Omori’s on the Jumping Spider… NO!
Enchi leaps for the Metal Spin… NO!
Nagano’s almost at the top! Hurry up! TIME UP!But before there was this SASUKE…
Hurry up, Nagano! NO! He’s 0.11 seconds short!
Akiyama on the Crooked Wall! He slipped off the rope!
Next is the Rolling Log… he’s off!But what if…
…the two were combined?
That’s why we have…
SASUKE: Ultimate Survival Attack!Tonight, 200 people will take on the first stage, the Trial Stage.
1. Quintuple Step
2. Rolling Log
3. Balance Bridge
4. Rapid Descent
5. Wicked Wall (Hill Climb 1-4)
6. Swing Ladder
75 Seconds is the time limit.
How many of these 200 will clear the Trial Stage???
Our first competitor tonight is the first ever to take on SASUKE... Tomokazu Tanaka! He's off! Steps are OK. Rolling Log... NO! He only made it halfway down.
Next up! Arai Kenichi. Swimmer guy. Steps. Yes. Log. Yes. Bridge. Yes. On to the Swing Ladder. No! He lost his grip.
Yamaguchi Kosuke is next. Steps... cut to the Wall. Having trouble! Time is going red! He makes it over! He has to hurry! Not a chance.
Digest: Octopus and Hang Glider Man fail the steps.
Aoki Yasuo! He built a Rokudantobi in his backyard! 1! 2! 3! 4... he clings on... YES! For the first time ever, Aoki has cleared the first obstacle! But he slips right off the log. Ow.
More random people fail random obstacles.
16/0
Wow, this is really turning out deadly.
Next up! Kunoichi champion! Rie Komiya! Steps are OK. Log... she made it! Bridge is OK. Cut to the Ladder. She failed this before! Time is going red! Hurry! YES!
Komiya is the second woman to clear Stage 1!
Speaking of which, here's Chie Nishimura! First three obstacles are OK. Descent... NO!
Digest: Tanaka fails the Swing Ladder. Ijima fails the Log. More people fail the Log.
30/1
Can anyone clear? CM's!
[yes, I'm doing this liveblog style]
Shigenori Ueki is next! He's blazing through the obstacles. Too fast to type! To the top of the wall! Too easy for Ueki! 18.6 left!
31/2
Digest: 3 more clear.
Now to the UNCLI part of our program. It's first timer Tomino Keita! Uh... yeah he's got this out of hand. Not even a slip! Wall is OK. Ladder is OK. Tomino destroys it! 23.5 left!
Hiroyuki Asaoka! He writes books! Steps are OK... and we cut to the end of the stage where he clears!
Muscle Musical people! Ishikawa clears! Kawahara clears! Iketani clears!
There must be some cuts. 55/15
The Yamamoto brothers! Yoshihito and Tatsuya! Tatsuya was in the final stage! Looks like we're going split screen on this one. Tatsuya struggles on the Log! But he catches up on the wall! They're neck and neck! Yoshihito wins by .2 seconds!
Kunoichi champion! Satomi Kadoi! Log... NO!
Three time Kunoichi champion! Ayako Miyake! Steps are clear. She competed in SASUKE once before. So far so good. Ladder! No problem! Time went red but right before she hit the buzzer!
Ryo Matachi clears! Keitara Yamamoto clears! Tsuyoshi Matsuda at the ladder! Uh oh... he times out!
UNCLI is 3/4.
Now some Americans! First is Luci Romberg. She's going pretty slowly. Time is red! Nope. She just got to the ladder.
Brian Orosco! I think we have a new fastest time! 26.4!
So we're half way through. 100 have tried! Only 26 have succeeded!
Shiratori! Wow, this is pretty early. He's missed the last two due to an injury. He's hung up on the Wall! He had 40 seconds! Middle cut! He made it! 15 are left! 10! 9! 8! GO! 3! 2! YES! 1 second left!
Koji Hashimoto and Jun Sato are through.
Next up! Mister America! Levi Meeuwenberg! To the Rapid Descent... HE DID A FRONTFLIP! He was close to failing. No time record but he finishes with a highly respectable 16.8 left.
Daisuke Miyazaki is next. He brought his handball friends who both cleared! Can Miyazaki! Numbah one sportsman! YES!
150 have tried! 48 have succeeded!
Next we have a 4 time First Stage clearer. From Taiwan, it's Lee Enchi! Yeah, he has no trouble at all. He's hung up on the Ladder though! Nah, he's through.
Hitoshi Kanno! HE CAN'T GET THE LOG DOWN! He loses valuable time! He has to make it all up! The ladder is next as time is red! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1! TIME UP! Kanno!!!... wait the smoke is going off... 0.01! Unbelievable!
Next is Urushihara! Can he do it as well and join 3 Uncli members? Yes he can! But wait? The Balance Bridge didn't move!They're sending him back to the Bridge... he's fine.
Bridge is fixed now.
Shinji Kobayashi! Steps are OK. Log is not!
KOBAYASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
Digest: Kenji Takahashi is through. Koji Yamada is through. Yoshiyuki Okuyama fails the Balance Bridge!
Now down to our final 10 competitors and we have 83 clears.
Jordan Jotchev is #191! He has no trouble at all! CLEAR!
Katsumi Yamada is #192! He's cried a lot! SASUKE Spray! Let's do it! Steps... woah just passed it. Log! Yes! Bridge is OK. Descent and Wall... he knows all of these obstacles well. He's never tried the Ladder! Time is red! YES!!! For the first time in six years Yamada has cleared Stage One!
Kane Kosugi is #193! He's got a new best time in the bag! WHA? He gets caught up on the Ladder! Still through with 21.3! Third best time today!
Digest: Akiyama is through. He only had 5 seconds left. Nagasaki is through! Apparently so was his brother. Terek is through with 15 to go!
Four remain! Omori, Yamamoto, Takeda, and Nagano
Looks like Takeda is #197. WOAH! He's blazing through! 40 seconds to go at the ladder! 26.8! New best time!
Next is Yamamoto. A look back at his two Final Stage appearances. Middle cut! Wall! Yes! 20 seconds to go! He's hanging by one hand! Three left! YES! Man that was close.
Omori is #199! Three Final Stage appearances! Only Nagano has more! Monkikki is through!
Nagano-san! #200!
Last Battle!
Long fluff piece!
Steps quickly, log quickly, hmm he's doing this fast. OH NO! He slipped on the wall! Time is going red! NO!
...just kidding. You thought Nagano would fail on the Wall? He cleared!
200 tried! 93 cleared!
This is going to be a long tournament.
Top 11 in time:
1. Toshihiro Takeda
2. Brian Orosco
3. Kane Kosugi
4. Shigenori Ueki
5. Keita Tomino
6. Koji Hashimoto
7. Koji Yamada
8. Shingo Yamamoto
9. Levi Meeuwenberg
10. Makoto Nagano
11. Akira Omori
