15. Jerrod d. Cukier [+1]
16. Sekktor d. Shen_DuHBK [+5]
17. marianokombat d. RomanK [+1]
18. The Great Genku d. Menas [+25] [-1up]
19. DaemonX d. AcidicWonder [+1]
20. "American Dream" Scott-Howell d. __-Standards-__ [+5]
21. Hokey d. xtactics [+6]
22. Dolce d. ErmackDaddy [+1]
23. foahchon d. tabmok99s_wife [+1]
24. Porygonix d. Skizelli [+12]
25. Ratt d. ermac [+MAX]
26. The_Hurricane d. Nephrite [+2]
27. "Bad Bad" Leroy d. xort [+1]
28. jack4813 d. TripleH [+2]
29. nightbreed_16 d. maxilos [+6]
30. NovaStarr d. WhiteRanger [+2]
31. "The Guardian" CaTigeReptile d. legoslayer10 [+6]
32. VenoMark [#3] d. Celeste [+MAX]

The Tournament 68 Impact Players:
- Chromatose +MAX (R1), Ratt +MAX (R1), VenoMark +MAX (R1), Genku +25 (R1), Porygonix +12 (R1), Hokey +6 (R1), nightbreed_16 +6 (R1), CaTigeReptile +6 (R1), DECEPTION +5 (R1), Sekktor +5 (R1), Scott-Howell +5 (R1), LordSkarlet +4 (R1), proXade +3 (R1)

The Tournament 68 Shock Eliminations:

- Nephrite (R1)

The Tournament 68 Casualties:

- Menas (R1)