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Post by jba392 on Oct 8, 2017 20:14:49 GMT -5
If Drew fails the UCCH again in 35 I am calling what happened in 32 a freak fluke lol prove me wrong in 35 Drew!!! Morimoto knows the cliffhanger is his Biatch he even had time to one hand get chalk on his hands and wave to his family while on it THAT IS HOW YOU SHOW AUTHORITY!! Remember that stage 3 had a platform between the flying bar and sidewinder. He blew through those so fast though, I don't think the resting platform would've made much of a difference.
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Post by Mk20SSR on Oct 8, 2017 20:23:31 GMT -5
Jessie's run is phenomenal, I wonder they would invite Alyssa Bierd for SASUKE? Who's Alyssa Bierd? Just a spelling error of Allyssa Beird. Though I really wonder if they would invite her though.
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Post by DonalM on Oct 8, 2017 20:27:34 GMT -5
Remember that stage 3 had a platform between the flying bar and sidewinder. He blew through those so fast though, I don't think the resting platform would've made much of a difference. You'd be surprised how beneficial a 30 second rest can be.
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Post by SuperTiger on Oct 8, 2017 22:36:29 GMT -5
So I just finished watching this. I feel so bad for having more negative to say that positive but like, this tournament just didn't do it for me. Don't get me wrong the course was excellent, and Jessie was a freaking star in this. Her runs give me life. I just wish Inui would edit the show differently. I feel bad being so critical because he does the whole thing by himself, but I just don't understand why he edits the show the way he does. I haven't followed Sasuke very closely in years. I pretty much just watch the show once a year when a tournament airs, but one thing has always been constant since 2013, and that's that great competitors constantly get screwed or fast forwarded. I would have loved to see Shunsuke, arguably one of the show's most consistent competitors tackle the first stage. I feel like he has been fast forwarded every single year now? And lol Jun Sato and Wreathman got the full digest treatment too. Like why!? It makes me so mad. These people work their butts off to get <1 minute of screentime? I understand the ABCZ dude and Darvish bring in ratings but Inui doesn't have to spend 10 minutes of the show on each of those guys. Their fluff pieces and interviews are wayyyyy too long. Obviously when you have a lot of clears you have to cut something out, but maybe they should shorten the first stage so we can see more people? I don't know I just really really don't like how the show was edited, and it appears this trend has remained consistent over a number of years now. This problem is probably exacerbated by the fact Kunoichi 9 and 10's presentation was amazing. When you compare the editing of those tournaments to Sasuke, it makes Sasuke look like chop liver imo.
As an aside, I felt my post towards the black tigers (are they still called this lol) was rather scathing earlier. Just to be clear, my issue isn't with them. I'm sure they work hard and deserve their recognition. My problem was with Inui spending five minutes showing Yamada crying. Like I don't think viewers need to see that. Show us some people running the course instead. I didn't watch 33, so I'm not sure if the editing was like this in that tournament, but I do remember 32 having a lot of the same issues and being super turned off by it then as well.
I forgot to mention this, but I love that they had Saori Yoshida show up for stage 3 commentary. Kunoichi 4 represent! <3
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Post by Badalight on Oct 8, 2017 22:41:54 GMT -5
So I just finished watching this. I feel so bad for having more negative to say that positive but like, this tournament just didn't do it for me. Don't get me wrong the course was excellent, and Jessie was a freaking star in this. Her runs give me life. I just wish Inui would edit the show differently. I feel bad being so critical because he does the whole thing by himself, but I just don't understand why he edits the show the way he does. I haven't followed Sasuke very closely in years. I pretty much just watch the show once a year when a tournament airs, but one thing has always been constant since 2013, and that's that great competitors constantly get screwed or fast forwarded. I would have loved to see Shunsuke, arguably one of the show's most consistent competitors tackle the first stage. I feel like he has been fast forwarded every single year now? And lol Jun Sato and Wreathman got the full digest treatment too. Like why!? It makes me so mad. These people work their butts off to get <1 minute of screentime? I understand the ABCZ dude and Darvish bring in ratings but Inui doesn't have to spend 10 minutes of the show on each of those guys. Their fluff pieces and interviews are wayyyyy too long. Obviously when you have a lot of clears you have to cut something out, but maybe they should shorten the first stage so we can see more people? I don't know I just really really don't like how the show was edited, and it appears this trend has remained consistent over a number of years now. This problem is probably exacerbated by the fact Kunoichi 9 and 10's presentation was amazing. When you compare the editing of those tournaments to Sasuke, it makes Sasuke look like chop liver imo. As an aside, I felt my post towards the black tigers (are they still called this lol) was rather scathing earlier. Just to be clear, my issue isn't with them. I'm sure they work hard and deserve their recognition. My problem was with Inui spending five minutes showing Yamada crying. Like I don't think viewers need to see that. Show us some people running the course instead. I didn't watch 33, so I'm not sure if the editing was like this in that tournament, but I do remember 32 having a lot of the same issues and being super turned off by it then as well. I forgot to mention this, but I love that they had Saori Yoshida show up for stage 3 commentary. Kunoichi 4 represent! <3 Inui hates Shunsuke's management. Everyone dislikes Jun. Anastase competed on Kuro Ovi. Those are prob the reasons for their FFs. Along with the fact that they don't have time to show everyone, some cuts have to be made, so makes sense to cut people that fail in the same spot as everyone else (cliff-hanger). Those two didn't make particularly good attempts on it either. Not saying I agree with the decision though.
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Post by SuperTiger on Oct 8, 2017 22:49:07 GMT -5
So I just finished watching this. I feel so bad for having more negative to say that positive but like, this tournament just didn't do it for me. Don't get me wrong the course was excellent, and Jessie was a freaking star in this. Her runs give me life. I just wish Inui would edit the show differently. I feel bad being so critical because he does the whole thing by himself, but I just don't understand why he edits the show the way he does. I haven't followed Sasuke very closely in years. I pretty much just watch the show once a year when a tournament airs, but one thing has always been constant since 2013, and that's that great competitors constantly get screwed or fast forwarded. I would have loved to see Shunsuke, arguably one of the show's most consistent competitors tackle the first stage. I feel like he has been fast forwarded every single year now? And lol Jun Sato and Wreathman got the full digest treatment too. Like why!? It makes me so mad. These people work their butts off to get <1 minute of screentime? I understand the ABCZ dude and Darvish bring in ratings but Inui doesn't have to spend 10 minutes of the show on each of those guys. Their fluff pieces and interviews are wayyyyy too long. Obviously when you have a lot of clears you have to cut something out, but maybe they should shorten the first stage so we can see more people? I don't know I just really really don't like how the show was edited, and it appears this trend has remained consistent over a number of years now. This problem is probably exacerbated by the fact Kunoichi 9 and 10's presentation was amazing. When you compare the editing of those tournaments to Sasuke, it makes Sasuke look like chop liver imo. As an aside, I felt my post towards the black tigers (are they still called this lol) was rather scathing earlier. Just to be clear, my issue isn't with them. I'm sure they work hard and deserve their recognition. My problem was with Inui spending five minutes showing Yamada crying. Like I don't think viewers need to see that. Show us some people running the course instead. I didn't watch 33, so I'm not sure if the editing was like this in that tournament, but I do remember 32 having a lot of the same issues and being super turned off by it then as well. I forgot to mention this, but I love that they had Saori Yoshida show up for stage 3 commentary. Kunoichi 4 represent! <3 Inui hates Shunsuke's management. Everyone dislikes Jun. Anastase competed on Kuro Ovi. Those are prob the reasons for their FFs. Along with the fact that they don't have time to show everyone, some cuts have to be made, so makes sense to cut people that fail in the same spot as everyone else (cliff-hanger). Those two didn't make particularly good attempts on it either. Not saying I agree with the decision though. Inui hates Katsumi Yamada too though? (Idr if Inui banned him that one year or if that was a production thing.) So why am I seeing Yamada? I know he has protègès, but if Inui really hates him I feel like he'd find a way to cut him out? My guess is that Yamada = ratings. That still doesn't make it fair for any of the players who got completely digested. Inui shouldn't let his personal bias shouldn't enter into the equation imo.
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Post by Badalight on Oct 8, 2017 22:59:51 GMT -5
Inui hates Shunsuke's management. Everyone dislikes Jun. Anastase competed on Kuro Ovi. Those are prob the reasons for their FFs. Along with the fact that they don't have time to show everyone, some cuts have to be made, so makes sense to cut people that fail in the same spot as everyone else (cliff-hanger). Those two didn't make particularly good attempts on it either. Not saying I agree with the decision though. Inui hates Katsumi Yamada too though? (Idr if Inui banned him that one year or if that was a production thing.) So why am I seeing Yamada? I know he has protègès, but if Inui really hates him I feel like he'd find a way to cut him out? My guess is that Yamada = ratings. That still doesn't make it fair for any of the players who got completely digested. Inui shouldn't let his personal bias shouldn't enter into the equation imo. I don't know for sure, but to me it feels like the editing is always making fun of Yamada. That's why they linger on him crying for so long. Another instance. They showed one of the tigers doing the fishbone. You can hear Yamada shouting advice. Then the tiger proceeds to fail. The next clip Inui shows is Ryo giving Yamada advice on how to do the fishbone - because the advice he gave to his protege was wrong. Then the next tiger you see attempt the fishbone and you can hear Yamada giving advice again. That guy passes. It was totally taking the piss out of Yamada.
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Post by arsenette on Oct 8, 2017 23:05:50 GMT -5
Inui edits things into the image he wants even if the results don't bear it and we've fought many times because of that. That's been a typical problem and the reason why so many (including myself) hates how he edits the show. I swear he hates people's unexpected results because it messes with what he wants to narrate today... He hates stage one and we all know that. As for Yamada's editing he knows people want to see the schadenfreude so that's what he gives them. Besides if he does that he doesn't have to show half the field since he could use the old and tired phrase "well you can't show everyone.. there's no time!" and people will believe him like they have so far. All of the decisions he makes are politically motivated as opposed to when M9 had this it was mostly results based. Now things are out of order and you get cuts based on who pissed off who instead of what the hell actually happened.
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Post by m4tt3r0x on Oct 9, 2017 0:13:06 GMT -5
It's the same stuff every time. You already know who's getting shown and who's getting the double to triple FF before the tournament even begins. I just can't understand how people can hate on 33 but call 34 a great show. It was as close as a complete duplicate realistically gets with only a handful of competitors getting farther and thus a little bit more focus. At least 33 had a fresher Stage 1 that threw guys off. Nothing was particularly unique about this tournament besides Jessie and Yuuji not choking.
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Post by roy on Oct 9, 2017 1:08:02 GMT -5
I want to see more of the newer stars. They are the ones who are consistently putting in deep runs and can carry the show late. So they (Sato, Anastase, Drew etc) should be featured heavily so they can bring in a returning viewer base. When their runs are digested, you don't really form a connection with the competitor so I think that hurts long term. Basically, I think they should focus on these guys as sort of the new all-stars.
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Post by candh on Oct 9, 2017 3:29:43 GMT -5
Overall a decent tournament. They fixed 3rd stage problems (raining and Flying Bars visibility). Maybe except UCCHVL being too difficult compared to the rest, ha.
I hate how athletes like Jun Sato, Drew, Shun and Wreathman got a triple FF treatment, but the only poptart porn that really annoyed me was Mori (and that's not because himself - he trained crazy hard according to the official commentary livestream - but his wife, oh gosh).
Without Jessie the tournament would have been kinda boring because there wasn't any new obstacle. Jessie is the win :-)
At this point it feels like the current Sasuke's obstacle design reached its plateau. It is very solid, polished and balanced but started to lose luster compared to new shows and (sorta sloppy but ever-changing) ANW.
Nagano's intense reaction was also super entertaining and saved the show for me. While he is supposed be the commentator of the show, he just spills "WOW!" "go now" "ARAGHGGHHGH" "way to go" "OMG!!" kinda things.
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Post by PsychoDelusion on Oct 9, 2017 4:04:19 GMT -5
Not going to explain my gripes with the tournament. I could copy/paste my opinion from the last tournament and that should do it. Instead I'd like to talk about some competitors
-It's probably the first time in I don't know how many years I've seen Shingo so nervous on the starting line. Dude was really serious this time (probably he feels a lil bit under pressure now that Takeda has been stringing Stage 1 clears). He looked so smooth during the first 3 obstacles and then I just chuckled. Just before trying the Pendulum he nodded to the others "I've got this, don't worry", only to fail miserably. He can still clear Stage 1 at 43 and that's amazing, but he needs to get his act together. Takeda barely beat the Warped Wall as well so I hope he'll practice on that as well. It only gets harder with age.
-Matachi is currently wasting his best years physically. He was never really good at Stage 1 and I really wonder what's keeping him behind. He needs to get his act together because this really is a waste of talent thrown in Stage 1 4 consecutive times now.
-Am I the only one who didn't feel surpised that Jessie made it to Stage 3? I don't get the fuss around her run. It'd be weird for not her not to advance that far.
-I like Mori Wataru but all this NAVI and main show time, only for him to fail in the 1st obstacle. Come on people...
-The UCCH needs to go. At least the final part needs to become stable. Luck and timing shouldn't be a factor in an obstacle as crucial as this
-If Morimoto could only make it that far shows that the 3rd Stage is currently unbeatable. I really dislike SASUKE's course layout nowadays. One or two obstacles should not decide an entire tournament. Shin-SASUKE's Stage 3 era was the best in my opinion. So many equally challenging obstacles.
-Felt bad for Hiroshige, but why didn't he rush in the end? I was suprised to see that he didn't know he was out of time. Pulled a Zhang Wang Yang there.
-I loved Takahashi's run. Time doesn't get backwards for him either so I'm glad that he advanced to Stage 2. The way he failed at the Conveyor Belt was so damn dramatic. You could really see that he gave everything he had. The intensity was pretty unique, even though it was just a digest. He had 10 seconds left when the conveyor belt threw him out of bounds. Hopefully he can do better next year (He really looks like he has lost some muscle over the years)
Was I happy with this tournament overall? Kinda I suppose. It wasn't bad, yet it wasn't a classic. Pretty average
Do I look forward to SASUKE 35? Unless some drastic changes happen to Stages 2 and 3, not really.
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Post by SRW on Oct 9, 2017 6:34:34 GMT -5
If you don't like it don't watch it!!!! Although I think Stage 1 needs some new things next time.
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Post by legendty1 on Oct 9, 2017 9:58:58 GMT -5
Just a spelling error of Allyssa Beird. Though I really wonder if they would invite her though. I was just joking around.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Oct 9, 2017 12:11:03 GMT -5
-I like Mori Wataru but all this NAVI and main show time, only for him to fail in the 1st obstacle. Come on people... The Navi isn't really about results, it's about who the casuals should care about, he is an actor even if not a major one, and he's notable enough to Sasuke considering he just made stage 2 last tournament. Also on top of that his wife is pretty famous so that's another thing that could make him a draw to casuals.
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Post by Paragus on Oct 9, 2017 14:17:09 GMT -5
Just finished watching, and I have to admit, I really liked this tournament! It was much better than 34, and many of the clears and fails surprised me. Morimoto hanging with one hand on the UCCH had me in stitches, and even though the failed the VLK, at least he made it partway across the first ledge. Can't wait for 35!
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Post by halcyon on Oct 9, 2017 19:24:42 GMT -5
1) Jessie was the star of the tournament by far. Loved how she used her legs on the Sidewinder to rest her arms. 2) Drew is still the most consistent. I still believe he is the closest. Sad his stage 1 and 2 runs get digested, when he has gotten the farthest in the last 2 or 3 Sasuke tournamanets. 3) Nagasaki Shunsuke L M A O comeeee onn man falling on the Spider Walk? 4) glad to see Wreathman got his revenge and redemption on the course after his horror story last Sasuke. Oh wait I didn't get to see it -.-' #digest 5) Tomohiro and Sasuke Kun still the best Japanese ninjas by far. 6) Sad to not have Asa and Kanno. 7) Hioki always has the most dramatic runs, and I LOVE the guy to death, but his stage 3 run was a liiiitle long for my liking. Could have editted it a little better to give Drew a stage 2 run or something. 8) Ryo Matachi is a thing of the past. And it pains me to say it.
Overall, incredible tournament, much better than the last ones. It definitely was the "feel good" tournament, with so many finishers, a women completing stage 2, and an All star like Takeda beating stage 1, along with Yuuji beating it as well. (:
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Post by wrestlingfan55 on Oct 9, 2017 20:00:57 GMT -5
Yamamoto in the double pendulum pocket! Sasuke 32 - Two hands on trapeze, failed to grab pendulum Sasuke 33 - No hands on trapeze Sasuke 34 - One hand on trapeze Has he found all the ways to fail this obstacle? EDIT: Ryo's fail was more embarrassing than all 3 of those Sasuke 35- one foot on the trampoline Sasuke 36- misses the trampoline completely
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 22:19:55 GMT -5
One more thing I was wondering, did they unblock the Pipe Slider bars? It looked like they did, but I could never get a good look.
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Post by chase247 on Oct 9, 2017 22:37:57 GMT -5
One more thing I was wondering, did they unblock the Pipe Slider bars? It looked like they did, but I could never get a good look. Yes.
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