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Off-topic, but ever since I started working at a job called Flying Squirrel, it takes me about five seconds to figure out what the obstacle name means when it's on the list 
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So round 2 has finished filming now. This round was competitor vs pro ninja on the extended course.
Pro ninjas include:
Females - Steffi Edelmann (German furthest fastest female) & Barclay Stockett (ANW)
Males - Tim Champion (UK winner) & Ruel DaCosta (UK finalist, parkour gym owner)
I didn't watch this one but have been told the races were very good!!
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So have they basically given returning contestants a one round head start?
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So have they basically given returning contestants a one round head start?
No not at all. Think of the pro ninjas as gladiators. They take on the contestants who have advanced from round 1. The pro ninja can't start until the contestant beats obstacle 2 to give contestants an advantage. If the contestant wins, they qualify immediately for the next round. If the pro ninja wins, the contestant has to wait on furthest fastest. The pro ninjas do not at any point enter the competition as regular contestants. Nearly all those returning from previous seasons are regular contestants.
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Interesting! So the Pro-Ninjas aren’t competitors proper, more like guards trying to stop the actual competitors from succeeding . That’s a weird change, but I guess it keeps it different.
What Brekkie asked is interesting though, as I remember a conversation somewhere else a few years ago about how the ANW veterans shouldn’t have to compete in Qualifying (and some say City Finals as well). I got the argument to an extent, but seemed to open up too many issues and take away from the blank slate format of Ninja where everyone starts on the same ground each comp.
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Exactly.
The Pro Ninjas seem pretty pointless then if they're not playing for anything themselves. Presumably they'll run multiple times, so it's not a case of one fall and they're out.
If they insist on head to heads they should just use the actual contestants.
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I definitely agree that it’s a weird dynamic and you’d think they’d just go for Ninja v Ninja, but in a way I think this is better. I’m definitely ambivalent because it’s weird to have the pro ninjas basically there to play spoiler for the contestants, but at the same time, from a contestant’s point-of-view it’s still themselves vs “the course”. This way they’re still not going against another competitor proper - just the course and a chaser who makes the course harder.
This shifts it from the competitors actually trying to knock each other out to each individual contestant going up against an “enemy”, so I think it might be better for camaraderie and maintaining the Ninja spirit that Team ANW sometimes lost, I thought.
Hope that makes any sense.
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The new series, dubbed Ninja Warrior UK: Race for Glory, starts next Saturday at 5.30pm.
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I assume the series is postponed for obvious reasons, unsure as of yet of the new air date.
EDIT: Going ahead as usual but starting slightly later at 6pm
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As is usually the case when a show makes a change the change doesn't pay off. And they can now touch the water and still continue? Ridiculous.
The show feels so much slower now too with all the contestants getting an intro and every run shown in full. Just 10 actually contestants per show - 6 men and 4 women.
They race head to head in the first half. In the second half the winners race against the "elite Ninjas". They get a two obstacle head course. Also ridiculously for 2022 the women aren't considered capable of running the full course, doing just 6 obstacles instead of all 9.
The Elite Ninjas are pretty pointless as the normal contestants carry on anyway once they've lost and the "furthest fastest" qualify anyway.
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