American Ninja Warrior

Coming back to Atlanta after L.A., I don't think ATL's course was as difficult. Now, honestly, I am in no real position to be making this kind of claim since I myself would be able to do 0% of these courses. However, after watching for years and seeing what some of these people can do, ATL's course didn't seem hard enough. For starters, I hate the Bouncing Spider, and second, Up for Grabs didn't seem on par with The Hinge. I think Fallout and Leap of Faith were fairly even as well as The Ferris Wheel and Spin Hopper. I wasn't too crazy about Up for Grabs, and it definitely wasn't the Ninja Killer that some other 8th obstacles are. It seems like veterans, in particular, wouldn't find this as challenging because they are used to the feeling of the obstacle and the hard impact which is the really the only difficult thing about the obstacle. That's really all I have regarding the course. It wasn't my favorite, I guess. Let's move onto the finis...

Okay, yes, I am alive. I'm sorry I kind of dropped the ball the past couple of weeks. I did watch the Baltimore and Cincinnati qualifiers, I just never got around to writing anything, I guess. So, I'm actually going to skip over the qualifiers, in a way. I will mention some things I remember from those cities in this post, but if there is anything else I wanted to mention which comes to memory later, I will write it in the City Finals post which I will make sure to write. Let's return to Baltimore real quick. We had the Flying Phoenix and The Weatherman as well as Captain NBC, Chris Wilczewski and Allyssa Beird. It was a good city. Obviously, the biggest shock of the night was 9 failed attempts at the Mega Wall between 3 of the competition's best competitors and two returning Mega Wall Conquerors. First, I was shocked that Joe ran in the middle of the two hours. Joe is usually in the last half hour, so it was a little unsettling that he was shown so early. I also thou...