Featured the first ever Infinite Gauntlet, CHIKARA's version of WWE's Royal Rumble. Hallowicked won by eliminating "Mr. Touchdown" Mark Angelosetti via help from the previously-eliminated "The Ecuadorian Aristocrat" Juan Francisco de Coronado.
The Gauntlet included the CHIKARA debut, and the only-ever appearance, by Abominous Rex, a giant brought in by manager Sidney Bakabella. To emphasize just how big he was, it took 10 people (Missile Assault Man, Mark Angelosetti, Heidi Lovelace, Hallowicked, Frightmare, Wani, Jervis Cottonbelly, Pinkie Sanchez, Worker Ant and Arctic Rescue Ant) to eliminate him. He would later be released and never be seen again after no-showing for his match with Oleg the Usurper at "CHIKARA No One's First, and You're Next" on August 21st.
The title "The Distant Future" was taken from a 2007 EP by the Australian folk-parody group Flight of the Conchords.
After Icarus was eliminated, UltraMantis Black, possessed by Nazmaldun, put a hex on him, thus turning Icarus rudo (heel/bad guy) for the first time since 2013 and bringing him into the army of Nazmaldun's followers that would come to be called the heXed Men.
The team of Mathieu St. Jacques and Thomas DuBois was renamed TDT from Le Tabarnak de Team because of how "Tabarnak" in French-Canadian slang can often be used to mean "fuck" and its derivatives, which would not fit in with CHIKARA's family-friendly atmosphere.