Worst obstacle ever

[jfeathe]

Jul 8, 2011 17:13:24 GMT -5 ES-13 said:

True, but the Final Ring's track wasn't oiled to make it slick and besides, the track had the habit of bending a lot as seen in 21.

Oiled?? I'm sorry, but where are you getting your information? I'm not saying it wasn't oiled or smoothed in some way, but how could you possibly know it was?


Anyway, this may be just me, but did anyone notice that after competitors dismounted the Ring, the Ring swayed back and forth as if it were hovering just slightly above the track?

[RiderLeangle]

Yeah... I think you're just making up this info detective... It isn't greased, it slides because of the angle... if it was greased why was it going as slow as it did for Lee in 24?...

Also jfeathe, I think that's because the ring is in place in the stopper at the end of the track which is what's making it go back and forth and not slide back up (You'll notice it did slide up as Kanno and Yuuji were attempting it in 23 and 24 but you noticed a louder clang once they got to the end and started swinging, that's the stopper working)

[ES-13]

These are just guesses on my part.

[jfeathe]

Jul 8, 2011 18:26:53 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

Also jfeathe, I think that's because the ring is in place in the stopper at the end of the track which is what's making it go back and forth and not slide back up (You'll notice it did slide up as Kanno and Yuuji were attempting it in 23 and 24 but you noticed a louder clang once they got to the end and started swinging, that's the stopper working)

No, I meant side to side movement. I re-watched Yuuji's 24 3rd stage run and the Ring is clearly not sliding on the track at any point. I don't know what it's attached too, but it's not on the track at all. I can't post the video of couse, but check it out.

[RiderLeangle]

Yeah, I know what you meant, It's just that it's trying to bounce back from the recoil but is locked in the stopper, as a ring it only has one point on the narrow track so it's not perfectly balanced on it so it's going to tilt sideways as it bounces back

[jfeathe]

Jul 8, 2011 18:53:05 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

Yeah, I know what you meant, It's just that it's trying to bounce back from the recoil but is locked in the stopper, as a ring it only has one point on the narrow track so it's not perfectly balanced on it so it's going to tilt sideways as it bounces back

But it looks like the entire ring is shifting, not swinging on the one point like you'd expect.

[ES-13]

Back to the worst obstacles, who in the right mind thought that the Hang Climbing would be a good replacement for the Sending Climber?

[UnrealCanine]

The sending climber was never attempted

[cole77000]

i thought it was a nice replacement. I think the sending climber would have taken out many more people. Plus, I think hang climbing looked nicer.

[ES-13]

It does not look nice, the Sending Climber had colored rocks, not white rocks. And besides, if they were going to take out an obstacle for 21, take out the Swing Ladder.

I really hated the Reverse Conveyer Belt, it was outdated by SASUKE 10 in my opinion.

[cole77000]

I thought the colored rocks looked kinda tacky but thats just my opinion. Usually the third stage has sheeker looking obstacles and I thought the larger white rocks fit that idea a bit better.

[Pine Creek Freerunning]

I like them all!

[sdolnicek]

In 18 th were a lot of "experiment obstacles". Some ones were good(eliminated some competitors), (log grip, spider jump.....) Some were awful(bungee bridge, net bridge, shoulder walk...)

[supersheep]

Tackle Machine was the worst obstacle ever, right Rider?

[thebobmaster]

Worst obstacle...that's a tough one. I'd say the Bridge Jump, but it gets points for taking out Yukio Iketani.

Overall, probably either the Swing Ladder (barely even counted as an obstacle to people with long arms like Levi Meeuwenberg and Kenji Takahashi) or the Shoulder Walk, which was a bad obstacle to replace a good obstacle like the Wall Lift.

[ES-13]

The Shoulder Walk would've been better if they had made it harder.

[TCM]

Jul 14, 2011 16:45:03 GMT -5 ES-13 said:

The Shoulder Walk would've been better if they had made it harder.

Harder =/= Better

It was a poor man's Galleon. At least the Galleon had a Y-shaped moving bridge. Shoulder Walk made the 2nd Stage look empty at the end of it.

[ES-13]

Very empty indeed, it's not even a "final obstacle" it's a starting obstacle, but anyway, putting some VIKING in SASUKE was genius, but they butchered it all, only the Spider Flip came out good, Pole Maze and Shoulder Walk, ehh, not so much.

[RiderLeangle]

Jul 14, 2011 15:53:26 GMT -5 thebobmaster said:

Worst obstacle...that's a tough one. I'd say the Bridge Jump, but it gets points for taking out Yukio Iketani.

The Bridge Jump was actually a good obstacle, it's just they made one fatal mistake... They put it AFTER the Jump Hang... so the only people making it there have the skills to pass the Jump Hang (which took out a good number of people). Had they switched those two around we'd be seeing more *OK I should not abbreviate Bridge Jump* fails

[Deleted]

Bridge Jump would've been a great 2nd obstacle. It would be kind of cool if they combined the Bridge Jump with the Hazard Swing. So instead of the rope, id' be the last part of the HS.