page_title: Chikara High Noon
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Chikara High Noon / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional wrestlers UltraMantis Black, Delirious and Crossbones at a Chikara show on May 24, 2009
context_page_description: High Noon was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view event produced by the Chikara promotion, that took place on November 13, 2011 at the Asylum Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event marked Chikara's first ever live pay-per-view and it was headlined by the finals of a tournament to determine the first ever Chikara Grand Champion. The event aired on GoFightLive, with a pre-show airing live on Ustream. The event broke Chikara's attendance record, drawing 864 fans into the Asylum Arena, and drew more than 1,000 buys online, beating Ring of Honor's previous iPPV, Death Before Dishonor IX, which drew 972 buys. The event was released on DVD by Smart Mark Video on November 25, 2011.
context_section_description: High Noon featured seven professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that were played out on Chikara's monthly house shows and on blog entries written on the promotion's official website. Wrestlers will portray villains (rudos in Chikara) or heroes (tecnicos in Chikara) as they follow a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Chikara follows lucha libre traditions and is known for its colorful characters and gimmicks and family-friendly content.
  On February 3, 2011, Chikara's new Director of Fun Wink Vavasseur announced that the promotion would be determining their first ever singles champion, nine years after the promotion was founded in 2002. The twelve participants in the championship tournament were determined by a voting process, with each member of the Chikara roster being allowed to cast one vote for any other member of the roster. On April 21 the twelve participants were announced as Amasis, Brodie Lee, Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston, Fire Ant, Hallowicked, Icarus, Jigsaw, Mike Quackenbush, Sara Del Rey, UltraMantis Black and Vin Gerard. The participants were then divided into two blocks for a round-robin tournament with the winners of each block facing each other in the finals. The tournament, named the 12 Large: Summit, after Chikara Wrestle Factory graduate Larry Sweeney, who committed suicide on April 11, ran from May 21 to October 30. Chikara founder and booker Mike Quackenbush won Block A with four wins and one loss, securing the top spot on October 7, with a win over Sara Del Rey. Chikara Wrestle Factory graduate Eddie Kingston won block B, also with four wins and a loss, securing the top spot on October 8, when Jigsaw defeated UltraMantis Black, the only man who could have tied his score. This set up a final match between the two tecnicos and longtime members of the Chikara roster. On October 28 it was announced that Kingston's idol and the man whom he had inducted into the Hardcore Hall of Fame in July 2010, Tommy Dreamer, would accompany him to his title match. On October 30, the previously undefeated Kingston was defeated in the final round-robin match of the tournament by Vin Gerard via submission. After the match Gerard hit Kingston in the knee with a steel chair, putting his spot in the finals into question. Following the event, Gerard was, in storyline, fired from Chikara and his profile removed from the promotion's official website.
  The longest-running storyline in Chikara involves UltraMantis Black and the Eye of Tyr, which started in May 2007. The first part of the storyline involved the allegedly unbreakable wrestling hold, the Chikara Special, invented by Mike Quackenbush, and his longtime rival, Chris Hero, who surprisingly managed to finally break the hold in November 2007. It was later revealed that Hero had received the counter to the move from UltraMantis Black, who in turn had gotten it from Quackenbush's ally Shane Storm in exchange for a win to end his losing streak. UltraMantis agreed to teach the counter to Hero in exchange for him going to work for Dr. Cube at the Kaiju Big Battel promotion. In exchange for Hero's contract, Dr. Cube handed UltraMantis the Eye of Tyr, a mysterious Scandinavian artifact, which could be used to control people's minds. UltraMantis ended up using the artifact in April 2009 to brainwash Delirious into joining his Order of the Neo-Solar Temple, abandoning UltraMantis' former Dark Breed partner, Hallowicked. After months of threats from a mysterious man dressed in white, on November 22, 2009, a new top rudo stable, Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (BDK), was formed, with Ares and Claudio Castagnoli as its leaders. Ares claimed that the Eye of Tyr had been stolen from his family and managed to regain it with help from Tim Donst, who had infiltrated the Order of the Neo-Solar Temple. On February 28, 2010, Ares used the Eye of Tyr to recruit Delirious into BDK, crushing UltraMantis' dreams of winning the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas and 
caption: UltraMantis Black (right) controlling Delirious with the Eye of Tyr
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