What is the most expensive tournament?

[zoran]

With all the talk about how budget is one of the biggest issues with modern Sasuke, I've seen some people suggest Inui's love for motorized obstacles makes his tournaments more expensive than the monster 9 tournaments. I don't know how true this would be, I'd imagine the 18-27 tournaments would be more expensive due to the length of each of the stages and the scale of some of the obstacles like the Flying Chute or Ultimate Cliffhanger. What do you think is the most expensive tournament?   

[xelA197]

18. A brand completely new course, bar Tarzan Jump, Metal Spin, Arm Ring, Jumping Spider, and Tsuna Nobori.

[ChiBiJKT48]

I was about to answer the same tournament, SASUKE 18, but for a whole lot different reasons. They probably had to pay compensation for those who are injured by Rope Glider *because one of the competitors that get injured if I recall is a Celebrity in Japan so they probably want to avoid bad news about their design flaws or something like that*.

[dakohosu]

Sept 15, 2024 12:08:30 GMT -5 zoran said:

With all the talk about how budget is one of the biggest issues with modern Sasuke, I've seen some people suggest Inui's love for motorized obstacles makes his tournaments more expensive than the monster 9 tournaments. I don't know true this would be, I'd imagine the 18-27 tournaments would be more expensive due to the length of each of the stages and the scale of some of the obstacles like Flying Chute or Ultimate Cliffhanger. What do you think is the most expensive tournament?   

Shin-Sasuke seems like the obvious choice, however it's not that simple.

18 allegedly reused a lot of old VIKING stuff, which is why there were a lot of net and rope based obstacles, and ultimately how they were able to execute on such a renewal. On the flip side, regardless of reusing existing gear, the entire course being vastly changed couldn't have been cheap. I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason we had as many rubbish obstacles as innovative new ones in 18 is because they ran out of budget and had to fill the gaps somehow. 

Generally tournaments with lots of new obstacles are going to be the most expensive because they have to put more time and money into designing and manufacturing the obstacles etc. As a result I'd say 18, 25, and 28 would have been pretty expensive as later tournaments would've just reused a lot of the assets manufactured for those initial tournaments. This is also why they were able to fairly seamlessly revert back to the previous Stage 1 for 26, though this does position 25 as a bit of a sunk cost because they created an almost entirely new Stage 1 and then scrapped it immediately. 

I agree that motorised obstacles wouldn't be anywhere near as expensive as people make them out to be; the budget for Sasuke isn't what it was in the earlier days so if this was an issue we wouldn't have the plethora of motor-powered obstacles that we do these days.

Another one I don't really buy is that extending the course is apparently too expensive which is why they got rid of the Lumberjack Climb in 35 to make space for the Dragon Glider. They allegedly have to dig holes for every tournament and I'm fairly sure the contractors work on a per day or whatever basis so it's not like digging an extra hole is going to add tens of thousands of dollars to the overall cost. The space restriction for the location is where the issue lies because they don't want to impede on the space for the nearby derby circuit. People just assume that this issue is budget related because it's apparently become an "Inui thing" that doesn't actually exist.