a paper barrier was the finish. 2008 Version The 2008 series used the same scoring rules that were in place from 1991 onward on the original series. For the 2008 version, the layout was as follows. Season 1 The course began with contenders climbing an wall. A rope was available for assistance. Once over the wall the contenders jumped into a long pool with a wall of fire on top, which they swam under. They would then climb a cargo net to get to the next obstacle. The Barrel Roll was next; the contenders had to grab and hold onto a cylinder as it rotated downward. The handbike followed with no specific penalty enforced for falling. After the handbike contenders negotiated a downhill balance beam. This placed the contenders at the base of the Pyramid, which they had to scale to reach the zipline. The last obstacle was the Travelator (adopting the treadmill's UK name). The belts were much narrower and contenders had a rope to use for assistance, but the previous series' free pass rule was not in place. After the Travelator, a small set of stairs led to a series of crash blocks that the contenders had to break through to finish, and the first contender to do so won. If the second contender was still on the Travelator when the first contender broke through, the second contender could opt to have the Travelator turned off. Season 2 For season two, these changes were made: The wall was taken out and the swim under the wall of fire, which was now the first obstacle, doubled in length. The Barrel Roll was replaced by a rope swing. The commando lines last seen in season one returned and were referred to as the Tightrope. The major difference was that instead of a straight line walk, the ropes were slanted downward. Two deep ball pits were placed below the handbike, and contenders had to wade through them if they fell. The downhill balance beam was replaced with a spinning cylinder, which was called the "Rolling Pin". After the zipline, the series opted to use another balance beam, called the "Teeter Totter" after its mechanism of action, as an obstacle before the Travelator; this was another nod to the British series (which called the obstacle the "seesaw"), which adopted the mechanism toward the end of its run. After the stairs, the finish