En Busca de un Ídolo (Spanish for "In search of an idol") is an annual professional wrestling tournament promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since 2012 with the purpose of identifying which of the "Rookies" in the tournament would move up the ranks of the promotion. Replacing Forjando un Ídolo from the previous year, the tournament format contained two rounds, first a round-robin tournament group round, with the top four-point earners competing in for a spot in the finals. Wrestlers could earn points in three ways, match results, judges points and points from an online poll available on the 'En Busca de un Ídolo website. Through 2014, no one has participated in more than 1 En Busca de un Ídolo tournament and it has featured 24 wrestlers in total. On May 12, 2015 CMLL announced that the tournament would return for 2015.
En Busca de un Ídolo winners YearWinnerRunner upDateReference2012 Titán Euforia 2013 Vangelis Valiente 2014 Cavernario Hechicero 2015 Boby Zavala Guerrero Maya Jr.
Tournament point system and format Wrestlers can earn points in three ways each week during the first and second round of the tournament. Match results 20 Points for a victory 10 Points for a draw 0 points for a loss
Judging The tournament also include four judges, referee El Tirantes, ring announcer Miguel Linares and wrestlers Maximo and Negro Casas. The judges could award up to 10 points each based on the way they portray their character, their personality, their charisma, and how much of a fan response they get during their matches.
Fan poll The third way to earn points for the tournament was through an online poll conducted after each match on the En Busca de un Ídolo website. The online poll could give a wrestler a maximum of 40 additional points in the tournament each week.
The tournament featured eight professional wrestlers or luchadors. Still, it was not always split equally between tecnicos (the Lucha Libre term for someone who portrays a "good guy" character) and rudos ("Bad Guys"). Being a professional wrestling tournament, the matches were not won legitimately through athletic competition; it is instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public. The teams were not generally divided by their rudo/tecnico status in later years and outside of the first year everyone fought everyone regardless of their rudo or tecnico status. Once the first round was completed, the top four-point earners would move on to round two. Round two was a round-robin tournament between all four wrestlers. At the end of round two the top two point earners would face off in the finals of the tournament with the winner of the match winning the tournament as well.
En Busca de un Ídolo Participants NameYearRankCachorro 2014 4th 2014 1stDiamante 2012 4th 2012 3rdDragon Lee (II) 2014 3rdEuforia 2012 2ndFuego 2013 4thGuerrero Negro Jr. 2014 8thHechicero 2014 2nd 2013 5thMisterioso Jr. 2013 8thNiebla Roja 2012 5thPuma King 2012 6thTiger 2013 6th 2012 1st 2012 7thPólvora 2012 8thVangelis 2013 1stValiente 2013 2ndSangre Azteca 2013 7thSoberano Jr. 2014 6thStar Jr. 2014 5thStuka Jr. 2013 3rdSuper Halcón Jr. 2014 7th
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