An ANW producer is doing an AMA on Reddit

[StrykerX7]

www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2gkvt5/iama_american_ninja_warrior_producer_ama/

ANW producer Scott Anders is currently doing an AMA on Reddit. Ask him anything (within reason) to your heart's content!

[arsenette]

Thanks. I added my question in there and he answered it. I figured he had no power so it's basically useless.

[StrykerX7]

A redditor in /r/ninjawarrior went straight to the hard questions.

REDDITOR:

Why was Joe Moravsky allowed to cheat on Cannonball incline during Stage 3 in the finals?

Why was Kazuma Asa told mid-run he couldn't skip the second cannonball, while others before him were allowed to skip it?

Why did NBC continuously digest Paul Kasemir?

Why did NBC blatantly modify the results of USA vs [Japan] to appear like Ryo Matachi lost?

PRODUCER:

I don't know if he was "allowed" to cheat as much as it wasn't called by the refs so they let him continue. If it's "incidental contact" then the competitor is allowed to keep going. The refs deemed his contact incidental. Just like in football, there are bad calls. I can not comment on the Kazuma cannonball thing as I did not see it happen and this is the first I've heard about it. Again, I'd say it's a bad call by the refs. Paul Kasemir is boring. NBC did not modify the results... Ryo won the point, or the match or whatever. You're talking about the flying bar right?

REDDITOR:

I'm talking about Ryo being faster than Brian Arnold in USA vs the World (my bad, originally wrote USA vs Japan).

And Paul Kasemir being "boring" makes literally no sense when 90% of the other competitors in qualifying and finals were both generic and bad at the course.

PRODUCER:

We did not change any results. I'm looking at the field notes right now... why do you think it was manipulated? And I was half-joking about Paul. I can't speak to why he doesn't get shown more often. NBC has final say on who makes air

[higeboshi]

Haha... "Are you Jason Huewe?"