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Ninja Warrior, now w/ Hot Ninjas (1 Viewer)
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Nathan R. Jessep
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mr. furley
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She had more time left than she did last year and fell off the cargo net. There is one woman that made it past stage 1, not as hot.
Henry Ford
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Henry Ford
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Depends on the course, I'd say. The preliminaries, I could see a major pro sport athlete getting through, depending on the obstacles. A city finals course would be very unlikely. And Mount Midoriyama Stage 1, I don't see them making it.
Hawks64
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They are making all the courses harder and harder. Typically the big former collegiate athletes struggle tremendously. This is requires so much grip strength that it becomes increasingly more difficult to succeed the bigger you are.
comfortably numb
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Henry Ford
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An Olympic gymnast, however (like whatever his name is - the "Phoenix" Ninja") could potentially demolish these courses.
Hawks64
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Some of those guys (not Olympic level) have struggled due to that whole grip strength at 170 versus 240 thing. It's been pretty crazy watching guys and girls that have historically been very good start failing on the prelims and city courses. They are getting flat out brutal.
culdeus
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When people win the Powerball. Its a 100 million bucks. But the cash turns out to be what? 35? Same concept. Its not a check its an annuity.
Game show taxes are 55% which lottery doesnt quite have to pay. (Check state) so you start with present value of a 20 to 30 year annuity thats 45% depleted by taxes off the top. Then potentially state taxes and you got chump change.
Henry Ford
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bryhamm
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Makes no sense to compare this to the lottery. There isn't a lump sum vs annuity option with ANW. You win $1mm. After tax, it's something like 500k.
culdeus
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link?
The standard million dollar payout is $500 a week for 40 years. Back in the Richard Hatch era it was $1000 a week for 20 years. You can find any number of articles which states this as fact.
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriecoolidge/2011/09/15/americas-got-talent-winner-is-not-an-instant-millionaire/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
This is the industry standard now. You can get a PV payout of 265k to 300k. After taxes looking at no more than half of that.
bryhamm
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culdeus
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Prove me wrong, I'm all ears.
Here's one from AMT
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/09/15/12-year-old-americas-got-talent-winner-could-be-aarp-member-when-1-million-prize-paid-in-full/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
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On his death bed, he will receive total consciousness. So, he has that going for him, which is nice.those were definitely the clearly stated rules... any outrage is because he was the first American to ever do this, but ultimately gets nothing for it.how about a little something, you know, for the effort.
bryhamm
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Maybe it is just AGT that does this. You've shown 2 articles now, both for how this show pays out. I honestly don't know.
culdeus
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Survivor moved to the 500/40 model as well. I can post a wall of links if you'd like.
Maybe it is just AGT that does this. You've shown 2 articles now, both for how this show pays out. I honestly don't know.
culdeus
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Right on the tryout form:
https://www.anwcasting.com/
*Producer reserves the right to pay grand prize as annuity.
https://www.anwcasting.com/
*Producer reserves the right to pay grand prize as annuity.
JB Breakfast Club
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I was really hoping this would end with Charlotte Flair taking her out with a folding chair after the first obstacle.
AAABatteries
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Watching reruns of this while I can’t sleep. Would Alex Honnold just destroy these courses? I’m assuming he never competed??
Terminalxylem
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He’d probably do well, but no guarantee he’d be as good/better than Caldiero, who has bouldered and free soloed* harder grades than Honnold. Plus the balance and parkour style obstacles don’t translate directly to rock climbing.
Honnold isn’t otherworldly because of the maximum difficulty of his climbs; rather, the sustained nature and catastrophic consequences of big wall free soloing.
ETA Caldiero’s hardest free solo was only 25 feet, a far cry from 3000 foot El Cap.
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Terminalxylem
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I have a friend who has competed on the show a couple times. He said there was one person nearly universally disliked - Kacy Catanzaro. Apparently she is quite the self-absorbed #####.
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