Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Champion Carnival (CC) is an annual professional wrestling tournament held by All Japan Pro Wrestling, established in 1973. Originally a single-elimination tournament, it is now held as a round-robin, with a victory worth two points, a time limit draw worth one and a loss, double countout or double disqualification worth zero. All matches have a 30-minute time limit. Since 1991, the winner of the tournament, assuming they do not already hold it, receives a shot at the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.The tournament was not held beginning in 1983 as AJPW was faltering behind New Japan Pro Wrestling, which emphasized junior heavyweight wrestling and its star Tiger Mask Satoru Sayama as a strong draw alongside Antonio Inoki's own quasi-martial arts heavyweight battles. After Genichiro Tenryu left All Japan in 1990, the tournament was brought back as a means of providing stronger challenges to the top star remaining, Jumbo Tsuruta. The tour from March to April, in the interim, maintained the \"Champion Carnival\" name without a tournament."@en }
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- Champion_Carnival abstract "The Champion Carnival (CC) is an annual professional wrestling tournament held by All Japan Pro Wrestling, established in 1973. Originally a single-elimination tournament, it is now held as a round-robin, with a victory worth two points, a time limit draw worth one and a loss, double countout or double disqualification worth zero. All matches have a 30-minute time limit. Since 1991, the winner of the tournament, assuming they do not already hold it, receives a shot at the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.The tournament was not held beginning in 1983 as AJPW was faltering behind New Japan Pro Wrestling, which emphasized junior heavyweight wrestling and its star Tiger Mask Satoru Sayama as a strong draw alongside Antonio Inoki's own quasi-martial arts heavyweight battles. After Genichiro Tenryu left All Japan in 1990, the tournament was brought back as a means of providing stronger challenges to the top star remaining, Jumbo Tsuruta. The tour from March to April, in the interim, maintained the \"Champion Carnival\" name without a tournament.".