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Post by madship on Nov 2, 2017 13:42:15 GMT -5
Can anyone sum up the format differences?
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Post by RiderLeangle on Nov 2, 2017 15:58:11 GMT -5
Can anyone sum up the format differences? You know how it's first round of the episode is pretty much just for experience on the course? Well that's no longer the case now each episode is a 4 team bracket, and instead of the whole "anchor heat" thing worth 2 points with the other 2 being worth 1? Well it's now best of 5 runs with each run being worth 1 point
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Post by ninja1029 on Nov 4, 2017 21:46:31 GMT -5
Team Towers of Power came in with a new teammate this year as Nate Burkhalter was as an alternate for Brandon Mears who sadly couldn't make it to LA.
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Post by 2D2Will on Dec 21, 2017 19:47:16 GMT -5
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Post by DonalM on Dec 21, 2017 19:50:41 GMT -5
Looks like it won't be airing on NBC then unfortunately.
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Post by arsenette on Dec 22, 2017 13:17:08 GMT -5
I don't know why people thought this would be on NBC. It's not their M.O.
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Post by TCM on Dec 22, 2017 14:39:25 GMT -5
I don't know why people thought this would be on NBC. It's not their M.O. Never mind they took the effort to put TNW on USA. Neither season touched NBC.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Dec 22, 2017 17:39:46 GMT -5
Anyone know what the new bracket format is like? because that's a weird combination of episodes and teams for the Team Ninja Warrior format. Well, remember how everyone complained about the whole first round of the episode is meaningless and how the anchor heat points thing seems like the whole point is to create TV drama and stuff? Well... It's now a single elimination bracket for each episode and it's a best 3 out of 5 system instead of arbitrary points
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Post by 2D2Will on Dec 22, 2017 19:49:02 GMT -5
Anyone know what the new bracket format is like? because that's a weird combination of episodes and teams for the Team Ninja Warrior format. Well, remember how everyone complained about the whole first round of the episode is meaningless and how the anchor heat points thing seems like the whole point is to create TV drama and stuff? Well... It's now a single elimination bracket for each episode and it's a best 3 out of 5 system instead of arbitrary points I heard about that part already. I'm more concerned about the actual bracket layout for the whole tournament. The perfect numbers for 1v1 tournaments are 4,8,16,32,64,etc. 36 teams is a terrible umber for a tournament because that would mean each round would go 36 teams -> 18 teams -> 9 teams -> ?. Either they would need a lot of wildcard spots or 8 teams would have the disadvantage of having to compete in 1 extra round. We're probably getting wildcards because 16 episodes is a lot of episodes for a 36 team tournament. If you assume the typical 4 teams per episode, you could complete the tournament in 12 episodes.
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Post by ekkerb11 on Dec 22, 2017 21:31:13 GMT -5
Well, remember how everyone complained about the whole first round of the episode is meaningless and how the anchor heat points thing seems like the whole point is to create TV drama and stuff? Well... It's now a single elimination bracket for each episode and it's a best 3 out of 5 system instead of arbitrary points I heard about that part already. I'm more concerned about the actual bracket layout for the whole tournament. The perfect numbers for 1v1 tournaments are 4,8,16,32,64,etc. 36 teams is a terrible umber for a tournament because that would mean each round would go 36 teams -> 18 teams -> 9 teams -> ?. Either they would need a lot of wildcard spots or 8 teams would have the disadvantage of having to compete in 1 extra round. We're probably getting wildcards because 16 episodes is a lot of episodes for a 36 team tournament. If you assume the typical 4 teams per episode, you could complete the tournament in 12 episodes. 9 Episodes of 1st Round All Runner Ups + 3 Extra Teams are Wild Cards 3 Episides of Wild Cards 3 Episodes of the Semi Finals 1 Finals Episode. It’s a heck of a lot of episodes but I think it’s going to be good.
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Post by 2D2Will on Dec 22, 2017 21:41:32 GMT -5
I heard about that part already. I'm more concerned about the actual bracket layout for the whole tournament. The perfect numbers for 1v1 tournaments are 4,8,16,32,64,etc. 36 teams is a terrible umber for a tournament because that would mean each round would go 36 teams -> 18 teams -> 9 teams -> ?. Either they would need a lot of wildcard spots or 8 teams would have the disadvantage of having to compete in 1 extra round. We're probably getting wildcards because 16 episodes is a lot of episodes for a 36 team tournament. If you assume the typical 4 teams per episode, you could complete the tournament in 12 episodes. 9 Episodes of 1st Round All Runner Ups + 3 Extra Teams are Wild Cards 3 Episides of Wild Cards 3 Episodes of the Semi Finals 1 Finals Episode. It’s a heck of a lot of episodes but I think it’s going to be good. Thanks for the info! One question: You mentioned "3 Episodes of the Semi Finals". How does a 3 team final episode work? Is there another wildcard or is it a seeded final bracket? Or is it something else?
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Post by ekkerb11 on Dec 22, 2017 21:44:25 GMT -5
9 Episodes of 1st Round All Runner Ups + 3 Extra Teams are Wild Cards 3 Episides of Wild Cards 3 Episodes of the Semi Finals 1 Finals Episode. It’s a heck of a lot of episodes but I think it’s going to be good. Thanks for the info! One question: You mentioned "3 Episodes of the Semi Finals". How does a 3 team final episode work? Is there another wildcard or is it a seeded final bracket? Or is it something else? Wait you’re right. I actually forget. I think the 4th Team was a wild card
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Post by defaro on Dec 22, 2017 21:52:55 GMT -5
Thanks for the info! One question: You mentioned "3 Episodes of the Semi Finals". How does a 3 team final episode work? Is there another wildcard or is it a seeded final bracket? Or is it something else? Wait you’re right. I actually forget. I think the 4th Team was a wild card all runner up?
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Post by madship on Dec 26, 2017 2:17:17 GMT -5
I heard about that part already. I'm more concerned about the actual bracket layout for the whole tournament. The perfect numbers for 1v1 tournaments are 4,8,16,32,64,etc. 36 teams is a terrible umber for a tournament because that would mean each round would go 36 teams -> 18 teams -> 9 teams -> ?. Either they would need a lot of wildcard spots or 8 teams would have the disadvantage of having to compete in 1 extra round. We're probably getting wildcards because 16 episodes is a lot of episodes for a 36 team tournament. If you assume the typical 4 teams per episode, you could complete the tournament in 12 episodes. 9 Episodes of 1st Round All Runner Ups + 3 Extra Teams are Wild Cards 3 Episides of Wild Cards 3 Episodes of the Semi Finals 1 Finals Episode. It’s a heck of a lot of episodes but I think it’s going to be good. This is what I was asking about in September, thanks for asking again Will. This wild card format makes current professional leagues (NFL, NHL, NBA) look tame. 21 of 36 teams make the "playoffs". I know this all happened over a weekend, but at least "3 weeks" of byes for the episode winners is nuts. As broadcast it will be between 11 to 14 weeks before the the winner of week one is seen again. I still have questions about how this works. Start with 36 teams. 9 weeks of competition yields 9 winners. Since there are 4 teams per episode at least 3 teams are needed to fill up the episodes. But 12 teams (9 runners up plus 3 random teams ) creates a finals situation with 12 teams (9 episode winners plus 3 wild cards). Resulting in 3 winners for a finals episode that needs 4 teams. Is there another wild card for the finals episode? How is this 4th team chosen?
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Post by ekkerb11 on Jan 30, 2018 22:55:12 GMT -5
ANW: Ninja vs. Ninja is going to start in February based on a banner I saw advertising it online. I couldn’t find any more info though, so there you go. So now most likely there will be new ninja shows things every week through September. Enjoy!
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Post by RiderLeangle on Jan 30, 2018 23:34:15 GMT -5
ANW: Ninja vs. Ninja is going to start in February based on a banner I saw advertising it online. I couldn’t find any more info though, so there you go. So now most likely there will be new ninja shows things every week through September. Enjoy! For what it's worth on USA Network it still is being advertised as "This Spring", can confirm this means recent commercials, as recent as during tonight's episode of SmackDown
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Post by edrider5 on Feb 1, 2018 13:11:09 GMT -5
Today they announced it for a March 1st release.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 16:49:59 GMT -5
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Post by matt723894 on Feb 8, 2018 19:34:03 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure there's only 5 or six fully returning teams. Im really excited for Paul Hamm to really get the spotlight this time, instead of what happened in Philadelphia, which is still a gross moment in ANW 8s not really not that bad season.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 19:59:39 GMT -5
Paul Hamm I believe will be in the same episode as Lab Rats, Big Dog Ninjas, and Ballers
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