Should hurdles have an easy mode? Our experts weigh in on why the Dark Souls effect has increasingly made sports inaccessible to many participants and why an easy mode has never ruined a sport.
Yes that is wrong. You can knock over all the hurdles if you want, once you go over them (I assume compared to around or under them). You will see in many races some people get their stride wrong and will kick several hurdles in a row and barely slow down. It is not a strategy that can give you an advantage though, knocking them down does slow you down, so it is its own penalty
PeeterGrant
Photo finish would show her rear end crossing the finish line! Still a win.
PenguinNamedWobbles
Looks like she threw a high initiative roll.
MBdub210
Ouch!
VorpaltheFox
trinxter
High roller.
Dascari
She fucking beefed it, but was so good that she still rocked them. Crazy.
GreenMnM
This is the 3nd time I've seen this in as many minutes
inthepines
When you stumble in life, just roll with it
kaijuuGold
been trainin all my life for this
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dadboat
Came here to say just this :'D
JaXm
Goddamn, the fall aside, that race wasn't even CLOSE. She smashed the other runners like they were all on coffee break.
DianNaoChong
Don't you auto disqualify for touching a hurdle?
BTWash22
No
SF0X
This is the way to fall. Fall forward!
HenElt
Falling is allowed, but she may have crossed a line to a competitor during the fall, which isn’t.
FallingStar7669
I was wondering the same; best I can tell is she may have crossed it after the finish line.
lightfoot2
Freeze frame shows her back on the finish line and not on the competitor line. So... wow.
BryanTenn
Seems like that happened after the finish line.
BryanTenn
She has won several events. I think she is on a roll.
justplainvanilla
itdweeb
lightfoot2
Never give up, never surrender.
thebonesofmyancestors
Luvlyquants
She won! WoW! :)
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Imagine being one of the other runners "They just ate shit... and still beat us"
crapybarra
Does the tipping of a hurdle add time on the record?
YuffieK
Not even a Blue Shell can stop her!
Schtubby
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IgnisInvictus
Does that count as a win? I feel like that should count, but I know sports rules get weird.
buttcreambandit
Doesn’t knocking a hurdle take points (time) off? So she wouldn’t be disqualified but she’d have placed lower?
armyguy
Solve wordles, wear girdles, milk curdles, idgaf. Win hurdles.
CgnCalling
You can cross the line upside down, ass first or launch yourself across - doesn’t matter how
Turbogoat
Dr Seuss?
Akintunde
Should hurdles have an easy mode? Our experts weigh in on why the Dark Souls effect has increasingly made sports inaccessible to many participants and why an easy mode has never ruined a sport.
Agreeablebug6
I thought you had a penalty for even touching the hurdle. Is that wrong?
IRCBrink
Yes that is wrong. You can knock over all the hurdles if you want, once you go over them (I assume compared to around or under them). You will see in many races some people get their stride wrong and will kick several hurdles in a row and barely slow down. It is not a strategy that can give you an advantage though, knocking them down does slow you down, so it is its own penalty
Thelema
Not anymore (besides the fact that it hurts like hell and disrupts your running rythm, of course).