What was THEIR reaction to...

[artyfowljr]

I was watching Nagano's first stage 1 run, when I noticed the "WTF! faces of everybody when Slider Jump crapped out and he fell. That's hilarious! If what happened after wouldn't have happened, it wouldn't be funny at all, but it happened so...

P.S. look at Toshihiro and Kanno's faces...they're the most funny to me.
P.P.S. another hilarious thing is that you can clearly see and hear Levi: "Shhhh1t!"...I didn't notice that at all while watching the live broadcast, I was too shocked. Now that I saw that I laughed ssoooo much...

[yamfriend]

I know that this would have been extremely dissapointing, but after Nagano "failed" Stage 1, they spent all of that time making sure that the Slider Jump would work properly when he ran Stage 1 again and, not to be mean or anything, but if Nagano ended up failing Stage 1 on his second try before even getting to the Slider Jump, that would have 3 things IMO:

1. a waste of time,
2. extraordinarily funny (especially after all of the buildup for his second Stage 1 run), and
3. EPIC FAIL

If I didn't know that the Slider Jump didn't work right while Nagano was doing his first run, though, I probably would've been almost as shocked as most of them were.

[arsenette]

To be fair.. they do this with every competitor when there is a technical failure. The issue why it was so dramatic (outside of the obvious.. it was friggin Nagano..) is that he was number 100. In the past when someone had a technical failure earlier in the run sometimes they would just fix the problem and let then run after a couple of other competitors to allow them to recover (if they went pretty far). It's also exceedingly rare that they do so WELL after a re-run. People keep forgetting the emotional let down of failing after something like that to have to come back up to a high to compete again.

[Oti]

I don't think it's that emotionally damaging when it's not your fault for failing, though.

[bigblind168]

if he didnt do well on his second run, then they wouldnt have shown it.

[arsenette]

Oct 8, 2009 15:42:38 GMT -5 Oti said:

I don't think it's that emotionally damaging when it's not your fault for failing, though.

That's not at all true. Talk to any athlete that has had to redo something or run something again. The level is never up to the original. That's just fact.

Oct 8, 2009 15:44:16 GMT -5 bigblind168 said:

if he didnt do well on his second run, then they wouldnt have shown it.

No that's not true either. If he failed they had to show where he failed. He is an All-Star AND #100. They cut the ones people don't know.. they'd have some serious explaining to do if he didn't make it.

[Oti]

That's not at all true. Talk to any athlete that has had to redo something or run something again. The level is never up to the original. That's just fact.

I disagree. Look at Nagano; he definitely went harder his second time.

[arsenette]

Nagano is the rarity. Even in Sasuke history. Someone that went far in their first run and had to do a redo has NEVER cleared their second run. Which is why the ending was epic.

As for sports there is no denying it though. The second run you are not as fresh and your mind is not as focused as the first time. Having gone through it before I can at least vouch for that part. Having 12 years of history for Sasuke to rely on. The other part is fact at this point.

[obakemono]

Oct 8, 2009 16:20:22 GMT -5 arsenette said:

Nagano is the rarity. Even in Sasuke history. Someone that went far in their first run and had to do a redo has NEVER cleared their second run. Which is why the ending was epic.

As for sports there is no denying it though. The second run you are not as fresh and your mind is not as focused as the first time. Having gone through it before I can at least vouch for that part. Having 12 years of history for Sasuke to rely on. The other part is fact at this point.

I don't think 2 or 3 occurrences really counts as 12 years of Sasuke history. And anyway, you can't call it a fact as it's not provable. There's quite a bit of leeway.

[arsenette]

Oct 8, 2009 16:31:18 GMT -5 obakemono said:

I don't think 2 or 3 occurrences really counts as 12 years of Sasuke history. And anyway, you can't call it a fact as it's not provable. There's quite a bit of leeway.

Actually.. there's been at LEAST 1 per tournament In the past there were a lot more that were just cut from the official showing. Some have had several technical disasters. Some have had several that have cause major injury but those were cut from the final broadcast. Reruns in general you see the 2nd run and not the first. The earlier tournaments were riddled with reruns while in more recent years it has been pretty rare dropping it down to just 1 or 2.

[obakemono]

I mean reruns at the end of the stage, not reruns period.

[arsenette]

Oct 8, 2009 16:43:43 GMT -5 obakemono said:

I mean reruns at the end of the stage, not reruns period.

Ah I understand. Albeit rare it has happened.

[Oti]

Thank you for speaking sense, obakemono. It depends on the circumstances and the athlete.

[Homeslice]

What I wonder is, how will G4 air this? Or will they pretend that the tournament decided to wait until nightfall just to let Nagano compete?....

....I wouldn't be surprised if they did the latter, but if they do the latter, we won't see those priceless reactions.

They just may do the latter because they didn't air Yamada's second and third attempts at the 2nd Stage from Sasuke 12.

[artyfowljr]

in my opinion, FF with first attempt and "Now it's time for Nagano Makoto, who due to an obstacle problem has fallen in the water in his first attempt...bla bla bla..." and then air the second run.

[joemello]

Oct 10, 2009 1:51:10 GMT -5 artyfowljr said:

in my opinion, FF with first attempt and "Now it's time for Nagano Makoto, who due to an obstacle problem has fallen in the water in his first attempt...bla bla bla..." and then air the second run.

Oh no. You know Nagano's going to take up the last two segments of that particular episode.

It'll be interesting to see how this will be presented because not a lot of people know about what happens when the course screws up. Half of the time, it's played off as business-as-usual (e.g. whenever the Rolling Log went off the rails).

I loved it when the Nagano passed by the staff table and he reacted like the announcer essentially punched him in the gut while his group laughed. Way to be friends. xD

[lars072]

For me (yes, I'm still alive after a break) Nagano should not have ahd to re-do his whole run again. My wife and I thought that it was so unfair and he should have started at the Slider Jump withthe same amount of time left when he got there. TBS need to figure this stuff out....but, isn't Nagano an amazing competitor to pass stage 1 on his second try and great to the final stage again. If that isn't determination, then I don't know what is.

[bigblind168]

To summerize the reactions:
Takeda: OMGF
Yamamoto: XD HAHAHAHA loser.
Yuuji: Noo!
Levi: Did that really just happen?
Asami: Noo! Not again!
Kanno: Mommy...?