 In what has since become the second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, later dubbed the "Big Four".The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically pits teams of four or five wrestlers against each other.The 1994 event was the eighth event in the Survivor Series chronology and included three Survivor Series matches, two of which were 5-on-5 while the other was 4-on-4.