Post by TCM on Sept 28, 2009 18:25:05 GMT -5
......makes it more difficult.
I used a weirder topic name so as to avoid "Last topic" spoilers. Now we have plenty of topics about how Nagano having 40 seconds aside from 45 robbed the man somewhat and while true to an extent, one key part of evidence people seem (at least to me) to skip:
They increased the length of the Final Stage was increased by a half-meter. That's about a foot increase in height. This allows a longer first obstacle which takes more time. Remember Nagano barely beat 17's final stage with 2.5 seconds left. Now the time was shorter and the obstacles more different (although climbing a ladder is easier than spider walking, rope ladder gives it the difficult aspect of it), Nagano took 14 seconds on the Spider Climb (he's naturally fast on it and it did look like he got into climbing position about a half second before the gong but that's for Previous Tournaments; he took 19 seconds here because the ladder is 13m opposed to 12.5, not to mention an assumed gimmicked rope as well.
Basically while partially agreeing that the 5 second cut and the gimmicked rope (since it was the same length) helped, the slightly bigger stage would make a huge difference as well. It just seems to me that people almost overlook this, probably don't and just don't mention it but this has been on my mind for awhile (the new length of the stage making the difference between failure and kanzenseiha).
I used a weirder topic name so as to avoid "Last topic" spoilers. Now we have plenty of topics about how Nagano having 40 seconds aside from 45 robbed the man somewhat and while true to an extent, one key part of evidence people seem (at least to me) to skip:
They increased the length of the Final Stage was increased by a half-meter. That's about a foot increase in height. This allows a longer first obstacle which takes more time. Remember Nagano barely beat 17's final stage with 2.5 seconds left. Now the time was shorter and the obstacles more different (although climbing a ladder is easier than spider walking, rope ladder gives it the difficult aspect of it), Nagano took 14 seconds on the Spider Climb (he's naturally fast on it and it did look like he got into climbing position about a half second before the gong but that's for Previous Tournaments; he took 19 seconds here because the ladder is 13m opposed to 12.5, not to mention an assumed gimmicked rope as well.
Basically while partially agreeing that the 5 second cut and the gimmicked rope (since it was the same length) helped, the slightly bigger stage would make a huge difference as well. It just seems to me that people almost overlook this, probably don't and just don't mention it but this has been on my mind for awhile (the new length of the stage making the difference between failure and kanzenseiha).
