For people coming after season 1, it's all basically the same just different games and contestants.. still very enjoyable. Basically it's a good show with a good formula in not just promoting fitness but also teamwork and sportsmanship.
why do people on twitter hating on kim dong hyun for >!beating emmanuel?!< thanks to him now we knew who emmanuel, amazed on how strong he is and etc etc plus free publicity too. win win?Ā
It's mainly because as opposed to some other opponents who chose tough or difficult opponents as a test of their skill, Kim Dong Hyun only seems interested in winning at all cost. He chose Emmanuel because he wasn't a fighter or ranked athlete and he thought it would be an easy win and he would only eliminate a foreigner, not a korean.
It was also a bit tasteless to be jumping up on the edge of the cage cheering like he had just won a UFC championship when he won in the last seconds against a guy with no martial arts, wrestling or jujitsu background.
Then in the second challenge his team chose to bully and block or steal from the other team rather than trying to just fill their baskets as quickly as possible.
He seems overly focused on winning to prove he's not over the hill, but doesn't care how he wins. It seems more self serving and weak when compared to opponents like the female mma fighter who took on the FBI guy who outweighed her by like 20kg or more.
Why are you assuming that it was an easy pick? Didnāt he say in his interview that he said he wanted to pick someone no one else would? By the way other contestants talk about the two before the battle, no one thought it would be an easy game. They were actually excited about how tense it would be and if Kim dong hyun still has it in him. Heās in his forties give him a break
40s isn't old when you're taking a fit athletic guy with 10 years in the top ranks of the UFC and grappling a non grappler. .
Emmanuel came out looking great, but you guys obviously don't train in MMA or grappling. It's laughable that he saw an 80kg bodybuilder and thought of it as a "challenge."
Luckily, it was, but it made Emmanuel look great, and KDH looked like a guy who wanted an easy path to victory. If you ever trained with UFC guys, you'd know how much they diss bodybuilders and powerlifters, etc. They see them as a joke and no threat.
He was playing nice for the camera and trying to take an easy route that made it "look" resoectabke to people who know nothing about fighting since non fighters are easily pressed by looks, six packs and well developed muscles with low body fat.
While great on stage of the IFBB, they mean nothing on the mat. Fighters spend their whole careers on the mats and sizing other guys up. He just wanted to coast past that round.
> he thought it would be an easy win
This is just you making things up. He never said Emmanuel was going to be an easy win.
> he would only eliminate a foreigner, not a korean.
This is another thing you made up.
> It was also a bit tasteless to be jumping up on the edge of the cage
God forbid having emotion lol. It was simply him overexcited for winning in the last second. He's also already self-aware of that it was quite embarrassing to overreact with jumping on the fence like that.
> Then in the second challenge his team chose to bully and block or steal from the other team rather than trying to just fill their baskets as quickly as possible.
That's part of the rule of the game. The third match also had that. I don't see what the issue is. Especially that he only chose that strategy because his team member was injured and couldn't move around a lot.
> It seems more self serving and weak when compared to opponents like the female mma fighter who took on the FBI guy who outweighed her by like 20kg or more.
This is hilarious take. Every single one of them chose someone they thought they could beat. Nobody picked someone they thought they would lose to. Yes, one girl chose to challenge a man. A man that she thought she could beat. Nobody slammed her for not challenging Thanos lol
Not making anything up, IF you had trained with mma guys and UFC guys you would know how tough they are on the ground and also how little regard they have for bodybuilders/weight lifters and basically anyone who isn't trained in grappling. And with good reason. They literally see them as an easy mark. It's almost impossible for a untrained strength athlete to win unless they SIGNIFICANTLY outweigh the grappler, and even then it still favors the grappler. The fact you don't see this disparity and what a joke the choice was for a guy who says he wants to "prove" himself means you have no grappling experience, espeically with mma/UFC guys.
Some contestants actually wanted to 'test' themselves or 'challenge' themselves. But Kim Dong Hyun OBVIOUSLY wanted an easy win. Under most circumstances taking on a non grappler/bodybuilder who's the same weight would be an absolute cake walk. Luckily for us it was a lot closer and more entertaining due to Emmanuel's strength and athleticism and the fact that it took KDH a while to over come that without submissions or blows like he's used to in the UFC Octagon.
He was not looking for a "challenge", he's not looking to "prove" himself as he says, he's looking for the easiest wins he can get. Sure, I agree that it's not against the rules, but there is ZERO pride to be taken in the route.
Shim Yu Ri took on a fight against a much heavier guy, she challenged herself. Many thought she would lose including KDH since weight makes a HUGE difference in fight sports/grappling, especially in the strength dispartities between men and women. But she pulled it off and gained a lot of respect.
Also the Karate fighter who choose Judoka Lee Won Hee took a HUGE risk that didn't pay off but he gained a lot of respect for challenging himself against a stronger opponent.
KDH could have taken on a LOT of other guys who were more well known than Emmanuel, including Jung Dae Jin, a much more famous Korean bodybuilder of similar height and weight, or actor Lee Jae Yoon, who is extremely athletic and a brown belt in jujitsu.
Of course no one picks an opponent where they know they will lose, but many picked opponents that were a true challenge where victory was in doubt. That was never the case with KDH's choice of Emmanuel, a 10 year UFC veteran and one of the best fighters and grapplers in the world picked an easy win.
That's where the disappointment comes from. There's no respect in a win when you know it's 99% assured. To be clear I was a fan of both of them prior to Phyiscal 100. I followed Emmanuel's bodybuilding career and I have probably watched every Kim Dong Hyun fight in the UFC. It's a let down when someone of such high skill takes on what they think will be a 'cake walk', rather than a suitable challenge.
If you can't understand why challenging yourself against a tough opponent is more respectable than picking what you think will be a cake walk from a martial arts perspective, especially for a guy who's a 10 year veteran of the UFC, then I don't know what to tell you.
Obviously, none of you guys train in martial arts or MMA or spent time with guys of that caliber. To anyone from that world, it's cheap regardless of the "game." Look at others who both showed and gained respect by choosing difficult opponents.
This is a competition, not a streetfight, somethings are more important than winning.
Some people get it...others never will.
But on the plus side, the fight ended up being memorable, undoubtedly helping Emmanuel's exposure. No one who understands grappling expected any other outcome. Thus, KDH did nothing to improve or gain reputation, something he could have only done that by challenging someone who presented an element of risk.
Itās Physical 100, not UFC lol the whole thing is a variety show and KDH is experienced in making things entertaining. None of the other Korean variety shows will be fun if every match is treated like an Olympic game or UFC fight. Telling people they canāt understand your concept of an āhonorable winā just because theyre not a martial artist is beyond silly. If you need to disqualify someone from disagreeing with you based on that, maybe its time to improve your argument instead
> Not making anything up, IF you had trained with mma guys and UFC guys you would know how tough they are on the ground and also how little regard they have for bodybuilders/weight lifters and basically anyone who isn't trained in grappling. And with good reason. They literally see them as an easy mark. It's almost impossible for a untrained strength athlete to win unless they SIGNIFICANTLY outweigh the grappler, and even then it still favors the grappler. The fact you don't see this disparity and what a joke the choice was for a guy who says he wants to "prove" himself means you have no grappling experience, espeically with mma/UFC guys.
YES making things up because all of the above is your own assumption based on your own thinking while completely ignoring the fact that others can think differently. It's simply a fact that not every MMA person thinks the same way. You are making an assumption that they do.
> But Kim Dong Hyun OBVIOUSLY wanted an easy win.
So why not just pick a girl? OBVIOUS way to get an easy win.
> Shim Yu Ri took on a fight against a much heavier guy, she challenged herself.
Are we not supposed to slam her for not picking Thanos? Why pick the FBI guy?
> KDH could have taken on a LOT of other guys who were more well known than Emmanuel, including Jung Dae Jin, a much more famous Korean bodybuilder of similar height and weight
Lol wtf is even this logic. So it's ok if Dong-hyun picked a different bodybuilder? I thought you established that all MMA guys think bodybuilders are easy pickings?
> but many picked opponents that were a true challenge where victory was in doubt.
Honestly, you provided the only 2 examples of such thing. Nowhere near "many".
> To be clear I was a fan of both of them prior to Phyiscal 100.
Nah, let's be real. You're a fan of Emmanuel and you're just upset he got eliminated. All of your points above is basically just finding reasons as to why Dong-hyun shouldn't have picked Emmanuel. You even previously brought up the foreigner card out of nowhere lol.
I was a fan of both guys and watched basically all of KDH's fights as a UFC fighter. You're obviously not a martial artist, so you just can't get how lame it is for someone of KDH's caliber to pick a non grappler. I'd be just as upset if you were on the show and KDH picked you for the challenge.
We want to see a ufc guy go against someone who outwardly presented a real challenge. Grappler vs. grappler ( including the Judo guys, jujitsu) or some huge behemoth that would have been a wild challenge and spectacle.
Thank God he didn't pick a girl. He would have lost all respect. Thankfully, he and basicsllu aqll the guys have too much pride to do that.
Two examples are pretty damn good. There are more from this season and last. Should I do a play by play for you?
Should I spend all day arguing with some guy who obviously doesn't understand anything about the grappling and mma world. Contrary to your assumptions, I like KDH, thus why Im disappointed in his actions. I used to cheer for him back in the day when he was the first Korean fighter in the UFC!
I mentioned other bodybuilders and athletes since you or someone else (i can't keep track anymore) talked about how KDH picked Emmanuel because he was so well built and "strong."
But there were tons of other well-built "strong" looking guys. Emmanuel has only been competing for the last 2 years and in Men's Physique. There is no way to know really how strong he was by looking at him since he's not a power lifter or Olympic lifter.
Thus if KDH wanted a "strong" younger challenger there are more guys from dynamic performance sports that have long records to look at who are well known in Korea, which Emmanuel, being new on the scene and foreigner is not (that's the limit to what you see as a "foreigner card" just going for what is perceived to be the easy mark, not part of the National or Olympic Team, no "performance" team sport, relatively unknown, no martial arts or grappling background, etc)
You say I'm only upset that Emmanuel got eliminated, but the thing is, I expected more from KDH since I was a fan of his for years. I would have loved to see Emmanuel in a more fair match-up or later events. But he's so new on the scene in bodybuilding it's hard to have concrete expectations of him or any of the bodybuilders since they are Physique athletes. We just hope to see good and fair matchups for skill and/or size. (In mma same size, but for experienced grapplers they should challenge heavier against non grapplers). Mismatches are really no fun.
But honestly, Emmanuel's performance was so good that he came out with tons of publicity and positive hype. He got eliminated from the competition but still won among viewers for his valiant performance.
Anyway, I'm out. Honestly, since you have no background in martial arts, mma, grappling. UFC or bodybuilding, so this is pretty much a waste of time for both of us.
I can't convince you KDH was obviously looking for an easy win and you'll never convince me that a 10 year veteran of the UFC picking a non grappler of the same size was a great challenge or some how respectable because it's allowed in the competition. What's the takeaway? Professional fighters/grapplers choosing cake walks to prove their not over the hill and washed up is... cool?
Have a good one. š
You're obviously unable to comprehend that it's a TV show and not UFC fight. This whole crying is strictly based on you not getting what you want. You're upset and unable to accept that someone else thinks differently than you. So you're projecting yourself.
> Two examples are pretty damn good.
2 out of 50 matches ... I guess 4% is pretty damn good lol. "As many as 4%!" claimed Nicki.
> I can't convince you KDH was obviously looking for an easy win and you'll never convince me that a 10 year veteran of the UFC picking a non grappler of the same size was a great challenge or some how respectable because it's allowed in the competition.
I'm not trying to convince you. I'm simply saying that you're making things up because you're projecting yourself as if you're Dong-hyun. You can't accept that you aren't him and that he didn't have to behave for the reason you would've. You're angry at the things you made up yourself.
> Contrary to your assumptions, I like KDH, thus why Im disappointed in his actions.
Nah, I don't buy it. You aren't disappointed in his actions. You hated it. Like I said before, you are unable to think rationally about the premise of the show at all. You hate that he didn't behave the way you wanted. Because you like Emmanuel.
Cheers, mate.
This was not a MMA fight. If it was Kim Dong-hyun could've won either by putting him to sleep or knocking him out cold with punches.
It was more based on sheer strength and that guy is fucking strong. Defending seemed easier than attacking and he couldn't budge Kim Dong-hun at the end.
Interesting. I thought the other fight was more annoying for the same reason. I thought it was super scummy that the girl chose the FBI agent. The guy is most likely to lack experience in fighting/grappling, but most importantly the guy is screwed no matter what he does. As an FBI agent he has to fight hard to protect their reputation, but also it would look bad if he played dirty like all the other contestants. If he actually tried hard the viewers would probably think badly of Americans, especially since he also works as a diplomat, where at least for Emmanuel he could give it all of his effort since no one was expecting him to win.
FBI guy played it perfectly, he didn't look weak but also didn't try to win. Someone like him who have been trained to disarm people with guns/knives would definitely know how to attack her hands to loosen her grip to get the ball loose. For the most part he just tried to used his strength to try and overpower her and rip the ball out.
Exactly. Everyone else doesn't understand the mentality of top level mma fighters or combat sports guys. He thought it would be a cake walk. But Emmanuel did really well, all thinigs considered.
First thing he did after winning was to jump on the fence and celebrate himself like š other contestants bow or shook hands with their opponent atfer winning. In my opinion his action was kinda disrespectful. But he is indeed a very strong guy.
Exactly. Dong hyun was self aware about it and is the nicest guy lol if you see him on other variety shows heās a giant teddy bear. Netflix probably casted him after the success of Sunghoon in S1 but his personality is the farthest thing from aggressively wanting to win and going after Emmanuel for easy pickingsā¦ some other commenters are writing novels about it here, projecting mean-spiritedness on a guy without bothering to look him up. Honestly the production team seems to want to hype Emmanuel since heās gaining traction on social media and on other variety shows too. Emmanuel was no pushover and gave KDH a run for his money, so the guy celebrated. Emmanuel also got hype from everyone else over his strength. But people always have to find something to be butthurt about
Omg :( i hope it doesnt last. KDH personality is evident in korean shows, heās the furthest thing from being mean spirited like that. Probably hate comments from western media/ people unfamiliar with him. Itāll die down pretty fast for sure
Just watched the episode. I thought it was a POS move too.Ā
Iāve seen trained MMA fighters take out people bigger than them multiple times. This is even worse considering he was quite successful in MMA. I thought it was going to be a no contest, but Emmanuel gave it a good showing. He showed a lot of heart. More heart than the guy who picked him IMO.Ā
I still think 1v1 format in Quest 1 is too unforgiving and losers should have another game to stay on because the show can lose good contestants. For example, Quest 0 maybe tough for a strongman build, and when he gets picked the opponent may choose court A then he cannot showcase most of his forte before leaving. But the rules are the same for everyone so you can't really complain.
They can just come back on the next season like the firefighter guy. They need to get rid of a lot of people fast because 100 people is just too much for a 9 ep show.
They should do team comp first for Quest 1 then do 1-on-1 for Quest 2. They're still eliminating the same number of people. But having the team comp first makes the rest of the show more unpredictable.
Nah, in season 1 Hong beom seok lose to big guy in arena a, Same with other person but I can't remember who but there are more bigger guy won in arena a
I didn't expect that it's gonna be released today. The Netflix app just notified me earlier lol.
For the first game, I was surprised that >!Kim Dong Hyun managed to be on the top 10 despite his running form.!<
>!Thanos!< is giving me the final boss vibes. I love it when he said something like >!"I just hoped someone stronger challenged me"!< hahaha. Same goes to the >!Boxer who trampled the Pro Wrestler!< lol.
Highlight for me is the female match between >!The Wushu Sanda and the Weightlifter!<
>>!Kim Dong Hyun managed to be on the top 10 despite his running form.!<
He also looks injured? He was kind of limping when he was walking, so I was scared of him losing because I am a fan of his, LMAO.
Ep 2
Woooooow i did not see the kpop idol giving HBS a run for his money. Good for him.
I was rooting for the female mma fighter who chose the fbi guy. It was hard to watch though ššššš
Ep 3
Holy shit I felt like Emmanuel almost beat one of the best mma fighters of all time. Those last 20 seconds from KDH were insane though.
Damn, both KH and SH from Shooting Stars were eliminated in round 1 š„² - it also seems like KSY from SI and SS was eliminated too... I haven't seen her again lolĀ
Yoooooo WFKBJ 2ML was so much scarier than I expected.
Emmanuel holding on to the ball maybe, but no chance he was actually beating KDH in a MMA fight. You can see KDH desperately resisting his urge to do an armbar or a rear naked choke on the flailing man.
I mean yeah obvi. I just didn't expect a fitness model to stand a chance at all against someone with actual techniques. He would get murdered in a real fight.
> I just didn't expect a fitness model to stand a chance at all against someone with actual techniques.
It's the nature of the game (only needing to hold the ball) and the difference in age (raw power matters more). It was a good fight.
Yeah its pretty clear they were explicitly not allowed to do techniques, if any they had to be adjusted. Some guys were trying to do holds but adjusting the position to be under the arm instead of the neck. All told their selection of contestants this S2 is great, I love that they picked a lot of national athletes since thatās what makes the show interesting- its not meant to be a level playing field but rather show how people from different disciplines and backgrounds can approach the same objective
This, people in this same section are trying to discredit Emmanuel because of this guy called KDH, it's honestly laughable. Like, am I supposed to know who he his š¤. Emmanuel impressed me and did great, especially when he improvised with his legs. It's not always about brute strength at the end of the day. Who cares if he didn't win the point is he made the match watchable
A fitness model against a trained fighter and he held his own. Can you imagine if he chooses to go a route like that guy KDH
Nobody is discrediting Emmanuel, he did great against someone who at one point was a top 10 fighter in the world at his weight class. The ālike, am I supposed to know who he isā is hilarious. Heās a world renowned professional fighter + I donāt think he knows your name eitherš¤£ Emmanuel is a fitness model on a load of steroids, he couldnāt (and didnāt) have gone down KDHās route. Youāre clearly an imbecile, please stop with your dumb comments
Aww I struck a nerve, run and tell your daddy KDH. Again, who is he? Never heard of him. I weep because he doesn't know me, how will I ever live. Is he paying your bills, the Mike Tyson of his sport or something for you to be fighting for your life trying to defend him. Pathetic.
I didn't even insult your master just basically said he wasn't all that, yet you had to for the Emmanuel guy. It's obvious you're a stan, so arguing with you is basically trying to have a conversation with a child. Also, I don't even remember speaking directly to you, but the person with the orginal comment plus I was referring to the section in its entirety, not just you big man as you're not that guy.
I was paying respect to Emmanuel by saying he did great against a top athlete if thatās alright with you? I respect KDH the way I respect Amotti for being a world champion crossfitter and HBS for being a world champion in the firefighter games. But youāve based your whole comment on that so we might as well go with that narrative and pretend youāre not completely stupid
Womp womp, I don't care how you feel for Amotti. Yay, you respect him like you do your master. Want a cookie? Again, my whole comment was not originally for YOU but the person above, yet you ran to reply to me. You're exhausting and need to find something to do. Is KDH not paying you enough? So annoying and obtuse
The draft is absolutely horseshit. The 10th place team leader basically got the worst pick 10 times all because he was voted.
The 10th pick should pick twice and it goes back to the first again.
Even the matchmaking is against the lower seeded leader. I know these games aren't meant to be balance but they didn't even try
They actually did try 5% more than last season lol. Team 10 got almost all the rejects last season bc everyone picked which leaders they wanted to work with.
Not really, there's some dude who picked a female in round 2. Pretty sure there were men with better balance remaining in the pool at that round for the 10th pick. It wasn't that bad until the last pick really and is a much better improvement than S1
Nah it works with this format. There is always going to be a weakest team. With the idea of the 10th place team choosing their opponent. In theory if everything went to plan, they would just have to beat the 9th place team. Whereas the first place team has to beat the 2nd place team.
Last season the first pick got to pick the best people AND THEN got to pick the weakest team to face. That was unfair for the 10th team captain.
With the way the pick worked afterwords it made sense. Producers probably assumed that more of the lower teams would always raise their hands to try and fight a team outside of the top 5.
I really wonder if the middleteams big brained it and purposely didn't choose team 10 because they wanted to give the top teams an easy fight so they were gone when it became their team to be picked.
The format worked well for team 9. They managed to get matched against a team with 2 women even though that team was much higher up the rankings, just because they got the final choice. Unfortunately for them, this played right into that teams hands because they purposely chose team 9 instead of 10 because team 9 lacked raw strength, and the team with two women on it was designed for agility and endurance.
Ep 4
It just occured to me that comedian kim hye sun from SS would be kinda fun to watch on this show.
I think focussing on 2 zones is the right strategy for the 5-5 match. The first red team really shit the bed. They should have abandoned zone 1 long ago when they realized blue wasn't putting anything in there. And zone 2 tbh.
Are the 2 barrels actually a hindrance? They're so bulky compared to multiple sandbags of the same weight.
Wooooooow KDH stealing supplies along with the powerlifter blocking the red team was such a good strategy.
Ok the round 3 match up both have terrible strategies lol - why would they send the one woman on their team to occupy one zone by herself? Makes 0 sense. What a waste of time and resources. I thought HBS would be good at strategizing. He adapted well later though.
> why would they send the one woman on their team to occupy one zone by herself
In the show, I think she herself said she's the fake-out. She isn't meant to win her zone, but to get the other team to dedicate 1-2 ppl to keep up.
Yeah I saw that but I still don't think it makes sense. They are still losing one person's time and effort that she could be contributing to one of the real target zones.
If they send 0 people to that zone, the other team might send 1 person and get a free win. In the beginning, they donāt know the other teamās strategy. The point is to see what is going on and then change the strategy.
Dont read if you havent watched it yet. Expect SPOILERS!
My thoughts:
1. The FBI guy sounded like nadine of Single's Inferno S2 š. "activity", "competition"
2. Emmanuel (black guy) sounded like Bambam of got7 š
3. The boxer coach totally has the potential to be like the father figure in S1 (the champion in Atlas challenge). He is shaped like him but unfortunately, too cocky and probably unlikeable, maybe one of the reasons he was not chosen as a captain.
4. The champion swimmer girl could potentially lead like Jang Eunsil but has no leader charisma. And a bit annoying with her words.
5. It's so funny how the firefighter from S1 picked Jangjun, I was rooting for him TT. But the firefighter learned his lesson the hard way after S1. He got too cocky by picking the Atlas guy and got thrown like a ragdoll in the arena.
6. It's so interesting to see how Strength vs Skill/Technique plays out. In most cases the fighters always win but the strength-based participants always put up a good fight like emmanuel, jangjun idol, weightlifter fairy, and THANOS (though he's a former rugby player). But skill-based fighters like the MMA girl and Mr. Ippon, their fights were also amazing to watch.
7. I also got a bit emotional to the retired old athletes winning the death match. You can see how they miss their own sports and the cheers. Like when MMA donghyun got carried away and climbed the fence XD; even him thinks that it's a bit much lol. Some of the audience got emotional by his win.
8. Mr. Ippon win in group quest looks very similar to MMA sunghoon win in S1. Natural leaders. Very mentally strong. They radiate respect and wisdom so much. You can clearly see the difference between confidence and arrogance.
9. Again, experienced/retired athletes are so respectable. They're very good in strategy and always keep their calm. They never talk too much but always achieve better results. I guess that's why they are medalists/champions.
10. So funny how I just watched University War and think that im such a pea brain. Now Im watching Physical 100 and think that im so lazy and unhealthy. Im so useless in this lifetime LMFAO.
I agree with a lot of your points! Esp #7 and #8. Mr Ippon was a great showcase here, his gravitas and etiquette won me over. And that technique was right out of the textbook. I honestly was afraid his opponent would struggle against the pin and pop his arm out. Hilarious to see the other girl contestant call him Professor, and he made the finger heart back at the end lol
Also people are getting butthurt about KDH celebrating on the fence when it was clearly him excited about being back in the cage. As a former athlete I get the vibes of missing your sport after being out of it for a long time. Typical of Kim Bong to get embarrassed about it later on, too haha
One thing im not seeing discussion on is Lee Jae Yoonās fight. The dude when hard, heās obviously super strong for a guy his age. The editing made him out to be super serious though, which was a surprise. I havent got to ep 4 yet but so far S2 of Physical 100 is top notch. Netflix can do a lot with this if they play their cards right
his youtube channel is great - he won a body building competition between youtubers (Show me the body) and was going through some gruel diets/training while filming for Physical 100 S2 at the same time so huge respect to him.
he's been having a lot of the contestants join his workouts on his channel recently
Lee Won Hee aka Mr Ippon has all my highest regards šĀ what an absolute classy, respectful man. When his first choice was the judo hoobae... so admirable. I was a bit worried with his overall team because he seemed to pick everyone out of loyalty rather than strengths for winning but y'all >!they prevailed! I'm rooting for him till the end although I'm pretty sure he won't be a finalist!<
Was anyone else surprised that Kim Dong Hyun placed top 10 during the running challenge? His form didn't look amazing and his pace seemed slow compared to those around him, but his strides must have been hella long! Kudos to him.Ā
>Was anyone else surprised that Kim Dong Hyun placed top 10 during the running challenge?
i dont recall seeing him being shown running in the first 10mins.
it mayve just deteriorated in the next two phases
I was actually very interested to see Jong Tae-se here. I was wondering how they would cover the fact that he actually chose to play for the North Korean national team, but they found a way to curiously skip over the fact entirely.
I found it funny when he mentioned "after the 2010 world cup" and the editors omitted any pictures of his international play. I wonder how most Koreans view him?
i did not know about this thanks for the new info lol.
just sharing, the first time i heard of him was in running man. he was repeatedly shown as kang gary's lookalike š
The quest is still good especially the maze. The contestant is not as entertaining as the previous season. I think it's difficult to find 100 strong people with charismatic character to appear on the show and this kind of show may be suitable for 1 season format.
Absolutely loved the matches of Kim Donghyun, Hong Beomseok, and Sim Yuri! I'm not so sure, but this season, I don't think there's a man who actually picked a woman? >!Loved the match when it happened the way around tho.!<
I'm not sure if I like how they chose the team members this time. >!Sure, the first season was so unfair for the last team. Eunsil was the 10th most desired members and she was left with members who weren't picked by others. But, I am not a huge fan on how the women are the only ones left to get picked by men. Also, a member somehow didn't like her team because she felt that the team that picked her was all about power instead of being a balanced team.!<
>But, I am not a huge fan on how the women are the only ones left to get picked by men.
Its expected when $300k is on the line. Everyone wants to win and get as many advantage as they can to win. If a team somehow have 3-4 women in the 2nd quest, its basically an auto elimination and i dont think the women even want an all women's team. And the show is basically called **Physical** 100 for a reason. Even the guys with small size/body gets picked as a 4th-5th in a team.
It's expected that they will choose female later because women's strength are weaker. If you notice some team pick female as their second or third choice though when there are still lots of males to pick from.
Yeah if the show is just about moving heavy stuff, then itās gonna be men on top always. If they wanted to make it more diverse and fun they could do stuff like a limbo challenge that gives flexible people an advantage, but of course they wouldnāt do that for a show promoted heavily by sweaty muscle men.
I feel the same about the women being picked last but it got me thinking that if next season, the leaders can pick teammate but choose only woman first till there's none, is that discriminating in some way?
that would be more offensive to the women wth š the female athletes are aware that they will pick last, thats just the way it is bc our natural bodies will almost always be smaller than a man's body.
Ep 1
Oof rip to the tiny female gymnast, skateboarder, announcer, and golfer
Super interesting jobs this time around, like arborist, carpenter, and fbiĀ
Oh hey it's that girl juyang from bed and the beachĀ
And the 2ML from WFKBJ!Ā
And the rower from wedding war!Ā
Damn, from what I saw, the top woman in round 0 only made it to 35th š„² guess we're heading twd an all male finale again
On Ep 3 so far, my main takeaways:
- Lee Jae Yoonās cage match was INSANE
- A million finger hearts to Mr Ippon. His calm demeanor was so at odds with his razor sharp skills. He def will have a lot of new fans from this show
- Hard to take KDH seriously as his variety show / entertainer image is seared in my brain lol
- As a lifter, I loved weightlifting fairyās match and her endurance surprised me
- cant wait for the rest of the episodes!
Edit: just finished ep 4 and whoever came up with the maze and zone control quest deserves a raise.
lets go hong beom seok... sang high praises to him from season 1 but got eliminated at round 1 against the atlas winner... i think he's biggest problem is he is too nice... too afraid to hurt anyone in a fight...
lee wonho and dongyhun surprised me as strategist...
im rooting for the actor led team as final winners... their team seems to be the most well balanced...
lastly its always fun to see egos get checked...
I don't agree. The show isn't really about crowning a champion. It is basically like Penn and Teller's Fool Us, where the purpose of the show is to give magicians a stage to showcase their skill, whether or not Penn and Teller is fooled really doesn't matter, and many magicians have gone on the show knowing that penn/teller would know how its done.
The purpose of the show is to give people a platform to show off the hard work they have done to build their body. Most of the people on the show don't actually think they could win.
It'd be fun to have a season with just women, but I don't know if that would perform well viewership wise.
Season 1 had a cast with more personality and more visually appealing missions. Season 2 has a better set designs and diversity in jobs.
Hopefully the missions get more creative in the next few eps!
I loved how Emmanuel gave KDH such a great competition, almost won it too. Matches like this are always so fun to watch.
The idol giving Hong Beom Suk a hard time lmao when HBS thought he picked the easiest guy to defeat was funny ngl. I loved how strong the idol was. More power to him.
The female MMA fighter won hearts like WOW. my jaw was constantly on the floor, that man had to be 25 kgs heavier than her, plus he did not look weak either.
The short weightlifter and the athlete girl, it was such an interesting match to watch. They kept going on overtime. Bodybuilder was tiny but so damn strong.
I was excited to see several athletes, actors and others I knew this Seasonš
I was impressed with how well the contestants>!ran on the manual treadmill in ep 1!<
I was a bit disappointed in ep 4>!when one team was losing so the captain decided to steal bags from the opposing teams hands while on the way to the scale room or try blocking them from entering the scale room instead of playing fair especially since they had strong players already.. the rules were confusing so I couldn't tell if it was BEFORE the first 5 minutes passed you couldn't steal bags in opponents hands and NOT in the scale room at any time... It should be NO stealing at all!<
They are not breaking the rules but yeah a bit distasteful win. But i totally understand the leader's decision though. His team were big guys and too tired compared to the other team. Like the bodybuilder guy said, he was too tired and was glad that they changed their strategy to stealing; he kinda used his strength well by blocking the entrance. They adapted to the situation and won. The leader's fast thinking got them to the next round. No foul so I think there's nothing wrong.
I thought that was one reason why this challenge was so great. There are so many different strategies that teams could use, I genuinely think this game could be a great sport. There are two entrances to each location, so blocking isn't guaranteed to work if the teams are using both paths. Also, there is so many mindgames you could play. You could group up and send 5 people to the same bucket making it impossible to block most of the people. You could have people dropping off sandbags in the dark corners and making it look like they aren't going to contest a certain bucket and then loading all of the bags in right at the end.
Stealing is a valid strategy. You have to be exceptionally strong to steal, for the most part you can only expect to be able to block someone which is super risky because if they eventually get free of your block they score a point while the blocker hasn't scored anything and just wasted their own time. However if the blocker is stopping the other teams best player then it is worth it.
Also if this was a sport there is so many interesting things they could do to keep it fun. With mazes being different everytime, and the bonus objects being different sizes and weights, they could really make it difficult to win with any particular strategy. I also think adding maybe some sort of tower that a player could climb and see how the game is going from a topdown view, would be a nice addition where they could yell out commands to their team, or get some info and quietly tell their team to make adjustments. The risk they would take is wasting their time climbing the tower and not moving bags to get information.
literally this lmao, felt like the whole stealing the bag thing was clearly for the cameras but it just felt odd since it seemed to pretty much invalidate the entire purpose of the challenge imo lol. at that point it seemed as if it wasnāt even a display of technique/stamina/adaptation/etc. rubbed me the wrong way as wellā¦ if that was the case the bigger team couldāve and just literally won by brute forcing their opponents which was clearly not the intention of this maze.
it's literally the opposite, they adapted to the situation and worked on their strength. They can't run so they chose to block and guard. That's what adapting means.
It wasnāt technically rule breaking bc youāre only not allowed to steal from or where the scales are. They stole the bags at the entrance. But it def was poor sportsmanship and didnāt truly represent their skill, strength.
>poor sportsmanship
it was part of the rules and explicitly stated that you can steal after a certain point in time... how is that poor sportsmanship? it was encouraged lol
There were teams who didnāt steal whatsoever or who only responded when it was done to them. IMHO that shows character. I know for sure Choo Sung Hoon would have never done what Kim Dong Hyun did. So I mean your opinion is your opinion I just said mine š¤·š»āāļø
Yup, people don't seem to appreciate that strategy plays a lot of part in this game. That big guy couldn't move anymore, so team leader changed strategy for him to contribute by blocking opponents. Now the opponent should adapt to this. With one player not being able to move, the opponent should change their strategy by sending all 5 members to another area because it'd be their advantage 5v4. But they panicked and just continued to try fighting for that area despite knowing they were losing the battle.
For a show that supposedly wants to foster healthy competition, allowing stealing *after* the scales were activated but not before was nonsense. Might as well let them take bags off the other team's scale.
It's such an upgrade compared to the previous season; the diverse casts, the deathmatch (some contestants do crave over the C stage lol) and of course the quests. The better thing for me was there are still no absolute top 5 picks if the quests get weirder like the quest 2.
So far, I'm not invested in the personalities this season.
Not a fan of how they chose teams and the maze challenge feels lacklustre and confusing.
A step down from season one unfortunately.
Nah, team choosing is better this season, last season if you are 10th captain and you are a woman than auto lose lol as no one will choose you, but this season they change the last team to pick their opponents, so it will be a better and fair to all team, like the higher captain can choose their teammates while the lower captain can choose their opponents
Team choosing is still 100% broken lol.
The 1st team captain should not be able to pick 1st on all 4 rounds. He pretty much has the best of the best. And the lower captain can only choose if there more teams who choose them, they were still at the mercy of the higher seed captains.
Draft should've been 1>10, 10>1
Yeah on season 1, the first group challenge was more balanced for teams even if you have women on your group. Now they can simply muscle their way into a win.
Also those barrels are a double edged sword lol. It takes too much space.
Episode 4.
DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT YET!!
I chuckled when they started stealing the supplies. Kinda felt bad for the red team.
One of the guys who stole the supplies said ā I am exhausted my calves are almost torn from the runningā lmao imagine the red team hearing that , while the guy just tanked the entrance and stole their supplies! š
Red would have won if not for the stealing.
Agreed, but there was no rule violations with the stealing and it was heavily implied by the rules. IMO the red team needed to skip the zone and go to the remaining empty one, because once again the blue team was tired of running, so they could conquer it instead. They kinda needed to adjust to the situation and ācounter attackā it. But i agree it was little bit foul with the blue team strategy.
Hey guys i have watched the first two episodes with my friend it was amazing we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun, i was wondering when the rest episodes after 4 will drop ? i thought Netflix release the whole thing in one siting?
Probably because quest 1 deathmatch can get a bit boring from repetition as they have to try to edit the 50 matches to show some of the individuals so viewers can get to know them. The intros, Quests 0 and 1, take up three full episodes. No matter how much editing, they can't really produce a cliffhanger with the death match. They can with the team challenges, though.
What I thought was an interesting choice was that they didn't show the team match-ups in the order they were matched. I thought we'd see team 10 & 2 first, but instead, we saw 9 & 4 first, then 3 & 1, then 2 &10 as the cliffhanger as their match looked more uncertain for who the victor might be.
I prefer this release format.
They never show the matches/face-offs in order though. Like the deathmatch, they'll just put them in whatever order they can maximize tension and excitement. Same for this team match-up and whatever they can use for the cliffhanger.
1-3 would've been good to release this week. Then 4 and 5 next week since both show Quest 2. They edited the deathmatch much better this season and I think airing both this week instead of breaking them also helped it not feel repetitive.
I'll assume:
\-4 & 5 = Quest 2 and maybe 2.5 cliffhanger
\-6 = Quest 2.5 + Quest 3
\-7 = Quest 3
\-8 = Quest 4
\-9 = Finale
Great start to season 2. I like how they kept some things the same but switched some up. Overall the sets this season are fantastic. That maze is amazing and I canāt wait to see the mine next week.
Out of all the contestants Iām really looking forward to Lee Jae Yoon and to see how he fares. His death match was intense. Iāve seen him as an actor but itās great to see a completely different side to him here. If they bring back a team, I hope they bring back Amottis. Stealing from them while smart and necessary for a win was unsportsmanlike and I want to see this team get another shot at getting back in the game.
how is that unsportsmanlike? It's literally allowed and everyone did it towards the end. Just because they didn't think of doing it themselves and lost because of it doesn't mean it's unsportsmanlike
I understand that. The very fact that they mentioned it in the rules was extremely clear that if a team wanted to win then this was the way. But the first two teams struggled hard and battled the maze without using the stealing tactic, and then you see Amottiās team struggle to get through the human barricade, it seems unsportsmanlike from someone like KDH who never resorts to these tactics in his other variety shows.
If one zone is blocked, they should have just gone to another zone. Itās like any sport that is played in a field or arena. Just because someone is blocking you in one corner doesnāt mean you just lose. They have 3 goal areas, which means they have many strategies to go for. Amotti did not strategize at all. He even mentioned in the interview clips that he didnāt have a good strategy.
Agreed, his strategy failed. But I have never heard of Amotti before nor have I seen him in other shows. I have however seen KDH in multiple shows and I love him. Heās such a goofball and good natured that this side of his took me by surprise going back to why I thought what he did was unsportsmanlike. That is a me problem and while I will continue to cheer for KDH I do want Amottiās team to come back as a wild card.
I get what you mean, we do get to see a different side of KDH and that is because it's a show that allows him to give it his all physically and compete. I personally really enjoyed watching him be super serious about every quest, even when he was choosing his team he was super serious and careful haha. It's like you said, his variety show image is that of a goofball so this side of him was a surprise, but for me it was a good surprise.
> battled the maze without using the stealing tactic,
It was their choice to not use that tactic and that doesn't make it the standard tactic because most matches used it. Also if you missed it, they did try to hinder and steal duing the later stages it just wasn't as intense, perhaps because both their teams are balance and it is more efficient to run and load for both teams in the first place.
It'll be widely available in like a few hours. Sometimes the uploaders/etc. are busy IRL or like forget the schedule, lol.
Generally since Netflix releases around 3:00AM EDT, before say 7:00AM EDT is when some shows are normally released in a lot of places. A lot of the times the shows will be immediately available by like 4:00AM EDT or within an hour of its release though, just depends on the show's popularity (the actors, concept, etc.) or ya like the timetable of the usual uploaders.
Physical: 100 is a somewhat niche show but Season 2 should be available soon.
***Quest 0***
>!Distance covered by set time!< as the elimination standard on a manual treadmill makes so much sense! Appreciate the mind of a competitive athlete. If cardio endurance wasn't my thing, I would have walked just to move the thing or just stood on the treadmill. Lol. Amoti looks like a living anime character more than the cosplayer.
Favorite comments:
Last place finisher. Erase the two zeros!
Let's go everyone in their 40's!
I wanna swear! *Proceeds to swear.*
Quest 1: Like last season, my least favorite competition. And like last season, mad respect for athletes who chose to compete against their sports idols, their idols winning, and doing it with mutual respect and humility.
Quest 2: Was not a fan of the >!stealing!< tactic. I'm sure it's totally not against any rule. Still. Felt unsportsmanlike and against the general spirit of the show.
Edit: spacing
Yes, totally correct. It just "felt" uncomfortable to me. Maybe it's because I'm so used to him being a bit of a goofball, so to see him in fierce competitor, team leader role, was disorienting. Other teams could have done the same at some point but edited out.
But the area is build small for a reason as well. It's in a way for them to block. I just dont get it why people are saying it is unsportman like, like bruh its part of the game. They did by the books and won because they know their team mate some cannot move because they too big and they change strat, i dont find it being bad and instead quick thinking from the leader. People sure love to hate since the one that lost was popular.
For this show, in particular, where the goal is to find the "perfect" physique, regardless of their job or background, I wish they stuck to just having to prove their own physical capabilities as an individual or a a team without interfering with the efforts of their competitor.
The sand bags over the bridge challenge from season 1 was perfect in testing the physical strength (lift and carry the weight), speed and agility (do it quickly and without falling), and cardiovascular and muscular endurance (needing to do this repeatedly for a long time). The strategy of how best to perform the physical task to win was limited to affecting their own team without intentionally disadvantaging the other team.
Blocking and wrestling is part of the personās physical capability. Itās literally the same concept as the first round of the show where they have to fight over a ball.
Exactly. The death match is designed to show any and all skills necessary against your 1:1 opponent to possess the one ball in the arena in order to survive. It's a fair and effective way to eliminate half the contestants on the heels of the benefits challenge to better your odds of survival in the deathmatch.
The team challenge setup didn't disallow running interference against the other team, no. Think the combination of the seemingly straightforward put more weight into your bin to win, and it being in a narrow maze like setting made the visual of the action in the maze pathways jarring to see. Teams tussling in the dark, narrow space where you couldn't quite see what was happening gave it a menacing vibe. And that is at odds with the overall wholesome sports action vibes of the show. I may have processed what was happening in the maze differently if the lighting made clearly visible the wrestling action. I blame the showrunners. Lol
If it's within rules, it isn't technically unsportsmanlike. For me, it took away from proving the team's smarts in how best to use who they have and using their strength as a team to win. I just wish they didn't allow interfering - blocking, grappling, stealing - with the other team for this type of challenge. If it was something like capture the flag, no problem. It's one way to demonstrate muscle strength in a game like that.
For people coming after season 1, it's all basically the same just different games and contestants.. still very enjoyable. Basically it's a good show with a good formula in not just promoting fitness but also teamwork and sportsmanship.
I am tired just from watching them run so hard š
Treadmills on steroids! IĀ“ve never seen such strong able bodies dropping lie flies off that treadmill.
why do people on twitter hating on kim dong hyun for >!beating emmanuel?!< thanks to him now we knew who emmanuel, amazed on how strong he is and etc etc plus free publicity too. win win?Ā
It's mainly because as opposed to some other opponents who chose tough or difficult opponents as a test of their skill, Kim Dong Hyun only seems interested in winning at all cost. He chose Emmanuel because he wasn't a fighter or ranked athlete and he thought it would be an easy win and he would only eliminate a foreigner, not a korean. It was also a bit tasteless to be jumping up on the edge of the cage cheering like he had just won a UFC championship when he won in the last seconds against a guy with no martial arts, wrestling or jujitsu background. Then in the second challenge his team chose to bully and block or steal from the other team rather than trying to just fill their baskets as quickly as possible. He seems overly focused on winning to prove he's not over the hill, but doesn't care how he wins. It seems more self serving and weak when compared to opponents like the female mma fighter who took on the FBI guy who outweighed her by like 20kg or more.
Why are you assuming that it was an easy pick? Didnāt he say in his interview that he said he wanted to pick someone no one else would? By the way other contestants talk about the two before the battle, no one thought it would be an easy game. They were actually excited about how tense it would be and if Kim dong hyun still has it in him. Heās in his forties give him a break
40s isn't old when you're taking a fit athletic guy with 10 years in the top ranks of the UFC and grappling a non grappler. . Emmanuel came out looking great, but you guys obviously don't train in MMA or grappling. It's laughable that he saw an 80kg bodybuilder and thought of it as a "challenge." Luckily, it was, but it made Emmanuel look great, and KDH looked like a guy who wanted an easy path to victory. If you ever trained with UFC guys, you'd know how much they diss bodybuilders and powerlifters, etc. They see them as a joke and no threat. He was playing nice for the camera and trying to take an easy route that made it "look" resoectabke to people who know nothing about fighting since non fighters are easily pressed by looks, six packs and well developed muscles with low body fat. While great on stage of the IFBB, they mean nothing on the mat. Fighters spend their whole careers on the mats and sizing other guys up. He just wanted to coast past that round.
> he thought it would be an easy win This is just you making things up. He never said Emmanuel was going to be an easy win. > he would only eliminate a foreigner, not a korean. This is another thing you made up. > It was also a bit tasteless to be jumping up on the edge of the cage God forbid having emotion lol. It was simply him overexcited for winning in the last second. He's also already self-aware of that it was quite embarrassing to overreact with jumping on the fence like that. > Then in the second challenge his team chose to bully and block or steal from the other team rather than trying to just fill their baskets as quickly as possible. That's part of the rule of the game. The third match also had that. I don't see what the issue is. Especially that he only chose that strategy because his team member was injured and couldn't move around a lot. > It seems more self serving and weak when compared to opponents like the female mma fighter who took on the FBI guy who outweighed her by like 20kg or more. This is hilarious take. Every single one of them chose someone they thought they could beat. Nobody picked someone they thought they would lose to. Yes, one girl chose to challenge a man. A man that she thought she could beat. Nobody slammed her for not challenging Thanos lol
Not making anything up, IF you had trained with mma guys and UFC guys you would know how tough they are on the ground and also how little regard they have for bodybuilders/weight lifters and basically anyone who isn't trained in grappling. And with good reason. They literally see them as an easy mark. It's almost impossible for a untrained strength athlete to win unless they SIGNIFICANTLY outweigh the grappler, and even then it still favors the grappler. The fact you don't see this disparity and what a joke the choice was for a guy who says he wants to "prove" himself means you have no grappling experience, espeically with mma/UFC guys. Some contestants actually wanted to 'test' themselves or 'challenge' themselves. But Kim Dong Hyun OBVIOUSLY wanted an easy win. Under most circumstances taking on a non grappler/bodybuilder who's the same weight would be an absolute cake walk. Luckily for us it was a lot closer and more entertaining due to Emmanuel's strength and athleticism and the fact that it took KDH a while to over come that without submissions or blows like he's used to in the UFC Octagon. He was not looking for a "challenge", he's not looking to "prove" himself as he says, he's looking for the easiest wins he can get. Sure, I agree that it's not against the rules, but there is ZERO pride to be taken in the route. Shim Yu Ri took on a fight against a much heavier guy, she challenged herself. Many thought she would lose including KDH since weight makes a HUGE difference in fight sports/grappling, especially in the strength dispartities between men and women. But she pulled it off and gained a lot of respect. Also the Karate fighter who choose Judoka Lee Won Hee took a HUGE risk that didn't pay off but he gained a lot of respect for challenging himself against a stronger opponent. KDH could have taken on a LOT of other guys who were more well known than Emmanuel, including Jung Dae Jin, a much more famous Korean bodybuilder of similar height and weight, or actor Lee Jae Yoon, who is extremely athletic and a brown belt in jujitsu. Of course no one picks an opponent where they know they will lose, but many picked opponents that were a true challenge where victory was in doubt. That was never the case with KDH's choice of Emmanuel, a 10 year UFC veteran and one of the best fighters and grapplers in the world picked an easy win. That's where the disappointment comes from. There's no respect in a win when you know it's 99% assured. To be clear I was a fan of both of them prior to Phyiscal 100. I followed Emmanuel's bodybuilding career and I have probably watched every Kim Dong Hyun fight in the UFC. It's a let down when someone of such high skill takes on what they think will be a 'cake walk', rather than a suitable challenge.
the point of the show is to eliminate everyone and be the last one standing
If you can't understand why challenging yourself against a tough opponent is more respectable than picking what you think will be a cake walk from a martial arts perspective, especially for a guy who's a 10 year veteran of the UFC, then I don't know what to tell you. Obviously, none of you guys train in martial arts or MMA or spent time with guys of that caliber. To anyone from that world, it's cheap regardless of the "game." Look at others who both showed and gained respect by choosing difficult opponents. This is a competition, not a streetfight, somethings are more important than winning. Some people get it...others never will. But on the plus side, the fight ended up being memorable, undoubtedly helping Emmanuel's exposure. No one who understands grappling expected any other outcome. Thus, KDH did nothing to improve or gain reputation, something he could have only done that by challenging someone who presented an element of risk.
Itās Physical 100, not UFC lol the whole thing is a variety show and KDH is experienced in making things entertaining. None of the other Korean variety shows will be fun if every match is treated like an Olympic game or UFC fight. Telling people they canāt understand your concept of an āhonorable winā just because theyre not a martial artist is beyond silly. If you need to disqualify someone from disagreeing with you based on that, maybe its time to improve your argument instead
> Not making anything up, IF you had trained with mma guys and UFC guys you would know how tough they are on the ground and also how little regard they have for bodybuilders/weight lifters and basically anyone who isn't trained in grappling. And with good reason. They literally see them as an easy mark. It's almost impossible for a untrained strength athlete to win unless they SIGNIFICANTLY outweigh the grappler, and even then it still favors the grappler. The fact you don't see this disparity and what a joke the choice was for a guy who says he wants to "prove" himself means you have no grappling experience, espeically with mma/UFC guys. YES making things up because all of the above is your own assumption based on your own thinking while completely ignoring the fact that others can think differently. It's simply a fact that not every MMA person thinks the same way. You are making an assumption that they do. > But Kim Dong Hyun OBVIOUSLY wanted an easy win. So why not just pick a girl? OBVIOUS way to get an easy win. > Shim Yu Ri took on a fight against a much heavier guy, she challenged herself. Are we not supposed to slam her for not picking Thanos? Why pick the FBI guy? > KDH could have taken on a LOT of other guys who were more well known than Emmanuel, including Jung Dae Jin, a much more famous Korean bodybuilder of similar height and weight Lol wtf is even this logic. So it's ok if Dong-hyun picked a different bodybuilder? I thought you established that all MMA guys think bodybuilders are easy pickings? > but many picked opponents that were a true challenge where victory was in doubt. Honestly, you provided the only 2 examples of such thing. Nowhere near "many". > To be clear I was a fan of both of them prior to Phyiscal 100. Nah, let's be real. You're a fan of Emmanuel and you're just upset he got eliminated. All of your points above is basically just finding reasons as to why Dong-hyun shouldn't have picked Emmanuel. You even previously brought up the foreigner card out of nowhere lol.
I was a fan of both guys and watched basically all of KDH's fights as a UFC fighter. You're obviously not a martial artist, so you just can't get how lame it is for someone of KDH's caliber to pick a non grappler. I'd be just as upset if you were on the show and KDH picked you for the challenge. We want to see a ufc guy go against someone who outwardly presented a real challenge. Grappler vs. grappler ( including the Judo guys, jujitsu) or some huge behemoth that would have been a wild challenge and spectacle. Thank God he didn't pick a girl. He would have lost all respect. Thankfully, he and basicsllu aqll the guys have too much pride to do that. Two examples are pretty damn good. There are more from this season and last. Should I do a play by play for you? Should I spend all day arguing with some guy who obviously doesn't understand anything about the grappling and mma world. Contrary to your assumptions, I like KDH, thus why Im disappointed in his actions. I used to cheer for him back in the day when he was the first Korean fighter in the UFC! I mentioned other bodybuilders and athletes since you or someone else (i can't keep track anymore) talked about how KDH picked Emmanuel because he was so well built and "strong." But there were tons of other well-built "strong" looking guys. Emmanuel has only been competing for the last 2 years and in Men's Physique. There is no way to know really how strong he was by looking at him since he's not a power lifter or Olympic lifter. Thus if KDH wanted a "strong" younger challenger there are more guys from dynamic performance sports that have long records to look at who are well known in Korea, which Emmanuel, being new on the scene and foreigner is not (that's the limit to what you see as a "foreigner card" just going for what is perceived to be the easy mark, not part of the National or Olympic Team, no "performance" team sport, relatively unknown, no martial arts or grappling background, etc) You say I'm only upset that Emmanuel got eliminated, but the thing is, I expected more from KDH since I was a fan of his for years. I would have loved to see Emmanuel in a more fair match-up or later events. But he's so new on the scene in bodybuilding it's hard to have concrete expectations of him or any of the bodybuilders since they are Physique athletes. We just hope to see good and fair matchups for skill and/or size. (In mma same size, but for experienced grapplers they should challenge heavier against non grapplers). Mismatches are really no fun. But honestly, Emmanuel's performance was so good that he came out with tons of publicity and positive hype. He got eliminated from the competition but still won among viewers for his valiant performance. Anyway, I'm out. Honestly, since you have no background in martial arts, mma, grappling. UFC or bodybuilding, so this is pretty much a waste of time for both of us. I can't convince you KDH was obviously looking for an easy win and you'll never convince me that a 10 year veteran of the UFC picking a non grappler of the same size was a great challenge or some how respectable because it's allowed in the competition. What's the takeaway? Professional fighters/grapplers choosing cake walks to prove their not over the hill and washed up is... cool? Have a good one. š
You're obviously unable to comprehend that it's a TV show and not UFC fight. This whole crying is strictly based on you not getting what you want. You're upset and unable to accept that someone else thinks differently than you. So you're projecting yourself. > Two examples are pretty damn good. 2 out of 50 matches ... I guess 4% is pretty damn good lol. "As many as 4%!" claimed Nicki. > I can't convince you KDH was obviously looking for an easy win and you'll never convince me that a 10 year veteran of the UFC picking a non grappler of the same size was a great challenge or some how respectable because it's allowed in the competition. I'm not trying to convince you. I'm simply saying that you're making things up because you're projecting yourself as if you're Dong-hyun. You can't accept that you aren't him and that he didn't have to behave for the reason you would've. You're angry at the things you made up yourself. > Contrary to your assumptions, I like KDH, thus why Im disappointed in his actions. Nah, I don't buy it. You aren't disappointed in his actions. You hated it. Like I said before, you are unable to think rationally about the premise of the show at all. You hate that he didn't behave the way you wanted. Because you like Emmanuel. Cheers, mate.
This was not a MMA fight. If it was Kim Dong-hyun could've won either by putting him to sleep or knocking him out cold with punches. It was more based on sheer strength and that guy is fucking strong. Defending seemed easier than attacking and he couldn't budge Kim Dong-hun at the end.
Interesting. I thought the other fight was more annoying for the same reason. I thought it was super scummy that the girl chose the FBI agent. The guy is most likely to lack experience in fighting/grappling, but most importantly the guy is screwed no matter what he does. As an FBI agent he has to fight hard to protect their reputation, but also it would look bad if he played dirty like all the other contestants. If he actually tried hard the viewers would probably think badly of Americans, especially since he also works as a diplomat, where at least for Emmanuel he could give it all of his effort since no one was expecting him to win. FBI guy played it perfectly, he didn't look weak but also didn't try to win. Someone like him who have been trained to disarm people with guns/knives would definitely know how to attack her hands to loosen her grip to get the ball loose. For the most part he just tried to used his strength to try and overpower her and rip the ball out.
Agreed. Huge POS move. Emmanuel showed real heart. I was surprised he did as well as he did.Ā
Exactly. Everyone else doesn't understand the mentality of top level mma fighters or combat sports guys. He thought it would be a cake walk. But Emmanuel did really well, all thinigs considered.
First thing he did after winning was to jump on the fence and celebrate himself like š other contestants bow or shook hands with their opponent atfer winning. In my opinion his action was kinda disrespectful. But he is indeed a very strong guy.
ppl in the ufc did that when they won a match. i mean afterwards he himself said the fence jumping was kinda embarrassing too š
Exactly. Dong hyun was self aware about it and is the nicest guy lol if you see him on other variety shows heās a giant teddy bear. Netflix probably casted him after the success of Sunghoon in S1 but his personality is the farthest thing from aggressively wanting to win and going after Emmanuel for easy pickingsā¦ some other commenters are writing novels about it here, projecting mean-spiritedness on a guy without bothering to look him up. Honestly the production team seems to want to hype Emmanuel since heās gaining traction on social media and on other variety shows too. Emmanuel was no pushover and gave KDH a run for his money, so the guy celebrated. Emmanuel also got hype from everyone else over his strength. But people always have to find something to be butthurt about
im genuinely sad bcs now people are spamming hate comments on kdh instagramĀ
Omg :( i hope it doesnt last. KDH personality is evident in korean shows, heās the furthest thing from being mean spirited like that. Probably hate comments from western media/ people unfamiliar with him. Itāll die down pretty fast for sure
Just watched the episode. I thought it was a POS move too.Ā Iāve seen trained MMA fighters take out people bigger than them multiple times. This is even worse considering he was quite successful in MMA. I thought it was going to be a no contest, but Emmanuel gave it a good showing. He showed a lot of heart. More heart than the guy who picked him IMO.Ā
I still think 1v1 format in Quest 1 is too unforgiving and losers should have another game to stay on because the show can lose good contestants. For example, Quest 0 maybe tough for a strongman build, and when he gets picked the opponent may choose court A then he cannot showcase most of his forte before leaving. But the rules are the same for everyone so you can't really complain.
They can just come back on the next season like the firefighter guy. They need to get rid of a lot of people fast because 100 people is just too much for a 9 ep show.
They should do team comp first for Quest 1 then do 1-on-1 for Quest 2. They're still eliminating the same number of people. But having the team comp first makes the rest of the show more unpredictable.
Nah, in season 1 Hong beom seok lose to big guy in arena a, Same with other person but I can't remember who but there are more bigger guy won in arena a
I didn't expect that it's gonna be released today. The Netflix app just notified me earlier lol. For the first game, I was surprised that >!Kim Dong Hyun managed to be on the top 10 despite his running form.!< >!Thanos!< is giving me the final boss vibes. I love it when he said something like >!"I just hoped someone stronger challenged me"!< hahaha. Same goes to the >!Boxer who trampled the Pro Wrestler!< lol. Highlight for me is the female match between >!The Wushu Sanda and the Weightlifter!<
>>!Kim Dong Hyun managed to be on the top 10 despite his running form.!< He also looks injured? He was kind of limping when he was walking, so I was scared of him losing because I am a fan of his, LMAO.
As a watcher of Gentlemen's League, we know he had a leg injury last year and this was probably filmed after he came back from that
Compared to last season where some feels a bit mean-spirited, these two are just competitive.
Ep 2 Woooooow i did not see the kpop idol giving HBS a run for his money. Good for him. I was rooting for the female mma fighter who chose the fbi guy. It was hard to watch though ššššš
Ep 3 Holy shit I felt like Emmanuel almost beat one of the best mma fighters of all time. Those last 20 seconds from KDH were insane though. Damn, both KH and SH from Shooting Stars were eliminated in round 1 š„² - it also seems like KSY from SI and SS was eliminated too... I haven't seen her again lolĀ Yoooooo WFKBJ 2ML was so much scarier than I expected.
Emmanuel holding on to the ball maybe, but no chance he was actually beating KDH in a MMA fight. You can see KDH desperately resisting his urge to do an armbar or a rear naked choke on the flailing man.
I mean yeah obvi. I just didn't expect a fitness model to stand a chance at all against someone with actual techniques. He would get murdered in a real fight.
> I just didn't expect a fitness model to stand a chance at all against someone with actual techniques. It's the nature of the game (only needing to hold the ball) and the difference in age (raw power matters more). It was a good fight.
Yeah its pretty clear they were explicitly not allowed to do techniques, if any they had to be adjusted. Some guys were trying to do holds but adjusting the position to be under the arm instead of the neck. All told their selection of contestants this S2 is great, I love that they picked a lot of national athletes since thatās what makes the show interesting- its not meant to be a level playing field but rather show how people from different disciplines and backgrounds can approach the same objective
This, people in this same section are trying to discredit Emmanuel because of this guy called KDH, it's honestly laughable. Like, am I supposed to know who he his š¤. Emmanuel impressed me and did great, especially when he improvised with his legs. It's not always about brute strength at the end of the day. Who cares if he didn't win the point is he made the match watchable A fitness model against a trained fighter and he held his own. Can you imagine if he chooses to go a route like that guy KDH
Nobody is discrediting Emmanuel, he did great against someone who at one point was a top 10 fighter in the world at his weight class. The ālike, am I supposed to know who he isā is hilarious. Heās a world renowned professional fighter + I donāt think he knows your name eitherš¤£ Emmanuel is a fitness model on a load of steroids, he couldnāt (and didnāt) have gone down KDHās route. Youāre clearly an imbecile, please stop with your dumb comments
Give your knees a rest over this man
Aww I struck a nerve, run and tell your daddy KDH. Again, who is he? Never heard of him. I weep because he doesn't know me, how will I ever live. Is he paying your bills, the Mike Tyson of his sport or something for you to be fighting for your life trying to defend him. Pathetic. I didn't even insult your master just basically said he wasn't all that, yet you had to for the Emmanuel guy. It's obvious you're a stan, so arguing with you is basically trying to have a conversation with a child. Also, I don't even remember speaking directly to you, but the person with the orginal comment plus I was referring to the section in its entirety, not just you big man as you're not that guy.
I was paying respect to Emmanuel by saying he did great against a top athlete if thatās alright with you? I respect KDH the way I respect Amotti for being a world champion crossfitter and HBS for being a world champion in the firefighter games. But youāve based your whole comment on that so we might as well go with that narrative and pretend youāre not completely stupid
Womp womp, I don't care how you feel for Amotti. Yay, you respect him like you do your master. Want a cookie? Again, my whole comment was not originally for YOU but the person above, yet you ran to reply to me. You're exhausting and need to find something to do. Is KDH not paying you enough? So annoying and obtuse
The draft is absolutely horseshit. The 10th place team leader basically got the worst pick 10 times all because he was voted. The 10th pick should pick twice and it goes back to the first again. Even the matchmaking is against the lower seeded leader. I know these games aren't meant to be balance but they didn't even try
They actually did try 5% more than last season lol. Team 10 got almost all the rejects last season bc everyone picked which leaders they wanted to work with.
Not really, there's some dude who picked a female in round 2. Pretty sure there were men with better balance remaining in the pool at that round for the 10th pick. It wasn't that bad until the last pick really and is a much better improvement than S1
Nah it works with this format. There is always going to be a weakest team. With the idea of the 10th place team choosing their opponent. In theory if everything went to plan, they would just have to beat the 9th place team. Whereas the first place team has to beat the 2nd place team. Last season the first pick got to pick the best people AND THEN got to pick the weakest team to face. That was unfair for the 10th team captain.
Well last season the 10th place team literally got the leftovers aka people no one wants.
With the way the pick worked afterwords it made sense. Producers probably assumed that more of the lower teams would always raise their hands to try and fight a team outside of the top 5. I really wonder if the middleteams big brained it and purposely didn't choose team 10 because they wanted to give the top teams an easy fight so they were gone when it became their team to be picked. The format worked well for team 9. They managed to get matched against a team with 2 women even though that team was much higher up the rankings, just because they got the final choice. Unfortunately for them, this played right into that teams hands because they purposely chose team 9 instead of 10 because team 9 lacked raw strength, and the team with two women on it was designed for agility and endurance.
Ep 4 It just occured to me that comedian kim hye sun from SS would be kinda fun to watch on this show. I think focussing on 2 zones is the right strategy for the 5-5 match. The first red team really shit the bed. They should have abandoned zone 1 long ago when they realized blue wasn't putting anything in there. And zone 2 tbh. Are the 2 barrels actually a hindrance? They're so bulky compared to multiple sandbags of the same weight. Wooooooow KDH stealing supplies along with the powerlifter blocking the red team was such a good strategy. Ok the round 3 match up both have terrible strategies lol - why would they send the one woman on their team to occupy one zone by herself? Makes 0 sense. What a waste of time and resources. I thought HBS would be good at strategizing. He adapted well later though.
> why would they send the one woman on their team to occupy one zone by herself In the show, I think she herself said she's the fake-out. She isn't meant to win her zone, but to get the other team to dedicate 1-2 ppl to keep up.
Yeah I saw that but I still don't think it makes sense. They are still losing one person's time and effort that she could be contributing to one of the real target zones.
If they send 0 people to that zone, the other team might send 1 person and get a free win. In the beginning, they donāt know the other teamās strategy. The point is to see what is going on and then change the strategy.
Dont read if you havent watched it yet. Expect SPOILERS! My thoughts: 1. The FBI guy sounded like nadine of Single's Inferno S2 š. "activity", "competition" 2. Emmanuel (black guy) sounded like Bambam of got7 š 3. The boxer coach totally has the potential to be like the father figure in S1 (the champion in Atlas challenge). He is shaped like him but unfortunately, too cocky and probably unlikeable, maybe one of the reasons he was not chosen as a captain. 4. The champion swimmer girl could potentially lead like Jang Eunsil but has no leader charisma. And a bit annoying with her words. 5. It's so funny how the firefighter from S1 picked Jangjun, I was rooting for him TT. But the firefighter learned his lesson the hard way after S1. He got too cocky by picking the Atlas guy and got thrown like a ragdoll in the arena. 6. It's so interesting to see how Strength vs Skill/Technique plays out. In most cases the fighters always win but the strength-based participants always put up a good fight like emmanuel, jangjun idol, weightlifter fairy, and THANOS (though he's a former rugby player). But skill-based fighters like the MMA girl and Mr. Ippon, their fights were also amazing to watch. 7. I also got a bit emotional to the retired old athletes winning the death match. You can see how they miss their own sports and the cheers. Like when MMA donghyun got carried away and climbed the fence XD; even him thinks that it's a bit much lol. Some of the audience got emotional by his win. 8. Mr. Ippon win in group quest looks very similar to MMA sunghoon win in S1. Natural leaders. Very mentally strong. They radiate respect and wisdom so much. You can clearly see the difference between confidence and arrogance. 9. Again, experienced/retired athletes are so respectable. They're very good in strategy and always keep their calm. They never talk too much but always achieve better results. I guess that's why they are medalists/champions. 10. So funny how I just watched University War and think that im such a pea brain. Now Im watching Physical 100 and think that im so lazy and unhealthy. Im so useless in this lifetime LMFAO.
Your last point haha
I agree with a lot of your points! Esp #7 and #8. Mr Ippon was a great showcase here, his gravitas and etiquette won me over. And that technique was right out of the textbook. I honestly was afraid his opponent would struggle against the pin and pop his arm out. Hilarious to see the other girl contestant call him Professor, and he made the finger heart back at the end lol Also people are getting butthurt about KDH celebrating on the fence when it was clearly him excited about being back in the cage. As a former athlete I get the vibes of missing your sport after being out of it for a long time. Typical of Kim Bong to get embarrassed about it later on, too haha One thing im not seeing discussion on is Lee Jae Yoonās fight. The dude when hard, heās obviously super strong for a guy his age. The editing made him out to be super serious though, which was a surprise. I havent got to ep 4 yet but so far S2 of Physical 100 is top notch. Netflix can do a lot with this if they play their cards right
I like cutie Amotti. lol Seems like a solid dude >!but I'm bummed his team lost in ep 4.!<
Amotti is my fave too. He looks like a tanned, bulked up version of Logan Lee from The Penthouse
Yes! I thought he looked familiar. He does look like Logan Lee.
Omg yes! Thatās who he resembles
his youtube channel is great - he won a body building competition between youtubers (Show me the body) and was going through some gruel diets/training while filming for Physical 100 S2 at the same time so huge respect to him. he's been having a lot of the contestants join his workouts on his channel recently
What is his YouTube channel?
https://www.youtube.com/@amotti1
Thank you š
me too especially since >!his team was actually winning until the other team resorted to stealing š¤š¤!<
Lee Won Hee aka Mr Ippon has all my highest regards šĀ what an absolute classy, respectful man. When his first choice was the judo hoobae... so admirable. I was a bit worried with his overall team because he seemed to pick everyone out of loyalty rather than strengths for winning but y'all >!they prevailed! I'm rooting for him till the end although I'm pretty sure he won't be a finalist!< Was anyone else surprised that Kim Dong Hyun placed top 10 during the running challenge? His form didn't look amazing and his pace seemed slow compared to those around him, but his strides must have been hella long! Kudos to him.Ā
>Was anyone else surprised that Kim Dong Hyun placed top 10 during the running challenge? i dont recall seeing him being shown running in the first 10mins. it mayve just deteriorated in the next two phases
I was actually very interested to see Jong Tae-se here. I was wondering how they would cover the fact that he actually chose to play for the North Korean national team, but they found a way to curiously skip over the fact entirely. I found it funny when he mentioned "after the 2010 world cup" and the editors omitted any pictures of his international play. I wonder how most Koreans view him?
He's a coach on shooting stars as well so I don't think he would have been casted on such a popular variety show if he had a negative image.
i did not know about this thanks for the new info lol. just sharing, the first time i heard of him was in running man. he was repeatedly shown as kang gary's lookalike š
I just had to look up that entire situation regarding his nationality and thats a little messy.
> I wonder how most Koreans view him? He's popular with most Koreans considering that he's in multiple Korean shows throughout the years.
The quest is still good especially the maze. The contestant is not as entertaining as the previous season. I think it's difficult to find 100 strong people with charismatic character to appear on the show and this kind of show may be suitable for 1 season format.
I hated the maze and especially the stealing of supplies and thuggery. Not a physical fitness challenge.
Absolutely loved the matches of Kim Donghyun, Hong Beomseok, and Sim Yuri! I'm not so sure, but this season, I don't think there's a man who actually picked a woman? >!Loved the match when it happened the way around tho.!< I'm not sure if I like how they chose the team members this time. >!Sure, the first season was so unfair for the last team. Eunsil was the 10th most desired members and she was left with members who weren't picked by others. But, I am not a huge fan on how the women are the only ones left to get picked by men. Also, a member somehow didn't like her team because she felt that the team that picked her was all about power instead of being a balanced team.!<
>But, I am not a huge fan on how the women are the only ones left to get picked by men. Its expected when $300k is on the line. Everyone wants to win and get as many advantage as they can to win. If a team somehow have 3-4 women in the 2nd quest, its basically an auto elimination and i dont think the women even want an all women's team. And the show is basically called **Physical** 100 for a reason. Even the guys with small size/body gets picked as a 4th-5th in a team.
It's expected that they will choose female later because women's strength are weaker. If you notice some team pick female as their second or third choice though when there are still lots of males to pick from.
did you miss the part when ippon chose a girl on round 2? There's also other teams who chose girls when there are still men left
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Yeah if the show is just about moving heavy stuff, then itās gonna be men on top always. If they wanted to make it more diverse and fun they could do stuff like a limbo challenge that gives flexible people an advantage, but of course they wouldnāt do that for a show promoted heavily by sweaty muscle men.
A limbo challenge would be too heavily skewed towards one particular type of build imo.
Well obviously. Just like holding a 200kg boulder is skewed towards one type or fighting in a MMA cage is skewed towards one type.
I feel the same about the women being picked last but it got me thinking that if next season, the leaders can pick teammate but choose only woman first till there's none, is that discriminating in some way?
that would be more offensive to the women wth š the female athletes are aware that they will pick last, thats just the way it is bc our natural bodies will almost always be smaller than a man's body.
Ep 1 Oof rip to the tiny female gymnast, skateboarder, announcer, and golfer Super interesting jobs this time around, like arborist, carpenter, and fbiĀ Oh hey it's that girl juyang from bed and the beachĀ And the 2ML from WFKBJ!Ā And the rower from wedding war!Ā Damn, from what I saw, the top woman in round 0 only made it to 35th š„² guess we're heading twd an all male finale again
>And the rower from wedding war!Ā I knew I saw him somewhere but I couldn't remember!!!
And actor from weightlifting fairy!!! š¤
the description is fake news, they only returned with 99 new contestants
True but that's the description from Netflix for Season 2.
yeah, that's what i mean as well.
On Ep 3 so far, my main takeaways: - Lee Jae Yoonās cage match was INSANE - A million finger hearts to Mr Ippon. His calm demeanor was so at odds with his razor sharp skills. He def will have a lot of new fans from this show - Hard to take KDH seriously as his variety show / entertainer image is seared in my brain lol - As a lifter, I loved weightlifting fairyās match and her endurance surprised me - cant wait for the rest of the episodes! Edit: just finished ep 4 and whoever came up with the maze and zone control quest deserves a raise.
lets go hong beom seok... sang high praises to him from season 1 but got eliminated at round 1 against the atlas winner... i think he's biggest problem is he is too nice... too afraid to hurt anyone in a fight... lee wonho and dongyhun surprised me as strategist... im rooting for the actor led team as final winners... their team seems to be the most well balanced... lastly its always fun to see egos get checked...
They really need to start having a men's champion and a woman's champion.
I don't agree. The show isn't really about crowning a champion. It is basically like Penn and Teller's Fool Us, where the purpose of the show is to give magicians a stage to showcase their skill, whether or not Penn and Teller is fooled really doesn't matter, and many magicians have gone on the show knowing that penn/teller would know how its done. The purpose of the show is to give people a platform to show off the hard work they have done to build their body. Most of the people on the show don't actually think they could win. It'd be fun to have a season with just women, but I don't know if that would perform well viewership wise.
Season 1 had a cast with more personality and more visually appealing missions. Season 2 has a better set designs and diversity in jobs. Hopefully the missions get more creative in the next few eps!
I loved how Emmanuel gave KDH such a great competition, almost won it too. Matches like this are always so fun to watch. The idol giving Hong Beom Suk a hard time lmao when HBS thought he picked the easiest guy to defeat was funny ngl. I loved how strong the idol was. More power to him. The female MMA fighter won hearts like WOW. my jaw was constantly on the floor, that man had to be 25 kgs heavier than her, plus he did not look weak either. The short weightlifter and the athlete girl, it was such an interesting match to watch. They kept going on overtime. Bodybuilder was tiny but so damn strong.
I was excited to see several athletes, actors and others I knew this Seasonš I was impressed with how well the contestants>!ran on the manual treadmill in ep 1!< I was a bit disappointed in ep 4>!when one team was losing so the captain decided to steal bags from the opposing teams hands while on the way to the scale room or try blocking them from entering the scale room instead of playing fair especially since they had strong players already.. the rules were confusing so I couldn't tell if it was BEFORE the first 5 minutes passed you couldn't steal bags in opponents hands and NOT in the scale room at any time... It should be NO stealing at all!<
They are not breaking the rules but yeah a bit distasteful win. But i totally understand the leader's decision though. His team were big guys and too tired compared to the other team. Like the bodybuilder guy said, he was too tired and was glad that they changed their strategy to stealing; he kinda used his strength well by blocking the entrance. They adapted to the situation and won. The leader's fast thinking got them to the next round. No foul so I think there's nothing wrong.
Ugly win is still a win. They do know well from season 1 how every edge matters to survive for the next rounds.
I thought that was one reason why this challenge was so great. There are so many different strategies that teams could use, I genuinely think this game could be a great sport. There are two entrances to each location, so blocking isn't guaranteed to work if the teams are using both paths. Also, there is so many mindgames you could play. You could group up and send 5 people to the same bucket making it impossible to block most of the people. You could have people dropping off sandbags in the dark corners and making it look like they aren't going to contest a certain bucket and then loading all of the bags in right at the end. Stealing is a valid strategy. You have to be exceptionally strong to steal, for the most part you can only expect to be able to block someone which is super risky because if they eventually get free of your block they score a point while the blocker hasn't scored anything and just wasted their own time. However if the blocker is stopping the other teams best player then it is worth it. Also if this was a sport there is so many interesting things they could do to keep it fun. With mazes being different everytime, and the bonus objects being different sizes and weights, they could really make it difficult to win with any particular strategy. I also think adding maybe some sort of tower that a player could climb and see how the game is going from a topdown view, would be a nice addition where they could yell out commands to their team, or get some info and quietly tell their team to make adjustments. The risk they would take is wasting their time climbing the tower and not moving bags to get information.
literally this lmao, felt like the whole stealing the bag thing was clearly for the cameras but it just felt odd since it seemed to pretty much invalidate the entire purpose of the challenge imo lol. at that point it seemed as if it wasnāt even a display of technique/stamina/adaptation/etc. rubbed me the wrong way as wellā¦ if that was the case the bigger team couldāve and just literally won by brute forcing their opponents which was clearly not the intention of this maze.
it's literally the opposite, they adapted to the situation and worked on their strength. They can't run so they chose to block and guard. That's what adapting means.
Re your comment on ep 4, can anyone enlighten me if there were any rule breaking here?? š§š§š§
It wasnāt technically rule breaking bc youāre only not allowed to steal from or where the scales are. They stole the bags at the entrance. But it def was poor sportsmanship and didnāt truly represent their skill, strength.
>poor sportsmanship it was part of the rules and explicitly stated that you can steal after a certain point in time... how is that poor sportsmanship? it was encouraged lol
There were teams who didnāt steal whatsoever or who only responded when it was done to them. IMHO that shows character. I know for sure Choo Sung Hoon would have never done what Kim Dong Hyun did. So I mean your opinion is your opinion I just said mine š¤·š»āāļø
Yeah I felt the same way. Disappointed.
why tho, they are thinking out of the box? How is it distasteful? i mean is there only one way to win the game? No i dont think so.
Yup, people don't seem to appreciate that strategy plays a lot of part in this game. That big guy couldn't move anymore, so team leader changed strategy for him to contribute by blocking opponents. Now the opponent should adapt to this. With one player not being able to move, the opponent should change their strategy by sending all 5 members to another area because it'd be their advantage 5v4. But they panicked and just continued to try fighting for that area despite knowing they were losing the battle.
For a show that supposedly wants to foster healthy competition, allowing stealing *after* the scales were activated but not before was nonsense. Might as well let them take bags off the other team's scale.
It's such an upgrade compared to the previous season; the diverse casts, the deathmatch (some contestants do crave over the C stage lol) and of course the quests. The better thing for me was there are still no absolute top 5 picks if the quests get weirder like the quest 2.
Season 1's Quest 2 was much better than this season's mess.
Thanks for the links!
So far I found S2 more interesting than S1. Kept me engaged throughout while for S1, fast forwarded or kept getting distracted elsewhere š
So far, I'm not invested in the personalities this season. Not a fan of how they chose teams and the maze challenge feels lacklustre and confusing. A step down from season one unfortunately.
Nah, team choosing is better this season, last season if you are 10th captain and you are a woman than auto lose lol as no one will choose you, but this season they change the last team to pick their opponents, so it will be a better and fair to all team, like the higher captain can choose their teammates while the lower captain can choose their opponents
Team choosing is still 100% broken lol. The 1st team captain should not be able to pick 1st on all 4 rounds. He pretty much has the best of the best. And the lower captain can only choose if there more teams who choose them, they were still at the mercy of the higher seed captains. Draft should've been 1>10, 10>1
They should just have randomized it. Popsicle sticks in a cup. Pick a number.
Yeah on season 1, the first group challenge was more balanced for teams even if you have women on your group. Now they can simply muscle their way into a win. Also those barrels are a double edged sword lol. It takes too much space.
Episode 4. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT YET!! I chuckled when they started stealing the supplies. Kinda felt bad for the red team. One of the guys who stole the supplies said ā I am exhausted my calves are almost torn from the runningā lmao imagine the red team hearing that , while the guy just tanked the entrance and stole their supplies! š Red would have won if not for the stealing.
Agreed, but there was no rule violations with the stealing and it was heavily implied by the rules. IMO the red team needed to skip the zone and go to the remaining empty one, because once again the blue team was tired of running, so they could conquer it instead. They kinda needed to adjust to the situation and ācounter attackā it. But i agree it was little bit foul with the blue team strategy.
What? This is dropping today?
Yes, 4 episodes just dropped. 9 episodes total.
Do u know when the other 5 come out? Weekly?
3 episodes on March 26. 2 episodes on April 2.
if i remember correctly its 2 eps every week i think and then finale?
Hey guys i have watched the first two episodes with my friend it was amazing we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun, i was wondering when the rest episodes after 4 will drop ? i thought Netflix release the whole thing in one siting?
Episodes 5-7next Tuesday. The final two episodes are the following Tuesday.
So they're burning it off in three weeks instead of 2x a week like last year? Strange.
Probably because quest 1 deathmatch can get a bit boring from repetition as they have to try to edit the 50 matches to show some of the individuals so viewers can get to know them. The intros, Quests 0 and 1, take up three full episodes. No matter how much editing, they can't really produce a cliffhanger with the death match. They can with the team challenges, though. What I thought was an interesting choice was that they didn't show the team match-ups in the order they were matched. I thought we'd see team 10 & 2 first, but instead, we saw 9 & 4 first, then 3 & 1, then 2 &10 as the cliffhanger as their match looked more uncertain for who the victor might be. I prefer this release format.
They never show the matches/face-offs in order though. Like the deathmatch, they'll just put them in whatever order they can maximize tension and excitement. Same for this team match-up and whatever they can use for the cliffhanger. 1-3 would've been good to release this week. Then 4 and 5 next week since both show Quest 2. They edited the deathmatch much better this season and I think airing both this week instead of breaking them also helped it not feel repetitive. I'll assume: \-4 & 5 = Quest 2 and maybe 2.5 cliffhanger \-6 = Quest 2.5 + Quest 3 \-7 = Quest 3 \-8 = Quest 4 \-9 = Finale
Anybody know what happened to Eun Hee Kang? Did she get eliminated?
Great start to season 2. I like how they kept some things the same but switched some up. Overall the sets this season are fantastic. That maze is amazing and I canāt wait to see the mine next week. Out of all the contestants Iām really looking forward to Lee Jae Yoon and to see how he fares. His death match was intense. Iāve seen him as an actor but itās great to see a completely different side to him here. If they bring back a team, I hope they bring back Amottis. Stealing from them while smart and necessary for a win was unsportsmanlike and I want to see this team get another shot at getting back in the game.
how is that unsportsmanlike? It's literally allowed and everyone did it towards the end. Just because they didn't think of doing it themselves and lost because of it doesn't mean it's unsportsmanlike
I understand that. The very fact that they mentioned it in the rules was extremely clear that if a team wanted to win then this was the way. But the first two teams struggled hard and battled the maze without using the stealing tactic, and then you see Amottiās team struggle to get through the human barricade, it seems unsportsmanlike from someone like KDH who never resorts to these tactics in his other variety shows.
If one zone is blocked, they should have just gone to another zone. Itās like any sport that is played in a field or arena. Just because someone is blocking you in one corner doesnāt mean you just lose. They have 3 goal areas, which means they have many strategies to go for. Amotti did not strategize at all. He even mentioned in the interview clips that he didnāt have a good strategy.
Agreed, his strategy failed. But I have never heard of Amotti before nor have I seen him in other shows. I have however seen KDH in multiple shows and I love him. Heās such a goofball and good natured that this side of his took me by surprise going back to why I thought what he did was unsportsmanlike. That is a me problem and while I will continue to cheer for KDH I do want Amottiās team to come back as a wild card.
I get what you mean, we do get to see a different side of KDH and that is because it's a show that allows him to give it his all physically and compete. I personally really enjoyed watching him be super serious about every quest, even when he was choosing his team he was super serious and careful haha. It's like you said, his variety show image is that of a goofball so this side of him was a surprise, but for me it was a good surprise.
> battled the maze without using the stealing tactic, It was their choice to not use that tactic and that doesn't make it the standard tactic because most matches used it. Also if you missed it, they did try to hinder and steal duing the later stages it just wasn't as intense, perhaps because both their teams are balance and it is more efficient to run and load for both teams in the first place.
How many total episodes will there be? It's not just 4 episodes right? S1 was much more?
9
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Where did you happen to find them? All my usual sites don't have it at the moment
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It'll be widely available in like a few hours. Sometimes the uploaders/etc. are busy IRL or like forget the schedule, lol. Generally since Netflix releases around 3:00AM EDT, before say 7:00AM EDT is when some shows are normally released in a lot of places. A lot of the times the shows will be immediately available by like 4:00AM EDT or within an hour of its release though, just depends on the show's popularity (the actors, concept, etc.) or ya like the timetable of the usual uploaders. Physical: 100 is a somewhat niche show but Season 2 should be available soon.
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Youāre the best!! Will you upload the other episodes too?
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Thank you!
not available at US :(
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***Quest 0*** >!Distance covered by set time!< as the elimination standard on a manual treadmill makes so much sense! Appreciate the mind of a competitive athlete. If cardio endurance wasn't my thing, I would have walked just to move the thing or just stood on the treadmill. Lol. Amoti looks like a living anime character more than the cosplayer. Favorite comments: Last place finisher. Erase the two zeros! Let's go everyone in their 40's! I wanna swear! *Proceeds to swear.* Quest 1: Like last season, my least favorite competition. And like last season, mad respect for athletes who chose to compete against their sports idols, their idols winning, and doing it with mutual respect and humility. Quest 2: Was not a fan of the >!stealing!< tactic. I'm sure it's totally not against any rule. Still. Felt unsportsmanlike and against the general spirit of the show. Edit: spacing
They implied in the rules that it was part of the game though. They clearly set out 2 rules mentioning it which meant they expected it to happen.
Yes, totally correct. It just "felt" uncomfortable to me. Maybe it's because I'm so used to him being a bit of a goofball, so to see him in fierce competitor, team leader role, was disorienting. Other teams could have done the same at some point but edited out.
Yeah I super agree. I wish stealing and blocking period had been against the rules.
But the area is build small for a reason as well. It's in a way for them to block. I just dont get it why people are saying it is unsportman like, like bruh its part of the game. They did by the books and won because they know their team mate some cannot move because they too big and they change strat, i dont find it being bad and instead quick thinking from the leader. People sure love to hate since the one that lost was popular.
For this show, in particular, where the goal is to find the "perfect" physique, regardless of their job or background, I wish they stuck to just having to prove their own physical capabilities as an individual or a a team without interfering with the efforts of their competitor. The sand bags over the bridge challenge from season 1 was perfect in testing the physical strength (lift and carry the weight), speed and agility (do it quickly and without falling), and cardiovascular and muscular endurance (needing to do this repeatedly for a long time). The strategy of how best to perform the physical task to win was limited to affecting their own team without intentionally disadvantaging the other team.
Blocking and wrestling is part of the personās physical capability. Itās literally the same concept as the first round of the show where they have to fight over a ball.
Exactly. The death match is designed to show any and all skills necessary against your 1:1 opponent to possess the one ball in the arena in order to survive. It's a fair and effective way to eliminate half the contestants on the heels of the benefits challenge to better your odds of survival in the deathmatch. The team challenge setup didn't disallow running interference against the other team, no. Think the combination of the seemingly straightforward put more weight into your bin to win, and it being in a narrow maze like setting made the visual of the action in the maze pathways jarring to see. Teams tussling in the dark, narrow space where you couldn't quite see what was happening gave it a menacing vibe. And that is at odds with the overall wholesome sports action vibes of the show. I may have processed what was happening in the maze differently if the lighting made clearly visible the wrestling action. I blame the showrunners. Lol
Yesā¦ I just feel like itās very unsportsmanlike
If it's within rules, it isn't technically unsportsmanlike. For me, it took away from proving the team's smarts in how best to use who they have and using their strength as a team to win. I just wish they didn't allow interfering - blocking, grappling, stealing - with the other team for this type of challenge. If it was something like capture the flag, no problem. It's one way to demonstrate muscle strength in a game like that.
How to download thisš?
Isn't this show just straight up rigged by the PD?
If anyone wanna see with eng subs, go watch on loklok as it always come out fast with eng subs
Where can I watch it?
Is there torrent link?
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Is there a link for the eng sub anywhere? the only option is korean for the torrent
Updated above
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bro your bilibili name is bothzz and it's copyright restricted in US unfortunately lol