American Ninja Warrior 3 (2011)
On May 12, 2011 filming began for the third season in Venice Beach, California that took place over the course of four days. The eight-part season premiered on July 31, 2011 on G4 TV and ran until August 22, 2011. The first two stages were hosted by Matt Iseman and former MMA fighter and Bellator announcer Jimmy Smith. In the qualifying round of the quarter-finals, 300 competitors tried to complete the course in the shortest time to advance to the semi-finals where they attempted to take on an extended course and were narrowed down to 15 finalists. These competitors had a chance to run the Ninja Warrior course in Japan at Mt. Midoriyama in the season finale, where they competed for a chance to win a $500,000 endorsement deal with K-Swiss and a chance to be the first "American Ninja Warrior".
The final 10 competitors saw how far they could get on American Ninja Warrior on the Sasuke Ninja Warrior course in Japan and were allowed to go on to Sasuke 27 which aired on August 22, 2011, where they tried to be the first American to achieve "total victory" to be "grand champion" and win the title of "Ninja Warrior".
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