The EAW Vixens Cup is a two-day single elimination tournament held for the first time in 2016. The inaugural event was announced in early February of 2016, though the planning for the event had been in the preliminary stages since the success of the first Empress of Elite tournament held in the summer of 2016. In an intense bidding war for the hosting rights for the event, the city of Toronto’s Air Canada Centre eventually triumphed and won the right to host the event. This event was also the first event in EAW history to exclusively feature Vixens talent and was broadcast as a two-day, stand-alone Free-Per-View event instead of being broadcast over regular EAW programming as the Empress of Elite tournament was.