Three Ninja Warrior Events in One plus All Sorts of Fun

Come experience the sport that American Ninja Warrior inspired.  Ninja Sport continues to grow.  This Labor Day weekend, Rock Solid Warrior will be running a unique combination of events highlighting many variations of the sport!

All entry fees will go towards Prize Money and will be matched by sponsors with donations to The Wounded Warrior Project.

We will be limiting this event to 150 athletes!

Rock Solid will be using both of its southern Wake County locations to put on the following:

1. Multi-course, Multi-stage Ninja Warrior Competition (Saturday)
2. Long-course Tag Team Competition (Sunday afternoon )
3. All-Star Skills Competition (Sunday evening)

All events will be live-streamed on either the Ninja Sport Network or Facebook.

These are pro level courses built for adult-sized ninjas (13+), but accomplished younger (e.g. 10-12) and older ninjas are welcome to try it out. (Age groups based on age as of September 1, 2023).

Multi-course, Multi-stage Ninja Warrior Competition (Saturday)

There will be 2 waves of the qualifying round held at our South Apex location.  Each athlete will be guaranteed:

• Speed course – Two runs on a side by side speed course using NSC rules (retry what you miss)… best score/time will be used to determine your rank on the speed course.
• Technical course… one run using NCL rules (progress points earned as you progress through each obstacle… one try on each obstacle).

Top 20% of combined rankings for each gender (plus top 12&under and top 40+ if they aren’t already in the top 20%) will advance to the Final round.
We reserve the right to change these percentages or defaults

The Final round will be held at our Fuquay location and use the Ninja Sport Championship (NSC) ranked scoring system to determine the male and female champions in each category.

However each qualified runner will attempt 3 courses run sequentially (30 second break in between):

• A short speed course (< 1 minute), whose final landing platform is the starting platform of…
• A short technical course (< 2.5 minutes), whose final landing platform is the starting platform of…
• A short burn out course (< 3 minutes)

These will be “blind” courses… athletes will get to see the courses demoed and rules discussed, but will then be sequestered until it is time for them to run.

Long-course Tag Team Competition (Sunday afternoon )

On Sunday afternoon, teams of 3-4 will run a long tag team course which combines many of the obstacles from the finals round plus a few more.  Team will be generated on Sunday with an NFL-style draft with captains chosen from those who did NOT make it to the final round.  Each team will have to figure out their strategy to tackle the obstacles with each team member taking on the same number of obstacles in whatever order they choose.  Top 5 teams will run the same course twice, but no athlete can tackle the same obstacle twice.  Total points plus time of both rounds will determine the podium.

All-Star Skills Competition (Sunday Evening)

We can’t wait for our 5th annual Labor Day All-Star Skills competition!  There will be five individual skills and each athlete can choose any two:

• Armed and Dangerous (grip strength and endurance as ninjas tackle a challenging upper body course)
• Speed and Agility (getting across a series of lower body obstacles as fast as possible without falling)
• Extreme Salmon Ladder (the salmon ladder with some extra challenges)
• Warped Wall Challenge (we’ve got lots of warped walls, and ways of making them more challenging)
• Crazy Laches (There’s lots of stuff we can put on our flexible rigs for you to swing on… and we will)

Prizes

Rock Solid Warrior has agreed to put all entry fees dollar for dollar into a prize pool.  (E.g. if entry fees total $10K, there will be $10K in prize money spread across genders in proportion to the number of contestants in each).  Prize pool or donations to the Wounded Warrior Project could go up even higher with additional sponsors.

For more information about sponsoring this event, along with Ninja Master, please contact Ken Auer <ken.auer@rocksolidwarrior.com>.

Places to stay & Places to Eat

To use the “Corporate Special Rate” for Rock Solid Warrior for Holiday Inn Express and Candlewood Suites in Apex, NC (which might be slightly better than other rates you may find) go to http://www.ihg.com and choose “Corporate Special Rate” in the “Rate Preference” field and type in the code: 787081760.

We are still trying to confirm discounts at the other recommended hotels, but have not been successful to date.

Less than 2.5 miles north of our South Apex location in Apex off of Marco Dr.

• Springhill Suites
• Candlewood Suites
• Holiday Inn Express

4-5 miles to the south in Holly Springs:

• Hampton Inn & Suites
• Holiday Inn Express – Holly Springs (opening in 2023… no official date yet)

If you want to RV or camp out, we can arrange that, too.  But we’d prefer you’d let us know ahead of time so we can plan accordingly.

Here’s a list of places to eat

Prices (before convenience fees)

Sign up now to reserve your spot. All participants and spectators must sign our waiver.

All participant and spectator pricing includes access to all appropriate non-competition activities like open gyms.

NOTE: Run Order for the Qualifying Round will be determined by when you sign up… 1st to sign up will run last in your wave

Before June 20, 2023: Early Bird Pricing… SIGN UP NOW

• $80 Multi-Course, Multi-Stage Competition,
• $110 to include Long-course Tag Team Competition,
• $130 to include all 3 competitions
• Spectators:
  • $5 (1-day pass)
  • $10 (full-event pass)
  • $20 (family full-event pass)

Between June 21 and August 15, 2023

• $90 Multi-Course, Multi-Stage Competition,
• $120 to include Long-course Tag Team Competition,
• $145 to include all 3 competitions
• Spectators:
  • $10 (1-day pass)
  • $20 (full-event pass)
  • $30 (family full-event pass)

After August 15, 2023

• $100 Multi-Course, Multi-Stage Competition,
• $140 to include Long-course Tag Team Competition,
• $175 to include all 3 competitions
• Spectators:
  • $15 (1-day pass)
  • $25 (full-event pass)
  • $40 (family full-event pass)

Schedule of Events

Note, some adjustments are still being made as we work with potential partners.

Friday, September 1

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Indoor Pickle Ball & Basketball at Hope Community Church (free)

South Apex Location – Open Gym
Noon – 1:00 PM – Open Gym for all competitors/spectators (included in participation and spectator price)

Fuquay Location – Open Gym
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Open Gym for all competitors/spectators (included in participation and spectator price)

Saturday, September 2

South Apex Location – Qualifying Round
9:00 AM – Checkin begins
9:30 AM – SpeedFirst wave Speed Course rules
9:45 AM – TechFirst wave Technical Course rules
10:00 AM – SpeedFirst wave Speed Course (run twice) – redemption time until 12:30 PM and after 4:00 PM
10:15 AM – TechFirst wave Technical Course – redemption time until 12:30 PM and after 4:00 PM
1:00 PM – SpeedFirst wave Technical Course rules
1:15 PM – TechFirst wave Speed Course rules
1:30 PM – SpeedFirst wave Technical Course – redemption time until 4:00 PM
1:45 PM – TechFirst wave Speed Course – redemption time until 4:00 PM
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Open Gym for all participants
5:30 PM – Closed for Skills Competition preparation

Fuquay Location – Final Round
closed until 5:15 PM – Closed for Final Round preparation
5:15 PM – Checkin begins for Final Round
5:45 PM – Course rules
6:30 PM – Final Round begins

10:00 PM – Closed for Team Competition preparation

Sunday, September 3

Fuquay Location – Ninja Church & Long Course Team Competition
10:00 AM – Open – Pre-Ninja Church
10:30 AM – Ninja Church (worship and guest speaker place and speaker TBD)
Noon – Break for Lunch
12:30 PM – Checkin for Team Competition
1:00 PM – Team Draft
1:20 PM – Team Competition Rules
1:45 PM – Team Competition – First Round
3:30 PM – Team Competition – Finals
4:00 PM – Optional Open Gym
5:00 PM – Gym closed

South Apex Location – All-Star Skills Competition

Gym closed until 5 PM

5:30 PM – Armed & Dangerous (Head-to-Head Gauntlet)
6:30 PM – Speed & Agility (Best of 2 runs)
7:15 PM – Extreme Salmon Ladder (Best of 2 tries)
8:00 PM – Warped Wall Challenge
9:00 PM – Crazy Laches
10:00 PM – Gym Closed

Monday, September 4

South Apex Location – Open Gym