<P> The WWE draft is a process used by professional wrestling promotion WWE to provide new brand competition and to refresh its rosters . The draft was first used during the brand extension of 2002, though it was officially incepted and used in 2004 . Since the inception of the process, it has been referred to as the WWE draft lottery (2004--2005) and later simplified to the "draft" (2007--2011). Starting in 2005, the draft took place during the month of June; it was held in April between 2009 and 2011 . After that, WWE terminated the brand split and promotion of interbrand competition from 2011 to 2016 . </P> <P> On May 25, 2016, due to SmackDown moving to Tuesdays and to a live broadcast starting July 19, necessitating a brand extension, WWE announced that the draft would be returning . It would later be announced that the 2016 WWE draft would take place on July 19 during SmackDown's first live broadcast, which was also the first time that the draft took place on SmackDown . The 2017 draft was labeled the Superstar Shake - up as instead of a traditional draft, the general managers of Raw and SmackDown could trade and make deals between their respective talent . </P> <P> During the 2002 draft, Undisputed WWE Champion Triple H and Women's Champion Jazz were ineligible to be drafted as, at the time, their respective services were deemed available to both brands . The rest of the champions, however, were eligible to be drafted to either brand's roster . The first half of the draft was televised live on TNN for two hours, as part of the WWF's flagship program, Raw . The second half was conducted over the Internet on WWF's official website, WWF.com . There were thirty draft picks, with sixty superstars drafted overall by co-owners of the WWF, onto their respective brands, Raw and SmackDown . The remaining superstars were divided randomly in a draft lottery, with each brand receiving a grand total of thirty superstars . </P>

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