Pole Maze

New obstacle. Competitors use a pole to swing across the water from one platform to another. While swinging across, the top of the pole must be maneuvered from left to right through a maze.

The Pole Maze is similar to a less challenging obstacle that appeared in Stage 3 in a couple of early seasons.  In that version, they had to pole vault over the water, but there was no maze to move the pole through.

It took us awhile to understand what was going on with the top of the pole & why the competitors were getting hung up in the middle. We didn't figure it out until they showed an overhead shot of the obstacle.