Dodge Ball?!?
Being an Average Joe, I was good at dodge ball as a kid. Being quick, agile yet built like David Daskal it was an oddity how I could routinely beat out most of the jocular types at this game. But most of my freinds were usually crushed in about the first minute of the game.
I was more than a little disappointed to see the high school segment have dodge ball as the tie breakingevent. Gosh I wonder if having two of the three events be, basically, gym classes would give an advantage to the new guys.
Sure this was deliberate and a way to knock the joes down a notch, but it could have been better. It would have been funny to split the sides and reform teams due to it being a tie, thus some joes and new guys at the dance. It would have been a good way to either hilight their differences by being forced to cooperate or take the edge off the new guy's general impression of being jocular jackholes.
An event that combined smarts amd physical ability would have been better, but I guess that is too much to ask for....and probably not the goal of the segment, from the producer's point of view.
--GenFX