Item: n/a (3x26)

Language: en-US

Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Extra Details: The user who created the entries for this show entered the titles and descriptions of the season 2 episodes under season 3. I have corrected all of the season 3 episodes to the correct titles and descriptions, but there is a discrepancy because the user created 26 episodes and there are seemingly only 25 episodes in season 3 (with a caveat that I will explain below). I think episode 26 needs to be deleted, subject to your thoughts on the issue below.

In all official channels I can see now, there are only 25 episodes in the season, with 5 "preliminary round" episodes to start the season. The show is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07887RJ1G/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s3

And on YouTube officially from American Gladiators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqz55VL0VNk&list=PLXl0WQhC6N6XdRloWU9PetBKnJUl-fpDq

That is the Season 3 playlist. A timecoded link to Episode 6 confirming that it is the start of the second round (quarter finals) is here: https://youtu.be/qS9XYhdZrPI?list=PLXl0WQhC6N6XdRloWU9PetBKnJUl-fpDq&t=96

TVDB and TVMaze accord with this.

The issue is that there appears to be a missing preliminary round episode. Two contestants from the 2nd Quarterfinal (s03e07 on the official numbers) - Mark Ortega and Sherry Giardina - don't appear in any of the five preliminary round episodes. This suggests there is a missing preliminary round episode. However, whether it ever aired in the first place, or has been subsequently been removed from circulation is unclear to me.

Google's entries for the season list go up to s03e26, but there is no s03e06 in its list, meaning there are only 25 episodes.

IMDB incorrectly has season 2 (26 episodes) split into season 2 (6 episodes) and season 3 (which only lists episodes 7-26 of that season). What IMDB calls season 4 is actually season 3. In season 4, they list an episode 6 that has Ortega and Giardina, but not their opponents' names, which suggests to me that someone did original research and has presumed the episode exists because of Ortega and Giardina's appearances in the next round.

So I'm open to suggestions. I can't confirm whether another prelim episode exists (if it does, I have no idea when it aired. It could be from episodes 1 to 6. Or it may never have aired.

One other thing: I have no idea whether the air dates the previous user put for the season 3 episodes is accurate. Since the episode descriptions are off, the airdates may also be off. But I didn't edit those.

In the meantime, I can confirm that season packs that are out there for s3 include only 25 episodes (with only 5 prelims) in the order I've listed.