The event crowned the reactivated Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship's first champions since 2013, with Fire N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz) defeating Havok and Nevaeh to win the titles.

[1] The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that involves different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.

[3] On the November 24 episode of Impact!, Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz defeated Team Sea Stars (Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo) to advance to the next round.

[5] On the December 8 episode of Impact!, Taya Valkyrie and Rosemary defeated Deonna Purrazzo and Kimber Lee to advance.

On January 5, Havok and Nevaeh defeated Jazz and Jordynne Grace to move on to Hard To Kill At All Elite Wrestling's "Winter Is Coming", a special episode of AEW Dynamite that aired on December 2, Kenny Omega defeated Jon Moxley to win the AEW World Championship for the first time, following assistance from Impact Co-Executive Vice President and color commentator Don Callis, who was working as a special guest commentator during the match.

[9][10] However, on January 15, 2020, Impact announced that Shelley had been withdrawn from the match due to "unavoidable circumstances" (later, Shelley revealed he could not work for Impact since he was working also as a physical therapy clinician and the company was more restrictive in its COVID-19 safety mandates)[11] and would be replaced by Moose, who had been engaged in a feud with Swann and Willie Mack for the prior few weeks.

[13] On the following edition of Impact, Chris Bey agreed to a non-title match with Manik, believing that unmasking him would give Rohit the title back.