Choose the Superstar IX

Choose the Superstar IX (often abbreviated to CTS IX) is the ninth game in the Choose the Superstar franchise. This game of CTS was held in 2018 and brought together 12 SCAW hopefuls from various forms of media in an 11 week competition to determine SCAW's next breakout star. The winner would be awarded with a one year contract with the promotion, where in order to stay past the one year, would have to win a championship. This would be the final time that the "Special Rounds" of Entrance Week, Moves Week and Story Week would take place from Week 9 through to Week 11. This season would be won by Han Solo & Chewbacca, marking the first time a Tag Team would win a CTS game.

Major Notes of CTS IX
Here is a list of the major notes from CTS IX:


 * 1) CTS IX would see a seventh user win the game
 * 2) The first time a Tag Team won a Choose the Superstar game
 * 3) The second season to feature a 2nd-gen competitor (CTS VI/CTS VIII competitor Goku's son Gohan)
 * 4) The final season to feature the traditional 12-players
 * 5) The first time original creations had been apart of consecutive games
 * 6) The final time an original creation was apart of the cast
 * 7) The first time a competitor quit the game
 * 8) The first time more then one competitor quit the game
 * 9) The first time a winner was declared by a quit
 * 10) Last game to use immunity (until CTS XII: Liberation's merge)
 * 11) The runner-up was not signed to SCAW
 * 12) Has produced 2 returning players

Competitors
Out of twelve different lists provided, the following were voted into the game by the SCAW fans and were the ninth class of CTS hopefuls (listed alphabetically):


 * "The Infamous" Anthony Adams
 * Black Panther
 * Cable
 * Gohan
 * Han Solo & Chewbacca
 * Jason Voorhees
 * Leon S. Kennedy
 * Master Chief
 * "One Punch Man" Saitama
 * Thanos
 * Tom Brady
 * Vega

Results
* = Competitor withdrew from game due to personal reasons regarding their user

Post Choose the Superstar IX
After the conclusion of Choose the Superstar IX, it was revealed that Choose the Superstar would return for a tenth game the following year. During preparations for the game however, a change of system was revealed to only allow 10 options in polls, and thus as a compromise to the system, the game was revealed to be a ten competitor game, thus being the shortest game in history.

Han Solo and Chewbacca would have their ups and downs during their first few months, but would eventually find their footing and would eventually become the SCAW Tag Team Champions in Madison Square Garden after defeating Darth Maul and Jean-Luc Picard at WinterSlam 2021.

Other CTS Appearances by CTS IX Competitors
A number of the cast for Choose the Superstar IX, would make a return to the game when permitted (CTS XII) for another chance to join SCAW. Here are the competitors who have returned to Choose the Superstar for another chance:


 * Black Panther
 * Jason Voorhees