If this is the end, this is how I want it to end.

[rcplanes59]

Okay, so Monster 9 hypes a All-Stars vs New Heroes competition and brings in UNCLI and Kanno vs the six All-Stars. They bring back the likes of Omori, Ijima, Kosugi, the Yamamoto brothers from the first SASUKE, and the guy who cleared with 33 sec left. They show a bunch of old clips to get us in the mood, and some of the obstacles are replaced with old ones. ex. in the First Stage they replace the Curtain Slider with the Rolling Log, the Log Grip with the Circle Slider, and the Slider Jump with the Jump Hang. In the second stage they put the Spider Walk back in. In the third stage they put in the Rumbling Dice, Lamp Grasper, and Curtain Slider at the beginning and end with the Pipe Slider. Anyway. They keep a running scoreboard of who is winning between the All-Stars and the New Heroes. The New Heroes win stage 1 by a score of 4-3. In all 15 people clear Stage 1. In the Second Stage the Salmon Ladder kills 5 people and the rest clear. The New Heroes and All-Stars tie. Then in the Third Stage, Urushihara Takeda and Nagano advance to the final, and the All-Stars win. Urushihara and Takeda fail miserably but Urushihara makes it farther up the rope. So then it's up to Nagano to save the All-Stars in this big competition to end it all except he steps up and says that it's not for himself or the All-Stars, it's all of us together against this Final Stage. Everyone is uber excited and Nagano wins by a fraction of a second. Everyone erupts, smoke goes off, and M9 gives the victory to everyone, Nagano cries, and we see a bunch of clips about how they all did it together and the credits roll. And at the end, we see a replay of Tanaka Tomokazu's run and Nagano's 24 run and that's the end of SASUKE.

Thoughts?

[arsenette]

Thoughts? Stop making end of world threads.. this has been discussed at nauseum in other threads and even TWO with polls.. can a mod please lock this?

[jfeathe]

I honestly do not believe this is the last Sasuke.

Everyone is assuming that because this tournament is being done up so "grand" it's the last. Maybe M9 just wants to do a special tournament for the heck of it.

If we were back in 2005 when they did 3 tournaments, we probably would probably come to the same conclusion of "It's the Final Sasuke! They badly want a winner!"

It's super easy to speculate, but super hard to actually guess accurately...

[Deleted]

Nov 30, 2009 21:19:52 GMT -5 arsenette said:

Thoughts? Stop making end of world threads.. this has been discussed at nauseum in other threads and even TWO with polls.. can a mod please lock this?

I think this was just how he hoped the last sasuke would be like.

At least he just wasn't "Hey guys, hey guess what, this is the final sasuke."

If that was what the final sasuke was like, that would be awesome.

[rcplanes59]

I honestly don't think it's the last SASUKE, and like JP said this is how I'd want it to end.

[VenusHeadTrap]

Nov 30, 2009 21:19:52 GMT -5 arsenette said:

Thoughts? Stop making end of world threads.. this has been discussed at nauseum in other threads and even TWO with polls.. can a mod please lock this?

Perhaps it's a subject you got to discuss numerous times but he did not, chill. Though I get the theory of a subject already being posted, jus don't come into any threads I make with that kind of attitude.

[arsenette]

He's posted it in every single post regarding the issue. He seems to be the only one spreading the rumor that it's over. Everyone else keeps trying to just enjoy the show and talk about who might be coming and he spreads doom and gloom and zomg it's over and this is how I want it. Considering how many times someone can take a rumor like that and plast it all over the internet it's a bit annoying. Lord knows we have gotten a lot of mistranslations because Google translator is far from perfect.. this is just getting out of hand. It's like M9 hasn't done a Winter show, or a special with the best of ever in their history. Heck.. he must be a new fan because the last special was just last year and we didn't hear any bitching about how it was going to end after it.. /sigh

[VenusHeadTrap]

Dec 1, 2009 8:55:58 GMT -5 arsenette said:

He's posted it in every single post regarding the issue. He seems to be the only one spreading the rumor that it's over. Everyone else keeps trying to just enjoy the show and talk about who might be coming and he spreads doom and gloom and zomg it's over and this is how I want it. Considering how many times someone can take a rumor like that and plast it all over the internet it's a bit annoying. Lord knows we have gotten a lot of mistranslations because Google translator is far from perfect.. this is just getting out of hand. It's like M9 hasn't done a Winter show, or a special with the best of ever in their history. Heck.. he must be a new fan because the last special was just last year and we didn't hear any bitching about how it was going to end after it.. /sigh

I see now. I will presume that we will look back and laugh at ourselves for when we thought it would be the last one lol.

[arsenette]

New people who don't read every post will see these and go "oh so it is ending" then leave and keep perpetuating the rumor. I already know some people stopped reading the forums for the same reason. It's going to be the longest month waiting to begin with for Sasuke 24 because the taping date is sooo close yet the airdate is friggin 3 weeks.. so reading all of these threads that pertain nothing to the show in Sasuke 24 forum only detracts from the purpose of the specific forum. I don't want to lose anymore posters for that reason. It's supposed to be fun!

[SRW]

For the record I personally don't think this is the last SASUKE but I definatly think they are gearing up this one for a big event and a New years day Victor.

[artyfowljr]

well, this is NOT gonna be the end, but damn, if there's gonna be a last Sasuke (Olympics-style anyone? ) it should be like this to make it perfect. This or all the All-Stars and all the New Stars achieve Kanzenseiha.

[Gavo]

Nov 30, 2009 21:17:45 GMT -5 @rcplanes59 said:

1 Okay, so Monster 9 hypes a All-Stars vs New Heroes competition and brings in UNCLI and Kanno vs the six All-Stars.

2 They bring back the likes of Omori, Ijima, Kosugi, the Yamamoto brothers from the first SASUKE, and the guy who cleared with 33 sec left.

3 some of the obstacles are replaced with old ones. ex. in the First Stage they replace the Curtain Slider with the Rolling Log, the Log Grip with the Circle Slider, and the Slider Jump with the Jump Hang. In the second stage they put the Spider Walk back in. In the third stage they put in the Rumbling Dice, Lamp grasper and Curtain Slider at the beginning.

4 Anyway. They keep a running scoreboard of who is winning between the All-Stars and the New Heroes. The New Heroes win stage 1 by a score of 4-3. In all 15 people clear Stage 1.

5 So then it's up to Nagano to save the All-Stars in this big competition to end it all except he steps up and says that it's not for himself or the All-Stars, it's all of us together against this Final Stage. Everyone is uber excited and Nagano wins by a fraction of a second.

I'm going to answer these the way I numbered them in the quote egg when I put one I'm replying to 1 in the quote and so on.

1 hyping yuuji and kanno is totally understandable (they have both been to the final stage after all ) but why would m9 invite the other 4 members of uncli to join the new stars. They don't even give them free spots to sasuke and none of the other 4 have ever even cleared the first stage and tomino hasn't even been to sasuke so why would they just throw him into the deep end.

2. I would like to see all of them back but what about people not in sasuke 1 like shunsuke, shinji, masaki, the Hamm brothers, also how could you mention sasuke 1 competitors and not mention hasegawa. Also when was the last time tbs mentioned the 33 second clear guy.

3. Bringing back the rolling log and jump hang would be nice (I swear I would cry if they brought the jump hang back) why would they bring back the circle slider an obstacle that was there for only 1 tournament and it would be make way more sense if the jump hang replaced the jumping spider not the slider jump. The spider walk would last way too long if it's in the 2nd stage and if you meant the 7-17 version that did only eliminate 4 people IIRC. And between them the rumbling dice, lamp grasped and I assume you meant the curtain cling only were failed 9 times and that would be lower if it wasn't for daisuke nakata.

4. A scoreboard would only ever work in sasuke if it's spread over a number tournaments (as I will be doing in a few weeks maybe before Christmas maybe after. )and then it would only work for people against each other not teams. Also for the other 8 people who clear but aren't an all/new star why are they even there if there clears don't contribute to anything.

5. What if Nagano fails before/time out on the final stage would they have to do this all over again.

This is not a personal bash but it's just showing the flaws with this idea.

As for what I think will happen during the last sasuke. I believe it would be like any other tournament no one not even m9/tbs would know it would be the last and when they should announce the next sasuke they announce there won't be another sasuke regardless of what happens in the previous tournament. Also I believe this isn't the last one

[yamfriend]

How about having Katsumi Yamada clearing (at least) Stage 1 again? That would be nice, especially considering his background. ;D

[supersheep]

Dec 1, 2009 13:06:24 GMT -5 Gavo said:

Nov 30, 2009 21:17:45 GMT -5 @rcplanes59 said:

1 Okay, so Monster 9 hypes a All-Stars vs New Heroes competition and brings in UNCLI and Kanno vs the six All-Stars.

2 They bring back the likes of Omori, Ijima, Kosugi, the Yamamoto brothers from the first SASUKE, and the guy who cleared with 33 sec left.

3 some of the obstacles are replaced with old ones. ex. in the First Stage they replace the Curtain Slider with the Rolling Log, the Log Grip with the Circle Slider, and the Slider Jump with the Jump Hang. In the second stage they put the Spider Walk back in. In the third stage they put in the Rumbling Dice, Lamp grasper and Curtain Slider at the beginning.

4 Anyway. They keep a running scoreboard of who is winning between the All-Stars and the New Heroes. The New Heroes win stage 1 by a score of 4-3. In all 15 people clear Stage 1.

5 So then it's up to Nagano to save the All-Stars in this big competition to end it all except he steps up and says that it's not for himself or the All-Stars, it's all of us together against this Final Stage. Everyone is uber excited and Nagano wins by a fraction of a second.

I'm going to answer these the way I numbered them in the quote egg when I put one I'm replying to 1 in the quote and so on.

1 hyping yuuji and kanno is totally understandable (they have both been to the final stage after all ) but why would m9 invite the other 4 members of uncli to join the new stars. They don't even give them free spots to sasuke and none of the other 4 have ever even cleared the first stage and tomino hasn't even been to sasuke so why would they just throw him into the deep end.

2. I would like to see all of them back but what about people not in sasuke 1 like shunsuke, shinji, masaki, the Hamm brothers, also how could you mention sasuke 1 competitors and not mention hasegawa. Also when was the last time tbs mentioned the 33 second clear guy.

3. Bringing back the rolling log and jump hang would be nice (I swear I would cry if they brought the jump hang back) why would they bring back the circle slider an obstacle that was there for only 1 tournament and it would be make way more sense if the jump hang replaced the jumping spider not the slider jump. The spider walk would last way too long if it's in the 2nd stage and if you meant the 7-17 version that did only eliminate 4 people IIRC. And between them the rumbling dice, lamp grasped and I assume you meant the curtain cling only were failed 9 times and that would be lower if it wasn't for daisuke nakata.

4. A scoreboard would only ever work in sasuke if it's spread over a number tournaments (as I will be doing in a few weeks maybe before Christmas maybe after. )and then it would only work for people against each other not teams. Also for the other 8 people who clear but aren't an all/new star why are they even there if there clears don't contribute to anything.

5. What if Nagano fails before/time out on the final stage would they have to do this all over again.

I agree with all of that, but must expand on it more.

1: Outside of our community, most don't know or care what UNCLI is. Notice nearly all of Ryo and Keita's suscribers on YouTube are from outside Japan? And you cannot argue its because people from Japan dont use YouTube, my site since I started putting up Sasuke music has gotten 35,000 hits from Japan, almost double the US hits.

2: You're assuming that people like Hasegawa and the Yamamoto brothers want to compete. Sasuke can't just "bring them back," none of them are under any contractual obligations to return, and for all we know aren't even in Japan anymore.

3: First off, if you had the rolling log and the circle slider back to back, you'd either have to start WAY up in the air, or end up underground. And why do we need to see all old obstacles again? I, and many others have an entire library of that on my hard drive.

4: Since when was Sasuke a competition between people? Last i checked its Man vs Course, which is the whole reason a lot of us love it because its not man vs. man and everyone roots for everyone. I dont think personal rivalries have a place in Sasuke.

5: Doesn't he usually say something like that anyway?

Theres my 2 cents.

[Deleted]

Dec 1, 2009 19:34:30 GMT -5 yamfriend said:

How about having Katsumi Yamada clearing (at least) Stage 1 again? That would be nice, especially considering his background. ;D

Agreed. Mr.Sasuke being Mr.Sasuke just one more time would own my world.

[Zorn]

How about for a last Sasuke they should just get everyone who has ever competed and bring them all together for one huge special competition. I know getting everyone who's competed would be impossible, but still....a man can dream can't he?

[FAMAS]

Dec 2, 2009 22:49:57 GMT -5 Zorn said:

How about for a last Sasuke they should just get everyone who has ever competed and bring them all together for one huge special competition. I know getting everyone who's competed would be impossible, but still....a man can dream can't he?

Or perhaps something like the top 100 competitors? Chosen by TBS or a public vote? That would be cool

[wampa]

o i miss asaoka the school teacher