WWE Survivor Series 2020: Ranking the build-up of each match

#1 Men's WWE Survivor Series five-on-five Elimination match - Team RAW vs. Team SmackDown

Can the RAW team co-exist?

While the build for McIntyre vs. Reigns could very well be the best build for Survivor Series, WWE's actions to build RAW's men's team for the pay-per-view has been better.

WWE featured it every week from Hell in a Cell to the following pay-per-view. While performers like Keith Lee, Sheamus, and AJ Styles qualified the first week, we had Lee, Sheamus, and Braun Strowman fight each other with a spot for Strowman on the line. He won and was added to the team. Once Riddle became the final member, Team RAW looked like one of the more formidable squads in WWE history.

Throughout the whole build, WWE has booked Styles to play team captain and peacemaker. He might have been the self-appointed captain but he was at least trying to build team chemistry every week. Booking matches that pit members against each other could have gone either way, but it went to cause further friction amongst the members of Team RAW.

On the Blue brand, Kevin Owens, Jey Uso, King Corbin, and Seth Rollins all qualified for their spots on Team SmackDown. Owens and Uso had tension that turned into a beatdown at the behest of Reigns. Corbin beat Rey Mysterio for his spot while Rollins defeated Otis with the help of Murphy. Otis was simply named to the team on the go-home SmackDown despite Big E being a much more suitable name to lead the blue brand's squad.

While each team didn't really focus on the other during the build, it was the team chemistry exercises that mattered more. RAW's team is stacked with bruisers and they should defeat SmackDown on paper. But because of all of the inner turmoil and huge egos, they could very well implode on Sunday. Because of that, WWE has done well to highlight one of the non-title matches at the pay-per-view.