American Ninja Warrior All Season Thread **spoilers**

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they mentioned at the beginning of the finale he was the first.

 

Geoff was the first American Ninja Warrior.

 

Can you imagine if Jessie Graff and Drew had a child? Talk about super human. (I know he's married but regardless)

 

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I hope they do away with the passes next season. It was more exciting when the competitors knew they didn't have a "safety net" during their runs.

 

They should just do them in the very first stage to go straight to Vegas
It was kinda fun seeing the top guys go as fast as they could to get that

 

I agree with keeping the speed pass right to Vegas.

I am a little torn on the safety pass. I agree is (somewhat) dampens the point. But, we would not have had a winner this year without it. Kind of like we complain when no competitors hit a buzzer in a City finals. I think most veiwers want to see success. Not everyone, not even a majority, but having no one succeed gets boring.

 

Weird, I think I like the safety pass here more than for example the Golden Buzzer in AGT.. (at least during the normal rounds.. I don't remember if it was only Champions, which I'm still watching, but letting the judges have one choice, via golden buzzer, of who goes on was useful there).

Usually I don't like these kinds of bonuses, but the events are SO HARD that having a special redo doesn't bother me... except what I mentioned before -- I didn't like that it wasn't valid in 3 or 4.

 

Yeah, I like the speed pass. And the $10K mega warped wall. I'm undecided about the safety pass. Maybe instead of doing the whole run again later, they could just immediately go back to the beginning of the obstacle, clock running, and continue? I don't know.

 

I forgot to tell you guys this: A couple of weeks ago I met someone who made it onto ANW. He has a special needs son, so they filmed a whole human interest piece about him. He competed in Dallas this year. But he never made it on the show: not even in the 'while you were away' section. He said that happens to lots of people.

 

That's too bad. How many folks do qualifying runs at each city? I was under the assumption it wasn't that many but I guess I haven't paid much attention.

 

wow thanks for this, we may have to go view -- (St. Louis)

 

Bad timing for me, otherwise I'd go.

 

So there are only three city courses? That's a little disappointing -- I like seeing all the different obstacle set-ups. Does that mean there are going to be 3x the contestants in the prelims, or are they going to break them up into groups somehow, do you think?

 

Ditto. May 6th is a Cardinals day game that starts at 12:15 CT. Might have to catch a Cards game then go over to the Dome to catch this.

 

Also, by running indoors you don't have any issues about the course getting slick because of dew. Some of this might have been eliminated simply by them changing the times of when they are doing things. But, it is 100% eliminated by doing it indoors. Might be the trend going forward if they can make it work.