The Pick 6 ranking system

The "Pick 6" is a ranking system currently used in Ring of Honor. Like it's predecessors the Contender's Ring and the Top Five, the Pick 6 is used to determine worthy challengers for the ROH World Championship.

Creation
Similar to how the Number One Contender's Trophy was created after then-champion Xavier began dodging challengers, the Pick 6 was created after Austin Aries began trying to dodge challengers with the "A Double L Double" (Austin Aries Lucky Lottery). Claiming that everyone entered into the lottery was a worthy challenger, it soon became apparent that was full of wrestlers he could score an easy victory over (i.e. Alex Payne). Soon after returning to Ring of Honor as Executive Producer, Jim Cornette instituted the Pick 6 on November 5, 2009, officially ending the A Double L Double.

Rules
Several rules were put in place upon the creation of the Pick 6 to determine who would be in the Pick 6, how the would be ranked and which wrestlers would receive title shots:


 * Only wrestlers ranked in the Pick 6 are eligible to challenge for the ROH World Championship.
 * The higher a wrestler is seeded, the more leverage he has in determining the scheduling of championship matches.
 * Wrestlers securing victories in Pick 6 matchups earn a match bonus.
 * Wrestlers can only enter the Pick 6 Standings by defeating a ranked wrestler.
 * A ranked wrestler that defeats a higher seeded wrestler assumes that spot in the Pick 6. The losing wrestler and those ranked lower drop one spot in the standings.
 * An unranked wrestler that defeats a Pick 6 contender assumes that wrestler's spot, and everyone lower slides down one rank, with the wrestler ranked number 6 falling out of the Pick 6. The lower a wrestler is ranked, the more they have to lose.
 * If a Pick 6 Ranked wrestler wins the ROH World Championship then he will be, of course, dropped out of the rankings.

Final standings
Standings as of August 27, 2010.

This was the last date that a Pick 6 Spot changed hands. After Glory by Honor IX on September 11, 2010, the Pick 6 system was quietly abandonned. Chrsitopher Daniels and Davey Richards were the last two wrestlers to utilise their owed title shots via the Pick 6, procuring title matches at Fate of an Angle II on November 13, 2010, and Final Battle on December 18, 2010, respectively.