Deuces Wild Tournament The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament was a professional wrestling single - elimination tournament held by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) promotion during the months of April and May 2008 for the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship . It took place on TNA ' s television program " TNA Impact ! " and at their Sacrifice PPV event on May 11 , 2008 . It was announced on the April 24 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " by Management Director Jim Cornette . It involved twelve teams overall . Background . On the April 17 , 2008 episode " Impact ! " , then - champions A . J . Styles and Tomko defended the title in a Three Way match against the teams of Kaz and Eric Young and The Latin American Xchange ( Hernandez and Homicide ; LAX ) . Young left during the encounter , but later returned as his " Super Eric " superhero character to pin Styles and win the championship for his team . Due to this finish , Styles and Tomko were scripted to argue that Young and Super Eric were two different people . Super Eric and Young refused to admit they were one in the same in the storyline , which caused Cornette to strip Kaz and Young of the championship . Cornette then set up the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament on the April 24 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " , announcing two stages with the first involving eight teams competing in qualifying matches to gain entry into the tournament . The second stage of the tournament involved eight wrestlers known as the Egotistical Eight chosen by Cornette . The Egotistical Eight made up four randomly chosen teams that would compete against the four teams which qualified at Sacrifice for the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship . Qualification matches and Egotistical Eight . The Egotistical Eight were announced on the May 1 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " as Awesome Kong , B . G . James , Booker T , Kip James , Matt Morgan , James Storm , Robert Roode , and Sting . The first two qualification matches took place on the April 24 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " . Team 3D ( Brother Devon and Brother Ray ) defeat the team of Black Reign and Rellik in the first , while in the second the pairing of Christian Cage and Rhino defeated The Motor City Machine Guns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ) to advance . The final two took place on the May 1 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " . In the first , LAX defeated the team of Kaz and Young . The team of A . J . Styles and Super Eric defeated The Rock ' n Rave Infection ( Jimmy Rave and Lance Hoyt ) in the second to qualify for the tournament . Two Egotistical Eight teams were determined by lottery drawing on the May 8 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " . Sting drew Storm ' s name in the drawing , connecting the two together for the tournament . Meanwhile , Morgan drew Kip ' s name , joining the two as a team . Later in the episode , Sting and Storm fought in No Disqualification match , which Sting won . Kip and Morgan also fought in an encounter , with Morgan coming out the victor . Sacrifice . Booker T teaming with Roode and Kong teaming with B . G . were the final two teams for the tournament , determined at Sacrifice . The first Quarterfinal match pitted Team 3D against the team of Sting and Storm . Team 3D were the victors after Sting turned on Storm by forcing him through a table . The second Quarterfinal match was between the team of Booker T and Roode and the team of Cage and Rhino , which the later won after Rhino tackled Roode . LAX defeated the team of Kip and Morgan in the third Quarterfinal match after Morgan accidentally hit Kip with a bicycle kick . B . G . and Kong fought the team of Styles and Super Eric in the fourth and final Quarterfinal match . During the bout , Styles accidentally tripped while attempting to jumping off the ropes causing him to fall face - first to the mat below . Afterwards , B . G . lifted up Styles to perform a suplex , which Styles countered into a small package pin for the win . Team 3D , the team of Cage and Rhino , LAX , and the team of Styles and Super Eric all advanced to the Semifinals . Team 3D were pitted against the team of Cage and Rhino in the first bout , while LAX were pitted against the team of Styles and Super Eric in the second . Team 3D defeated Cage and Rhino after Ray bashed Rhino with a kendo stick . LAX advanced to the Finals after their manager Hector Guerrero reversed a small package pin attempt by Styles on Homicide into LAX ' s favor while the referee was distracted by Salinas . LAX went on to defeat Team 3D in the Finals to win the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship when Homicide pinned Devon following a splash from the top of a padded turnbuckle . After Sacrifice , LAX defended the TNA World Tag Team Championship against Team 3D in a rematch at TNA ' s Slammiversary PPV event on June 8 . The match was set up on the May 15 , 2008 episode of " Impact ! " , when Team 3D attacked Guerrero , blaming him for their loss at the event . At Slammiversary , LAX defeated Team 3D to retain the championship .