'Survival Mode': How JD Struxness Is Making His Way Through The American

The timed events become a marathon at RFD-TV's The American when contestants can have multiple qualifications that they have to try push through the slack rounds, buybacks, the semifinals long round and shootout, all before they get the opportunity to set foot in AT&T Stadium. JD Struxness called it "survival mode" and after making it through the shootout round with a time of 4.09, we'd say he's surviving just fine.

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