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Post by furatachi on Jan 27, 2022 15:13:16 GMT -5
In SASUKE, 100 competitors try their hand in a competitor(SASUKE 21 being an exception, where 101 attempted).
But, out of those 100, there are some that just frustrates the hell out of me. As if to say, "How on earth did you?"
Here are my 2 most Frustrating Runs in SASUKE history.
1) James Okada, SASUKE 7: One of the worst runs to reach Stage 3. Okada barely clears Stage 1 with a quarter of a second left on the clock. And then repeats the feat in Stage 2, this time with ONE-TENTH of a second left on the clock. I was questioning, "Did he? DID he beat the klaxon?" and apparently, it was. I was just like, "HOLY F*CK!! This competitor really goes down to the wire." But what made my blood boil was his failure on the Propeller Bars. I was ticked off that someone can struggle so badly that they fail on an obstacle that had a perfect record prior to him.
2) Toyohisa Ijima, SASUKE 11: Showboating to the complete extreme. Ijima, better known as Japanese Bruce Lee, showboated almost after every obstacle, and despite having an creative idea of completely skipping the Tarzan Rope and going straight at the Rope Climb, he timed out. Closest he ever got to reaching Stage 2 since his debut. Throughout that run, I just yelled to him on my laptop, "STOP SHOWBOATING!! JUST RUN!!" And I was completely outraged when he refused and timed out.
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Post by dakohosu on Jan 27, 2022 17:07:19 GMT -5
Any Pipe Slider fail where the competitor runs out of energy before even attempting a jump. I just feel as though if you’re about to run out of grip you should just go for it, rather than just letting go. Examples being Shinji in 11 and Takeda in 8.
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Post by furatachi on Jan 27, 2022 17:10:28 GMT -5
Any Pipe Slider fail where the competitor runs out of energy before even attempting a jump. I just feel as though if you’re about to run out of grip you should just go for it, rather than just letting go. Examples being Shinji in 11 and Takeda in 8. Tatsuya Yamamoto's Pipe Slider Fail in SASUKE 2 was very frustrating for me. I mean, HOW ON EARTH do you run out of strength on only the first track? |
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Post by m4tt3r0x on Jan 27, 2022 17:16:56 GMT -5
Of recent memory Tomo in 37 where he was just walking on the Warped Wall run up and waving down some onlookers before attempting the runup.
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Post by dakohosu on Jan 27, 2022 17:32:46 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and the Warped Wall fails. There seems to be a running theme of only giving yourself enough time for like two attempts even when you have hurdles of time left, even if it means wasting 15 seconds just psyching yourself up.
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Post by m4tt3r0x on Jan 27, 2022 17:59:13 GMT -5
To be fair I'm sure your legs are shot after doing the course plus tackle, as the Wall is challenging enough as it is to clear, but for me it was just his dismissive attitude before the runup like "This is nothing." Actually now that I think about it he did that after he failed his first attempt at it iirc lol. I like Tomo a lot but that was kinda saddening.
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Post by dakohosu on Jan 28, 2022 16:31:41 GMT -5
Any Pipe Slider fail where the competitor runs out of energy before even attempting a jump. I just feel as though if you’re about to run out of grip you should just go for it, rather than just letting go. Examples being Shinji in 11 and Takeda in 8. Tatsuya Yamamoto's Pipe Slider Fail in SASUKE 2 was very frustrating for me. I mean, HOW ON EARTH do you run out of strength on only the first track? I can forgive that given that it was a new obstacle so no one knew how to tackle it, and he clearly ran out of strength. |
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Post by subtleagent on Jan 28, 2022 16:46:38 GMT -5
Yuuji in 37, mainly because that might've been his last real chance at the Final.
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Post by darthvaderlim on Jan 28, 2022 23:50:31 GMT -5
Yamada in 9. No explanation needed.
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Post by anime boy on Jan 29, 2022 0:43:08 GMT -5
Majority of Yamada's stage one fails, especially in the Golden Era. It's just painful watching a guy who you know can go all the way struggle. Yamada is probably the most unlucky/unfortunate ninja in the history of the gameshow. I have no doubt in my mind if he cleared the Pipe Slider in 6 & 10 he would've had a kanzen. If the gloves fiasco didn't happen, he would've had a great shot at clearing Stage 3 in 12. In the later Sasuke's he kept timing out on stage one, which is annoying because he didn't show trouble on most obstacles, he just lacked urgency.
NON Yamada runs I'd vote for are Daisuke Nakata's stage three runs, it was hard seeing him bomb Lamp Grasper three times in a row. Seeing Shinji Kobayashi go from Last Man Standing to bombing Crooked Wall would be another candidate. The Rolling Log Jams are also annoying. It unfairly wrecked so many ninjas, which was frustrating to see. A last candidate would be seeing Hiroyuki Asaoka bomb the Jump Hang like 4 times in a row.
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Post by anime boy on Jan 29, 2022 0:55:04 GMT -5
Any Pipe Slider fail where the competitor runs out of energy before even attempting a jump. I just feel as though if you’re about to run out of grip you should just go for it, rather than just letting go. Examples being Shinji in 11 and Takeda in 8. Tatsuya Yamamoto's Pipe Slider Fail in SASUKE 2 was very frustrating for me. I mean, HOW ON EARTH do you run out of strength on only the first track? |
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Post by azn on Jan 29, 2022 1:04:30 GMT -5
Takeda in 38, Would he have gone far? Probably not, but frustrating nonetheless. Same thing with Paul Hamm in SK14, indirectly caused by the aforementioned James Okada run in SK7
Aside from runs ending because of b.s, Miura Eichi's first pipe slider fail in SK2 (definitely worse than the aforementioned Tatsuya Yamamoto fail, well unless you were Hiroaki Yoshizaki, who face planted onto the ending platform that tournament) Travis Allen Schroeder's Pipe Slider DQ and Bunpei succumbing to exhaustion in SK15 are some of the ones I think of.
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Post by furatachi on Jan 29, 2022 9:28:46 GMT -5
Takeda in 38, Would he have gone far? Probably not, but frustrating nonetheless. Same thing with Paul Hamm in SK14, indirectly caused by the aforementioned James Okada run in SK7 Aside from runs ending because of b.s, Miura Eichi's first pipe slider fail in SK2 (definitely worse than the aforementioned Tatsuya Yamamoto fail, well unless you were Hiroaki Yoshizaki, who face planted onto the ending platform that tournament) Travis Allen Schroeder's Pipe Slider DQ and Bunpei succumbing to exhaustion in SK15 are some of the ones I think of. Yeah. When I saw Paul Hamm's run in SASUKE 14, I was thinking, "All Right. For the First Time since Travis Allen Schroeder, we will see an American in Stage 3." But then, he dropkicks the gates open. My montra changed from very happy to "What? WHAT THE F*CK?" The Travis Allen Schroeder Disqualification in SASUKE 4 was also frustrating. He was right after Kazuhiko Akiyama and just tore through that Stage 3. But then, he violently runs the Pipe Slider off the track. I was ticked off that Schraeder did that, even more so than Ebihara Masakazu's DQ in SASUKE 2. |
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Post by furatachi on Jan 29, 2022 9:31:38 GMT -5
Yamada in 9. No explanation needed. I will also say Yamada in 19 was very frustrating. SASUKE 19's Stage 1 has a lenient time limit, of 115 seconds. Yamada proceeds to use up SEVENTY-FIVE seconds on the Pole Maze, an obstacle that Paul Anthony Terek was able to Pole Vault in that same competition. He had just 10 seconds left when he reached the Jumping Spider and fell. |
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Post by dakohosu on Jan 29, 2022 11:27:28 GMT -5
Yamada in 9. No explanation needed. I will also say Yamada in 19 was very frustrating. SASUKE 19's Stage 1 has a lenient time limit, of 115 seconds. Yamada proceeds to use up SEVENTY-FIVE seconds on the Pole Maze, an obstacle that Paul Anthony Terek was able to Pole Vault in that same competition. He had just 10 seconds left when he reached the Jumping Spider and fell. ^Again though I feel like this wasn't really his fault, rather he just couldn't work out the obstacle. Besides, it's not like he would've cleared even if he had figured it out in one go given that he ended up failing the Jumping Spider anyway. I feel like the most frustrating fails are generally where you know the competitor could've very easily gone much farther had it not been for either a stupid mistake on their part or some kind of obstacle malfunction. Yamada in 9 is a good example because he literally self-sabotaged a potential Stage 2 and even Stage 3 clear with the tape issue. I don't understand why he couldn't have just taken the tape off before his run, it wouldn't have made a huge difference. Tajima in 24 and Yuuji in 37 are also kind of easy choices given that they both fell right at the end of the most brutal stage due to a simple oversight. Another one I'd add that hasn't been mentioned here is Kong in 24. The guy honestly deserved to win as he was one of the best rounded competitors, having speed, power, and upper body strength all in one package (which as we know many have one or two out of three but rarely all three, Yuuji and Ryo having the first and third attribute but not the second for example). He had a near perfect run on the first three stages and was going fast enough on the Final to clear, but the rope got tangled up and that was that.... his one best shot at victory ended because of a safety rope malfunction; whether this was his own fault or that of the organisers, still hella frustrating. Also, Terek was a decathlete so pole jumping is literally a part of his career, so I don't think comparing that to Yamada's struggle on an obstacle he probably hadn't trained for due to its technicality, is exactly fair... |
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Post by zoran on Jan 29, 2022 12:22:30 GMT -5
Yamada in 9. No explanation needed. I will also say Yamada in 19 was very frustrating. SASUKE 19's Stage 1 has a lenient time limit, of 115 seconds. Yamada proceeds to use up SEVENTY-FIVE seconds on the Pole Maze, an obstacle that Paul Anthony Terek was able to Pole Vault in that same competition. He had just 10 seconds left when he reached the Jumping Spider and fell. 19's time limit was not lenient at all. |
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Post by salt on Jan 30, 2022 4:09:47 GMT -5
Ryo in 28. I don't think I need to explain why.
Also, pretty much everyone who stops for, like, 20 seconds before the Reverse Conveyor. Time's ticking down and they just refuse to GO.
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Post by dakohosu on Jan 30, 2022 4:19:21 GMT -5
Ryo in 28. I don't think I need to explain why. Also, pretty much everyone who stops for, like, 20 seconds before the Reverse Conveyor. Time's ticking down and they just refuse to GO. This would've been Keitaro in 39 had the Rolling Log not been nerfed. He's had so much trouble with time on Stage 2 yet probably spent a total of 15-20 seconds psyching himself up before the Backstream and Reverse Conveyer. |
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Post by Ninja Relaxer on Jan 30, 2022 19:37:08 GMT -5
To be fair, anyone who stops before the Reverse Conveyor is trying to catch their breath. The Backstream is more exhausting than it looks. And stopping before the Backstream is understandable too, because you have to catch your breath before you can hold it. You can't dive when you're breathing rapidly.
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Post by LusitaniaAngel313 on Jan 31, 2022 2:25:52 GMT -5
No one said Lee in 27? I'm surprised. You got a streak going with stage 3 and you SOMEHOW screw up the first obstacle!? Sure.  |
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