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Post by vaughngk on Jul 29, 2014 14:02:34 GMT -5
Question did the Miami Finals happen before or after sasuke 30. Because if happened before Drew at least got a chance to redeem himself and made to the third stage.
Also very happy for Ryan one of my favorite competitors and I know he'll find love one day he seems like a good guy and also a good looking one at that!
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Post by arsenette on Jul 29, 2014 14:08:09 GMT -5
Sasuke happened May 17-18. Miami was a couple weeks earlier (May 2-3)
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 29, 2014 14:09:51 GMT -5
Question did the Miami Finals happen before or after sasuke 30. Because if happened before Drew at least got a chance to redeem himself and made to the third stage. Also very happy for Ryan one of my favorite competitors and I know he'll find love one day he seems like a good guy and also a good looking one at that! I love it that Ryan made it again because he is another competitor I really like.
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Post by thatoneuser on Jul 29, 2014 14:13:03 GMT -5
Spoilered my comment.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jul 29, 2014 15:07:15 GMT -5
Why yes Idoko. It IS natural to stick a hand out for support. BECAUSE NO HANDS ON THE BALANCE OBSTACLES IS THE DUMBEST RULE THEY'VE HAD. I respectfully disagree...otherwise there's nothing to stop a competitor from crawling. I agree, I would have loved to use my hands on the bridge of blades but watching the testers do ir was way too unfairly easy, same with the spinning log in denver based on venice in anw4. but I can say I was ahead of the rule by becoming the first of 2 americans to clear the prism tilt without using my hands
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Post by midoriyamanosaru on Jul 29, 2014 16:16:05 GMT -5
The lowest stone at right at Dancing Stones was the killer. That stone seemed like jiggling harder than other stones, and it eliminated the Spartan.
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 29, 2014 17:47:55 GMT -5
The lowest stone at right at Dancing Stones was the killer. That stone seemed like jiggling harder than other stones, and it eliminated the Spartan. Talking of Dancing stones how about that guy that saved himself by using his knees to grab the stone when he slipped then stood back up and making it to the platform he went out later but that save was awesome on the dancing stones .
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Post by thebobmaster on Jul 29, 2014 17:56:07 GMT -5
Sorry about the delay in posting results (again, school schedule sucks). Last week that I should have that big of a delay, though. So, first, results. 1. JJ Woods: Finished, 4:15.95 2. Keith Niemitalo: Finished, 4:39.81 3. Ryan Stratis (YEAH!): Finished, 5:20.40 4. Solomon Harvey: Finished, 5:28.41 5. Stephens Nunnally: Finished, 5:40.16 6. Adam Grossman: Finished, 6:29.70 7. Noel Reyes: Finished, 7:15.97 8. Michael Eckert: Failed Spider Climb, 3:24.46 9. Dustin McKinney: Failed Spider Climb, 4:04.89 10. Sean Morris (YEAH!): Failed Spider Climb, 4:49.51 11. Luciano Acuna, Jr.: Failed Floating Stairs, 2:08.92 12. Jonathan Sharp Brown: Failed Minefield, 2:11.72 13. Joseph Rosello: Failed Minefield, 2:25.56 14. Todd Bourgeois: Failed Minefield, 2:36.47 15. John Vogt: Failed Minefield, 3:39.61
Shocking Fails: Idoko Abuh, Drew Dreschel And now, further thoughts. I was glad to see that they made the semi-finals much harder. The qualifiers were too easy.
It was nice to see Reko reference Sasuke and Ninja Warrior separate of each other. Shows great respect for the original.
Between the trucker a couple of episodes ago and Stephens Nunnally, I'm tired of hearing the commentators judge competitors based on occupation. I mean, no one acted as if Yuuji was in a different class of competitor because he's a shoe salesman. Why judge someone because they have an occupation that you didn't expect.
Finally, while what happened to Idoko Abuh sucked to see, it's going a little far to say that it isn't fair to forbid the use of hands on the Dancing Stones. It would be like allowing someone to put their feet up on the sides of the Salmon Ladder. Just takes away the difficulty of the obstacle.
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Post by vaughngk on Jul 29, 2014 18:39:59 GMT -5
What's with all the spider climb fails was it just to slippery from the water? If so how did then how did the other 7 guys pass?
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Post by thebobmaster on Jul 29, 2014 18:51:53 GMT -5
I don't know about the other two, but for Dustin, the issue was that he has a small size and, by his own admission, tried to compensate with his upper body strength. Good strategy on some obstacles, but not that one.
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Post by SasukeForever on Jul 29, 2014 18:51:56 GMT -5
What's with all the spider climb fails was it just to slippery from the water? If so how did then how did the other 7 guys pass? Supposedly it was raining the night before or 2 nights before.
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Post by SuperTiger on Jul 29, 2014 22:15:46 GMT -5
Finally, while what happened to Idoko Abuh sucked to see, it's going a little far to say that it isn't fair to forbid the use of hands on the Dancing Stones. It would be like allowing someone to put their feet up on the sides of the Salmon Ladder. Just takes away the difficulty of the obstacle. While I can see where you're coming from, I severely disagree for a few reasons. The first being that the original Dancing Stones allowed the competitors to use their hands. Yes ANW and Sasuke are separate entities, but if they're going to use an obstacle that was used in Japan, at least allow the same rules, regardless of the modification. Another reason I disagree is because the obstacle was very similar in nature to Kunoichi's Peg Jump, another obstacle that allowed the use of a competitor's hands. This particular version of the Dancing Stones was already relatively difficult, even if competitors could use their hands, let alone without. Just as an aside, I think this rule is silly across the board for all the qualifying balance obstacles, not just because of who or who didn't fail it in this particular course. While I see where you're coming from with your Salmon Ladder comparison, using your hands on a balance obstacle is much more practical, and probable than anyone using their legs on the Salmon Ladder.
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 30, 2014 7:23:53 GMT -5
What's with all the spider climb fails was it just to slippery from the water? If so how did then how did the other 7 guys pass? Yes it appeared to be humidity or something a lot of guys that went up slipped a couple times and held on but several guys where slipping it happened on the warped wall as well you could see guy slip as they where running up
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Post by acw on Jul 30, 2014 8:20:00 GMT -5
I don't know about the other two, but for Dustin, the issue was that he has a small size and, by his own admission, tried to compensate with his upper body strength. Good strategy on some obstacles, but not that one. Really? Small size didn't seem to hurt Kacy when she Spider Climbed in Dallas.
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Post by thebobmaster on Jul 30, 2014 12:16:19 GMT -5
I don't know about the other two, but for Dustin, the issue was that he has a small size and, by his own admission, tried to compensate with his upper body strength. Good strategy on some obstacles, but not that one. Really? Small size didn't seem to hurt Kacy when she Spider Climbed in Dallas. She had the technique down pat, and had probably practiced the Spider Climb a fair bit. I'm not sure Dustin did. At any rate, he himself was the one who said that he relied too much on upper body strength for the Spider Climb in the post-run interview.
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Post by UnrealCanine on Jul 30, 2014 14:10:07 GMT -5
I don't get the point of making the obstacles from the qualifying course so much more difficult in the Dallas city finals. I don't recall them doing so in any of the other regions this year (or at least to this degree), not to mention that the focus should be on how the competitors can perform with the addition of the post-Warped Wall obstacles as a test of their stamina. Making everything before the Warped Wall harder at this point seems to defeat this purpose. None of the other courses had 42 finishers
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 30, 2014 14:32:24 GMT -5
I don't get the point of making the obstacles from the qualifying course so much more difficult in the Dallas city finals. I don't recall them doing so in any of the other regions this year (or at least to this degree), not to mention that the focus should be on how the competitors can perform with the addition of the post-Warped Wall obstacles as a test of their stamina. Making everything before the Warped Wall harder at this point seems to defeat this purpose. None of the other courses had 42 finishers Saint Louis also made some changes on their course as well
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Post by acw on Jul 30, 2014 14:33:49 GMT -5
Really? Small size didn't seem to hurt Kacy when she Spider Climbed in Dallas. She had the technique down pat, and had probably practiced the Spider Climb a fair bit. I'm not sure Dustin did. At any rate, he himself was the one who said that he relied too much on upper body strength for the Spider Climb in the post-run interview. Although, in Kacy's defense, I'm sure being a gymnast helped.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jul 30, 2014 14:39:21 GMT -5
None of the other courses had 42 finishers Saint Louis also made some changes on their course as well I may have gone out several feet before it but rope swing into cargo net was pretty easy from what I saw, you could completely mess up the jump and still clear it
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Post by acw on Jul 30, 2014 15:54:27 GMT -5
Saint Louis also made some changes on their course as well I may have gone out several feet before it but rope swing into cargo net was pretty easy from what I saw, you could completely mess up the jump and still clear it Dude, you were on ANW? Cool. (Not sarcasm).
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