American Ninja Warrior Junior 2

American Ninja Warrior Junior 2 was the second season of American Ninja Warrior Junior. The show premiered on February 22nd, 2020 at Universal Kids, with Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila reprising their roles as the host and co-host, and Victoria Arlen replacing Laurie Hernandez as the sideline reporter.

Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used to differentiate the episodes in between the qualifying round and quarterfinals for simplicity sake and to avoid confusion:
 * QR - Qualifying Round
 * QF - Quarterfinals
 * EP - Episode

Competition Format
144 kids across the U.S., ranging from 9 to 14 years old, would compete in three different age brackets. Each bracket consisted of 48 kids and was mentored by two top American Ninja Warrior competitors. Those three age brackets were:
 * Bracket 1: Ages 9 and 10 years old (mentored by Barclay Stockett and Najee Richardson),
 * Bracket 2: Ages 11 and 12 years old (mentored by Grant McCartney and Jessie Graff), and
 * Bracket 3: Ages 13 and 14 years old (mentored by Drew Drechsel and Meagan Martin).

Just like on Team Ninja Warrior and American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja, American Ninja Warrior Junior also featured a side-by-side obstacle course. However, unlike on those competitions (where female competitor was required to face each other with another female competitor), female competitor could face male competitor on this competition.

In general, just like on Team Ninja Warrior, the competition for each age bracket of American Ninja Warrior Junior consisted of three rounds:
 * Round One (Seeding Round)
 * There were two matchups, with two competitors in each matchup.
 * Each matchup consisted of just one heat, where two competitors would race side-by-side on a series of obstacles.
 * In each matchup, the competitor who completed the course (or made the furthest, in case of no competitor could complete the course) in the fastest time would win the matchup and face the losing competitor from another matchup in Round Two (Knockout Round).
 * Round Two (Knockout Round)
 * The competition worked the same as in Round One, with the competitor who won the first matchup in Round One would face the competitor who lost the second matchup in Round One, and vice versa.
 * This time, the two competitors who won in each matchup would advance to Final Showdown, while the two losing competitors would be eliminated from the competition.
 * Final Showdown
 * In Final Showdown, the two winning competitors from Round Two would face each other.
 * The competitor who won the Final Showdown would advance to the next round, while the losing competitor would be eliminated from the competition.

Compared to the previous season, the competition on this season featured several major changes. The competition run for a total of seventeen episodes, with twelve episodes being served as the qualifying round, four episodes being served as the quarterfinals, and one episode being served as the finals. The quarterfinals episode was aired after every three qualifying episodes had been aired. In each age bracket:
 * The winning competitor from each qualifying episode would advance to the quarterfinals. After every three qualifying round episodes had been aired, the top two losing competitors (i.e. competitors who were knocked out in their Round Two or Final Showdown matches on the qualifying round, but had a best and fastest times during their runs) from those three qualifying round episodes would advance to the playoff to compete for the one remaining spot in the quarterfinals.
 * Then, in the quarterfinals, the three winning competitors from three qualifying round episodes and one winning competitor from the playoff would compete in a knockout format, with the winning competitor advancing to the finals.
 * Then, in the finals the four winning competitors from four quarterfinals episodes would compete in a knockout format, with the winning competitor being crowned as the American Ninja Warrior Junior champion.
 * The four competitors in the finals would receive the cash prizes as the following:
 * $15,000 for the champion (first place),
 * $7,500 for the second place,
 * $5,000 for the third place, and
 * $2,500 for the fourth place.

Obstacles
① Shrinking Steps (Bracket 1 and Bracket 2), Floating Steps (Bracket 3)

② Little Dipper

③ Spider Walls (Bracket 1), Double Tilt Ladders (Bracket 2), Crazy Cliffhanger (Bracket 3)

④ Block Run

⑤ Flying Squirrel (Bracket 1), Wing Nuts (Bracket 2), Sky Hooks (Bracket 3)

⑥ Warped Wall (13 feet tall)
 * For competitors in Bracket 1, there were two handholds placed at the 10 and 11.5-foot marks.
 * For competitors in Bracket 2, the 10-foot mark handhold was covered, leaving with just a handhold at the 11.5-foot mark.
 * For competitors in Bracket 3, both handholds are covered, leaving the competitors to scale the full 13-foot wall.