SSAS: All-Stars Special

SSAS: All-Stars Special is the first ever season of SSAS ' s post-season competition, which was filmed shortly after SSAS 16. This whole installment was split between five episodes. It was intended to air shortly after the airdate of SSAS 16, however it was postponed to an uncertain date to make room for SSAS 17. On December 17, 2021, it was announced that the rest of the segments were cancelled. Later the same day, it was announced that it will premiere on January 1, 2022 and will end on January 29, 2022.

Background
There have been a post-season competition which was filmed shortly after SSAS 6, exactly 10 tournament apart from the official first installment. It consisted of numerous skills challenges, and one competitor would be eliminated after each challenge. After 14 skills challenges, the last competitor standing wins the series. It was known that Paul Anthony Terek have won the series. However, this series was not renewed for the second season, due to copyright infringements. The first season was officially scrapped on January 13, 2021, according to the author.

Development
The competition was reportedly started its tapings on October 23, 2021, roughly 3 days after the taping of SSAS 6. It is known that the first part of the competition was finished on October 25, 2021. Some small portions of the second part was also taped on the same day. However, due to scheduling issues, the production was halted by a few days. On October 29, 2021, there have been some considerations of one of few skills event, notably the Pressure Pool. However, due to one of the participating competitors have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the event's taping, several competitors that have involved in the event insisted to withdraw from the event, thus halting the overall production of the show once again.

As of mid-December 2021, the team competition has wrapped filming, but the skills competition was reported to left few segments haven't been filmed yet. On December 17, 2021, it was announced that the rest of skills challenges have been cancelled, this means that unfinished segments have been cancelled filming.

Competitors

 * Seeding
 * 1) Bruce Wayne
 * 2) Morimoto Yusuke
 * 3) Clark Kent
 * 4) Ben Solo
 * 5) Inazuma Sofia (F)
 * 6) Yamamoto Yoshiyuki
 * 7) Darth Vader
 * 8) Rey (F)
 * 9) Barry Allen
 * 10) Cedric the Sorcerer

Competition Format
The competition worked as followed:
 * The twelve teams split into four heats of three teams.
 * The first four episodes host one heat per episode. The fifth and final episode hosts the finals.
 * All four stages are used. There is no time limit for each of the stages.
 * In the first four qualifying heats:
 * The First Stage and Second Stage consist of three matchups. The running order would be decided by each competitors' seeding. The male competitor with a lower seeding or no ranking would compete in the first matchup, the female competitor would compete in the second matchup, while the captain (if the captain is a male competitor) or the male competitor who had a higher seeding would compete in the third matchup.
 * In the First Stage:
 * The competitor who completed the course (or made the furthest) in the fastest time would receive 2 points for his/her team, with 1 point for the second fastest time, and 0 points for the slowest time.
 * In the third matchup, the points are doubled.
 * The winning team after three matchups would straight advance to the Third Stage. While the other two would have to compete in the Second Stage.
 * In the Second Stage:
 * The competitor who completed the course (or made further) in the faster time would receive 3 points for his/her team, and 1 point for the slower time.
 * In the third matchup, the points are doubled.
 * The winning team would advance to the Third Stage, with half of their current points (rounding off is not used, this means if a winning team has 9 points for example, they would advance to the Third Stage with 4 points). While the losing team would be eliminated from the competition.
 * The so-called Third Stage is a fusion of both Third and Final Stage, unlike the first two stages:
 * The Third Stage consist of two matchups, while the Final Stage has only one matchup.
 * The running order is the same as in the first two stages. However, the first two matchups would compete in the Third Stage, while the third matchup would be in the Final Stage.
 * In the Third Stage:
 * The competitor who completed the course (or made further) in the faster time would receive 3 points for his/her team, and for the slower time would lose 1 point for his/her team.
 * No teams will be eliminated in this stage, meaning both two teams would straight advance to the Final Stage, regardless of how much points the team have earned.
 * The Final Stage consist of a side-by-side 20-meter Rope Climb, with 2 competitors, 1 from each team. The competitor who reached the top of the tower in the faster time, his/her respective team wins this heat, and advances to the finals with the average points of two teams.

Obstacles
① Sonic Stairs ② Hyper Twist ③ Free Fall ④ Dragon Drop ⑤ Sweep the Propeller ⑥ Warped Wall ⑦ The Sprinter ⑧ Suicidal-Free ⑨ Captain's Cabin

Obstacles
① Cannon Shoot ② Overdrive Salmon + ③ Flying Bar ④ Bullseye ⑤ Barrier Pool ⑥ Power-tackle

Obstacles
① Grasping Vines ② Stegosaurus ③ Jamming Logs ④ Cliffhanger of Faith ⑤ Pipe Dream + ⑥ Vertical Limit Tri ⑦ Cone Adventure + ⑧ Inclined Pipe Slider

Obstacles
① Rope Climb (20m)

Skills Challenges
Note: Competitors are listed in order of their official seeding, those competitors without seeding are placed below the seeded competitors, except when noted. Female competitors are additionally noted with "F", except when noted.

Mega Warped Wall

 * This event was taped on October 24, 2021.

The obstacle consisted of a supersized version of the Warped Wall, with a much taller wall and longer runway than in other spin-offs and regular competitions, requiring competitors to build a much bigger speed and momentum to reach and climb to the top of the wall.

The competition worked in an elimination fashion. Each competitor was given just two attempts to clear the obstacle in required height. If they could complete it, they would move on the next round (with the wall's height being made taller in the next round). If they couldn't complete it, they would be eliminated from the competition. The competition continued until only one competitor could clear the required height in any round. In case if the remaining competitors in any round failed to clear the required height, they would be given another attempt until one competitor clears the required height.


 * Competitors
 * 1) Ben Solo (10)
 * 2) Billy Batson (30)
 * 3) George Harkness (50)
 * 4) Nanaue (59)
 * 5) Sol Soria (74) - F
 * 6) Yon-Rogg
 * 7) Rick Mason
 * 8) Alexei Shostakov
 * 9) Phil Coulson
 * 10) Agatha Harkness - F

Gripping Ledges

 * This event was taped on October 25, 2021.

The obstacle consist of a supersized version of Hand Walk, with a bigger gap between the ledges than in other spin-offs. This requiring competitors to build a much bigger swing to reach the ledges.

The competition worked in an elimination fashion. Each competitor was given just one attempt to clear the obstacle in required distance. If they could complete it, they would move on the next round (with the ledges being made further in the next round). If they couldn't complete it, they would be eliminated from the competition. The competition continued until only one competitor could clear the required distance in any round. In case if the remaining competitors in any round failed to clear the required distance, they would be given another attempt until one competitor clears the required distance.
 * Competitors
 * 1) Clark Kent (8)
 * 2) Darth Vader (14)
 * 3) Cedric the Sorcerer (17)
 * 4) Menalippe (19) - F
 * 5) Kent Nelson (93)
 * 6) Jonah Hex (102)
 * 7) Jagged Stone (104)
 * 8) Cory Pitzner (166)
 * 9) Teth-Adam
 * 10) Rita Farr - F

Super Salmon Ladder

 * This event was taped between October 29 to 31, 2021

The obstacle consisted of a supersized version of the Salmon Ladder, with up to 40 rungs and about 20 meters in height. This skill challenge divided into three rounds, with increasing in height and number of rungs each round. The first round contains 20 rungs and 10 meters in height, second round contains 30 rungs and 15 meters in height, while the third and final round contains 40 rungs and 20 meters in height.

Each competitor would start at the first rung and tried to reach the highest rung as possible, and as fast as possible. In the first round, top 5 competitors who reach the highest rung in the fastest time would advance to the second round. In the second round, only the top 3 competitors out of 5 remaining competitors advance. While in the third round, whoever reached the highest rung in the fastest time would be the champion.


 * Competitors
 * 1) Morimoto Yusuke (5)
 * 2) Daniel Gil (7)
 * 3) Yamamoto Yoshiyuki (13)
 * 4) Joe Moravsky (21)
 * 5) Adam Rayl (28)
 * 6) Bryson Klein (31)
 * 7) Kanno Hitoshi (39)
 * 8) Jake Murray (40)
 * 9) Hioki Masashi (60)
 * 10) Ben Polson (80)

Pressure Pool

 * This event was taped on November 4 and 5, 2021

The obstacle consist of a supersized version of Barrier Pool (Note: The three walls were removed). Each competitor must swim through the tank to reach a ladder and then slide down the ramp to the platform, while being disrupted by the jets towards the end of the obstacle. The jets are getting much more powerful in each subsequent round.

The competition worked in an elimination fashion. Competitors must reach the platform provided after the slide in 30 seconds, if they did not reach the platform in time, the competitor will be eliminated. The competition continued until all competitors have been eliminated, the last competitor standing wins this competition (if there are more than one competitor cleared the previous required jet speed, and nobody cleared the next required jet speed, then the competition continued until any one of the competitor cleared the required jet speed first).

This event originally comprised of 10 competitors, however due to one of the 10 competitors have tested positive for COVID-19, two competitors have withdrew from the event prior to the event's taping. This reduced the number of competitors competing from 10 to 8.


 * Competitors
 * 1) Nereus (9)
 * 2) Topo (44)
 * 3) Ricou (119)
 * 4) Atlan (156)
 * 5) Corum Rath (157)
 * 6) Orvax
 * 7) Tempest
 * 8) Jackson Hyde

Ultimate Rope Climb

 * This event was taped on November 16, 2021

The obstacle consist of a side-by-side 20 meter Rope Climb. The competition worked in a bracket knockout basis, consist of 2 qualification round, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. In addition, there are only 10 female competitors competing in this competition.

Note: Competitors listed below are not according to their respectively ranking.


 * Competitors
 * 1) Olivia Vivian
 * 2) Rita Farr
 * 3) Jesse Labreck
 * Rey
 * 1) Leia Organa
 * 2) Natasha Romanoff
 * 3) Zorii Bliss
 * 4) Diana Prince
 * 5) Wanda Maximoff
 * 6) Nebula

Endless Cliffhanger

 * This event was taped on November 23 and 26, 2021

The obstacle consisted of a 2-ledge Cliffhanger with 2.5m each ledge. It consist of a 1.8m transition in between. Competitors must make their way to the end of the second ledge and make their way back to the beginning of the first ledge, while repeating the process with shrinking ledges in terms of its width. The run continues until the competitor falls into the water or the 90-second time limit reaches. Whoever make their way the longest in length and in the fastest time becomes the Endless Cliffhanger champion.

Ledge widths: 5cm, 3cm, 1.5cm,…


 * Competitors
 * 1) Diana Prince - F
 * 2) Dru-Zod
 * 3) Jason Todd
 * 4) Harleen Quinzel - F
 * 5) Howard Jensen
 * 6) Nguyễn Thị Thúy Hiền - F
 * 7) Michael Torres
 * 8) Yondu Udonta
 * 9) Wally West
 * 10) Sugeta Rinne

Episode Five
The fifth episode was intended to have four skills challenges, but due to the announcement of cancelling the rest of unfinished competitions, this episode only contain one skill challenge. The cancelled skills challenges were known to be Vertical Limit Madness, Timber Challenge Showdown and Super Slingshot Free Fall.