All Japan Pro Wrestling will hold a Round Robin tournament on its first tour of the new year. The point system will be different from the Champion Carnival or Real World Tag League.

If you win in under 4:59 you score (5) points
" " " " " 9:59 you score (4) points
14:59 you score (3) points
19:59 you score (2) points
And (1) point for a 20:00 draw
The participants are separated into blocks A and B.
Block A is consisted of: Shigeo Okumura, Nobukazu Hirai,
Hideki Hosaka, Hi69, Mitsuya Nagai and Ryuji Hijikata.

Block B is consisted of: Nobutaka Araya, Yaz Urano, Tomoaki Honma, Gran Naniwa, Kazushi Miyamoto, and Masato Tanaka.

The tour starts on January 2, 2002 at the Tokyo Korakuen Hall and the two winners of Blocks will face each other in the finals on January 14, 2002 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym.

On a side note also on the 14th Keiji Mutoh and Taiyo Kea will defend the All Japan World Tag titles against the G1 Tag League Finalists Mike Barton and Jim Steele.