Gran Alternativa 2010 The Gran Alternativa 2010 was a professional wrestling annual tournament produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ( CMLL ) and took place over three shows between April 16 and April 30 , 2010 in Arena México , Mexico City , Mexico . The " Torneo Gran Alternativa " ( " Great Alternative tournament " ) is an annual tournament where an established CMLL veteran teams up with a " Novato " or rookie in a tag team tournament , although at times the " Novato " is not so much a rookie , but either a wrestler who has been given a new ring character or has never participated in the " Gran Alternativa " before . The format of the tournament was changed for the 2010 tournament , traditionally it featured 8 tag team s and a one night tournament , but in 2010 it featured 16 teams , split over three CMLL Super Viernes shows . Héctor Garza and Pólvora won the tournament , defeating Volador , Jr . and Delta in the finals . Background . The tournament featured 15 professional wrestling matches under elimination rules , which means that you are eliminated if you lose a match . The teams were created specifically for the tournament , with no teams having worked together on a regular basis before , and in the past has not wrestled as a regular team after the " Gran Alternativa " is over . The tournament incorporated pre - existing scripted feuds or storylines . Wrestlers portrayed either villains ( referred to as " Rudos " in Mexico ) or good guys ( " Técnicos " in Mexico ) as they competed in wrestling matches with pre - determined outcomes . Tournament . Block A . On April 7 , 2010 CMLL announced the " Novato " participants for Block A of the 2010 " Gran Alternativa " tournament , featuring three wrestlers that had been involved in the 2009 " torneo Gran Alternativa " , ending a two - year practice that stated that you could not wrestle as a " novato " in the tournament if you had participated in a previous year ' s tournament . The returning " novatos " are Rey Cometa , Polvóra and Camorra . The five first time " novatos " were announced as Sensei , Diamante , Cancerbero , Inquisidor and Disturbio . When the full card for the April 16 , 2010 CMLL Super Viernes show the full teams for Block A were announced as Diamante & La Sombra , Blue Panther and Rey Cometa , Héctor Garza and Pólvora , La Máscara and Sensei , Atlantis and Inquisidor , El Terrible and Disturbio , Mephisto and Cancerbero and finally Rey Bucanero and Semental who replaced Camorra . Block A was won by Héctor Garza and Pólvora . Block B . Block B of the 2010 tournament will take place on April 23 , 2010 and the announced teams are : Delta ( " Novato " ) and Volador , Jr . , Guerrero Maya , Jr . ( " Novato " ) and Valiente , Ángel Azteca , Jr . ( " Novato " ) and Shocker , Pegasso ( " Novato " ) and Toscano , Raziel ( " Novato " ) and Averno , Durango Kid ( " Novato " ) and El Texano , Jr . , Puma King ( " Novato " ) and Último Guerrero and the team of Tiger Kid ( " Novato " ) and El Felino . Of note in Block B is the fact that Raziel has been a professional wrestler since 1996 but changed from the character Caligula to Raziel in late 2009 and thus is being billed as a " Novato " by CMLL . Block B also features Tiger Kid teaming up with his uncle El Felino , the only two wrestlers to have any sort of relationship going into the tournament . Block B was won by Delta and Volador , Jr . Finals . The finals was contested under " best two out of three falls " rules and took place on the April 30 , 2010 Super Viernes . Pólvora and Héctor Garza defeated Delta and Volador , Jr . two falls to one , in 23 : 46 to win the 2010 " Gran Alternativa " .