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About  USA Ninja Nationals 

The inaugural US Nationals event is a timed, multi-stage competition to be held at the Obstacle Sports Expo in Anaheim. Competitions will be held on a 2-lane, 100m  course with 10 speed obstacles provided by The ATS Team, an LA-based set shop and production company, best known as the designer and builder of obstacles and courses for the Ninja Warrior television show franchise worldwide. 

The format is “furthest, fastest” comprised of heats (qualifying runs), quarter-finals, semi-finals, (for the elite category), and finals. The top-placed sixteen athletes qualify for the quarterfinals. The top eight athletes, in the elite category, qualify for the semifinals. The top four athletes in each category from the semifinals qualify for the finals. 

Heats, quarterfinals, and semi-finals are run on parallel  lanes for time and are not head-to-head races. Finals are the four fastest athletes from the semi-finals in a head-to-head format (first to hit the buzzer).

There is a  gold medal final for 1st/Gold and 2nd /Silver and a bronze medal final for 3rd/Bronze & 4th. Winners in the finals are the first to hit the button in each race. Results are not  based on time, so the athletes in the bronze medal race cannot beat those in the gold medal race.

The official ruleset for the US Nationals can be downloaded here.

 The Age Class for Kids, Youth, and Legends is the age of the athlete on race day.  For this event, July 25, 2024 will be used as the race day age parameter.   Kids: 6/7, 8/9, 10/11 

 US athletes who meet one of the following criteria qualify to compete in the US National Championships. The athlete must have either qualified for a world finals in one of the following national/international leagues:

• Ultimate Ninja Athlete Association World Finals
• World Ninja League Tier One World Championships
• Federation of International Ninja Athletics World Championships
• Ninja Sport Championship Series Finals