Sasuke Mania site - is now back with news!

[arsenette]

It's now gone.. just that quickly.. first as Ube reported ( lostinube.blogspot.com/2010/07/sasuke-mobile-site-closing.html ) they canceled the mobile phone ap... now today.. the entire SITE is gone.

sasukemania.com/index_1.html

Seems they are permanently shutting down the site and thanking people for their patronage..

ETA: They are back and they put up an appearance.. (I think) in Tokyo of a few Sasuke stars.. FINALLY some news and it's good!

[arsenette]

Just did a small post.. Stay tuned guys..

ramblingrican.blogspot.com/2010/09/sasuke-mania-website-is-gone.html

[SRW]

Yea I discovered this for myself earlier when the site wouldn't come up and didnt for like 3 days.

They cannot end on 25 it was too unclimatic and many things need to be seen.

[arsenette]

The notice can be seen on the .jp part of the site
www.sasukemania.jp/

[Gavo]

And I was having such a great day .

I believe the site closing down is because of one of these 2 reasons.

1. M9 decided that having a site up without updating it wasn't worth the server costs so removed it to save money (assuming there are server costs)
or
2. It's the end of sasuke.

Sadly I'm starting to believe it's because of reason number 2.

[SRW]

Lee said 26 was happening though in october right?

[arsenette]

Sept 15, 2010 7:21:28 GMT -5 SRW said:

Lee said 26 was happening though in october right?

He mentioned that someone told him October but did not confirm a date. That was late August/early September? I asked him just this morning if he knew anything so let's see what he says. He was literally the ONLY one with this information. Nagano and STQ'ers were not told October.. in fact they heard the news from me about that date..

[lostinube]

Sasukemania.jp was the url for the mobile site. It had nothing to do with the regular site. The announcement you are quoting is for the mobile site.

[lars072]

Sad news indeed. But perhaps someone will take the lead and continue SASUKE even though the name may change. Hope the people involved in making SASUKE what it is can also be involved in a new show. Just think- wouldn't it be cool if the All-stars started a new version of SASUKE? Heck, they culd just use Bunpei's obstacle course for starters...

[mikessssssss]

Sept 15, 2010 8:39:02 GMT -5 lostinube said:

Sasukemania.jp was the url for the mobile site. It had nothing to do with the regular site. The announcement you are quoting is for the mobile site.

Thank f*** for that; i almost got pissed off.

[supersheep]

I have to say I'm not surprised this happened, it hadn't really been updated at all this year, and as previously mentioned, the guy whose project that was probably is long gone from M9. Most of the info outside of the history page is extremely old so I'm hoping they just decided it wasn't worth the trouble to have it up.

[YoDaUO]

OK.. this cant be good....

Now im only around 90 percent sure that there will be a Sasuke 26. I was at about 99.

Maybe they will just make a new, better site or something. That site was kinda stupid IMO anyway.

[arsenette]

Heh.. the mobile site had a goodbye but Sasukemania poofed with no fanfare? That's pretty disappointing.. I'll fix the blog to reflect which message that came from. Thanks Ube! Unfortunately doesn't change the fact that it's gone as well....

[supersheep]

Sasukemania was not deserving of fanfare, it was pointless. It could have been something good but they just did'nt do anything with it and it turned out to be nothing.

[SRW]

You know it was down the other week and then came back on a day or two later! The main site I mean.

[arsenette]

It's been intermittent for the past few months but today was the only time it went to "this site no longer exists" rather than "check your internet connection".

[The Chief]

Has anyone assumed the possibility of a major site overhaul? We automatically assume that, "Oh, It's down! It MUST be closing!", when proboards crashes once every 2 weeks. Even still, sheep's right, who cares?

[supersheep]

I'd be shocked if there was an overhaul, keep in mind we're talking about the same people who took 8 months to update for Sasuke 24, and 6 months after the fact still never got around to putting up anything from 25.

[arsenette]

I'm liking Ube's theory from earlier where the site really doesn't matter anyway. I'm just hoping it's not a friggin' Sasuke 26 omen.. That's my concern in this whole thing

[The Chief]

Also, your assuming that it's the same people. Maybe they hired a whole new site crew. I could be totally off-base, but I can dream, can I not?