Posted: 3/27/2006 4:06:53 PM EDT
Just found out this will be held about 50 miles from my house Tues. Wed. and Thur., I think I'll go watch ! OLN TV is going to film this it will be on air in May.
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I think the vast majority of teams are American with only a few foreigners invited. I beleive last year the German GSG9 blew away the competition completely with San Antonio the fairly distant runner up. |
| My question is, who (what department or country for that matter) can afford to have their best guys away for a competition? I am well aware that teams travel outside of their areas for training, but for a competition? Better hope things stay quite at home while they are off "playing." |
Yep, your mom hands them out as we cross the finish line. Eat shit. Fatbody. |
Oh..... I was thinking it would be like each country sends their best Team. |
I think it is a comp. just to get on paper, we all know they cant shoot for shit (unless ,ex Marines)  Oh and it is a 10 yard Doughnut dash, 40 yards they'd pass out For CA's finest it is a Latte dash to the death, along with the bagel bonanza bonzia dash (have to dodge illegals, while running for the bagel display case) |
Last year, yes, but ts the first time in a long while that they broke the top 10. San Antonio won the year before last. Dallas finished 2nd the year SAPD won, and 3rd last year. A member of LAPD SWAT(D Platoon, I think is what its called) told me, "you can pretty much count on a team from Chicago, Dallas, or Los Angeles being in the top 3.". |
I think the challenges are different every year. The challenges usually involve a mix of close-quarters shooting, hostage rescue, sniper shooting, and obstacle course running. The US has a couple SWAT teams from different PDs so it's not really country vs. country but team vs. team. |
| I try to watch it and the US SWAT challenge every year. I think it usually comes on ESPN a few weeks after the competition is held. 2 years ago the team from my hometown came in 2nd place. And they were the actual SWAT team so I dunno who was on call while they were out of town. |
