Yeah definitely. I’m sure they explained the scenario/challenge before
I don’t think they did lmao. The website has 0 information around that and even the VOD somebody else posted here has no info on it in the first 10 minutes, at which the announcer says “I will of course repeat what is necessary to do in the course over the different attempts” or some such. Maybe they reveal the scenario at hour 7.
I don’t think any of it makes sense as a “real world” challenge unless you approach this with SWAT team member cop brain. I’m not gonna claim a police sniper rushing up 4 flights of stairs to hit an impressive shot right after, out of breath, isn’t tense or exciting or whatever, but it is SWAT Team Member Daydream. For an actual police force, at the point where that is necessary to happen you fucked up. Either on the strategical level for the situation or like layers and layers above on a like “this is a government entity with a mission statement”-level.
This challenge and the entire competition tells you nothing about policework other than how the competing teams would fare if they were thrown into action movie situations. It’s impressive displays of skill and athleticism - I mean I don’t think I run half that fast as the chinese dummy cops without sharing a bodyweight dummy with somebody - but at it’s core it’s police porn, not police work.
Absolutely on account of the NYPD is like the 8th biggest military in the world and the best they can send for the SWAT team challenge they voluntarily signed up for to compete in is a team of bozos that gets bodied by half the worlds, going by US premises here, failed state impoverished shitholes teams.
I don’t think this is really a consideration for SWAT teams in kinetic operations but like mission planning and shit is. Just recreate the original Rainbow 6 Videogame IRL and you’d get a lot closer to that
I don’t think they did lmao. The website has 0 information around that and even the VOD somebody else posted here has no info on it in the first 10 minutes, at which the announcer says “I will of course repeat what is necessary to do in the course over the different attempts” or some such. Maybe they reveal the scenario at hour 7.
I don’t think any of it makes sense as a “real world” challenge unless you approach this with SWAT team member cop brain. I’m not gonna claim a police sniper rushing up 4 flights of stairs to hit an impressive shot right after, out of breath, isn’t tense or exciting or whatever, but it is SWAT Team Member Daydream. For an actual police force, at the point where that is necessary to happen you fucked up. Either on the strategical level for the situation or like layers and layers above on a like “this is a government entity with a mission statement”-level.
This challenge and the entire competition tells you nothing about policework other than how the competing teams would fare if they were thrown into action movie situations. It’s impressive displays of skill and athleticism - I mean I don’t think I run half that fast as the chinese dummy cops without sharing a bodyweight dummy with somebody - but at it’s core it’s police porn, not police work.
the burger cop sniper taking so long and fumbling the magazine was very funny though
Absolutely on account of the NYPD is like the 8th biggest military in the world and the best they can send for the SWAT team challenge they voluntarily signed up for to compete in is a team of bozos that gets bodied by half the worlds, going by US premises here, failed state impoverished shitholes teams.
Agreed, there should be investigation and paperwork sections of the test
10 hours of guys in deerstalker caps, smoking pipes and looking at things thru a magnifying glass
I don’t think this is really a consideration for SWAT teams in kinetic operations but like mission planning and shit is. Just recreate the original Rainbow 6 Videogame IRL and you’d get a lot closer to that