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Post by takeshi1 on Jul 30, 2018 11:54:48 GMT -5
And they cut Fred AGAIN. Three times in a row now - it's getting ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 12:22:22 GMT -5
This episode gives me some complaints. First the course is weird (I-Beam Gap, Ring Jump, etc.). 75% clear rate on Stage 1. Rare on Ninja Warrior and I don't like how Stage 1 is easy. Hopefully Stage 2 is good. Why they digest Fred Dorrington, Ben Polson, Alex Matthews, and Tom O'Holloran (All Stage 2 Veterans from last season). Then cutting out Jayden Irving and Jack Gooch. Stage 2 will be better
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Post by takeshi1 on Jul 30, 2018 13:45:22 GMT -5
This episode gives me some complaints. First the course is weird (I-Beam Gap, Ring Jump, etc.). 75% clear rate on Stage 1. Rare on Ninja Warrior and I don't like how Stage 1 is easy. Hopefully Stage 2 is good. Why they digest Fred Dorrington, Ben Polson, Alex Matthews, and Tom O'Holloran (All Stage 2 Veterans from last season). Then cutting out Jayden Irving and Jack Gooch. Stage 2 will be better I just hope with 14 upper-body obstacles back-to-back it isn't too impossible.
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Post by pagar on Jul 30, 2018 14:16:56 GMT -5
This course was really too easy. If they hadn't neutered both the ring jump and the I-beam gap it would probably have been about right.
While I don't expect Ashlin to complete an upper body intensive stage 2, he's just super impressive on these sorts of courses. I would absolutely love to see him against Drew Drechsel in a Vegas/Sasuke stage 1 race.
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Post by takeshi1 on Jul 30, 2018 14:21:02 GMT -5
This course was really too easy. If they hadn't neutered both the ring jump and the I-beam gap it would probably have been about right. While I don't expect Ashlin to complete an upper body intensive stage 2, he's just super impressive on these sorts of courses. I would absolutely love to see him against Drew Drechsel in a Vegas/Sasuke stage 1 race. Well you'll get to see him in {Spoiler} USA vs The World as part of team Australia, probably airing around march.
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Post by obarizk on Jul 30, 2018 19:15:17 GMT -5
This episode gives me some complaints. First the course is weird (I-Beam Gap, Ring Jump, etc.). 75% clear rate on Stage 1. Rare on Ninja Warrior and I don't like how Stage 1 is easy. Hopefully Stage 2 is good. Why they digest Fred Dorrington, Ben Polson, Alex Matthews, and Tom O'Holloran (All Stage 2 Veterans from last season). Then cutting out Jayden Irving and Jack Gooch. Stage 2 will be better I just hope with 14 upper-body obstacles back-to-back it isn't too impossible. There also seems to be a time limit involved, 14 obstacles in a tight time limit, surely they are not doing that. Perhaps a time limit for some of the obstacles, isn't that what they were doing last season?
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Post by Lachie on Jul 31, 2018 3:01:34 GMT -5
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Post by Lachie on Jul 31, 2018 4:03:26 GMT -5
I thought AUSNW would get destroyed in the ratings last night, but I forgot that there were 3 shows all on at the same time trying to take ratings, so it faired much better than I expected. Tonight, however, will be much tougher, as Masterchef has it's final episode tonight (I have no damn clue why people are still stupid enough to watch that show)
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Post by Lachie on Jul 31, 2018 6:16:53 GMT -5
This was the Stage 2 course
Pole Grasper Bar Hop Spider Jump Wing Nuts (the name is indeed spaced here) Rail Runner Salmon Ladder (yes, again)(you go up 4 rungs) Unstable bridge Wall Lift TIME LIMIT: 2:45
No wonder no one cleared stage 2 again... Most failed the Salmon Ladder Prize now jackpots to $300,000
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Post by obarizk on Jul 31, 2018 9:55:09 GMT -5
I was wrong about it being 14 obstacles in one go, sorry, there was a proper stage 3.
Stage 1 was a bit too easy, stage 2 perhaps a little too hard.
Fred Dorrington performance cut again, very strange, perhaps he just didn't have the back story they wanted.
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Post by takeshi1 on Jul 31, 2018 10:14:54 GMT -5
I was wrong about it being 14 obstacles in one go, sorry, there was a proper stage 3. Stage 1 was a bit too easy, stage 2 perhaps a little too hard. Fred Dorrington performance cut again, very strange, perhaps he just didn't have the back story they wanted. I thought I was right about a separate stage 3. Stage 1 was WAY too easy. Stage 2 was tbh about right. I can't stand how throughout the whole series Fred got cut every time. It's a shame that no-one reached stage 3 but it took until season 3 on the uk show to reach the stage 3 part so wasn't that surprised. Decent series with some flaws which I mentioned earlier, definitely in my top 4 of ANW spin-offs (the order changes depending on what mood I'm in).
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Post by GlobalNinjaFan on Jul 31, 2018 12:33:46 GMT -5
Think this series has the opposite problem as NWUK... NWUK doesn't invite people back but keeps its course the same, while Australian Ninja Warrior invited people back while (similar to Ninja Warrior Egypt), being way too ambitious with the course too early. There was no reason for Stage 2 to be as long winded as it was, when practically every other ANW spinoff has five or six obstacles. Then, even if someone HAD made it, they wouldn't have stood a chance at the full size Stage 3. Walk before you can run, Australia.
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Post by Lachie on Jul 31, 2018 19:07:15 GMT -5
If it wasn't for Masterchef being on, I think NW could have got near 2 million again in hindsight. Also, the news finally gets beaten.
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Post by takeshi1 on Aug 2, 2018 10:14:50 GMT -5
Think this series has the opposite problem as NWUK... NWUK doesn't invite people back but keeps its course the same, while Australian Ninja Warrior invited people back while (similar to Ninja Warrior Egypt), being way too ambitious with the course too early. There was no reason for Stage 2 to be as long winded as it was, when practically every other ANW spinoff has five or six obstacles. Then, even if someone HAD made it, they wouldn't have stood a chance at the full size Stage 3. Walk before you can run, Australia. I wouldn't criticise AuNW for being too ambitious. Ok, stage 2 could have done without the rail runner but it was nice seeing an ANW spin-off with a full stage 2 and 3 and not that jammed together stage all the others have. Also, it wasn't until series 3 that anyone attempted the stage 3 obstacles on NWUK and these people got a lot closer to the end of stage 2 than they did in series 2 of NWUK so I would actually say well done Australia for trying to be original and ambitious, even though the athletes got nowhere near the end it shows that this show has potential and they're not afraid to try their own thing.
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Post by GlobalNinjaFan on Aug 2, 2018 15:37:53 GMT -5
Think this series has the opposite problem as NWUK... NWUK doesn't invite people back but keeps its course the same, while Australian Ninja Warrior invited people back while (similar to Ninja Warrior Egypt), being way too ambitious with the course too early. There was no reason for Stage 2 to be as long winded as it was, when practically every other ANW spinoff has five or six obstacles. Then, even if someone HAD made it, they wouldn't have stood a chance at the full size Stage 3. Walk before you can run, Australia. I wouldn't criticise AuNW for being too ambitious. Ok, stage 2 could have done without the rail runner but it was nice seeing an ANW spin-off with a full stage 2 and 3 and not that jammed together stage all the others have. Also, it wasn't until series 3 that anyone attempted the stage 3 obstacles on NWUK and these people got a lot closer to the end of stage 2 than they did in series 2 of NWUK so I would actually say well done Australia for trying to be original and ambitious, even though the athletes got nowhere near the end it shows that this show has potential and they're not afraid to try their own thing. The problem with smaller Ninja Warrior shows like AuNW trying to emulate ANW is that America has a much larger talent pool than Australia. ANW can afford to have a near unbeatable course, because amongst the hundreds of millions of Americans eventually someone will come along and beat it. But in smaller countries, there is a much smaller pool of people to draw from, and an even smaller pool of people actively training, so they course can't be too harsh or it may just never be beaten.
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Post by sasukestatistician on Aug 4, 2018 22:39:56 GMT -5
I wouldn't criticise AuNW for being too ambitious. Ok, stage 2 could have done without the rail runner but it was nice seeing an ANW spin-off with a full stage 2 and 3 and not that jammed together stage all the others have. Also, it wasn't until series 3 that anyone attempted the stage 3 obstacles on NWUK and these people got a lot closer to the end of stage 2 than they did in series 2 of NWUK so I would actually say well done Australia for trying to be original and ambitious, even though the athletes got nowhere near the end it shows that this show has potential and they're not afraid to try their own thing. So while they did have pretty full 2nd and 3rd Stages in terms of the number of obstacles, it appears they were keeping with the format of all other ANW spin-offs having no break between Stage 2 and Stage 3. The hosts kept mentioning 14 obstacles "back to back to back," and Rob Patterson said "Stage 2 and 3 back to back, that's going to be tough" in one of his interviews. This makes the course even more unreasonable. Hopefully next season they will improve their qualification rules which in my opinion are the worst of all the spin-offs and design more doable courses. When the rules incentivize the later runners to fail as soon as they qualify, they need to be changed. Ninja Warrior España had this problem in season 1 and corrected it in season 2. While it's nice to see newer ANW qualification obstacles, they need to keep in mind these are harder obstacles that many Americans who've been training 5+ years have trouble passing. With that said, AuNW is still young and I'm pretty optimistic it'll improve.
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Post by zocom7 on Aug 6, 2018 13:20:49 GMT -5
I have seen the finals of Stage 2 and everybody struggled near the end. There was enough time on the clock though, but the issue remains is that the Salmon Ladder and Unstable Bridge should be put as the 2nd-3rd obstacles of Stage 2 instead. That rail runner took a heavy toll on the competitors' grip strength. It's strange that Stage 1 is so easy that I even think the Spider Climb should be put in Stage 1 next time.
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Post by Matt Midoriyama on Aug 14, 2018 4:30:37 GMT -5
Overall a very good season 2 but again with the dqs and strange timings/rules meaning some genuine qualifiers got knocked out in all the stages.
Stage 1 a little too easy, stage 2 should have had 15 seconds more on the clock. Feel sorry for Ashlin and Rob who had to run in the rain, you saw it on the unstable bridge with Rob and Ashlin got rekt in the spider jump.
Iron out the little issues, lose the BOB and we have a real good show on our hands.
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