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American Ninja Warrior 2 was the second season of American Ninja Warrior, which was served as the American qualifiers for SASUKE 26. For this season, Matt Iseman replaced Blair Herter as the host, Jimmy Smith replaced Alison Haislip as the co-host, and Alison Haislip returned on her second season as the sideline reporter instead of the co-host. The season premiered on December 8th, 2010.

During the taping of qualifying and semifinal (both in Venice Beach), three top SASUKE competitors were invited by G4 as special guests and signed autographs to the fans:

All of them also attempted the qualifying course, with both Urushihara Yuuji and Okuyama Yoshiyuki could complete the course, while Nagano Makoto failed at the Jumping Bars.

Qualifying

In qualifying, competitors would face 6 obstacles and no time limit to complete the course. The 30 fastest competitors who completed the course would advance to semifinal. If less than 30 competitors completed the course, the competitors who got the furthest and fastest round the course would advance to semifinal.

Obstacles

^Quad Steps
Rope Swing
^Bridge of Blades
Spider Jump
Jumping Bars
Warped Wall

^ - New Obstacle in American Ninja Warrior Course

Results

Place Name Profile Result Notes
1st Trevor Vaughn Student Clear (0:39.05)
2nd David Money Beef Jerky Maker Clear (0:40.52)
3rd Travis Furlanic Pizza Maker Clear (0:40.65)
4th Brian Orosco Freerunner Clear (0:41.23)
5th Levi Meeuwenberg Freerunner Clear (0:42.92)
6th Ryan Cousins 3D Artist Clear (0:43.86)
7th Paul Kasemir Software Engineer Clear (0:44.77) Digest.
8th William Spencer Stuntman Clear (0:45.75)
9th Travis Rosen Clear (0:46.73) Digest.
10th Chris Wilczewski Clear (0:48.72) Digest.
11th Evan Dollard Project Manager Clear (0:49.37) Digest.
12th Sean Morris Limousine Driver Clear (0:49.76)
13th Rich King Stuntman Clear (0:49.98) Digest.
14th Caine Sinclair Stuntman Clear (0:50.62)
15th Ryan Rachall College Student Clear (0:50.69) Digest.
16th Patrick Cusic Gymnastics Instructor Clear (0:51.62)
17th David Campbell Musician Clear (0:52.45)
18th Dorian Cedars Entrepreneur Clear (0:52.87)
19th Shane Daniels Stuntman Clear (0:55.07)
20th Adam Laplante Cook Clear (0:56.43)
21st Andrew Taber Clear (0:56.50) Digest.
22nd Adam Truesdell IT Consultant Clear (0:57.62) Digest.
23rd Austin Greene Clear (0:57.96) Digest.
24th Ibrahim Peek Engineering Student Clear (0:57.98)
25th Ryan Stratis Army National Guard Clear (0:58.56)
26th Lorin Ball Gymnastics Coach Clear (0:59.74) Digest.
27th Brent Steffensen Stuntman Clear (1:02.74)
28th Christopher Geis Rock Climber Clear (1:03.60) Digest.
29th Thomas Hall Swim Instructor Clear (1:04.67)
30th Andrew Karsen Former Detroit Piston Cheerleader Clear (1:06.02) Digest.

Semifinal

In semifinal, competitors would face 9 obstacles (in which the first 6 obstacles were the same as in qualifying) and no time limit to complete the course. The 15 fastest competitors who completed the course would advance to Boot Camp finals. If less than 15 competitors completed the course, the competitors who got the furthest and fastest round the course would advance to Boot Camp finals.

Obstacles

Quad Steps
Rope Swing
Bridge of Blades
Spider Jump
Jumping Bars
Warped Wall
^Salmon Ladder
^Circle Slider
Cargo Net

^ - New Obstacle in American Ninja Warrior Course

Results

Place Qualifying Place Name Profile Result Notes
1st 3rd Travis Furlanic Pizza Maker Clear (1:43.45)
2nd 5th Levi Meeuwenberg Freerunner Clear (1:43.88)
3rd 22nd Adam Truesdell IT Consultant Clear (1:50.86)
4th 7th Paul Kasemir Software Engineer Clear (1:57.27) Digest.
5th 17th David Campbell Musician Clear (2:00.24) Digest.
6th 6th Ryan Cousins 3D Artist Clear (2:08.61) Digest.
7th 13th Rich King Stuntman Clear (2:11.86)
8th 11th Evan Dollard Project Manager Clear (2:16.81) Digest.
9th 18th Dorian Cedars Entrepreneur Clear (2:21.52) Digest.
10th 20th Adam Laplante Cook Clear (2:42.74) Digest.
11th 4th Brian Orosco Freerunner 8. Circle Slider (1:55.04)
12th 19th Shane Daniels Stuntman 7. Salmon Ladder (0:38.06)
13th 29th Thomas Hall Swim Instructor 7. Salmon Ladder (0:38.53) Digest.
14th 27th Brent Steffensen Stuntman 7. Salmon Ladder (0:42.03)
15th 16th Patrick Cusic Gymnastics Instructor 7. Salmon Ladder (0:48.21)

Results of Other Semifinalists

Place Name Profile Result Notes
1st Trevor Vaughn Student 7. Salmon Ladder 21st place.
2nd David Money Beef Jerky Maker 7. Salmon Ladder Digest. 19th place
8th William Spencer Stuntman 7. Salmon Ladder 17th place.
9th Travis Rosen 4. Spider Jump Digest. Disqualified for grabbing the top part of the walls. 25th place.
10th Chris Wilczewski 7. Salmon Ladder Digest. 18th place.
12th Sean Morris Limousine Driver 7. Salmon Ladder Digest. 20th place.
14th Caine Sinclair Stuntman 7. Salmon Ladder 22nd place.
15th Ryan Rachall College Student 2. Rope Swing Digest.
21st Andrew Taber 3. Bridge of Blades Digest.
23rd Austin Greene 2. Rope Swing Digest. Foot touched the water at landing.
24th Ibrahim Peek Engineering Student 3. Bridge of Blades
25th Ryan Stratis Army National Guard 7. Salmon Ladder Digest. 23th place.
26th Lorin Ball Gymnastics Coach 7. Salmon Ladder Digest. 16th place.
28th Christopher Geis Rock Climber 5. Jumping Bars Digest. 24th place.
30th Andrew Karsen Former Detroit Piston Cheerleader 3. Bridge of Blades Digest.

Boot Camp Finals

Competitors

Boot Camp finals was held in a remote mountain area in California. 15 competitors who advanced to Boot Camp finals were divided into three teams: Red Dragons, White Tigers, and Blue Monkeys. Each team consisted of 5 competitors, with the first competitor to represent each team was one of the top 3 competitors during semifinal (Travis Furlanic for Red Dragons, Levi Meeuwenberg for White Tigers, and Adam Truesdell for Blue Monkeys). Then, each of them would select the other 4 members for his respective team by drawing system.

Red Dragons White Tigers Blue Monkeys


Competition Format

There were 3 rounds used during Boot Camp finals:

  • Pressure Challenge
    • The Pressure Challenge consisted of an obstacle, in which each team must send one member to compete.
    • The competitor who had the worst performance would earn punishment for the entire members of his respective team.
    • The punishment consisted of bringing heavy objects to the Team Relay course, which would reduce the team's training time and energy for the Team Relay.
  • Team Relay
    • The Team Relay consisted of an obstacle course, just like in SASUKE.
    • Each competitor would run the course by bringing an heavy object (which was usually brought by the losing team from the Pressure Challenge) to the obstacle, and then attempting the obstacle. After that, he must repeat those two processes to the next obstacle, and then brought that object to the finish line.
    • Each obstacle had a maximum number of attempts to complete the obstacle. If the competitor failed to complete an obstacle within the allowed number of attempts, he would receive a time penalty added to his Team Relay time. The amount of time penalty for each obstacle may differed for each day of Boot Camp finals.
    • At the end of Team Relay, the completion time for each competitor (including the time penalty) would be accumulated among the other members of his respective team. The team who completed the Team Relay course in the slowest time must elect 2 of their members to face the Heavenly Ropes.
    • The number of obstacles faced by the competitors during the Team Relay may differed for each day of Boot Camp finals.
  • Heavenly Ropes
    • The Heavenly Ropes consisted of a side-to-side Rope Climb, with a bell at the top of each rope.
    • Each competitor must climb up the rope, in order to reach and ring the bell. Whoever did this in the fastest time (or made the highest, in case of none of the competitors could reach and ring the bell) would continue the competition, while the loser would be eliminated from the competition.

Those 3 rounds were used during the first 3 days of Boot Camp finals, except on the fourth and final day, in which:

  • There was no Pressure Challenge (as well as no punishment), so the teams would be more focused on the Team Relay.
  • At the end of the Team Relay, the team who completed the Team Relay course in the fastest time (including the time penalty) would send all of their members to represent Team America in SASUKE 26, while the two losing teams must elect 2 members each from their respective team to face the Heavenly Ropes.
  • At the end of the Heavenly Ropes, the 2 competitors who reached and rang the bell in the fastest time (or made the highest, in case of less than 2 competitors could reach and ring the bell) would represent Team America in SASUKE 26, while the losers would be eliminated from the competition.
  • The 2 losing teams whose members didn't face the Heavenly Ropes would automatically represent Team America in SASUKE 26.


Day 1

Pressure Challenge

The Pressure Challenge's obstacle for the first day of Boot Camp finals was called the Jungle Ropes, which consisted of a series of hanging ropes. Each competitor from his respective team must swing across a series of hanging ropes from the starting platform to reach the landing platform, without touching the ground below. The competitor who reached the landing platform (or swung across the fewest number of ropes, in case of less than 2 competitors could reach the landing platform) in the slowest time would earn punishment for the entire member of his respective team, in which each member of the losing team must bring a pair of buckets of water from one side of mountain area to the training ground (Team Relay course).

Team Name Result Notes Losing Team
Blue Monkeys Dorian Cedars Clear (0:22.38) Red Dragons
Red Dragons David Campbell Fail Reached the sixth rope in 0:42.94.
White Tigers Rich King Fail Reached the sixth rope in 0:41.85.


Team Relay

The Team Relay's obstacles for the first day of Boot Camp finals were the:

  • Cliffhanger
    • Number of maximum attempts allowed: 1
    • Time penalty: 2 minutes
  • Warped Wall
    • Number of maximum attempts allowed: 2
    • Time penalty: 30 seconds

Each competitor must also bring a boulder to the obstacle before attempting the obstacle.

Team Name Obstacle #1 (Cliffhanger) Obstacle #2 (Warped Wall) Team's Completion Time Time Penalty Team's Total Time Notes Losing Team
Red Dragons Travis Furlanic Clear Clear 4:48.97 2:30.00 7:18.97 White Tigers
Paul Kasemir Clear Clear
Thomas Hall Fail Fail
David Campbell Clear Clear
Brent Steffensen Clear Clear
White Tigers Levi Meeuwenberg Clear Clear 6:13.18 2:30.00 8:43.18
Rich King Clear Clear
Adam Laplante Clear Fail
Ryan Cousins Fail Clear
Shane Daniels Clear Clear
Blue Monkeys Brian Orosco Fail Clear 5:21.06 2:30.00 7:51.06
Evan Dollard Clear Clear
Dorian Cedars Clear Fail
Adam Truesdell Clear Clear
Patrick Cusic Clear Clear


Heavenly Ropes

Since White Tigers lost on the Team Relay, they must elect 2 of their members to face the Heavenly Ropes, which were Ryan Cousins and Adam Laplante.

Team Competitor #1 Competitor #2 Winning Competitor Notes
White Tigers Ryan Cousins Adam Laplante Adam Laplante Adam Laplante reached and rang the bell first.
Eliminated on the First Day of Boot Camp Finals: Ryan Cousins


Day 2

Pressure Challenge

The Pressure Challenge's obstacle for the second day of Boot Camp finals consisted of a wooden wall with a bar at the top of the wall and a hanging rope at the top of the bar. Each competitor from his respective team must climb up the rope, then reached the bar, created a human flag position, and tried to maintain that position for as long as possible. As soon as the competitor started the human flag position, the time would start. If the competitor's feet touched the wall or fell to the safety mat below, the time would stop. Each competitor was given 3 attempts to create and maintain the human flag position, but only the attempt with the longest time was counted. The competitor who maintain the human flag position in the shortest time would earn punishment for the entire member of his respective team, in which each member of the losing team must bring a pair of hay bales from one side of mountain area to the training ground (Team Relay course).

Team Name Result Notes Losing Team
White Tigers Adam Laplante 0:35.20 Blue Monkeys
Red Dragons Brent Steffensen 0:45.30
Blue Monkeys Patrick Cusic About under 3 seconds


Team Relay

The Team Relay's obstacles for the second day of Boot Camp finals were the:

  • Balance Tank (SASUKE 10-17 version)
    • Number of maximum attempts allowed: 2
    • Time penalty: 1 minute
  • Slider Jump
    • Number of maximum attempts allowed: 2
    • Time penalty: 30 seconds

Each competitor must also bring a yoke of sandbags to the obstacle before attempting the obstacle.

Team Name Obstacle #1 (Balance Tank) Obstacle #2 (Slider Jump) Team's Completion Time Time Penalty Team's Total Time Notes Losing Team
Blue Monkeys Patrick Cusic Clear Clear 10:12.36 0:00.00 10:12.36 Blue Monkeys
Brian Orosco Clear Clear
Dorian Cedars Clear Clear
Evan Dollard Clear Clear
Adam Truesdell Clear Clear
White Tigers Shane Daniels Clear Clear 8:47.11 0:00.00 8:47.11
Rich King Clear Clear
Levi Meeuwenberg Clear Clear
Adam Laplante Clear Clear
Shane Daniels (second run) Clear Clear Since White Tigers had one less member than the other two teams, they must select one of their members to run the course twice, and they decided to choose Shane Daniels.
Red Dragons David Campbell Clear Clear 8:21.08 0:00.00 8:21.08
Thomas Hall Clear Clear
Travis Furlanic Clear Clear
Brent Steffensen Clear Clear
Paul Kasemir Clear Clear


Heavenly Ropes

Since Blue Monkeys lost on the Team Relay, they must elect 2 of their members to face the Heavenly Ropes. However, they could only choose one member (Patrick Cusic), due to team's solidarity reason. Therefore, the team who won the Team Relay (Red Dragons) must choose one of the other member of Blue Monkeys to face the Heavenly Ropes, which was Dorian Cedars.

Team Competitor #1 Competitor #2 Winning Competitor Notes
Blue Monkeys Patrick Cusic Dorian Cedars Patrick Cusic Neither Patrick Cusic nor Dorian Cedars could reach and ring the bell. However, since Patrick Cusic had made the highest, he could continue the competition.
Eliminated on the Second Day of Boot Camp Finals: Dorian Cedars


Day 3

Pressure Challenge

The Pressure Challenge's obstacle for the third day of Boot Camp finals was called the Pendulum Swing, which consisted of two poles, a log at the middle of both poles, and a hanging rope. Each competitor from his respective team would start by standing at the top of the log, grabbed a rope, and swung it to hit from pole to pole with one feet back and forth, without touching the ground below, using both feet to hit the poles, or missing the poles. The competitor who hit the poles in the fewest number of times would earn punishment for the entire member of his respective team, in which each member of the losing team must sew a poles into 5 small pieces. Then, they must bring those pieces from one side of mountain area to the training ground (Team Relay course).

Team Name Result Notes Losing Team
White Tigers Levi Meeuwenberg 35 times Red Dragons
Blue Monkeys Adam Truesdell 32 times
Red Dragons Travis Furlanic 3 times


Team Relay

The Team Relay's obstacles for the third day of Boot Camp finals were the:

Each competitor must also bring a piece of log (which was brought by Red Dragons, due to losing at the Pressure Challenge) to the obstacle before attempting the obstacle.

Team Name Obstacle #1 (Double Salmon Ladder + Circle Slider) Obstacle #2 (Warped Wall) Team's Completion Time Time Penalty Team's Total Time Notes Losing Team
Red Dragons David Campbell Clear Clear 8:21.47 1:30.00 9:51.47 Red Dragons
Thomas Hall Fail (Double Salmon Ladder) Clear
Travis Furlanic Clear Clear
Brent Steffensen Clear Fail
Paul Kasemir Clear Clear
Blue Monkeys Brian Orosco Clear Clear 7:59.09 0:30.00 8:29.09
Adam Truesdell Clear Fail
Evan Dollard Clear Clear
Patrick Cusic Clear Clear
Brian Orosco (second run) Clear Clear Since Blue Monkeys had one less member than the team with the most number of members (Red Dragons), they must select one of their members to run the course twice, and they decided to choose Brian Orosco.
White Tigers Levi Meeuwenberg Clear Clear 7:49.07 1:30.00 9:19.07
Adam Laplante Fail (Double Salmon Ladder) Clear
Rich King Clear Fail
Shane Daniels Clear Clear
Levi Meeuwenberg (second run) Clear Clear Since White Tigers had one less member than the team with the most number of members (Red Dragons), they must select one of their members to run the course twice, and they decided to choose Levi Meeuwenberg.


Heavenly Ropes

Since Red Dragons lost on the Team Relay, they must elect 2 of their members to face the Heavenly Ropes, which were Travis Furlanic and Thomas Hall.

Team Competitor #1 Competitor #2 Winning Competitor Notes
Red Dragons Travis Furlanic Thomas Hall Travis Furlanic Travis Furlanic reached and rang the bell first.
Eliminated on the Third Day of Boot Camp Finals: Thomas Hall


Day 4

Team Relay

The Team Relay's obstacles for the fourth and final day of Boot Camp finals were the:

  • Cliffhanger
    • Number of maximum attempts allowed: 1
    • Time penalty: 2 minutes
  • Slider Jump
    • Number of maximum attempts allowed: 2
    • Time penalty: 30 seconds

Each competitor must also bring a cart of rocks to the obstacle before attempting the obstacle.

Team Name Obstacle #1 (Cliffhanger) Obstacle #2 (Slider Jump) Team's Completion Time Time Penalty Team's Total Time Notes Winning Team
Red Dragons David Campbell Clear Clear 5:58.00 0:00.00 5:58.00 Red Dragons
Travis Furlanic Clear Clear
Brent Steffensen Clear Clear
Paul Kasemir Clear Clear
Blue Monkeys Brian Orosco Clear Clear 7:48.98 0:30.00 8:18.98
Evan Dollard Clear Clear
Patrick Cusic Clear Clear
Adam Truesdell Clear Fail
White Tigers Rich King Clear Clear 7:43.82 0:30.00 8:13.82
Shane Daniels Clear Clear
Levi Meeuwenberg Clear Clear
Adam Laplante Clear Fail


Heavenly Ropes

Since White Tigers and Blue Monkeys lost on the Team Relay, each team must elect 2 of their members to face the Heavenly Ropes, which were Rich King and Adam Laplante (White Tigers), and Adam Truesdell and Evan Dollard (Blue Monkeys).

Team Competitor #1 Competitor #2 Winning Competitors Notes
White Tigers Rich King Adam Laplante Evan Dollard and Adam Truesdell All 4 of them could reach and rang the bell. However, Adam Truesdell and Evan Dollard had the 2 fastest times.
Blue Monkeys Adam Truesdell Evan Dollard
Eliminated on the Fourth Day of Boot Camp Finals: Adam Laplante and Rich King


American Representatives in SASUKE 26

Team Name
Red Dragons David Campbell
Travis Furlanic
Brent Steffensen
Paul Kasemir
White Tigers Shane Daniels
Levi Meeuwenberg
Blue Monkeys Brian Orosco
Evan Dollard
Patrick Cusic
Adam Truesdell

Mount Midoriyama (SASUKE 26)

Prior to competing in SASUKE 26, Levi Meeuwenberg injured his wrist and had to forfeit his position in the tournament. Levi then passed on his chance to his White Tigers teammate, Adam Laplante. Despite this setback, Levi attended SASUKE 26 as a sideline spectator and morale boost for the American competitors.

On this season, one competitor who could achieve total victory would receive the cash prize of US$250,000. Also, American competitors' run in this tournament was aired on December 23rd, 2010 (10 days before the official airdate of SASUKE 26).

Notes: The obstacles' name used here was based on the name used during G4's broadcast.

Stage One

Obstacles

Step Slider
Hazard Swing
Rolling Escargot
Jumping Spider
Half Pipe Attack
Warped Wall
Giant Swing
⑧ Final Climb (Tarzan Rope + Rope Ladder fusion)

Time limit: 130 seconds.

Results

Name Profile Result Notes
Adam Laplante Cook 5. Half Pipe Attack
Patrick Cusic Gymnastics Instructor 3. Rolling Escargot
Paul Kasemir Software Engineer Clear (00.84 seconds left)
Adam Truesdell IT Consultant 7. Giant Swing
Evan Dollard Project Manager 3. Rolling Escargot
Brent Steffensen Stuntman Clear (08.21 seconds left)
Travis Furlanic Pizza Maker Clear (14.23 seconds left)
Shane Daniels Stuntman 8. Final Climb Timed out at the top of the Rope Ladder.
David Campbell Musician Clear (21.51 seconds left)
Brian Orosco Freerunner Clear (20.56 seconds left)


Stage Two

Obstacles

Slider Drop
Double Salmon Ladder
Unstable Bridge
Balance Tank
Metal Spin
Wall Lift

Time limit: 95 seconds.

Results

Name Profile Result Notes
Paul Kasemir Software Engineer Clear (02.57 seconds left)
Brent Steffensen Stuntman Clear (21.64 seconds left)
Travis Furlanic Pizza Maker 4. Balance Tank
David Campbell Musician Clear (23.43 seconds left)
Brian Orosco Freerunner Clear (05.76 seconds left)


Stage Three

Obstacles

Roulette Cylinder
Doorknob Grasper
Cycle Road
Ultimate Cliffhanger
Swing Circle
Bungee Rope Climb
Flying Bar

Results

Name Profile Result Notes
Paul Kasemir Software Engineer 2. Doorknob Grasper Fell at the second doorknob.
Brent Steffensen Stuntman 4. Ultimate Cliffhanger Fell at the end of the third ledge.
David Campbell Musician 4. Ultimate Cliffhanger Transition to the fourth ledge. Since he made further and faster than Brent Steffensen, he was declared as the Last Man Standing of all the American competitors.
Brian Orosco Freerunner 1. Roulette Cylinder Fell at the end of the track.


Stage Four

Obstacles

Rope Climb (20 meters)

Time limit: 40 seconds.

Results

Name Profile Result Notes
Stage Not Attempted by American Competitors.

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