Wild Card Prediction
Los Angeles - Tiana 'Sweet T"
shareI just saw that they have been posting Wild Cards on the American Ninja Warrior Twitter page:
- Tory Garcia (LA)
- Tiana Webberly (LA) - Yay, we called it
- Natalie Duran (LA) - We called her too
- Erica Cook (Atl)
I will add others when they are posted.
So they're pulling the stunt of just wildcarding all girls again?
shareThat's what it's looking like.
Give wild cards to people who definitely won't win.
No offense, girls.
What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?
No offense, girls
Believe me...no offense taken on my end. I think it's a huge embarrassment and disservice to the people who actually earned the Wild cards. I don't know if ANW thinks it's somehow helping women by doing this, but IMO, it has the opposite effect.
This reminds me of the two per country rule in Gymnastics. Gabby Douglas qualifies 3rd out of about 50 women...but can't go to the All-Around because Simone and Aly finished before her. So, a girl that finished in 27th place can go to the AA, but the girl in 3rd can't. Is the girl in 27th place going to have a chance in the AA?? No. So why the hell waste the spot?
Are any of the women that got these gifted WC's going to get anywhere near the end of Stage 1?? Nope. Those spots should go to the individuals who actually earned them.
My feet have wings, barf bag. share
Don't get your hopes up. This is NBC. Just look how they're covering the Olympics. Their official stance is that they can tape delay and highlight certain storylines because women are more interested in human interest stories. NBC does not care about promoting this as an athletic event. They are completely tone deaf to their audience and don't expect them to change unless the ratings crater.
shareCan't say that I am surprised, as it is what they did the last time, but I was hoping that they would have gone in another direction.
In NBC's defense, the show gets more buzz when women do well, than when men do well. And, it is all about the ratings and buzz, so they have more incentive to give women the Wild Cards.
Also, in theory, if you weren't strong enough to qualify on your own, you aren't strong enough to finish Stage 4, so it almost doesn't matter who the Wild Cards go to.