Between the last minute rule changes, event cancellation and… whatever this was, the whole strongman was a botch. Hope those in charge learn from this and change it up next year.
Yea how can a little dew onnthe field freaking ruin the whole show.... pretty pathetic. This even was awful too, should of at least had the bags further from the loading apparatus.
Rogue has been great the previous 2yrs they have slightly missed the mark this year but the rain certainly didn't help but the streaming is fantastic and the prize money is mega for these athletes and they've realy moved the sport of strongman in a positive direction in that sense
Seemed like a big step back to me. It was much more than a slight miss. It was much worse than Giants Live which also paid well and has streaming. The only reason Rogue survives is they sponsor the top guys so they can always force a show.
You get 20grand for giants live Mitch got 142grand for winning and tom 75 for 2nd place giants live money is pitiful especially if you don't come top 3
@@ChrisKeen-is5so 1. Wrong that’s not what Giants Live pays currently 2. Who cares? Because Rogue pays they can do a shittier show? 3. I seem to have seen Tom and Mitch competing at Giants Live last week. 4. Giants Live had the largest payout ever for a one day show a week ago. 5. Payout doesn’t make a show. If payout mattered we’d still be watching World’s Ultimate Strongman. 6. If WSM amd Arnold pay less than Rogue this year (very possible) does that make Rogue the best show? Or even a decent show? 7. High paying shows of low quality - eg Ultimate Strongman - do not help the sport. They hurt it by not respecting the sport and lowering standards. That’s why they don’t last. 8. This is why the Shaw Classic was an instant success. It pays enough - not the best - but it’s a high quality show for athletes and fans. Over time the Shaw Classic and Giants Live will pay out more and more if you’re into that…9. You need to modernize your perspective. Prize money isn’t how you make money in strongman. Social media, sponsors, product lines etc are how you make money.
Actually Giants Live 35 plus u gotta take other shows into account, WT finals is also 75 as its their biggest show, they also help pay for athletes out of their pocket as well
Out of the 4 big strongman shows this year, WSM, Arnold’s, Shaw Classic/Strongest Man on Earth, Rogue Invitational, The Shaw Classic/Strongest Man on Earth was by far the best one
poor competition over all but this event was an absolute disgrace. for this to be the deciding event for the biggest purse in the sport is insulting to the athletes
So they start on “go” or the horn? Either way, they all started at different times. Entire weekend seemed a bust for Strongman, so a mismanaged event seems like a fitting end.
Its like the refs are scared to call false starts or challenge the athletes. I think the reason the show failed was because the people who run it dont take strongman seriously they just used this as an opportunity to show off their equipment, and get sponser revenue.
If that's not a joke that shows how cobbled together this comp was. Changing rules, deleting events, bad starts, questionable judging and events that hadn't been tested thoroughly enough show that there's a lot of room for improvement.
I definitely feel something was wrong with the iron bull. It took out treys achilles for crying out loud. The fact that it stuck at 15ft for everyone should have shown something was wrong. Idk what this last event was. Other events were pretty cool. Log, coaster, dl was a little weird as well. Hopefully the athletes get paid well and rogue does better next year
@@benstgeorge5950 WSM has to deal with the weather too but they plan for it adequately with replacement events. Rogue was poorly planned for bad weather.
That's it? That was the whole event? I thought it was only a half of the event since it was so fast. I hope the next year we will see more real strongmen events and not this half baked one.
I think having a crossfit event repurposed into a strongman one wasn't a very good idea, especially considering (whether you like it or not) it is true that many strongman fans have a negative view on crossfit.
I have to agree with most comments the last event was just not good enough and the bull pull was one of the worst I have seen in ages. I think it was lucky that only one was injured from it. I know they had to change a few things from the weather, but it was not a great show especially when compared to last year and the Shaw classic.
I’m totally confused. Every internet site has Tom winning this event. 17.57 vs 17.84. Did they redo the times because people didn’t start at the same time? Edit - that’s what they did since the athletes didn’t know if the start was the word “go” or the horn. Amateur hour by Rogue. Just awful.
@@HashBrownDoyler lmao. This is the Rogue channel not the Disney channel moron. Why don’t you tell one of these guys what you said to their face? Now that would be entertaining. It’s $145k to the winner not to the best entertainer. Whew.
This last event is amateur hour, must be the worst final event I’ve seen in a Strongman show. Mitch Hooper blatantly false started and somehow didn’t get DQ’d. Also at least 2 of his log reps shouldn’t have counted. And removing an event from the schedule. They should have a backup plan for poor weather. What a shambles of an event
I don’t understand why on the Rogues leaderboard they have Tom Stoltman winning that event, I’ve watched it over and over again at x.25 and Mitch wins albeit by milliseconds yet on the leaderboard it’s Tom who came first and Mitch second. It doesn’t change the overall outcome but this year’s event has been a shambles. The height they were pulling from on the tower was different to what they had all trained at, the bull pull was dangerous (we saw Trey get badly injured) they introduced a rope when no-one had trained for it and the weight was heavier, the Rogueacoatser was good, then rather than a medley we went to log lift for reps at too light a weight (should have been 170k) the axle lift was cancelled as deemed to dangerous, yet why couldn’t that have been done inside the concourse like the other events and then the duel no longer became a duel it was just a sandbag race (bloody heavy), but the idea was that they were to have to run it 3 times 10 (9) down to 5 then 5 down to 2 then 2 fight it out for the win. Congratulations to Mitch he did what he always does and is consistently fighting for top 3, deserved the overall win. Tom was on a charge after day 1 and came a close second. I think these 2 will go back and forth for years to come, there is nothing between them IMO the 2 strongest men in the world right now by quite a distance
Mitch false start. You can see him go before you even hear the G sound in Go in .5 speed. Regardless, if you time them both from when they started, Tom was faster because Hooper had a 1 second lead.
This event had a countdown, 3, 2, 1, GO & a beep. Why did they do it that way? Why did it take so long to get the results? Why did they present the check behind the scene during the switch between women & men max deadlift events? So many questions about this weekend. Try harder, Rogue.
@@Testoodopeno he doesn’t are you dumb. He goes as soon as he hears the g which is the beginning of go. You don’t wait till the word completely finishes obviously
When I first heard the last event was called 'the duel' I thought it would be a pole push 1v1, I think we can agree, it would have been a better option
I am sorry Rogue. I have loved the strongmen event in the past, and I realise that the rain did effect the events but unfortunately, this The Duel really was a bit of a weak finish. But Congratulations to Mitchell Hooper, he performed well through out the events and this was a well deserved win.
Not the best Rogue Invitational. The athletes did their best, that matters. Hopefully Trey isn’t too seriously injured. Fingers crossed Rogue learns from this and next year we have events happen as they were trained for
I understand the weather conditions didn't make things easy for you guys but..... this event was awful. Really boring to watch, not a good test of strength and it was over in 20 seconds.
When you spend more time figuring out time splits & placings after the event than the amount of time running the actual event, something is definitely wrong.
Plenty of legitimate criticism for the show but saying a loading event isn't strongman just shows you dont know the history of strongman. Albeit history they load alot more awkward and cumbersome objects then sand bags.
This years strongman was a complete joke and I see a lot of the athletes giving up during events. Very low energy and you can tell athletes were very frustrated. This years was a total waist and I hope rouge puts together better competitions for athletes next year. Also judges need to be facing the side during log lifts because hooper didn’t have a full lock out on log
Mitch won by strategy again. All the other guys went around back of their bags to face the front while lifting them, whereas Mitch just grabbed his while facing backwards and turned around with them, saving him a lot of walking distance.
No and no. Either way you have to turn. It takes the same time but Mitch is holding heavy weight while turning. The only reason it didn’t matter was the weight was ridiculously light. And Mitch lost to Tom btw.
Freeze the video at about the 15:34 mark. Mitch is off the start block and front foot on the grass before the go call. He gave himself a head start. He should have been disqualified or at least docked points for jumping the start.
@@Rebecca-kn5cg they retimed the entire field because the starting instructions were so poor. Everyone got their actual times based on their start. Tom won. Mitch second.
@@fakename5015 Wait what? So they make them race against each other but then their Times dont Match up? So the one who finishes first actually wasnt the Fastest? That sounds so stupid ......
@@markus6746 sort of yes. Everyone’s time was their actual time. But just since you finished first doesn’t mean you had the fastest time. Because you could have started before someone else. But there were two runs anyway. So really someone from run 1 could have beaten someone from run 2 without ever racing against one another. So the head to head notion is a falsehood. The problem is originally they were supposed to have elimination heats to go from 10 to 5 to 2 (to 1.)The 2 would be 1v1 and hence a Duel as the event was named or simply, a race. But the with the weather they changed it all.
Very, very much disappointed in you ROGUE. 😔 You have the best of the best in the sport of strongman's and y'all do this to them?? THE SAHW CLASSIC is what y'all should aspire to be. Sad 👎👎👎
What a crap comp worst comp in a long time a poor deadlift bar shaking everywhere a poorly designed sled pull and then 2 rope pull events one after another really how stupid and then the log press that was good but a load race of 3 bags to finish what a crap last event.
So Hooper won the whole shitshow by 2 points! If there had been 6 events as planned Tom would've made up that difference, and/or if theyd kept the Fingals in...handy for Hooper that hes not great at the fingers and Tom is one of the best. The whole thing stinks. Worst organised strongman show i can ever remember watching.
@@JBS7551 yes, Id've taken a few reps off him for sure! Glad they penalised him for jumping the gun at the start of the Duel tho...which wasn't a Duel at all. 3 hours wait for a 22 second event! What a shambles!
@@JBS7551 I did enjoy that, but sound/camera angles etc wasn't the best on the livestream but I'm sure the TV edit will be gold! I was at Giants Live last weekend and their shows are super slick, the atmosphere was electric. Strongest Nation to look forward to now 🙌
Extremely anticlimactic.. scrap this event forever… should have been in wheelbarrow or something to add to it… I know there was supposed to be some finish line sprint but that’s a cross fit bs anyway
Never foolish just how the did the timing with them changing the beep to the announcer doing a countdown. Should have stuck the same way or change the countdown. Instead of going on go just stick with the beep.
Probably should have added fingal fingers into bag toss or loaded more number of bags like a medley with bags at a distance. At least let the athletes vote
3 out of 4 athletes jumped the start in heat 1! Also, this event sucked as it was too short and not a real test of strength. Usually I really enjoy the Rogue Invitational Strongman but this year there were too many problems for it to be considered a legitimate competition.
This was some bush league crap for sure. You don’t have to be a professional strongman to do this stupid event. Lightweight competition ended with a lightweight event. Awful. Plus it’s empty - there are no fans. Whew.
This event feels like something scrambled in a hurry to get over with the SM part of the Invitational, lots of things gone wrong, it is not fair for the competitors also to cancel one event without offsetting it with another, congrats to Mitch, but who else agrees SM challenges scoring results must change, giving more weight to event winners?? it is not first time we see someone never won an event or won only one gets the whole thing in the end, winning an event must count big so we see more fierce competition and some hope for the ones lagging behind instead of just signing out of duty last 2 events
Deadlift event - Good The bull - Good Pulling the cart - Good Log press - Meh, going for max rep instead of max weight doesn't do it for me This one - Anticlimactic, off putting
Hooper started before "Go" and the beep was about a second after the "Go". The polish guy also went before "Go" and after Hooper. What a joke of an event
This sandbag loading event didn't feel right, even when they went head to head. I liked the other events tho, specially Deadlift, Log and Rogue-a-Coaster.
@@Devou1s ah. Because originally I think they planned to run the field three times, with the last a 1-2 matchup but didn’t since it was wet and they were short on time.
Rogue-a-coaster = good. Tower of Power = good (although the front safety rail blocks half the view!). Everything else was a bust unfortunately. Fail, learn, come back again better next year.
Its kinda funny watching these average or slightly above average sized people reset the event for the next set of guys an gals. Got these massive dudes making it look easy... Meanwhile it took 9 stocky dudes to reset the bull..
I can totally see rogue ditching this entire contest. They’ll take a lot of criticism for the shambles it was and might think it’s not worth it. It’s just a filler contest at what is essential,y an expo anyway. And for the CrossFit haters who hate it getting any attention, CrossFit gets three times the views of strongman here. Maybe we should be grateful to be a part of their show and audience rather than hating on them just because we’re not into CrossFit. Let’s all grow up a bit.
Between the last minute rule changes, event cancellation and… whatever this was, the whole strongman was a botch. Hope those in charge learn from this and change it up next year.
Yea how can a little dew onnthe field freaking ruin the whole show.... pretty pathetic. This even was awful too, should of at least had the bags further from the loading apparatus.
Yep lucky Brian was there,
100% he would of told them they needed a rope for that Bull-shite contraption they used for sledge
@@empiresrikesfat is that why they ended up using a rope? Because Brain recommended it after testing it?
My favourite part of this event was how the commentators and referees didn’t know the rules for this event
Agreed, especially the last event
Rogue has been great the previous 2yrs they have slightly missed the mark this year but the rain certainly didn't help but the streaming is fantastic and the prize money is mega for these athletes and they've realy moved the sport of strongman in a positive direction in that sense
Seemed like a big step back to me. It was much more than a slight miss. It was much worse than Giants Live which also paid well and has streaming. The only reason Rogue survives is they sponsor the top guys so they can always force a show.
You get 20grand for giants live Mitch got 142grand for winning and tom 75 for 2nd place giants live money is pitiful especially if you don't come top 3
@@ChrisKeen-is5so 1. Wrong that’s not what Giants Live pays currently 2. Who cares? Because Rogue pays they can do a shittier show? 3. I seem to have seen Tom and Mitch competing at Giants Live last week. 4. Giants Live had the largest payout ever for a one day show a week ago. 5. Payout doesn’t make a show. If payout mattered we’d still be watching World’s Ultimate Strongman. 6. If WSM amd Arnold pay less than Rogue this year (very possible) does that make Rogue the best show? Or even a decent show? 7. High paying shows of low quality - eg Ultimate Strongman - do not help the sport. They hurt it by not respecting the sport and lowering standards. That’s why they don’t last. 8. This is why the Shaw Classic was an instant success. It pays enough - not the best - but it’s a high quality show for athletes and fans. Over time the Shaw Classic and Giants Live will pay out more and more if you’re into that…9. You need to modernize your perspective. Prize money isn’t how you make money in strongman. Social media, sponsors, product lines etc are how you make money.
Actually Giants Live 35 plus u gotta take other shows into account, WT finals is also 75 as its their biggest show, they also help pay for athletes out of their pocket as well
Bring the contest to a country that will turn out to watch. UK would have had thousands to watch the strongmen.
It feels like there should be another half to this event, like something is missing
Nothing is missing.
@@benstgeorge5950one event was missing
@@benstgeorge5950 6th event is missing, its bullshit. Whole Rogue was bullshit and weak organisation.
@@seniorita4801 ok well go and organise a better one then 🤷🏻♂️
What happened to top 5 then top 2?
Out of the 4 big strongman shows this year, WSM, Arnold’s, Shaw Classic/Strongest Man on Earth, Rogue Invitational, The Shaw Classic/Strongest Man on Earth was by far the best one
YUP
Arnold's for me, but yea Shaw's was cool too
poor competition over all but this event was an absolute disgrace. for this to be the deciding event for the biggest purse in the sport is insulting to the athletes
This was my favorite comp last year. What happened?? People waited four hours for this :D What a joke...
Hey Lars You're Gorgeous ❤
Shaw Classic >> rogue
Every strongman show has been better then this one.
Shaw classic for the win
So they start on “go” or the horn? Either way, they all started at different times. Entire weekend seemed a bust for Strongman, so a mismanaged event seems like a fitting end.
Yea this is the worst show of the "big 4" strongman events.
Wow I rewatched the second heat, hooper got a huge lead off the line.
Its like the refs are scared to call false starts or challenge the athletes. I think the reason the show failed was because the people who run it dont take strongman seriously they just used this as an opportunity to show off their equipment, and get sponser revenue.
They redid everyone’s times because the athletes didn’t know if the start was the word “go” or the horn. Tom won the event.
If that's not a joke that shows how cobbled together this comp was. Changing rules, deleting events, bad starts, questionable judging and events that hadn't been tested thoroughly enough show that there's a lot of room for improvement.
This event is extremely anti climatic for strongman but congratz to mitch
Definitely not a good strongman year for Rogue. You can tell the athletes energy wasn't there.
I definitely feel something was wrong with the iron bull. It took out treys achilles for crying out loud. The fact that it stuck at 15ft for everyone should have shown something was wrong.
Idk what this last event was. Other events were pretty cool. Log, coaster, dl was a little weird as well.
Hopefully the athletes get paid well and rogue does better next year
only the log press was good, a regular deadlift would of been better. the rope pull (rollercoaster) was ok but not great.
Better luck next year Rogue. The whole strongman comp really missed the mark.
The sandbags were unimpressive, and five wasn't enough events.
Weather didn't really help to be fair
You better call God and complain so he can sort the weather out, ensuring that it meets your standards next year
Seems like you can’t forecast bad weather in Texas
@@benstgeorge5950 WSM has to deal with the weather too but they plan for it adequately with replacement events. Rogue was poorly planned for bad weather.
Rogue did a horrible job this year my goodness
You mean Mother Nature did a poor job
@@reallymysterious4520they should have been prepared, and had another indoor event.
That's it? That was the whole event? I thought it was only a half of the event since it was so fast. I hope the next year we will see more real strongmen events and not this half baked one.
I think having a crossfit event repurposed into a strongman one wasn't a very good idea, especially considering (whether you like it or not) it is true that many strongman fans have a negative view on crossfit.
I have to agree with most comments the last event was just not good enough and the bull pull was one of the worst I have seen in ages. I think it was lucky that only one was injured from it. I know they had to change a few things from the weather, but it was not a great show especially when compared to last year and the Shaw classic.
Bull needs more weight and less friction.
I’m totally confused. Every internet site has Tom winning this event. 17.57 vs 17.84. Did they redo the times because people didn’t start at the same time?
Edit - that’s what they did since the athletes didn’t know if the start was the word “go” or the horn. Amateur hour by Rogue. Just awful.
@@HashBrownDoyler lmao. This is the Rogue channel not the Disney channel moron. Why don’t you tell one of these guys what you said to their face? Now that would be entertaining. It’s $145k to the winner not to the best entertainer. Whew.
@@HashBrownDoyler Bro every sport is an entertainment
4:25 Boudreault+Evans+Novikov+L.Stoltman
8:55 Singleton+T.Stoltman+Hooper+Kieliszkowski+Thompson
Thank you!
Lawrence great commentary. Sincere excitement. Glad to see Terry. Great assessments
The carry needs to be longer great effort by all the guys an amazing comp!
This last event is amateur hour, must be the worst final event I’ve seen in a Strongman show. Mitch Hooper blatantly false started and somehow didn’t get DQ’d. Also at least 2 of his log reps shouldn’t have counted. And removing an event from the schedule. They should have a backup plan for poor weather. What a shambles of an event
Read the comments. No false starts.
Damn how lame last event!
Honestly Rogue should be embarrassed by this competition. They need to fix it by the time Thor comes back…
I don’t understand why on the Rogues leaderboard they have Tom Stoltman winning that event, I’ve watched it over and over again at x.25 and Mitch wins albeit by milliseconds yet on the leaderboard it’s Tom who came first and Mitch second. It doesn’t change the overall outcome but this year’s event has been a shambles. The height they were pulling from on the tower was different to what they had all trained at, the bull pull was dangerous (we saw Trey get badly injured) they introduced a rope when no-one had trained for it and the weight was heavier, the Rogueacoatser was good, then rather than a medley we went to log lift for reps at too light a weight (should have been 170k) the axle lift was cancelled as deemed to dangerous, yet why couldn’t that have been done inside the concourse like the other events and then the duel no longer became a duel it was just a sandbag race (bloody heavy), but the idea was that they were to have to run it 3 times 10 (9) down to 5 then 5 down to 2 then 2 fight it out for the win. Congratulations to Mitch he did what he always does and is consistently fighting for top 3, deserved the overall win. Tom was on a charge after day 1 and came a close second. I think these 2 will go back and forth for years to come, there is nothing between them IMO the 2 strongest men in the world right now by quite a distance
Mitch false start. You can see him go before you even hear the G sound in Go in .5 speed. Regardless, if you time them both from when they started, Tom was faster because Hooper had a 1 second lead.
False start….by hooper ….should have been disqualified as is the norm with athletic events
18:49
This event had a countdown, 3, 2, 1, GO & a beep. Why did they do it that way? Why did it take so long to get the results? Why did they present the check behind the scene during the switch between women & men max deadlift events? So many questions about this weekend. Try harder, Rogue.
@@Testoodopeno he doesn’t are you dumb. He goes as soon as he hears the g which is the beginning of go. You don’t wait till the word completely finishes obviously
@@joecampbell9467cope^
This is probably the worst last event I've seen in a strongman contest.... period
When I first heard the last event was called 'the duel' I thought it would be a pole push 1v1, I think we can agree, it would have been a better option
That was a total anti-cliamax. Not a good way to end a comp 👎🏻.
I am sorry Rogue. I have loved the strongmen event in the past, and I realise that the rain did effect the events but unfortunately, this The Duel really was a bit of a weak finish.
But Congratulations to Mitchell Hooper, he performed well through out the events and this was a well deserved win.
That was the final event!? 😶 wish it was more......Grand! Or more impactful lolz If that makes sense 😅
Not the best Rogue Invitational. The athletes did their best, that matters. Hopefully Trey isn’t too seriously injured. Fingers crossed Rogue learns from this and next year we have events happen as they were trained for
Trey has torn his Achilles I believe so is out for a year at least.
@@McWhatevs well that's horrible to hear. He and Martins are my favourite strongmen to watch and hopefully martins makes his comeback next year
I understand the weather conditions didn't make things easy for you guys but..... this event was awful. Really boring to watch, not a good test of strength and it was over in 20 seconds.
When you spend more time figuring out time splits & placings after the event than the amount of time running the actual event, something is definitely wrong.
Hah. Awesome comment.
Any word on the blatant false starts?
Mitch was super obvious too he was half way to the bag before anyone wlse started...
Luke's start was fairly cheeky too.
Tom got the win, Hooper must have been penalised
@@fionadeveney8067not penalized. Actual time.
This year strongman was a joke really, the athletes work so hard.
Mitch Hooper clearly jumped the gun with a false start
You need to read the comments bro
This event was to easy!! They should have traveled further with those bags!
Too bad they didn't fit in the Fingals Fingers. Well done Tom!! 🎉❤
CrossFit event to decide Strongman champion 🤦♂️
No loading has been apart of strongman forever, it was just to light and the bas were way to close to the loading apparatus.
Plenty of legitimate criticism for the show but saying a loading event isn't strongman just shows you dont know the history of strongman. Albeit history they load alot more awkward and cumbersome objects then sand bags.
Most underwhelming final event in strongman history
Train wreck of a strongman show. Embarrassing and Hoopers "Win" was nonsense.
So, where's the awards ceremony? I couldn't find it on the main stream.
This years strongman was a complete joke and I see a lot of the athletes giving up during events. Very low energy and you can tell athletes were very frustrated. This years was a total waist and I hope rouge puts together better competitions for athletes next year. Also judges need to be facing the side during log lifts because hooper didn’t have a full lock out on log
From what I saw, nobody just "gave up."
Mitch won by strategy again. All the other guys went around back of their bags to face the front while lifting them, whereas Mitch just grabbed his while facing backwards and turned around with them, saving him a lot of walking distance.
No and no. Either way you have to turn. It takes the same time but Mitch is holding heavy weight while turning. The only reason it didn’t matter was the weight was ridiculously light. And Mitch lost to Tom btw.
Freeze the video at about the 15:34 mark. Mitch is off the start block and front foot on the grass before the go call. He gave himself a head start. He should have been disqualified or at least docked points for jumping the start.
@@Rebecca-kn5cg they retimed the entire field because the starting instructions were so poor. Everyone got their actual times based on their start. Tom won. Mitch second.
@@fakename5015
Wait what?
So they make them race against each other but then their Times dont Match up? So the one who finishes first actually wasnt the Fastest?
That sounds so stupid ......
@@markus6746 sort of yes. Everyone’s time was their actual time. But just since you finished first doesn’t mean you had the fastest time. Because you could have started before someone else. But there were two runs anyway. So really someone from run 1 could have beaten someone from run 2 without ever racing against one another. So the head to head notion is a falsehood. The problem is originally they were supposed to have elimination heats to go from 10 to 5 to 2 (to 1.)The 2 would be 1v1 and hence a Duel as the event was named or simply, a race. But the with the weather they changed it all.
Pretty sure I saw Hooper's muscles weaken as soon as he drank that Bud Light.......
Very, very much disappointed in you ROGUE. 😔 You have the best of the best in the sport of strongman's and y'all do this to them?? THE SAHW CLASSIC is what y'all should aspire to be. Sad 👎👎👎
Why was there such a long wait for the times? How hard is it? Should have those times immediately after each person finishes
ARNOLDS/WSM and now ROGUE INVITATIONAL. All 3 major titles in a row. Greatest strongman in history??? Looking likely!!!!!!!!!
So did half of the events get changed on the day?
This event rivaled WSM bus pull this year
Great video!
What a crap comp worst comp in a long time a poor deadlift bar shaking everywhere a poorly designed sled pull and then 2 rope pull events one after another really how stupid and then the log press that was good but a load race of 3 bags to finish what a crap last event.
Tom and luke u the best. Respect. Love the stoltman bros
So Hooper won the whole shitshow by 2 points!
If there had been 6 events as planned Tom would've made up that difference, and/or if theyd kept the Fingals in...handy for Hooper that hes not great at the fingers and Tom is one of the best.
The whole thing stinks. Worst organised strongman show i can ever remember watching.
Then Hooper does 6 reps at best on the log, never sticking his head through
@@JBS7551 yes, Id've taken a few reps off him for sure! Glad they penalised him for jumping the gun at the start of the Duel tho...which wasn't a Duel at all. 3 hours wait for a 22 second event! What a shambles!
@fionadeveney8067 Agreed. The whole show was awful, even the deadlift bar was super wobbly.
Favorite this year was Shaw Classic for sure
@@JBS7551 I did enjoy that, but sound/camera angles etc wasn't the best on the livestream but I'm sure the TV edit will be gold! I was at Giants Live last weekend and their shows are super slick, the atmosphere was electric. Strongest Nation to look forward to now 🙌
@@fionadeveney8067they didn’t penalize him. They scored his actual time.
If Tom stoltman's shoe hadn't torn apart? He would have done better.
Extremely anticlimactic.. scrap this event forever… should have been in wheelbarrow or something to add to it… I know there was supposed to be some finish line sprint but that’s a cross fit bs anyway
So false starts are just allowed now? No need to wait for the bell?
How are heats of 4 / 5 a duel?
What a foolish event for strongman
Never foolish just how the did the timing with them changing the beep to the announcer doing a countdown. Should have stuck the same way or change the countdown. Instead of going on go just stick with the beep.
Probably should have added fingal fingers into bag toss or loaded more number of bags like a medley with bags at a distance. At least let the athletes vote
You must not watch strongman, loading events have always been apart of the sport.
@@PipleZipleNot of this speed and short length dude. This was a joke
@@JBS7551yep. lightweight too.
Good video.
False starts galore on the last event.
No false starts. They adjusted the times because the instructions were so bad no one knew what the start signal was.
3 out of 4 athletes jumped the start in heat 1! Also, this event sucked as it was too short and not a real test of strength.
Usually I really enjoy the Rogue Invitational Strongman but this year there were too many problems for it to be considered a legitimate competition.
"Go" is idiotic. On your marks, get ready, horn is proven and simple.
Read the comments. No one glass started really. The show was just that messed up.
What a dumb event
who took what place in turn?
Read the comments
Mitch Hooper embracing his inner Stone Cold Steve Austin around the 9:40 mark.
This was some bush league crap for sure. You don’t have to be a professional strongman to do this stupid event. Lightweight competition ended with a lightweight event. Awful.
Plus it’s empty - there are no fans. Whew.
Bull pull wasn't light weight at all. Even looked too hard
@@e.c.9468 bro it’s a play on words. “Light weight competition” as in it wasn’t close to professional.
Where is the final score?
Tom ran to the wrong bag after the first. There he lost 2 sec. He could have done it
..very quick competition..it looks like stoltman could have won but he stumbled a split second on the last event in-between the first n second bag .
real disapointment this year. rules changin in the last minutes. poor judging on the log. get better next year or give it to ego hooper already
Just because he is confident all the time you call him ego Hooper? He is a great athlete and also very smart guy. Not a big ego in my opinion
the dude is ultra cocky and needs to learn how to be humble for sure!@@marijnroelofs7663
@@marijnroelofs7663he does have a big ego. He blocked me on Instagram because I said his shoes were cringe
He’s budlights new poster boy🤣
Hahaha good one😊
This event feels like something scrambled in a hurry to get over with the SM part of the Invitational, lots of things gone wrong, it is not fair for the competitors also to cancel one event without offsetting it with another,
congrats to Mitch, but who else agrees SM challenges scoring results must change, giving more weight to event winners?? it is not first time we see someone never won an event or won only one gets the whole thing in the end, winning an event must count big so we see more fierce competition and some hope for the ones lagging behind instead of just signing out of duty last 2 events
BS!!! Mitch was already at the first bag at the start sound. BS!!!
You need to read the comments. Tom won.
Where are the final standings and times for this event ? What a disgrace man...
Read the comments. Tom won. hoper second.
Final Event: Atlas Sandbags in a Basket
Hey Rogue while your at it why not bring fridge carry back next year...
Log was the only entertaining event to watch. Glad I didn't pay anything.
Omg so true. I was going to go watch live and something came up last minute and thank god I didn’t go.
Dang Tom could’ve had that run but he went to the wrong bag after the first one
Deadlift event - Good
The bull - Good
Pulling the cart - Good
Log press - Meh, going for max rep instead of max weight doesn't do it for me
This one - Anticlimactic, off putting
they cut out Hooper's victory bud light chug. Guess it didn't fit Rogue's brand!
edit: 9:30
Didn't we just see it?
its on the full stream but cut out of this video as far as i can tell@@johnsterizer
@@LamelKendrick I saw in this edit, I remember being unimpressed with his beer choice! (#beersnob)
timestamp?@@johnsterizer
he was doing it for the meme, i believe@@johnsterizer
Hooper started before "Go" and the beep was about a second after the "Go". The polish guy also went before "Go" and after Hooper. What a joke of an event
Check the comments. And come on man, don’t call him “the Polish guy”. Lol
BotchaMania right here
This sandbag loading event didn't feel right, even when they went head to head. I liked the other events tho, specially Deadlift, Log and Rogue-a-Coaster.
When did they go head to head? They didn’t. That’s what made no sense since it was called “The Duel”.
@@fakename5015 "Head to head" like they did with 5 and 4 men at a time, tho as you say, not really one on one 😅
@@Devou1s ah. Because originally I think they planned to run the field three times, with the last a 1-2 matchup but didn’t since it was wet and they were short on time.
Anyone knows what was the prize reward for each of top 3 strongman ?
I know it’s $145k for the winner and $315k total payout.
Rogue website includes prize purse and cash value for each place.
I liked Mitchell Hooper until I saw him drink that Bud Light. Now I question everything about him
Gotta say, I dont like the use of the term "edging out", I think they may unaware of the connotations
What connotations?
Blink and you miss it. Its Strongman, not fastman.
Rogue-a-coaster = good. Tower of Power = good (although the front safety rail blocks half the view!). Everything else was a bust unfortunately. Fail, learn, come back again better next year.
Worst strongman event that I’ve ever seen.
Bud light any time is gross, but in 2023, can't respect a man that would make such a show of drinking that swill
Nice scam. 5 events instead 6.
Gotta be the worst strongman event I’ve ever seen. Congrats rogue on a terrible show all round 👍
The whole strongman show was a dud this year super disappointing after the last 2 years
Its kinda funny watching these average or slightly above average sized people reset the event for the next set of guys an gals.
Got these massive dudes making it look easy...
Meanwhile it took 9 stocky dudes to reset the bull..
Terrible event.
Oh no, Hooper chugged a Bud Light after. Guess i cant support him anymore… :/
I can totally see rogue ditching this entire contest. They’ll take a lot of criticism for the shambles it was and might think it’s not worth it. It’s just a filler contest at what is essential,y an expo anyway.
And for the CrossFit haters who hate it getting any attention, CrossFit gets three times the views of strongman here. Maybe we should be grateful to be a part of their show and audience rather than hating on them just because we’re not into CrossFit. Let’s all grow up a bit.
Nothing strongman about this show.
Yeah basically all speed/endurance
Bad show with awful execution but deadlift for reps, pulls etc are very strongman. The last event was not strongman.
Awesome🔥
No 👎🏻
very disappointing as a final event, tbph.
Really weird event
Pretty mid contest this year honestly.