Wipeout Sweden

[McAn]

Now It's all set. Between December 13th and 20th, I'll be in Buenos Aires and having the time of my life, lol!

I will do my best to keep this thread up to date with news, photos, etc.

[wipeout]

I can't wait to hear how it goes! I hope that it ends up on youtube! Good luck on winning some big money!

[McAn]

Awh man! so sorry I haven't returned here and written anything about my wipeout experience.
But here goes:

I did have the time of my life, thats for sure unfortunately we weren't allowed to bring camera or even cellphone
to the shooting, so I don't have any photos to share

I did my best, and I'm actually proud of my attempt. But I didn't move on from the qualifier.
Since Sweden, Norway and Denmark competed against each other in the same program
we were only 8 persons/country, and I had some real good opponents in the Swedish team, unfortunately too good.

If only I had been shipped down with some other team instead.
Not because of the money, the winner only got 50.000 SEK, which is about $6000.
But I didn't get the chance to try the sweeper, dizzy dummy nor the wipeout zone

One thing came as a shock to me @ the suckerpunch wall (pun intended):
you didn't get one chance, and move on if you were punched down.
If you hadn't come past a certain line in the middle, you had to do it again two times,
so totally three times for most people (read: me).
I didn't mind it, wasn't so bad but it cost me some time and tired me out quite well.

I don't know what more I could write, but if you come with questions I'll try to answer them in the best possible way.
Promise not to run away from here again

I was in the last (10th) episode, which aired last sunday.
Here's a clip on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg_yKI_je90

Don't mind if you rank it/post comment

I'll make an attempt to translate the comments for you:

This is Marcus Lindström from Södertälje - Unathletic and intrested in computers
is his description of himself.

Out on the suckerpunch wall - ouch! ouch! ouch!
Here he shows that he's not very athletic.
Marcus crashes like an North Korean hard disk drive into the mud.

(me: ah f***!)

He's sore in the throat, he probably drank too much of the mud.
That could be irritated for the mucous membranes...

Out on the balls and slides direct down in the water. He was probably thirsty, poor thing.

And there he finishes, I put him down at 3 minutes and 10 seconds, which seems to be a mediocre time.

[wipeout]

May 17, 2009 16:19:24 GMT -5 McAn said:

Awh man! so sorry I haven't returned here and written anything about my wipeout experience.
But here goes:

I did have the time of my life, thats for sure unfortunately we weren't allowed to bring camera or even cellphone
to the shooting, so I don't have any photos to share

I did my best, and I'm actually proud of my attempt. But I didn't move on from the qualifier.
Since Sweden, Norway and Denmark competed against each other in the same program
we were only 8 persons/country, and I had some real good opponents in the Swedish team, unfortunately too good.

If only I had been shipped down with some other team instead.
Not because of the money, the winner only got 50.000 SEK, which is about $6000.
But I didn't get the chance to try the sweeper, dizzy dummy nor the wipeout zone

One thing came as a shock to me @ the suckerpunch wall (pun intended):
you didn't get one chance, and move on if you were punched down.
If you hadn't come past a certain line in the middle, you had to do it again two times,
so totally three times for most people (read: me).
I didn't mind it, wasn't so bad but it cost me some time and tired me out quite well.

I don't know what more I could write, but if you come with questions I'll try to answer them in the best possible way.
Promise not to run away from here again

I was in the last (10th) episode, which aired last sunday.
Here's a clip on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg_yKI_je90

Don't mind if you rank it/post comment

I'll make an attempt to translate the comments for you:

This is Marcus Lindström from Södertälje - Unathletic and intrested in computers
is his description of himself.

Out on the suckerpunch wall - ouch! ouch! ouch!
Here he shows that he's not very athletic.
Marcus crashes like an North Korean hard disk drive into the mud.

(me: ah f***!)

He's sore in the throat, he probably drank too much of the mud.
That could be irritated for the mucous membranes...

Out on the balls and slides direct down in the water. He was probably thirsty, poor thing.

And there he finishes, I put him down at 3 minutes and 10 seconds, which seems to be a mediocre time.

Very excellent information. I do have some questions, but are they classified?

#1.) Do you know the exact street address of the course?

#2.) Was the mud cold?

#3.) Did you get to talk a lot to the other contestants?

#4.) Did you see anyone else run the course?

Thanks.

[McAn]

May 17, 2009 17:01:49 GMT -5 wipeout said:

Very excellent information. I do have some questions, but are they classified?

#1.) Do you know the exact street address of the course?

#2.) Was the mud cold?

#3.) Did you get to talk a lot to the other contestants?

#4.) Did you see anyone else run the course?

Thanks.

Everything's kind of classified. I don't have the exact street address, or anything even close.
Didn't think of making the route out in my head and check it at google earth until after.

I actually do not remember (ironic since I spent so much time in it), but I think it was more warm than cold.

In the tent before we could talk and stuff, but when one had competed, they had to move to another tent,
so we couldn't talk with them and as questions and so.

Obviously we weren't allowed to watch the other ones compete

You're so welcome

[wipeout]

Everything's kind of classified. I don't have the exact street address, or anything even close.
Didn't think of making the route out in my head and check it at google earth until after.

I actually do not remember (ironic since I spent so much time in it), but I think it was more warm than cold.

In the tent before we could talk and stuff, but when one had competed, they had to move to another tent,
so we couldn't talk with them and as questions and so.

Obviously we weren't allowed to watch the other ones compete

You're so welcome

Thanks for the info. Also, how thick was the mud? Was it hard to wade through?