The tenth season of American Ninja Warrior premiered on May 30, 2018 on NBC. Hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila returned for their ninth and sixth seasons, respectively, alongside sideline reporter Kristine Leahy who returns for her fourth. Prior to the season premiere, NBC aired two special episodes. On May 17, 2018, a two-hour All-Stars special aired, while on May 24, 2018, the second annual Celebrity Ninja Warrior for Red Nose Day featured celebrities raising money for charity.

Changes this season included the introduction of the 18-foot (5.5 m) "Mega Wall". It was next to the original 14'6" (4.4 m) warped wall, and gave competitors the choice of which to climb. Competitors who chose the Mega Wall had only one attempt to reach the top, and if successful, would win $10,000. If unsuccessful, the competitor would only get one shot at the warped wall. Those who did not wish to attempt the Mega Wall had three chances to reach the top of the warped wall. The Mega Wall was only in play during the city qualifying. In addition, the age limit was lowered down from 21 in all previous seasons to 19 this season. The "Last Ninja Standing", the competitor who goes the farthest in the finals, if no one completes Stage 4, would now receive $100,000.

Season 7 champion Isaac Caldiero participated and finished the Indianapolis qualifiers, marking his return to competition in the series. He would later fall in the city finals, marking the end of his season as he fell at Block Run.

Competition schedule

Qualifying airing Finals airing City Episode taping Venue June 6, 2018 July 16, 2018 Los Angeles, California March 6–7, 2018 Universal Studios Hollywood May 30, 2018 July 23, 2018 Dallas, Texas March 25–26, 2018 Fair Park June 13, 2018 July 30, 2018 Miami, Florida April 13–14, 2018 Bayfront Park June 18, 2018 August 6, 2018 Indianapolis, Indiana April 29–30, 2018 Monument Circle June 25, 2018 August 13, 2018 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 11–12, 2018 Richmond Power Plant July 9, 2018 August 20, 2018 Minneapolis, Minnesota May 25–26, 2018 U.S. Bank Stadium

Obstacles City Qualifying & Finals   Indicates obstacles created by fans for the "American Ninja Warrior Obstacle Design Challenge". Event Obstacles Finishers Los Angeles Qualifying Floating Steps Jumper Cables Spinning Bridge Sky Hooks Doorknob Drop Warped Wall/Mega Wall N/A 10 Finals Archer Steps Flying Shelf Grab Warped Wall Salmon Ladder Giant Cubes Baton Pass Spider Trap 9 Dallas Qualifying Floating Steps Catch & Release Bouncing Spider Tuning Forks Crank It Up Warped Wall/Mega Wall N/A 13 Finals Archer Steps Broken Bridge Warped Wall Salmon Ladder Nail Clipper Fallout Spider Trap 5 Miami Qualifying Floating Steps Fly Wheels Razor's Edge Ring Turn Slippery Summit Warped Wall/Mega Wall N/A 11 Finals Archer Steps Cannonball Drop Warped Wall Salmon Ladder Crazy Clocks Stair Hopper Spider Trap 3 Indianapolis Qualifying Floating Steps Wheel Flip Block Run Spin Hopper Warped Wall/Mega Wall N/A 10 Finals Archer Steps Fly Wheels Warped Wall Salmon Ladder The Clacker Cane Lane Spider Trap 3 Philadelphia Qualifying Floating Steps Spinning Bowties Broken Bridge Wingnuts Lightning Bolts Warped Wall/Mega Wall N/A 12 Finals Archer Steps Warped Wall Salmon Ladder Captain's Wheel Spinball Wizard Spider Trap 3 Minneapolis Qualifying Floating Steps Double Twister Ring Jump Diamond Dash Battering Ram Warped Wall/Mega Wall N/A 14 Finals Archer Steps Sky Hooks Warped Wall Salmon Ladder The Hinge Iron Maiden Spider Trap 5

National Finals Event Obstacle(s) Finishers Stage 1 Archer Alley Propeller Bar Double Dipper Jumping Spider Jeep Run Warped Wall Razor Beams Twist & Fly 30 Stage 2 Epic Catch & Release Criss Cross Salmon Ladder Deja Vu Swing Surfer Wingnut Alley Water Walls N/A 2 Stage 3 Floating Boards En Garde Crazy Clocks Ultimate Cliffhanger Curved Body Prop Peg Cloud Cane Lane Flying Bar 0 Stage 4 Rope Climb N/A

City courses

Bold denotes the finishers who completed the Mega Wall and received a $10,000 bonus. Italics denote the Top 5 women who also finished in the overall Top 30.

Los Angeles

Qualifying

A "Jurassic World Night"-themed course was present during the episode. It featured Jurassic World-like decorations and dinosaurs. This was to promote the upcoming action-thriller movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Actors Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard both made special appearances. The course featured two new obstacles, the Jumper Cables and Doorknob Drop.

Bold denotes the finishers who completed the Mega Wall and received a $10,000 bonus. Italics denote the Top 5 women who also finished in the overall Top 30.

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Brian Rambo 2:26.54 Finished 2 Nicholas Coolridge 3:07.73 Finished 3 Thomas Kofron 3:10.56 Finished 4 Josh Levin 3:11.40 Finished 5 Adam Rayl 3:12.46 Finished (Mega Wall) 6 Spencer Clapp 3:47.86 Finished 7 Sean Bryan 3:56.84 Finished 8 David Campbell 4:49.98 Finished 9 Nick Hanson 5:07.97 Finished (Mega Wall) 10 Brian Kretsch 6:07.67 Finished 11 Kevin Bull 0:45.65 Doorknob Drop 12 Jesse Orenshein 1:05.63 Doorknob Drop 13 Flip Rodriguez 1:08.92 Doorknob Drop 14 Scott Willson 1:14.77 Doorknob Drop 15 Jeremy Rivette 1:16.57 Doorknob Drop 16 Davyon Hancox 1:16.88 Doorknob Drop 17 Derek Miyamoto 1:22.44 Doorknob Drop 18 Anthony Trucks 1:28.34 Doorknob Drop 19 Tiana Webberley 1:30.81 Doorknob Drop 20 Tylor Schlorf 1:35.61 Doorknob Drop 21 Joe Mardovich 1:35.94 Doorknob Drop 22 Brock Taylor 1:36.57 Doorknob Drop 23 Grant McCartney 1:38.89 Doorknob Drop 24 Austin Seibert 1:39.00 Doorknob Drop 25 Ruben Arellano 1:40.92 Doorknob Drop 26 Gabe Hurtado 1:41.88 Doorknob Drop 27 Verdale Benson 1:43.27 Doorknob Drop 28 Eric Nelson 1:43.28 Doorknob Drop 29 Westley Silverstri 1:47.28 Doorknob Drop 30 Brian Neal 1:52.82 Doorknob Drop

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Tiana Webberley 1:30.81 Doorknob Drop 2 Zhanique Lovett 2:04.76 Doorknob Drop 3 Selena Laniel 2:38.74 Doorknob Drop 4 Anna Shumaker 3:08.26 Doorknob Drop 5 Samantha Bush 1:27.62 Sky Hooks

Finals

The Los Angeles Finals were the first finals to air this season and introduced some new changes to the Finals competition. Unlike past seasons, two of the original 6 obstacles were replaced for the finals, in this case, the Archer Steps (a new obstacle) replaced the Floating Steps, and the Flying Shelf Grab replaced the Sky Hooks. This course consisted of two new obstacles on the back half: the Baton Pass and the new finals closer, the Spider Trap.

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Sean Bryan 6:09.99 Finished 2 Nicholas Coolridge 6:10.92 Finished 3 Josh Levin 6:21.84 Finished 4 Kevin Bull 6:31.31 Finished 5 Brian Rambo 6:33.63 Finished 6 Adam Rayl 6:37.39 Finished 7 Flip Rodriguez 6:38.17 Finished 8 David Campbell 7:01.27 Finished 9 Derek Miyamoto 8:10.39 Finished 10 Spencer Clapp 6:27.21 Spider Trap 11 Thomas Kofron 4:58.34 Baton Pass 12 Nick Hanson 5:28.83 Baton Pass 13 Eric Nelson 5:43.21 Baton Pass 14 Davyon Hancox 5:56.56 Baton Pass 15 Brian Kretsch 6:01.69 Baton Pass

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Tiana Webberley 6:58.53 Baton Pass 2 Anna Shumaker 5:36.86 Giant Cubes

Dallas

Qualifying

The Dallas Qualifying featured two new obstacles, the Catch & Release and the Tuning Forks. The Mega Wall was also introduced.

Bold denotes the finishers who completed the Mega Wall and received a $10,000 bonus. Italics denote the Top 5 women who also finished in the overall Top 30.

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Daniel Gil 1:40.79 Finished (Mega Wall) 2 Matthew Day 2:09.62 Finished 3 Josh Salinas 2:21.30 Finished 4 Mathis "Kid" Owhadi 2:36.58 Finished 5 Thomas Stillings 2:38.88 Finished 6 Jeremiah Morgan 2:41.27 Finished 7 Andrew Swinghamer 3:27.14 Finished 8 Abel Gonzalez 3:52.26 Finished 9 Tyler Humphrey 4:12.67 Finished 10 Kevin Jordan 4:29.18 Finished 11 Tremayne Dortch 4:38.73 Finished 12 Mike Murray 4:45.67 Finished 13 Jon Stewart 5:43.61 Finished 14 Venn Johns 3:48.00 Warped Wall 15 Andrew Lowes 1:20.86 Crank It Up 16 Nate Burkhalter 1:27.47 Crank It Up 17 Steven Tucker 1:46.56 Crank It Up 18 Chris Cambre 1:48.26 Crank It Up 19 Josh Norton 1:48.98 Crank It Up 20 Adam Ster 2:07.13 Crank It Up 21 Dylan Lancaster 2:30.18 Crank It Up 22 Victor Gonzalez 2:33.18 Crank It Up 23 Louis Moore 2:52.04 Crank It Up 24 Erik Brown 3:06.43 Crank It Up 25 Karen Wiltin 3:48.91 Crank It Up 26 Quest O'Neal 3:57.48 Crank It Up 27 Karsten Williams 0:42.40 Tuning Forks 28 Brent Steffensen 0:49.52 Tuning Forks 29 Brian Burkhardt 0:52.20 Tuning Forks 30 Elliott Jolivette 0:56.60 Tuning Forks

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Karen Wiltin 3:48.91 Crank It Up 2 Quest O'Neal 3:57.48 Crank It Up 3 Barclay Stockett 1:30.32 Tuning Forks 4 Brittany Hanks 2:05.65 Tuning Forks 5 Kat Ratcliff 0:48.73 Bouncing Spider

Finals

The Dallas Finals replaced the first and fourth obstacles with the Archer Steps and the Broken Bridge respectively. The back half of the ANW course featured the new themed obstacle called Fallout which is inspired by action stunts from the film, Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Daniel Gil 3:54.73 Finished 2 Matthew Day 4:37.10 Finished 3 Josh Salinas 4:38.49 Finished 4 Jeremiah Morgan 5:16.53 Finished 5 Mathis "Kid" Owhadi 5:37.17 Finished 6 Thomas Stillings 3:06.96 Fallout 7 Abel Gonzalez 3:31:85 Fallout 8 Brian Burkhardt 1:40.86 Nail Clipper 9 Elliott Jolivette 2:24.68 Nail Clipper 10 Karsten Williams 2:27.76 Nail Clipper 11 Andrew Swinghamer 2:33.66 Nail Clipper 12 Mike Murray 2:48.77 Nail Clipper 13 Brent Steffensen 2:50.72 Nail Clipper 14 Josh Norton 4:03.23 Nail Clipper 15 Kevin Jordan 4:10.84 Nail Clipper

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Barclay Stockett 4:25.20 Nail Clipper 2 Brittany Hanks 1:55.96 Broken Bridge

Miami

Qualifying

In attendance were University of Miami cheerleaders and the university mascot Sebastian the Ibis, along with 3-time NFL All-Pro Jevon Kearse, and "Ninjatron", a 10-foot homemade ninja robot costume made by competitor Jesse Johnson. The Miami Qualifying featured two new obstacles, the Ring Turn and Slippery Summit.

Bold denotes the finishers who completed the Mega Wall and received a $10,000 bonus. Italics denote the Top 5 women who also finished in the overall Top 30.

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Drew Drechsel 2:24.74 Finished 2 Kenny Niemitalo 3:36.33 Finished 3 Calle Alexander 3:56.18 Finished 4 Brett Sims 4:07.95 Finished 5 Neil Craver 4:10.87 Finished 6 Ryan Stratis 4:20.44 Finished (Mega Wall) 7 Eddy Stewart 4:25.41 Finished 8 Nick Patel 4:33.39 Finished 9 Bootie Cothran 4:53.73 Finished 10 Jessie Graff 4:57.43 Finished 11 Morgan Wright 5:04.81 Finished 12 Kevin Carbone 1:37.90 Slippery Summit 13 Todd Bourgeois 1:51.22 Slippery Summit 14 R.J. Roman 1:51.38 Slippery Summit 15 Eli Bell 1:53.42 Slippery Summit 16 Drew Hendry 1:59.93 Slippery Summit 17 Doug Legg 2:06.31 Slippery Summit 18 Casey Suchocki 2:08.76 Slippery Summit 19 Jason Bergstrom 2:19.57 Slippery Summit 20 Greg Manders 2:32.16 Slippery Summit 21 Ethan Surprenant 2:33.21 Slippery Summit 22 Jordan Brown 2:33.28 Slippery Summit 23 Nico Long 2:41.80 Slippery Summit 24 Rachael Goldstein 2:47.80 Slippery Summit 25 Oscar Ramirez 2:48.02 Slippery Summit 26 Lindsay Eskildsen 2:54.12 Slippery Summit 27 Reko Rivera 3:01.65 Slippery Summit 28 Devin Harrelson 3:02.57 Slippery Summit 29 Scott Reuter 3:07.91 Slippery Summit 30 Michael Johnson 3:15.36 Slippery Summit

+ Rank Competitor Time Furthest Obstacle 1 Jessie Graff 4:57.43 Finished 2 Rachael Goldstein 2:47.80 Slippery Summit 3 Lindsay Eskildsen 2:54.12 Slippery Summit 4 Jessica Clayton 3:19.74 Slippery Summit 5 Emily Durham 1:14.60 Ring Turn

Finals