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Post by brockriebe6 on Jul 27, 2015 23:23:31 GMT -5
Nothing of me got shown again  They showed a clip of the runners faces at the beginning of the show don't know if you were one them since I don't what you look like. How did you do anyway? Ok they showed my face for about half a second at the beginning of the ep and I was in a few crowd shots here and there but thats it. I failed the cargo crossing so actually ended up doing worse than in qualifying. |
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Post by grandpaninja on Jul 28, 2015 16:48:12 GMT -5
They showed a clip of the runners faces at the beginning of the show don't know if you were one them since I don't what you look like. How did you do anyway? Ok they showed my face for about half a second at the beginning of the ep and I was in a few crowd shots here and there but thats it. I failed the cargo crossing so actually ended up doing worse than in qualifying. At least you got to run 49,400 of us did not. |
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Post by brockriebe6 on Jul 28, 2015 20:09:05 GMT -5
Ok they showed my face for about half a second at the beginning of the ep and I was in a few crowd shots here and there but thats it. I failed the cargo crossing so actually ended up doing worse than in qualifying. At least you got to run 49,400 of us did not. You're right I constantly think about how lucky I was just to be chosen. I was just happy to be there and to get to experience it all first hand. It's just a little disappointing when they you know that they could very easily have showed all 30 competitors in the finals by giving us guys who got cut at least a fast forward but instead they decided to hype other competitors with extra profiles and interviews. It's not that big of a deal to me but I just wanted everyone I knew that was rooting for me to at least get to see me a little bit on tv is all. |
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Post by chackpop on Jul 28, 2015 21:17:03 GMT -5
I'm just not happy with how difficult these City Finals courses are.
We've seen an average of 2 people clear in the 3 regions and each region has featured some obstacle that is near impossible.
I miss seeing success of about 7 people as in previous years and honestly its just boring seeing competitor after competitor go out.
The Vegas First Stage will be much easier and success in qualifying simply does not matter anymore.
Rant over
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Post by gt4dom on Jul 28, 2015 21:20:13 GMT -5
I'm just not happy with how difficult these City Finals courses are. We've seen an average of 2 people clear in the 3 regions and each region has featured some obstacle that is near impossible. I miss seeing success of about 7 people as in previous years and honestly its just boring seeing competitor after competitor go out. The Vegas First Stage will be much easier and success in qualifying simply does not matter anymore. Rant over Don't worry, at least the Vegas final which is the one that counts should be a fair course (hopefully  ) |
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 28, 2015 23:02:56 GMT -5
Have they gone overboard because there is more talent and they are trying to balance it and they are struggling to find that right mix of hard but not over the top hard. Like Vinice was more bad obstacle design imo where Kansas City looked to be a mixture of that modified body prop being so brutal and mix in rain.Houston looked like a lot of people just struggled with the technique on the bar and over or undershot
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 14:19:44 GMT -5
That walking bar was a terrible idea. It involves too much luck.
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Post by kangaroo on Jul 29, 2015 19:40:06 GMT -5
That walking bar was a terrible idea. It involves too much luck. Is it any worse than the flying bar that is been a staple in years past even in Sasuke ? |
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Post by blah123 on Jul 30, 2015 9:33:02 GMT -5
Other than a few crapshoot obstacles (Hourglass Drop), and bad luck with weather, the obstacles and their level of difficulty has been fine. There's nothing wrong with 2 clears per city final. It's supposed to be hard.
I also liked the walking bar obstacle. It's a little luck-based but not completely. Isn't that one of the things we love about Sasuke? Same can be said about Flying Bar.
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Post by greenday61892 on Jul 30, 2015 11:56:58 GMT -5
I also liked the walking bar obstacle. It's a little luck-based but not completely. Isn't that one of the things we love about Sasuke? Same can be said about Flying Bar. I agree completely. It's like the Flying Bar with a little added difficulty |
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Post by phrozunsun on Jul 30, 2015 12:02:38 GMT -5
I also liked the walking bar obstacle. It's a little luck-based but not completely. Isn't that one of the things we love about Sasuke? Same can be said about Flying Bar. I agree completely. It's like the Flying Bar with a little added difficulty I sort of disagree, both of those could be learned to a degree, and all things considered, most ninjas did well on them, even if they didn't make it all the way. They were nowhere near as bad as the Hourglass Drop trampoline in Venice. That will go down in history as the most poorly designed obstacle in ANW history. It wasn't even a bad idea - just the wrong kind of trampoline to put there. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2015 19:02:15 GMT -5
That walking bar was a terrible idea. It involves too much luck. Is it any worse than the flying bar that is been a staple in years past even in Sasuke ? Yes. At least with the Flying Bar you didn't have to worry about pushing one side too hard (although you did have to worry about keeping the bar even). |
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Post by YGK on Aug 1, 2015 7:14:09 GMT -5
Congratulations to all the finalists!
I saw Sam sann's run on esquire website. Really great job, only worry is, how will he handle the time limit in the finals.
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Post by Amber on Aug 2, 2015 0:17:35 GMT -5
With all that space the rope took up, couldn't they just have made it the flying bar anyways?..
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Post by brockriebe6 on Aug 2, 2015 15:54:07 GMT -5
With all that space the rope took up, couldn't they just have made it the flying bar anyways?.. The reason the rope took up so much space was because there initially were way more rungs but lots testers were failing, so they took out some rungs and made the rope longer. |
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Post by cole77000 on Aug 2, 2015 17:23:05 GMT -5
I'm actually liking the riskier decisions the course designers are making with the city finals courses. From a logistical standpoint, it makes much more sense to test out the difficulty of some of these wackier third stage-esque obstacles here than at Venice, where a bad obstacle decision could ruin an entire tournament.
I'm not saying that the obstacles have been stellar, I just like that they are choosing to try some new stuff where there is less risk.
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Post by Amber on Aug 2, 2015 18:40:17 GMT -5
With all that space the rope took up, couldn't they just have made it the flying bar anyways?.. The reason the rope took up so much space was because there initially were way more rungs but lots testers were failing, so they took out some rungs and made the rope longer. Makes sense, people were struggling with it as is anyways lol. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 1:26:51 GMT -5
With all that space the rope took up, couldn't they just have made it the flying bar anyways?.. The reason the rope took up so much space was because there initially were way more rungs but lots testers were failing, so they took out some rungs and made the rope longer. The Walking Bar was still an absolutely terrible idea (although it's better than the Hourglass Drop... barely). But, at least they don't have a stupid "can't use your feet" rule for the rope (looking at you Bungee Road). |
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Post by kangaroo on Aug 3, 2015 16:32:25 GMT -5
With all that space the rope took up, couldn't they just have made it the flying bar anyways?.. The reason the rope took up so much space was because there initially were way more rungs but lots testers were failing, so they took out some rungs and made the rope longer. Wow they did something smart when and obstacle is way to hard |
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Post by greenday61892 on Aug 5, 2015 10:20:38 GMT -5
The reason the rope took up so much space was because there initially were way more rungs but lots testers were failing, so they took out some rungs and made the rope longer. The Walking Bar was still an absolutely terrible idea (although it's better than the Hourglass Drop... barely). But, at least they don't have a stupid "can't use your feet" rule for the rope (looking at you Bungee Road). I disagree. I think it was perfectly fine. The flying bar is a staple and it's just a modification of that. |
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