[Jeff Higgins]

As a life-long avid match competitor, I'm here to tell you - real shooting competitions are boring as hell as a spectator sport, and therefor, as a television sport. They obviously felt they had to spice it up a bit to have any prayer of their audience even making it to the first commercial. That, and a real "shooting" audience just wouldn't provide the viewing numbers. Thefolks tuning into this are watching the various Survivor spin-offs, Pinks, the various car and bike building shows, and others with manufactured drama. It's a formula. Just swap shooting for any one of those other activities.