Australian Ninja Open 2021: The Draft + The Relay Round

For the first time in Australian ninja history, a draft of some of the nation's top ninjas was held to form teams for the inaugural Australian Ninja Open, an exciting new team competition format created by NCL commissioner Mark Ravi.

This video features the live draft, as the team captains picked their ninjas in a snake draft format, and the relay round, where the six teams were split into pools of three to battle it out in a relay round.

The relay rules were simple: each athlete was assigned two obstacles each, but if they fell, the next competitor in the order had to come and complete those obstacles until either all ninjas had failed an obstacle or the course had been completed.

The team in each pool who ranked last on furthest the fastest was eliminated. The top two teams in each pool moved on to the knockout round.