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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 17, 2018 14:48:57 GMT -5
Guess there goes a lot of people's hope for the return of Jessie. Glad to see Drew get 98, and Kong get in the 90's. Also, while I approve of giving Darvish a high number, I think #96 is a little too high. O.O
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 16, 2018 20:01:36 GMT -5
Got a piece of evidence to go with that? Isn't it a wishlist? As in, who you want to compete? xD
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 16, 2018 14:35:01 GMT -5
I'll go with me and Okuyama ^-^
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 16, 2018 13:53:45 GMT -5
Can someone explain SMF Hunger Games? Sorry to be "that guy" xD. It sounds pretty cool.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 16, 2018 13:39:43 GMT -5
Joop Katana.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 6, 2018 19:35:12 GMT -5
Okay. I figured it was something along those lines, though I'm surprised that the producers pick some of the numbers! Thanks!
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Feb 5, 2018 14:32:59 GMT -5
Okay. I've been a fan of Sasuke for about 8 years now, and been on SMF for almost 3 years, so I'm embarrassed to ask this. I have a basic gist of it, but how do they determine start positions, and how do competitors reserve numbers? Presumably, since some people end up getting the same numbers. If so, how do they determine who gets to choose/reserve a number, and who picks theirs randomly?
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Jan 6, 2018 22:03:42 GMT -5
Here's the link to my newest video. The Top 10 Easiest SASUKE Obstacles!
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Dec 13, 2017 20:05:30 GMT -5
I just saw this...it's incredibly heartbreaking for anyone to lose someone close to them at that age. My sympathies to him and his loved ones.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Dec 13, 2017 19:45:34 GMT -5
I'm with the 99% who believe it's borderline impossible. If anyone can do it, my bets would be put on Drew, Kawaguchi, Ryo, Yusuke, and while I don't believe he's competed, FINCLI No. 3. He has videos of him training on Youtube, and his skills are literally ridiculous. But I think this will happen at 9:04pm on the summer solstice, and when the moon is exactly 230,000 miles away from the Earth, while both the Queen of England and the Pope are enjoying a frozen yogurt. TL;DR, it's not gonna happen.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Dec 10, 2017 20:19:16 GMT -5
Here's my newest video: My top ten favorite ANW obstacles!
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Oct 22, 2017 18:51:49 GMT -5
I have heard that competitors who get the fastest time on the city qualifiers, city finals, or at Vegas get prize money for doing so. Does anybody know the details for this, such as where it applies, how much, and any other info? Thanks!
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Oct 7, 2017 13:53:30 GMT -5
1st Stage: 27 2nd Stage: 8 3rd Stage: 0 Final Stage: 0 #1 KAREN: 4 #2 Takumi Ishida: 1 #3 Katsuhide Torisawa: 3 #4 Yoshito Kawamura: 1 #5 Ryota Miyazawa: 1 #6 Yuki Ueno: 5 #7 Sei Matsuzawa: 4 #8 Yuta Takiguchi: 7 #9 Shunsuke Motohashi: 3 #10 Mika Miyawaki: 1 #11 Reiko Okubo: 5 #12 Yoshimine Iwama: 5 #13 Nobuo Takane: 3 #14 Takeshi Sasamoto: 1 #15 Akihiro Kimura: 2 #16 Masamasa Okamoto: 5 #17 Masashi Matsumura: 3 #18 Keisuke Inoue: 4 #19 Yuu Mori: 9 #20 Go Nakajima: 11 #21 Taira Itoh: 7 #22 Takayuki Yoshida: 9 #23 Ho Takahira: 1 #24 Ryotaro Nagahara: 4 #25 Katsuya Nakada: 3 #26 Liao Long Zhun: 2 #27 Keiya Oishi: 5 #28 Keita Hamada: 7 #29 Daiki Tachibana: 2 #30 Tatsuo Noguchi: 4 #31 Hirokazu Kobayashi: 5 #32 Tatsuya Fukuda: 4 #33 Mochizuki Odo: 3 #34 Ono Minami: 1 #35 Kentaro Suzuki: 14 #36 Kota Ueda: 12 #37 Yuki Tanaka: 5 #38 Shingo Ugami: 3 #39 Hiroshi Nakayama: 9 #40 Ryuhiro Fujimoto: 1 #41 Itsuki Hosoe: 6 #42 George Amano: 9 #43 Hirotaka Urabe: 3 #44 Hikaru Iwamoto: 3 #45 Masashi Hioki: 18 #46 Seiki Takasu: 11 #47 Hiroshige Yamamoto: 14 #48 Yousuke Watanabe: 11 #49 Satoshi Obata: 3 #50 Keigo Kishino: 7 #51 Yuka Amikaya: 2 #52 RENA: 7 #53 Natsuki Matsuda: 14 #54 Mao Usami: 11 #55 Takamasa Nagasaki: 16 #56 Tatsuya Tada: 14 #57 Takashi Uemura: 4 #58 Yousuke Aoki: 1 #59 HAYATE: 5 #60 Yuuya Kadono:7 #61 Yasushi Sakai: 4 #62 Ei Yuki: 3 #63 Yuta Ozawa: 5 #64 Hiroki Tsukamoto: 4 #65 Hiroki Tahara: 7 #66 Tadahito Watanabe: 4 #67 Shintaro Hoshi: 3 #68 Daisuke Matsuda: 11 #69 Takashiro Kono: 2 #70 Yuji Fujikawa: 8 #71 Akura Yamazaki: 4 #72 Tsubasa Ogasawara: 3 #73 Soichiro Fujimoto: 9 #74 Keitaro Yamamoto: 14 #75 Dion Trigg: 12 #76 Daitama Shiratori: 5 #77 Daisuke Okita: 7 #78 Yohei Inabe: 4 #79 Tatsuya Tanimoto: 4 #80 Dai Igarashi: 6 #81 Takeru: 9 #82 Yoshiaki Katayama: 2 #83 Kenji Takahashi: 4 #84 Yusuke Suzuki: 12 #85 Sasuke Kawatani: 5 #86 Takaharu Nakagawa: 11 #87 Jessie Graff: 19 (BOLD PREDICTION) #88 Ryoichi Tsukada: 12 #89 Kenji Darvish: 16 #90 Wataru Mori: 12 #91 Toshihiro Takeda: 14 #92 Shingo Yamamoto: 12 #93 Anastase Ragivaru: 18 #94 Ryo Matachi: 16 #95 Shunsuke Nagasaki: 20 #96 Jun Sato: 20 #97 Drew Drechsel: 21 #98 Tomohiro Kawaguchi: 21 #99 Yuuji Urushihara: 4 #100 Yusuke Morimoto: 20 Golden Competitor: Tomohiro Kawaguchi
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 25, 2017 17:51:26 GMT -5
While I do agree with you, I, at no point, said the reason Nagano won was because the course was easier. I simply stated that the course was easier, which I still stand by. It's hard to compare two competitors from two different eras for a number of reasons. Also, I wasn't just comparing Nagano's first six tournaments: those are just the ones that came to mind when thinking about Nagano's prime. I think you misinterpreted my argument as insulting, because trust me, I was trying my best not to be insulting. As I previously mentioned; it is difficult to decide which competitor is better, being that the two come from two entirely different eras of the show. I do appreciate the feedback. There's nothing wrong with having your favorite competitors. With so little actual winners in either show it's no wonder there are so many people who are being compared and use obstacles to somehow justify their personal taste. I thought having just Drew and not any of the other more consistent Americans who also got to the 3rd stage just as many times was going to put a monkey wrench into this thing. Just be careful to not cloud your judgment when it comes to straight up facts. You never ever compare champions to those who haven't even gotten to the final. You don't do that in any other professional sport so why is Sasuke different? Enjoy your favorites (Lord knows we have a list and for me Takeda is one of them but I would never use him in the same breath as any of the 4 champions in Sasuke or 2 in ANW) be aware that doing anything more than that is just being a fanboy/girl. Current best is Morimoto and until someone else beats his record (including Drew since they are literally doing the same courses - both US and Japan courses and heck every other international course). Ranking any of the champions is subjective even if you use their overall record (Ya'll know that I have a soft spot for Akiyama and kinda salty that he wasn't even considered to be on the list even if he was at the bottom in most of them). Just be careful to not add to more than the current list. Not adding Levi or Kane or even David Campbell is part of the reason going into that would be a problem. It is best to compare apples to apples. Adding a single orange when there are far more of them is part of the reason why this particular short list is flawed. It probably would have been better to just add Akiyama and Isaac and Geoff since that's apples to apples. Just wait a bit, I'm sure Drew will be on that list soon. He's devoted his entire life to the show - it would be nice to have a title after all that sacrifice. I think Drew is too obsessed with obstacle training, something which limits his adaptability problem solving skills. The same could be said for Yuuji. Yuuji sadly holds the record out of the champions to fail new obstacles instead of adapting. Nagano's mantra of not building courses is the reason why his longevity in this show is legendary. No one is better in adapting to stuff on the fly. Even Morimoto doesn't train on obstacles all the time as he only trains about 10% of the time with the rest of the 90% on his career. I wonder how much stronger he would be if he devoted his life to it. Hell.. that could be said of Nagano who trained even less time since he's working 300 days out of the year. You're right. Thanks for the feedback
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 24, 2017 12:42:56 GMT -5
What I'm about to say might tick some people off, but I stand by this opinion. I feel Drew, being in his prime, surpasses Nagano. As much as that pains me to say it. The argument for Nagano seems to be his consistency of making it to the final stage. My counter-argument to this, however, is the fact that the course in 2003-2006 was substantially easier than ANW and SASUKE nowadays. While Nagano is in no way a bad competitor, and is no doubt an outstanding competior-nay- a legend. But my decision stands. I gave the edge to Drew. That's a poor justification. That era of Sasuke is when Sasuke was the only game of its kind in town. (Viking aside) The competitor pool was drastically different, the entire ideology of the show was different. "Ninja gyms" weren't close to being conceived (you don't have them without people like Bunpei influencing later competitors to make their own mini courses. Replicas have always been a thing in some capacity, but dedicated obstacle training was mostly reserved for regular veterans and All-Stars, it wasn't a prerequisite to do well like now. In those days, experience mattered but if you were fit enough and thought on your toes well enough, you could get decently far. There weren't Ninja competitions to keep oneself in competition shape throughout the year. As the competitor pool rises in quality, you HAVE to account for that with obstacle design. ANW being able to experiment more freely than Sasuke nowadays I think clouds people's judgment -- ANW is wildly inconsistent in quality, but now we just considering it more damning for the course to be similar for more than a year or two. Make any excuse you want to make up for it, but Drew has been around for six years across ten tournaments (counting both Sasuke and ANW Vegas in this instance). You compare simply the years Drew's been around and Nagano's first six, he's still already a three-time finalist. Comparing by first ten tournaments, that includes Nagano's victory. Drew is objectively the best active American competitor in my opinion, and arguably the best active competitor right now. But you can't say Drew in his prime is better than Nagano when Drew hasn't reached the final obstacle in Stage 3 in either show in official competition (beating it in USA vs. The World is an achievement, but all that means is he's capable of it, which no one doubted). It's just borderline insulting to reference any champion's win as "well the course was easier" -- it inherently implies that's why they won. Not their skill, but the idea the course was a gimmie. While I do agree with you, I, at no point, said the reason Nagano won was because the course was easier. I simply stated that the course was easier, which I still stand by. It's hard to compare two competitors from two different eras for a number of reasons. Also, I wasn't just comparing Nagano's first six tournaments: those are just the ones that came to mind when thinking about Nagano's prime. I think you misinterpreted my argument as insulting, because trust me, I was trying my best not to be insulting. As I previously mentioned; it is difficult to decide which competitor is better, being that the two come from two entirely different eras of the show. I do appreciate the feedback.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 23, 2017 19:54:51 GMT -5
What I'm about to say might tick some people off, but I stand by this opinion. I feel Drew, being in his prime, surpasses Nagano. As much as that pains me to say it. The argument for Nagano seems to be his consistency of making it to the final stage. My counter-argument to this, however, is the fact that the course in 2003-2006 was substantially easier than ANW and SASUKE nowadays. While Nagano is in no way a bad competitor, and is no doubt an outstanding competior-nay- a legend. But my decision stands. I gave the edge to Drew.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 23, 2017 19:39:13 GMT -5
I was wondering where exactly the name Mount Midoryama came from? I thought it had something to do with the location of SASUKE 2 and onwards, but I'm not 100%. Can someone explain? I tried searching for a thread discussing this, but i found nothing.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 18, 2017 20:28:50 GMT -5
I don't know why, but I'm predicting... A Drew Wave Runner fail...
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 18, 2017 20:15:01 GMT -5
Meanwhile, in my mind: DON'T FAST FORWARD DAVID CAMPBELL. DON'T FAST FORWARD DAVID CAMPBELL.
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Post by SasukeSprinter2.0 on Sept 18, 2017 20:13:49 GMT -5
I knew they would make the "criss-cross applesauce" joke. xD
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