Gran Alternativa 2014

The Gran Alternativa 2014 was a professional wrestling tournament event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place from January 31 until February 14, 2014 over the course of two CMLL Super Viernes shows, with the finals on the Arena Mexico 57th Anniversary Show. The Torneo Gran Alternativa (Spanish for "the Great Alternative tournament) concept sees a Novato or rookie team up with an experienced wrestler for a tag team tournament. The rookie winner is often elevated up the ranks of CMLL as a result of winning the tournament, but there is no specific "prize" for winning the tournament outside of a symbolic trophy. The tournament was won by rookie Cavernario and veteran Mr. Niebla, the success of the tournament led to Cavernario being added to Mr. Niebla's group La Peste Negra
==Tournament background==
The tournament featured 15 professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers teaming up, some of which may be involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines while others are simply paired up for the tournament. Wrestlers portray either villains (referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or fan favorites (Técnicos in Mexico) as they compete in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes. The tournament format follows CMLL's traditional tournament formats, with two qualifying blocks of eight teams that compete on the first and second week of the tournament and a final match between the two block winners. The qualifying blocks were one-fall matches while the tournament finals will be a best two-out-of-three falls tag team match. Each qualifying block started with all 8 Novatos competing in a "seeding" battle royal to determine the brackets for the block. The team of Cavernario and Mr. Niebla defeated Soberano, Jr. and Volador Jr. in the finals on February 14. Out of all the Novato participants seven of them had participated in the Gran Alternativa tournament before, primarily the 2013 tournament; Soberano, Jr., Oro, Jr., Guerrero Negro, Jr., Herodes, Jr., Espanto, Jr., Akuma and Hombre Bala, Jr..
;2014 Gran Alternativa participants
Block 	Rookie 	Veteran
Block A	Akuma 	Rey Bucanero
Block A	Cachorro 	Blue Panther
Block A	Espanto, Jr. 	Mephisto
Block A	Guerrero Negro, Jr.	El Terrible
Block A	Hombre Bala, Jr. 	Maximo
Block A	Oro, Jr. 	La Sombra
Block A	Soberano, Jr. 	Volador Jr.
Block A	El Rebelde 	Averno
Block B	Black Panther 	Diamante Azul
Block B	Canelo Casas 	Negro Casas
Block B	Cavernario 	Mr. Niebla
Block B	Dragon Lee 	Rush
Block B	Espiritu Negro 	Reapper
Block B	Hechicero 	Último Guerrero
Block B	Herodes, Jr. 	Shocker
Block B	Star, Jr. 	Atlantis
==Tournament results==
==External links==
* Profile
Category:2014 events
Category:Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre shows
Category:Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre tournaments