The fights so far have taken place inside a 40″ by 40″ ring, and the ring ropes seem to be held in place by stacks of spare tires for some reason. There are no spectators during the fights, though it is not clear if this is because they couldn’t get any, or if charging admission to the shows would put them at the mercy of the ruthless Latvian Athletic Commission. That’s the other thing, it’s in Latvia which most likely means you can go crazy with the steroids, nobody’s going to make you pee in a cup after.
Even though it is a country based format they do not play each country’s national anthem before the bout, instead they have a much better idea. Keep in mind that spectators are not in the arena at the time, but TFC films the shows and sells them on the internet. So with nobody in the arena they play dance music and some scantily-clad ladies shake their asses at the camera. Then the music stops, the girls leave, and the ring announcer introduces everyone.
The ring announcer by the way, at least for the first show, appears to be a girl who was originally scheduled to shake her ass at the camera but when the promoters forgot to hire a ring announcer they put her in a suit and said what the hell we’ll let her do it.
Here is video of the final bout of the first ever Team Fighting Championship Tournament, pitting the might team from Poland against their rivals from Russia.
