American Ninja Warrior: The Ultimate Obstacle Game Show

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American Ninja Warrior The Ultimate Obstacle
Game Show
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• American Ninja Warrior is a sequel of a
  Japanese television game show named Sasuke,
  started in 2009. It is an American sports
  competition for entertainment and features
  hundreds of contestants who compete to finish a
  series of obstacle courses, where the level of
  difficulties keeps increasing. All these
  competitors aim at becoming the American Ninja
  Warrior by making it to the finals in Las Vegas
  Strip.

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• The format of the show is that the contestants
  go through difficult obstacles before they can
  make it to the finals and till date around 3500
  contestants have participated in the game, where
  only two have won the competition, Isaac
  Caldiero, and Geoff Britten. The show was aired
  on G4 channel initially and now airs on NBC. The
  show has till date completed ten seasons.

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Eligibility Criteria for Competing In American
Ninja Warrior

• To participate in this game show, there are
  some requirements that the contestants must meet,
  to qualify for the regional qualifier.The
  contestant who wants to compete needs to be a
  legal resident of the United States and in proper
  physical shape.

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• There is no age bar as such, but the
  participant has to be at least 19 years old to be
  able to participate in this competition.For the
  application process, the willing participant has
  to fill a 20-page document questionnaire and make
  a video of them. The video length can be anywhere
  between 2 to 8 minutes.Out of the thousands of
  applications that are received for American Ninja
  Warrior, the producers shortlist 100 participants
  to compete in the game show, and around 20 to 30
  of them are put in the wait-list.

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• This game show is considered to the most robust
  game show currently. The rounds of the play are
  conducted in different cities, and the difficulty
  levels keep increasing as the contestants move
  on. All the participants come to the show to test
  their physical capabilities and to become the
  winners, after Isaac Caldiero, who is the only
  winner till date and won in season 7.

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• Apart from directly participating in the game
  show, interested candidates can also join through
  different contests that the game show comes up
  with, like the Obstacle challenge. The
  participant needs to submit their ideas of
  obstacles, and if selected, they get to fly all
  the way to the city where the obstacle is being
  used, to be able to see it live. Again, the show
  receives hundreds of entries but only a few a
  shortlisted.

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• The latest season of American Ninja Warrior
  made rounds of Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas,
  Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia, and
  then the finals were conducted in Las Vegas as
  always.

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• This American TV show is based on the Japanese
  show called Sasuke, which has been an all-time
  hit and is currently in its 35th season.