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Post by deathalo on Jul 21, 2014 21:57:24 GMT -5
Rumbling Dice, YOU DUN f***ed UP NOW
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Post by LusitaniaAngel313 on Jul 21, 2014 21:57:32 GMT -5
He's got the top time no question. He lived through it all! Great job Joe Moravsky!
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Post by SasukeForever on Jul 21, 2014 22:03:30 GMT -5
You want something harder after the Rumbling Dice? How about no... I just feel like with the difficulty of the dice...or die...the CCH becomes very easy. If you can beat the Rumbling Dice you're pretty much home free. Just my 2 cents.
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Post by SuperTiger on Jul 21, 2014 22:11:20 GMT -5
You want something harder after the Rumbling Dice? How about no... I just feel like with the difficulty of the dice...or die...the CCH becomes very easy. If you can beat the Rumbling Dice you're pretty much home free. Just my 2 cents. I was just tweeting about how annoying the CCH is because it's nothing like the real version (granted this is still qualifying, I was more annoyed with the namesake) and the ledges aren't 3 cm, and I think a producer responded to my tweet and told me it wasn't the Ultimate Cliff Hanger... As an aside I definitely don't want something more difficult. I thought this qualifier was a better balance of obstacles than the last two, but the way they designed the Cliff Hanger and then called it the CCH just annoyed me.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jul 21, 2014 22:15:11 GMT -5
Speaking as someone who would have attempted it (had I not been screwed in qualifying) I for one welcome our more sane cliffhanger
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Post by TCM on Jul 21, 2014 22:18:14 GMT -5
The Rumbling Dice had an easy fix: Be built better.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jul 21, 2014 22:19:57 GMT -5
The Rumbling Dice had an easy fix: Be built better. There is no excuse for what happened to Joe, they built it so you have to swing and then the obstacle malfunctions because of how it has to be done... It should have the same guard rails they have in Japan for the Rumbling Dice *cough*andthesameweight*cough*
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Post by TCM on Jul 21, 2014 22:48:24 GMT -5
The Rumbling Dice had an easy fix: Be built better. There is no excuse for what happened to Joe, they built it so you have to swing and then the obstacle malfunctions because of how it has to be done... It should have the same guard rails they have in Japan for the Rumbling Dice *cough*andthesameweight*cough* Doesn't help it's so damn long. Looks like it's damn near three feet tall if you stand it up. Just scratch it. It's been more trouble than it's worth. For some reason, they are really bad at creating post-Salmon Ladder obstacles. The Unstable Bridge was crooked, the Rumbling Dice is so heavy the only way to properly do it is a health hazard, Cannonball Alley was given an arbitrary rule of "don't beat the obstacle the practical way" and eventually they threw out the rule. The Arm Rings, Cycling Road and Lamp Grasper were perfect not just because you can't mess those up from a design standpoint, and because the course had a much needed speed element to it then.
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 21, 2014 23:02:12 GMT -5
Great run by Joe and that dice was badly made no way it should have slid of like that on him.
The dice was killing people that was a brutal obstacle
Then of course the Salmon Ladder was destroying people which is normal
Elet Hall dude skip all but the bottom rung on the second tilting ladder was cool and then he clears 14' on the rumbling dice dismount that was ridiculous.
Shocker was Rozen going down on that CCH being how wide the rails where.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jul 21, 2014 23:18:19 GMT -5
Honestly I hope the Rumbling Dice returns for whatever region I'm put in, I still need revenge on it after Baltimore testing. And I mean the obstacle has followed me already
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Post by vaughngk on Jul 21, 2014 23:50:56 GMT -5
Some thoughts on tonight overall good balanced city final obstacles. Great save by Joe on the dice even he did fall he still would have made to Vegas. Michelle's rub was a little disappointing failing the jump to the ladder was a little surprising still great person and humble in deafeat. Katcy really set the bar high. But dislike that NBC makes every women competitor on the show as representing all women unlike men who run as individuals and not as group.
Also glad Michael Needham finished the course. I guess three years of making it to the finals and finally finishing with a fast time giving his size isn't inspirational enough when most larger men got a slower time and most didn't finish. I am really that dice was larger than he was and still past. Although I did like that both Wilczewski brothers both finished and they didn't get ff! Great moment and also I think Dan Galiczynki run was completly cut dispite finishing.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jul 21, 2014 23:59:51 GMT -5
Mike did make it to the finals last year, he failed the Body Prop in Baltimore and the Flying Cycle in Vegas.
OK good I'm not crazy for thinking Dan Galiczynki got cut (despite deserving to be shown). Walk on Leoniel Olanda also was cut too, was hoping to see his run (especially considering he was 11th in line and I was 12th, we got there about the same time but he signed first)
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Post by Amber on Jul 22, 2014 0:51:45 GMT -5
NBC officially has no hashtags. Last week #MightyKacy now #MightyMichelle Up next: #MightyMeagan
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Post by thebobmaster on Jul 22, 2014 1:44:46 GMT -5
Getting my results up on time this week! 1. Joe Moravsky; Finished, 3:40.48 2. Elet Hall; Finished, 4:21.16 3. Andrew Karsen; Finished, 4:24.12 4. Michael Needham; Finished, 4:55.79 5. Dan Galiczynski (WHY YOU CUTS?!); Finished, 4:56.70 6. Jamie Rahn; Finished, 5:31.49 7. Brian Wilczewski; Finished, 5:59.88 8. Geoff Britten; Finished, 6:39.95 9. Chris Wilczewski; Finished, 6:41.77 10. Tukrong "TK" Klengdong; Failed Crazy Cliffhanger, 2:50.13 11. Travis Rosen; Failed Crazy Cliffhanger, 2:53.55 12. Aaron Himelright; Failed Crazy Cliffhanger, 3:47.26 13. Andrew Lowes; Failed Rumbling Dice, 2:44.40 14. Dan Polizzi; Failed Rumbling Dice, 3:27.02 15. Matthew Schumann; Failed Rumbling Dice, 3:29.28
Shocking Fails: Michelle Warnky And now, further thoughts. For the most part, this was FAR better edited than qualifying. Still upset that they digested some finishers, and annoyed at them completely cutting the run of someone in the top 15, but eh.
I don't care what they call it, that was NOT the Crazy Cliffhanger.
Have they always made qualifying obstacles more difficult for finals? They mentioned doing so on the rope to cargo net, but I don't recall them saying anything about it before.
Man, Chris W...talk about getting your second wind.
Elet Hall's leap from the tilting ladders is one for the books, I think. That was amazing to behold.
That Rumbling Dice mishap...yeah, that was bad design. I'll defend the obstacle designers on some things, but what happened there was unacceptable. The Dice broke from someone using it properly?! Overall, an improvement over qualifying by far.
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Post by gt4dom on Jul 22, 2014 3:00:01 GMT -5
I haven't seen the episode yet but if so many people can pass a supposed "crazy cliffhanger" without mega cliffing skills or by weighing nothing then it must be so much easier than the Japanese version. I mean people in Japan who trained for years on CCH replicas can't do it, so how can someone with no/little training do it??? Kinda good we don't get ANW in England as I think I would get too much rage and anger at the course design to watch it on a weekly basis
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 22, 2014 8:08:50 GMT -5
I can say overall compared to the last several years NBC has gotten better at the production of ANW hopefully they build of this year to make it even better next year.
I also forgot to say nice run by Captain NBC (Sorry his wig always makes me chuckle) he has gotten better every year and it showed he upped his game another level this year from last year.
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Post by Ben Baker on Jul 22, 2014 9:18:37 GMT -5
I haven't seen the episode yet but if so many people can pass a supposed "crazy cliffhanger" without mega cliffing skills or by weighing nothing then it must be so much easier than the Japanese version. I mean people in Japan who trained for years on CCH replicas can't do it, so how can someone with no/little training do it??? Kinda good we don't get ANW in England as I think I would get too much rage and anger at the course design to watch it on a weekly basis the ledges of the ANW "CCH" we're over 2 inches! When the real deal in Japan in only 3 centimeters! That's over double Japan's thickness and makes it a ton easier. Not too mention it wasn't near as long in total length and you didn't even have to swing to the other side. I know it's only qualifying, but Americans are in for a rude awakening if they think that is hard. Somebody like Yuji could do a hand stand all the way across the American "CCH"
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 22, 2014 9:37:56 GMT -5
I haven't seen the episode yet but if so many people can pass a supposed "crazy cliffhanger" without mega cliffing skills or by weighing nothing then it must be so much easier than the Japanese version. I mean people in Japan who trained for years on CCH replicas can't do it, so how can someone with no/little training do it??? Kinda good we don't get ANW in England as I think I would get too much rage and anger at the course design to watch it on a weekly basis the ledges of the ANW "CCH" we're over 2 inches! When the real deal in Japan in only 3 centimeters! That's over double Japan's thickness and makes it a ton easier. Not too mention it wasn't near as long in total length and you didn't even have to swing to the other side. I know it's only qualifying, but Americans are in for a rude awakening if they think that is hard. Somebody like Yuji could do a hand stand all the way across the American "CCH" The vets know what is in store for them on the ultimate cliffhanger where it is way smaller.
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 22, 2014 9:39:31 GMT -5
Some thoughts on tonight overall good balanced city final obstacles. Great save by Joe on the dice even he did fall he still would have made to Vegas. Michelle's rub was a little disappointing failing the jump to the ladder was a little surprising still great person and humble in deafeat. Katcy really set the bar high. But dislike that NBC makes every women competitor on the show as representing all women unlike men who run as individuals and not as group. Also glad Michael Needham finished the course. I guess three years of making it to the finals and finally finishing with a fast time giving his size isn't inspirational enough when most larger men got a slower time and most didn't finish. I am really that dice was larger than he was and still past. Although I did like that both Wilczewski brothers both finished and they didn't get ff! Great moment and also I think Dan Galiczynki run was completly cut dispite finishing. What happen to them calling Needham the bedroom Ninja like they did before the last two years ?
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Post by Geoffnotjeff on Jul 22, 2014 11:16:30 GMT -5
I haven't seen the episode yet but if so many people can pass a supposed "crazy cliffhanger" without mega cliffing skills or by weighing nothing then it must be so much easier than the Japanese version. I mean people in Japan who trained for years on CCH replicas can't do it, so how can someone with no/little training do it??? Kinda good we don't get ANW in England as I think I would get too much rage and anger at the course design to watch it on a weekly basis the ledges of the ANW "CCH" we're over 2 inches! When the real deal in Japan in only 3 centimeters! That's over double Japan's thickness and makes it a ton easier. Not too mention it wasn't near as long in total length and you didn't even have to swing to the other side. I know it's only qualifying, but Americans are in for a rude awakening if they think that is hard. Somebody like Yuji could do a hand stand all the way across the American "CCH" I thought it was a walk in the park. i wish it had been a real crazy cliffhanger, or the edges were the small size of the UCH. I think only a few would have finished, but i know i still would have.
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