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Post by arsenette on May 21, 2017 21:51:38 GMT -5
Still off the main list but holding strong on the cusp at 32. Rating is down slightly but it's safe it is rounded up. Viewers going down again but not at an alarming rate. 0.27 with 848,000 viewers.
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Post by penguincatfish on May 23, 2017 22:42:17 GMT -5
Tonight was the finale for both The Voice and Dancing with the Stars, so I expect that may eat into the ratings a bit.
Very intense episode! Lots of crashes! The way Drew got through the Swing Jump was different. Labreckfast Club is my favorite punny name along with Stratis Faction.
Edit - The preview for next week has a major spoiler in it.
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Post by BobbyG11 on May 24, 2017 3:21:24 GMT -5
Tonight was the finale for both The Voice and Dancing with the Stars, so I expect that may eat into the ratings a bit. Very intense episode! Lots of crashes! The way Drew got through the Swing Jump was different. Labreckfast Club is my favorite punny name along with Stratis Faction. Edit - The preview for next week has a major spoiler in it. At first I thought Drew was nuts. Then I saw how quickly he was able to dismount and it was genius. I guess we now know for sure where James destroyed his shoulder and needed surgery. And I was sure tonight was where Erica blew her knee out with he fall. I no longer watch the previews. Even the start of the episode, I just look away from my phone until the opening is done. They give away waayyyyy too much.
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Post by jba392 on May 24, 2017 22:44:36 GMT -5
Wow, those were all really strong teams. That was probably the most loaded qualifying episode we'll have all season, as any of those 4 teams would have been contenders to go to the finals in any other episode. Great to see Paul Kasemir competing again. Hopefully since they said he was "taking a break", that means he's been invited back to compete this season. Even though Lorin Ball was the captain for his team, it was clear that everyone knew Kasemir was their premier competitor.
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Post by arsenette on May 25, 2017 0:55:53 GMT -5
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Post by Al Bundy on May 27, 2017 18:11:03 GMT -5
The way Drew got through the Swing Jump was different. He has a very good understanding of the obstacles and the physics behind it, he always tries new approaches, such as on the Pipe Slider during the NNL finals. The Swing Jump move was genius.
And I'm glad to finally see Drew & his team in the finals. Imo they would've already got there last year if Erica Cook didn't cause them a 10'' penalty.
But in general I agree with you guys, great teams, great episode. I was kinda surprised to see Lorin Ball being pretty slow. Too bad for Labreckfast, they looked so dominant at first. And I wanted to see more Jesse Labreck
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Post by Al Bundy on May 27, 2017 18:13:35 GMT -5
At first I thought Drew was nuts. Then I saw how quickly he was able to dismount and it was genius. I guess we now know for sure where James destroyed his shoulder and needed surgery. And I was sure tonight was where Erica blew her knee out with he fall. I'm wondering if Huang got injured the way she jumped off the Ring of Fire... But she got through faster than like 80% of the men!
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Post by Al Bundy on May 27, 2017 18:17:02 GMT -5
I no longer watch the previews. Even the start of the episode, I just look away from my phone until the opening is done. They give away waayyyyy too much. Yeah, they're a complete disgrace and last year they even ruined parts of the finals for me. Now I close my eyes too. What's the point of showing spoilers, can't you just show the competitors on the 1st or 2nd obstacle???
For instance, in their promos they've often shown a picture of Drew running against Stratis. Once I've seen that, why would I even watch Stratis Faction vs Labreckfast when I already know the round 2 matchup??
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Post by madship on May 30, 2017 23:33:09 GMT -5
An All Time Low.
This was definitely the worst episode of Team Ninja Warrior to date. It is hard to imagine how an episode could slip in beneath it. 12 obstacle fails 7 on the Ring of Fire, ending runs by the third obstacle in 6 heats. The Ninja Brittens were hapless in this episode, making last season's showing look stellar. In their second match they cleared only 4 obstacles, a TNW futility record. I love Geoff, but this is not his bailiwick and for the second year in a row he fell into the trap of choosing family to be on the team.
Last year only the Lab Rats did well with family on the team, losing in the Finals to a slightly superior Party Time. Storm Team progressed to the finals on the strength of Joe, Rob was 0-4. Storm Team lost to the Lab Rats in their playoff round. Joe replaced both teammates, but still only made it to the finals on his ability.
Neither Dortch performed well for Tré Amigos in season one. Treymane replace his wife for the second season and did better, but lost to pretty powerful teams.
Lab Rats krpt the same team for the second season and in my opinion did not move on to the finals solely due to the injury to Chris in heat one.
The Ninja Brittens replaced Dustin McKinney, due to deployment, for season two. Unfortunately, McKinneyy had the only victory for the Brittens last year. Geoff had the only victory this year after Mears threw himself off the course and still hit the buzzer first.
I would have switched things up more this year if I were Geoff. Of course, I haven't seen Jessica perform on a ninja course, since her runs have never aired on the main show. I am sure she is much better than the TNW episodes have shown.
Another low, they repeated the Fly Wheels from qualifier 5 (S02E10). Were the floating steps, tilting ladders or even the degraded Hour Glass drop & Rolling Thunder unavailable. In all of the history of Ninja Warrior, the "geniuses" at ATS couldn't find something different that would work for the fifth obstacle in the seventh qualifier. My optimism for the fifth obstacles in the Wild card and Finals rounds are crushed.
The fly wheels were possibly the worst obstacle to repeat as the simple way to handle them was demonstrated early in qualifier 5. In the entirety of qualifier 7, which presumably happened after qualifier five, only Brandon Mears used the technique of grabbing the third wheel from the second and using the momentum of releasing the second to dismount and complete the obstacle. The technique was used several times in qualifier 5.
Why did they save this to be the last qualifier? This episode should have been buried in the three or four slot so it would have been forgotten by the time the wild card episodes were aired. Towers of Power do deserve a wild card, but the level of competition they beat ti earn the spot would have been forgotten by the time they ran again if the qualifier had been aired earlier in the season.
Generally I give the editors and producers a lot of leeway, since I love watcing the ninjas defeat the obstacles, but this was a bad episode.
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Post by Paragus on May 31, 2017 1:03:56 GMT -5
Why did Matt and Akbar have to mention how the InvincAbels were from Texas, like, five different times? Is there something I'm missing? What's so significant about this that it needed to be stated multiple times?
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Post by Paragus on May 31, 2017 1:18:06 GMT -5
An All Time Low. This was definitely the worst episode of Team Ninja Warrior to date. It is hard to imagine how an episode could slip in beneath it. 12 obstacle fails 7 on the Ring of Fire, ending runs by the third obstacle in 6 heats. The Ninja Brittens were hapless in this episode, making last season's showing look stellar. In their second match they cleared only 4 obstacles, a TNW futility record. I love Geoff, but this is not his bailiwick and for the second year in a row he fell into the trap of choosing family to be on the team. The Ninja Brittens replaced Travis McKinney, due to deployment, for season two. Unfortunately, McKinneyy had the only victory for the Brittens last year. Geoff had the only victory this year after Mears threw himself off the course and still hit the buzzer first. I would have switched things up more this year if I were Geoff. Of course, I haven't seen Jessica perform on a ninja course, since her runs have never aired on the main show. I am sure she is much better than the TNW episodes have shown. Dustin McKinney* And I'm just curious: has Jessica Britten ever actually competed on ANW? I haven't found a single thing related to the topic. Then again I may just not be searching enough.
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Post by ekkerb11 on May 31, 2017 2:46:09 GMT -5
An All Time Low. This was definitely the worst episode of Team Ninja Warrior to date. It is hard to imagine how an episode could slip in beneath it. 12 obstacle fails 7 on the Ring of Fire, ending runs by the third obstacle in 6 heats. The Ninja Brittens were hapless in this episode, making last season's showing look stellar. In their second match they cleared only 4 obstacles, a TNW futility record. I love Geoff, but this is not his bailiwick and for the second year in a row he fell into the trap of choosing family to be on the team. The Ninja Brittens replaced Travis McKinney, due to deployment, for season two. Unfortunately, McKinneyy had the only victory for the Brittens last year. Geoff had the only victory this year after Mears threw himself off the course and still hit the buzzer first. I would have switched things up more this year if I were Geoff. Of course, I haven't seen Jessica perform on a ninja course, since her runs have never aired on the main show. I am sure she is much better than the TNW episodes have shown. Dustin McKinney* And I'm just curious: has Jessica Britten ever actually competed on ANW? I haven't found a single thing related to the topic. Then again I may just not be searching enough. Yes she has. I think she just missed out on city finals last season, failing the Wall drop. Also, according to her insta she's been fighting Lyme disease for a while (I may have misread), which can wreck havoc on training. Not that it's an excuse just something that's a challenge. Elet was treated for it and the next year reached stage 3. Jessica Britten is MUCH better than her showing in Team.
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Post by madship on May 31, 2017 10:08:55 GMT -5
Dustin McKinney* And I'm just curious: has Jessica Britten ever actually competed on ANW? I haven't found a single thing related to the topic. Then again I may just not be searching enough. Thank you for the correction. I have heard she competed in Philly last year and finished just outside the top 30.
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Post by blah123 on May 31, 2017 10:26:07 GMT -5
Dustin McKinney* And I'm just curious: has Jessica Britten ever actually competed on ANW? I haven't found a single thing related to the topic. Then again I may just not be searching enough. Thank you for the correction. I have heard she competed in Philly last year and finished just outside the top 30. She also competed in ANW7 Pittsburgh. I want to say she failed the Log Grip in qualifiers, not sure though.
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Post by RiderLeangle on May 31, 2017 10:38:56 GMT -5
Thank you for the correction. I have heard she competed in Philly last year and finished just outside the top 30. She also competed in ANW7 Pittsburgh. I want to say she failed the Log Grip in qualifiers, not sure though. You would be correct on that one
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Post by Al Bundy on May 31, 2017 17:18:26 GMT -5
Why did they save this to be the last qualifier? This episode should have been buried in the three or four slot so it would have been forgotten by the time the wild card episodes were aired. Imo it may have been because... (it's pure speculation)
{Spoiler} Last year, the winners ran in the final qualifying episode. Maybe to stay fresh in the memory of the audience? If it happens again this year, there's definitely a pattern.
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Post by Al Bundy on May 31, 2017 17:37:42 GMT -5
Anyway, I agree with you that it wasn't a very good episode. And it wasn't dramatic, it ended as expected. When I saw that Ronin isn't in ep. 6, I knew they'd be the winners of ep. 7. But I wouldn't call it an all time low. The Ring of Fire is tough and this time it claimed many victims. And the captains also made some dumb decisions (Jessica running sudden death, Mears doing the upper body stuff), but that's happened throughout the season (highlighted by Brent running sudden death against Joe). But it's not the producers' fault, they couldn't know when they placed these teams in the same episode. They could've, however, made a better distribution. E.g. the episode with Daniel Gil was waaay too stacked, whereas other episodes had rather average teams.
In general, I think that if they come back for season 3, they don't just have to address the format, but also the teams. Some average guys that used to be good on the easy ANW6 courses really don't need to be captains anymore. I mean guys like Bynum, Dortch, Kaufmann, Connealy, Melick... Where was Adam Arnold? Ethan Swanson? Mike Torres? Why are Coolridge and Levin not captains? Why isn't the Beast a captain and runs against Drew?
I also agree that the Fly Wheel 2.0 was a WTF-moment.
So now Wildcard week follows. Considering that there are more episodes this year, it was pretty obvious that this had to come. My question is: who competes and how do you select them? - The losers of the relays? There are 7, but it needs 8 teams. How do you select Nr. 8? - Do you go by overall record? - What if two or more have the same record? Do you count the time? That's not fair because some stop when their opponents fall. - Do you go by how famous the ninjas are? Not fair either. And how do you measure "famous"? But I've seen a picture of two guys competing, and both their teams had gone out in round 2...
Well, I'm curious to see what happens next...
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Post by ekkerb11 on May 31, 2017 23:43:28 GMT -5
I would guess that it's all 7 runner-up teams PLUS Party Time since they were last year's champs and not a runner-up this year.
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Post by DonalM on Jun 1, 2017 0:44:07 GMT -5
On ANWNation I believe they stated the wildcard teams are the Towers of Power, Labreckfast Club, Lab Rats, and the Superhero Squad. No clue what the reasoning behind these selections is.
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Post by jork122 on Jun 1, 2017 0:45:18 GMT -5
Labreckfast Club did not make it to the relay, so speculation is that they are the 8th team.
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