RyanCarrWeberThe Winnowing - An End to Threes

On a not-so-special January day, barely a month before Teens Wrestling would celebrate the end of its first full year of operation, clad in a non-descript gray suit, the chairman of Teens Wrestling took to the ring. He waited patiently for the assembled wrestlers and friends to quiet down, and began to speak:

"We have come so far in these eleven months. We have brought in titles, dozens of teen competitors, scores of fans. We've been televised once, and aired on the public high school's television station. Our wrestlers have, on the whole, met great success. Yet there is one institution within TW which has, for eleven months, lacked definition and purpose, and therefore failed to live up to the successes of the League which were going on around it. This is the system of three-man tag teams. They have, for lack of either interest or defined rules, rarely seen action.

"The time has come, fans and wrestlers, to cut the cord. Over our next few events, all three three-teams will either reduce themselves to two-man tag teams on their own, or else compete among themselves in three-man tag matches, the loser of which must leave the team's official membership.

"Any questions regarding this decision are to be directed to myself or to TW's other board members. Thank you."

The threeteams in attendace were struck, though all had known it would eventually come. The other tag teams and the organization just didn't know how to deal with them. Each prepared for the winnowing.