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Post by GlobalNinjaFan on Jun 22, 2016 10:57:05 GMT -5
Choosing Jessie in itself isn't a problem. And in certain cases, diversity is a good thing. Just saying there are plenty of men deserving of the opportunity as well.. Again, based off your wording you never would have considered her, or you would have but rejected her and considered that 'diverse' enough. 12 different men have been on the team in the three years the team has been around and 4 people got to be on the team twice. And it's clear they've deserved their spots. But choosing Jessie is enough to consider it one of the worst decisions NBC has done? There are indeed plenty of deserving men, but here's the thing: men are never gonna be wanting for consideration on the team. Meanwhile you're implying she took a guy's 'spot.' And if you don't mean to imply it, you are doing a very bad job of it. Not even gonna touch 'in certain cases' Dude, the whole Jessie thing was an OFFHAND comment! Did you even read most of my original post? The exclusion of Japan and the fake "Europeans" on Team Europe, as well as the non-ninjas on team Latin America are what irks me the most. The worst thing NBC has ever done has nothing to do with Graff getting picked. The event as a whole just seems like a sham for me. And considering this is meant to be a "best in the world competition", I am of the belief that like last year, the Team USA members should be the five that got the five farthest runs in Vegas. If Graff gets to be in the top 5, fine, I'll fully support her being on the team. But we both know, regardless of whether or not she makes history and clears stage 1/2, how miniscule the chances of that actually happening are. Case closed.
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Post by TCM on Jun 22, 2016 11:33:56 GMT -5
If an offhand comment still has poor wording, it's gonna be called out. Being an offhand comment does not render it immune from criticism.
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Post by GlobalNinjaFan on Jun 22, 2016 11:45:55 GMT -5
While that may be the case, I still stand by what I said. Everything and anything leading up to this event has either been a facepalm moment or a major red flag. My OP explains that.
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Post by kangaroo on Jun 22, 2016 16:12:13 GMT -5
The World competiton has been crap for a while and I do not care about the entire argument of editing on who won lost crap it is the entire format. In fact last years World set on my dvr for almost a year before I decided to even watch it basically nothing else to watch and I was desparte. That is my only complaint is the lay out of the entire competition. My personal opinion on how the competition should be run.
Five People per team every one runs every stage. Points are rewarded for clears only and Stage 1 and Stage 2 should have the same clear timie limits as the ANW that season.
Stage 1: one point per clear Stage 2: two points per clear Stage 3: three points per clear
Tie Breaker only timed event Stage 4: Fastest Rope Climb
If I was in charge this is how it would be done
Overall I am fine with the courses I know there are issues and sometimes bad obstacles I am looking at you snake crossing. Then again Sasuke has some obstackles I can not stand the music box and me perosnally I hate the back stream with extreme prejudice.
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Post by geoffbritten928 on Jun 22, 2016 23:35:26 GMT -5
To me, the most foolish thing ANW does is have wild cards into Vegas. If you failed in the regional qualifying round and did not make it into the top 15, you should not be allowed to compete in the national finals. I would not remove them entirely, though, I'd just only change it to have where certain people don't have to put up with qualifying at all, and are immediately accepted into the Las Vegas Finals. This would include fan favorites and/or people who have made it very far in the most recent seasons, obviously. Perhaps they could have 5 regions like they did this year, and have 75 qualifiers with 15 from each city, along with 25 people who are immediately accepted into Vegas without having to compete in qualifying. Another way to do this would be to have 5 cities and make the top 20 from each city go to Vegas instead of top 15, and no wild cards of any kind. I personally find the first one to be better, but the second one is good, too.
Another thing I wish ANW would stop doing is having the city finals shown weeks after the city qualifying. If I were in charge of the show, I would have only one episode for each region, where the qualifying portion and finals portion are all shown in one night, and that it won't end at the Warped Wall. This would make the qualifying portion of ANW much less painful to wait through and allow us to go through each season faster. Either that, or show the city qualifying and city finals in the same week and stop pretending the city finals are a month after the city qualifying. I prefer the first one, though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 4:16:21 GMT -5
Airing the show...cancel it already
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Post by narcissus1916 on Jun 23, 2016 5:27:22 GMT -5
Replaced Sasuke on domestic television. Agreed. No idea why they can't coexist in the same country. Although I'm surprised to find out that American Ninja Warrior isn't watched outside of the states. Heck, if you cut out the puff piece you'd have bite sized episodes! EDIT: Then again, I don't think my viewing habits are normal. My Mom got me hooked on American Ninja Warrior, which led me to the G4 reruns, which led us to the original Sasuke runs. Now in turn, we're watching Sasuke, ANW, Team Ninja Warrior, UK, Sweden, and we just started Ninja Warrior Denmark. Oh yeah, we also watched the team competitions for X-Warrior in China, because that was hilariously cheap. The runs themselves translate without the need for any subtitles, and even the fluff pieces can generally be understood. (Oh hey, he's working construction... he's a construction worker!)
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Post by kangaroo on Jun 24, 2016 9:13:07 GMT -5
To me, the most foolish thing ANW does is have wild cards into Vegas. If you failed in the regional qualifying round and did not make it into the top 15, you should not be allowed to compete in the national finals. I would not remove them entirely, though, I'd just only change it to have where certain people don't have to put up with qualifying at all, and are immediately accepted into the Las Vegas Finals. This would include fan favorites and/or people who have made it very far in the most recent seasons, obviously. Perhaps they could have 5 regions like they did this year, and have 75 qualifiers with 15 from each city, along with 25 people who are immediately accepted into Vegas without having to compete in qualifying. Another way to do this would be to have 5 cities and make the top 20 from each city go to Vegas instead of top 15, and no wild cards of any kind. I personally find the first one to be better, but the second one is good, too. Another thing I wish ANW would stop doing is having the city finals shown weeks after the city qualifying. If I were in charge of the show, I would have only one episode for each region, where the qualifying portion and finals portion are all shown in one night, and that it won't end at the Warped Wall. This would make the qualifying portion of ANW much less painful to wait through and allow us to go through each season faster. Either that, or show the city qualifying and city finals in the same week and stop pretending the city finals are a month after the city qualifying. I prefer the first one, though. Couple things the wild cards are used heavily on the women competiors that way they can get more than 1-2 to Vegas if any. I do like the idea that anyone who gets to stage threee in Vegas gets an automatic invite the next year so they do not have to do regionals etc. Just my personal thought process that way your wildcard number would be different each year because they have spots locked up. I have to agree with you on the City finals. I been asking for years for them to do the region and then follow the next episode as the city quaifier; then move to the next region etc etc
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Post by c0balt on Jun 24, 2016 14:22:55 GMT -5
Couple things the wild cards are used heavily on the women competiors that way they can get more than 1-2 to Vegas if any. I do like the idea that anyone who gets to stage threee in Vegas gets an automatic invite the next year so they do not have to do regionals etc. Just my personal thought process that way your wildcard number would be different each year because they have spots locked up. I have to agree with you on the City finals. I been asking for years for them to do the region and then follow the next episode as the city quaifier; then move to the next region etc etc My guess is they don't want to show any finals until after they shoot Vegas so they can edit the narrative to their liking. If they know who does really well or fails when everyone thought they would do well makes it easier to know what fluff pieces and frame stories for their drama.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jun 24, 2016 16:08:39 GMT -5
Couple things the wild cards are used heavily on the women competiors that way they can get more than 1-2 to Vegas if any. I do like the idea that anyone who gets to stage threee in Vegas gets an automatic invite the next year so they do not have to do regionals etc. Just my personal thought process that way your wildcard number would be different each year because they have spots locked up. I have to agree with you on the City finals. I been asking for years for them to do the region and then follow the next episode as the city quaifier; then move to the next region etc etc My guess is they don't want to show any finals until after they shoot Vegas so they can edit the narrative to their liking. If they know who does really well or fails when everyone thought they would do well makes it easier to know what fluff pieces and frame stories for their drama. Not really that, more the fact that it's less confusing for casuals, and having the same region 2 weeks in a row is pretty unfair for people waiting to see any of their run for people in later regions
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Post by Amber on Jun 24, 2016 18:48:46 GMT -5
Airing the show...cancel it already a bit edgy there lol. i'd much rather have a show that doesn't run 100% how I wish it would and can be very stupid and unwatchable at times than not to have a show at all.
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Post by Y on Jun 26, 2016 13:11:35 GMT -5
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Post by Hlav on Jun 26, 2016 19:43:38 GMT -5
Rigging of USA vs the World like Morimoto Yūsuke vs Stefano Ghisolfi
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Post by LusitaniaAngel313 on Jun 26, 2016 20:03:46 GMT -5
Same with Ryo Matachi and Brian Arnold. I mean if it went that way both ways, it be a 3 way tie and wouldn't that be even cooler to watch? (also if Japan did survive to stage 4, we'd get some redemption for Shingo in the final stage...)
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jun 26, 2016 20:16:08 GMT -5
Same with Ryo Matachi and Brian Arnold. I mean if it went that way both ways, it be a 3 way tie and wouldn't that be even cooler to watch? (also if Japan did survive to stage 4, we'd get some redemption for Shingo in the final stage...) I see 0 chance Shingo would have been sent onto the Final Stage for the tiebreaker in USA vs The World 1 (Or 2 if you count USA vs Japan as the first one) instead of 2 time Sasuke champ Urushihara Yuuji who was still on Team Japan at that point
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Post by DonalM on Jun 26, 2016 20:36:50 GMT -5
Same with Ryo Matachi and Brian Arnold. I mean if it went that way both ways, it be a 3 way tie and wouldn't that be even cooler to watch? (also if Japan did survive to stage 4, we'd get some redemption for Shingo in the final stage...) I see 0 chance Shingo would have been sent onto the Final Stage for the tiebreaker in USA vs The World 1 (Or 2 if you count USA vs Japan as the first one) instead of 2 time Sasuke champ Urushihara Yuuji who was still on Team Japan at that point He wasn't tho
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Post by Amber on Jun 27, 2016 2:17:28 GMT -5
I see 0 chance Shingo would have been sent onto the Final Stage for the tiebreaker in USA vs The World 1 (Or 2 if you count USA vs Japan as the first one) instead of 2 time Sasuke champ Urushihara Yuuji who was still on Team Japan at that point He wasn't tho Still, they likely would've picked Yusuke, Kanno, or Ryo over Shingo so it doesn't really change the facts all that much
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