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Controversial Obstacles Part 2


Welcome to part two of the Controversial Obstacles articles. Keep in mind that these obstacles are not going to be as bad as the last ones. I just chose obstacles that had issues. I will probably not make another one of these because I don't have any other ideas. (If you have some please tell me)

1-Razor Beams

This obstacle was a variant of razor's edge which was an old balance obstacle. It replaced the domino pipes (which I loved) as the difficult balance obstacle at the end of stage one. The issue was that it was not difficult. We have things like the diving boards and domino pipes which trips up a lot of people before the big lache obstacle. In season 10, when this obstacle was in place, nobody at all fell on it. It was very easy compared to the deadly obstacles that are supposed to be there.

2-Deja Vu

Not sure if I should put this on here, but I think there are technical issues with this obstacle with the bar getting stuck. It took a lot of ninjas out and it had some flaws in its design.

3-Wall lifts on an untimed course

I know this was in the earlier seasons, but this was kind of dumb to put the wall lifts on an untimed course. I don't remember what season it was in, but the producers of ANW decided to put the wall lifts as the fifth obstacles in the city rounds. The only reason the wall lifts existed on stage 2 was to waste the time of the competitors attempting it. However, when they put it int the Qualifying rounds, time didn't really matter and there was no way you could fail this obstacle unless you just gave up.

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