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Climbing Mediawatch 27-Jul-2017 At 3:22:13 PM One Day Hero

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It isn't crazy conspiracy shit Rod. It clearly wasn't in the interests of the producers to have someone finish.......I'm not going to explain that, cause you aren't a child.

They have the climbing comp situation. If you make it too hard, everyone pitches off halfway through and it's a dud show. On the other hand, if you make it too easy, half the field tops out and you have to go to countback or something stupid to find a winner. Plus the added problem that a topout is worth a million bucks, so you can be sure as shit that the sneaky competitors are sandbagging you with their apparent ability in the heats.

Good route setters would have gradually increasing difficulty to spit people off roughly in order, and hopefully spread out the field over the length of the course. Add enough time pressure to get people pumped, but not so much that they run out of time halfway through. To prevent anyone from finishing, just make the last two obstacles bullshit hard.

I reckon they were making it up as they went along, realised on the night that the problems were too easy, and used the clock a bit too heavy handedly in an attempt to compensate.