SSAS Trials 4

SSAS Trials 4 is the upcoming fourth season of SSAS's Trials series. It was partially confirmed during a teaser dropped by C.W.H Entertainment on January 1, 2022, where the season served as a preliminary round for the upcoming twentieth SSAS tournament. According to the host himself, it was confirmed that the fourth Trials season will happen later this year.

Casting for this season of SSAS Trials has been privately conducted since early January 2022. On January 13, 2022, the public casting has officially announced by C.W.H Entertainment. By the time that the public casting has been announced, there have been over 300 competitors in the host's casting list, and was revealed that the host didn't cast any fictional competitors yet.

The tapings of the season began in April 2022, and some sessions have been periodically delayed overtime due to scheduling issues. On December 3, 2022, C.W.H Entertainment unveiled a teaser about the show as part of the label's winter 2022 lineup. As of that time, around 75% of the qualifiers and 35% of the semifinals, have been finished taping by producers. However, due to the producers struggling to cope with the taping schedules, the season which supposed to set for premiere in December 2022 was postponed until further notice.

This season has featured several twists and changes:
 * During qualifying rounds:
 * 20 competitors would compete on each heat, instead of 50 in the previous 3 seasons.
 * The top 10 competitors would advance to the semi-finals, instead of 25 in the previous season.
 * The top 4 overall competitors of the heat would compete in a Timber Challenge knockouts:
 * The winner will receive a "Clear" pass, in which they can skip any obstacle during the semi-finals. However, this pass won't work on obstacles 1, 6, 7, 8 and 10.
 * The runner-up will receive a "U-Turn" pass, in which they can issue a U-Turn to any competitor that are competing in the same semi-final heat as the receiver's.
 * A new competition rule would be added to the Mega Wall, which appeared as the sixth obstacle on every qualifying round:
 * In similar manner to ANW 11, competitors are given three attempts to complete the Mega Wall.
 * If they chose to attempt the Mega Wall and failed to complete it after three attempts, they couldn't return to the Warped Wall and was instantly called a fail.
 * The cash prize for completing the Mega Wall remained the same with the previous season, which was 10,000 CWH, regardless of competitors requiring multiple attempts to complete the obstacle.
 * During the semi-finals:
 * All obstacles except for obstacles 1, 6, 7, 8 and 10 were designed in a "Crossroads" style. In which the obstacle itself split into two parts, one is the main obstacle, in which every competitor have to attempt it, one is the alternate obstacle, in which will be attempted in case of "Clear" or "U-Turn" pass is used.
 * When a "Clear" pass is used, competitors will have to attempt the alternate obstacle in order to complete it, which can be slightly easier than the main one.
 * When a "U-Turn" pass is used, the red alarm sounds after the competitor cleared the obstacle, which means the competitor have to turn back attempting the alternate obstacle before and then the main one again. The alternate obstacle varies during each semi-final heat.
 * Same as with the qualifiers, 20 competitors would compete on each semifinal heat. The top 10 competitors would grab a spot to SSAS 20.

Unlike during the previous season, there is no more "The Finals", meaning competitors who qualified from semifinals would straight away grab a spot to SSAS 20. Instead a currently unnamed new stage will be used to replace "The Finals". Regarding the stage's format, it is currently still in progress. It was later revealed that to speed up the taping progress, the speculated new stage that replaced "The Finals" has been scrapped completely. After 1 year and 2 months of taping, the season has finally wrapped filming on June 5, 2023.

It had been silent until mid-April, where the season would finally be premiering on April 21, 2023, with 3 episodes airing each week.

Comments
I want to compete in SSAS Trials 4. My name is PaprikooLTU.

-- PaprikooLTU (talk) 22:33, 16 January 2022 (+08)