Forjando un Ídolo
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The official logo for the tournament
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | |||
| Date | April 11, 2011 to May 20, 201 | |||
| Venue | Arena México | |||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico | |||
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Forjando un Ídolo (Spanish for "Forgin an idol") was a professional wrestling tournament held by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in 2011 with the purpose of identifying which of the 16 "Rookies" in the tournament would move up the ranks of the promotion. The tournament consisted of two rounds, first a round robin group round, with the top 2 in each of the four groups competing in an elimination tournament. Wrestlers would earn points based on match results and points from a weekly online poll. The tournament ran from April 11 until May 20, 2012 and saw Ángel de Oro win the tournament. The top two from each group would team up with their mentor for a trios tournament called Forjando un Ídolo: La Guerra Continúa ("Forging an Idol: The war continues"), won by Atlantis, Guerrero Maya Jr. and Delta.
The event featured sixteen professional wrestlers or luchadors, some of whom were tecnicos (the Lucha Libre term for someone who portrays a "good guy" character) and some who were 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 tournament was divided into two rounds, in the first round wrestlers were divided into groups of four for a round-robin style tournament where a wrestler scores points for winning matches or draws. A wrestler would earn 3 points for a victory, 1 point in case of a draw. each week of the first round one additional point would be awarded based on an online poll. Each group was also assigned a "Coach", an experienced wrestler with the storyline being that they were actually training everyone in their group between events. The four groups were
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