User Reviews

A completion lasting 10 weeks to determine the best INDIVIDUAL athlete should never have included a team competition. Assuming a team competition should be used, it should never have been worth enough points to decide the outcome. And even if a team competition were used to decided the final outcome, it should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER HAVE BEEN SO BLATANTLY SKEWED IN FAVOR OF ONE TEAM. I had minor issues with the competitions along the way (specifically shout outs for people only because they were struggling), but I became invested in the competition and looked forward to each episode. But the unfairness of how this competition ended played on my built connections with the competitors to leave me fuming mad! Not cool!

Be prepared to watch as the producers figure out a way to keep Daniel from completely destroying the rest of the competition. From giving shout outs to couches to giving 1st/2nd/3rd place twice for the same round. If that wasn't bad enough, as the other reviewer indirectly pointed out, having 4 people go up against 5 in a tug of war, is 100% pathetic. I was so hoping that Daniel's team would just let go and watch the other team tumble, it was that unfair. So, as they watch Daniel continually podium, almost having double the score of second place, they remember their ace in the hole. Daniel has Osgood-Schlatter's disease, so of course, let's add some running, because we already know he will struggle with that. The fact that a kid at his age was able to handle what they were obviously doing to him with such grace is amazing.

I wouldn't be surprised if Brodie is related to someone that made the show. I mean, come on! He received a shout out for "listening" in the swimming event while the whole time his teammate coach is asking him to come back and he is blatantly saying "no" to her. yeah.. that's good listening. This show just reinforces how a TV show has the ability to completely control the outcome of a competition no matter how successful a contestant is.

Bottom line, unless you like to be extremely disappointed and frustrated in the results and watch a TV show do everything in their power to keep a child from winning, don't waste your time on this one.

I actually liked the show, until the producers decided to move the bar and nullify the premise of the show. There were some things I didn't agree with during the season (shout outs for just trying and for coaches, giving two sets of medals in one competition, etc.), but overall it was good. Then, at the end, they decided to make one day of track-and-field worth half the points of the entire season. Ridiculous! Why even have the rest of the season, just make it a one day track-and-field event. Oh wait, the entire premise of the show is that the athletes would compete in each other's sports of expertise, yet no one was an expert in track-and-field, but it was worth most of the points - what is wrong with the producers? Then they made it all come down to a group event (tug-of-war war competition) in which 4 people went up against 5, that sounds like a good way to decide the winner. The only thing good was seeing how Daniel, who completely dominated the season (until the producers decided to move the bar and ignore the premise of the show) handled it with such grace. Very impressive for such a young kid. Kudos! Not fair at all. Let's have the kid who dominated all the sports he was suppose to, loose the competition because of one-day of track-and -field (which didn't even go with the premise of the show) because he has problems running a lot because he has Osgood-Schlatter's disease. Two-thumbs down. Part way through season 1, I was looking forward to season 2. Now, not so much. I'd skip the show, unless you really want to be disappointed at the end.

It was a fun show until the last day. They pretty much canceled out the entire competition with a ton of points on one last day. What made it even worse was the 5 on 4 tug of war that decided the champion. What a completely idiotic way to end the show. Do not watch this show, you'll be disappointed. Too bad, the kids were fun, good, hard working kids. The producers ruined it