[Neil Jones]

I think so. Though the problem with the Edge wasn’t so much that it was too easy. It was that if the contender got too many free points if the Gladiator fell off.

You effectively get free points in most of the games if the Gladiator makes a hash of things.
If they fall off the wall you get 10 points if you can get yourself over the top. If you knock somebody off the duel podium you get 10 points. If the gladiator falls off Hang Tough rings and you're far enough along you can get 5 or 10 points. If you fart loud and long enough you get 10 points.

If you get a Glad that effectively cheats, what tends to happen is they get shouted at, disqualified and you get the points.

I don't think this is an "easyness" thing in The Edge, its probably designed to encourage maximum points, rather than the silly situation we had before where the Gladiator fell off and the contestant just stood there dancing when they should have been running. If it was a "free points" thing they'd have put no limit on it at all and in theory at time taken of three seconds per crossing you could have got 60 points, but that's ridiculous when you come to the Eliminator because a 30 second head start off that alone? Not even Usain Bolt can make that deficit up.