Talk:R.J. Roman

In season 12, if you actually watch episode 8, he actually makes it to the 9th obstacle far faster than Amir. His time is billed as his falling time, which as we all know is not congruent with the rules (and Amir's fall time was still later, while his 9th obstacle arrival time is billed correctly at 2:40).

Is this the kind of information that this wiki doesn't care about? Or is it worth editing into the article? (my citation is "watch the actual episode", it's really quite obvious, in that I noticed it immediately and began googling for answers)

To be clear, I'm not trying to start some conspiracy bullshit of "hIs SpOt WaS sToLeN". A few people I've seen discuss this inconsistency elsewhere watched the "full run" video that was posted to facebook, and determined that he was probably disqualified on some small technicality, for example, accidentally touching the back of the spin hopper structure at one point. If he *was* disqualified like this, then NBC probably edited his time in order to make it seem "less lame". Again, I am NOT suggesting that they manipulated the outcome of the event. Only that they are misleading viewers on the reason someone didn't make the power tower playoffs (from a time issue to a technical disqualification).

If people think this information is useful, I can edit the article to reflect it while being as non-inflammatory towards NBC as possible. But I don't know if moderators take an "NBC's word is the word of god" approach to this wiki (ie, pretending his stated time really is his time when it is obviously not), which is why I'm not just editing the article right now. --Codetaku (talk) 18:59, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

It's a neat catch, but stuff like this usually isn't worth putting in because ANW has a history of manipulating timers even if it didn't affect the overall result (though there was a vs. The World that 100% eliminated Japan due to time fudging that would have forced a climb off). But in the instances of it not affecting the result: All-Stars Special 3, when Team Kristine won by 5 seconds "officially" but you could see the timer right at the end of Team Kristine's run in Stage 3, it wasn't at all close and they were definitively the winners by minutes. Same with ANW 11, where Stages 2 and 4 were confirmed to have higher time limits during filming than what was officially given during broadcast -- but no results were affected. Since we can't presume the reasons why RJ didn't move on (could have been a DQ, could have been COVID, a couple people were medically DQ'd for that reason), it isn't worth putting in. G4fan2007 (talk) 13:58, 9 May 2021 (UTC)