Survivor Series: WarGames | |
Promotion: | WWE |
Brand: | Raw SmackDown |
Date: | November 30, 2024 |
Venue: | Rogers Arena |
City: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Wwenlast: | Crown Jewel |
Event: | Survivor Series |
Lastevent2: | 2023 |
The 2024 Survivor Series: WarGames is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by the American promotion WWE. It will be the 38th annual Survivor Series, the third annual specifically as "WarGames", and it will take place on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will feature wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will be based around the WarGames match, a team-based steel cage match where the roofless cage surrounds two rings placed side by side.
This will be the third Survivor Series to take place in Canada, after 1997 and 2016, but the first to be held in Vancouver. It will thus be WWE's first PPV event in Vancouver since in 1998, which was held at the same venue when it was still known as General Motors Place. This will also be WWE's final main roster PPV and livestreaming event to broadcast on the WWE Network in international markets, as its content will move to Netflix in January 2025.
Survivor Series is an annual professional wrestling event produced every November by the American promotion WWE since 1987, generally held the week of Thanksgiving. The second longest running pay-per-view (PPV) event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five".[1] [2] The event was previously characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which were tag team elimination matches that typically featured teams of four or five wrestlers against each other.[3] In 2022, the event was rebranded as "Survivor Series: WarGames" and instead of Survivor Series matches, the annual event became based around the WarGames match, a type of steel cage match where teams face each other in a roofless cage that surrounds two rings placed side by side. WWE's developmental brand NXT previously held an annual WarGames event from 2017 to 2021 before the match became a part of Survivor Series.[4]
On August 1, 2024, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced that the 38th annual Survivor Series, and third annual as WarGames, would be held on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the third Survivor Series to take place in Canada, after 1997 and 2016, but the first to be held in Vancouver.[5] It will thus be the first WWE PPV event in the city since in 1998, which was held at the same venue when it was still known as General Motors Place.[6]
The event will air on traditional PPV worldwide and the livestreaming services Peacock in the United States and WWE Network in most international markets—including the Canadian version which is distributed by venue sponsor Rogers Communications.[7] [8] This will therefore be the final Survivor Series, and WWE's final main roster event, to air on the WWE Network as its content will move to Netflix in international markets in January 2025.[9]
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[10] [11] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[12]