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Post by RiderLeangle on Sept 25, 2011 16:12:38 GMT -5
The problem was he should have said he wondered if Yamada could clear the first stage of anything anymore  |
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Post by arsenette on Sept 25, 2011 16:24:29 GMT -5
I went to bed right afterwards.. and yes Yamada was knocked out in the first round. It was a surreal experience honestly. The entire atmosphere of the tournament was fun and games and a lot of joking around. Even the fluff pieces were joking with mock poses and such (especially in the celebrity round).. heck the person who was going up against Yamada had a training session on the beach where he had that diaper thing on (sorry can't remember the name of it) with a looooooong sash running behind him.. his friends set it on fire and had him run to the ocean to turn it off.. they were testing how fast he ran before his butt was on fire.. so if that doesn't give you an idea of the atmosphere of the show.. nothing else will.. LOL Either way.. they got to Yamada's fluff piece (they went in order.. left to right from that image I had on my page) and so Yamada's bout was last to go out of the first round. Anyway.. Yamada's piece came on as the tailend piece of that guy with the burning diaper. The guy was sitting with his friends and was given an envelope as to who he was going to be going up against.. and he read Yamada's name and the entire room was in shock and started laughing "You mean Mr. SASUKE?" All during the fluff piece you can hear the entire arena (where they were having the bout and were watching the fluff piece just as we were seeing it at home) were laughing incessantly. Yamada was taking it seriously, even making a mock ring at home under the rain.. very dramatic.. but I could barely hear his fluff piece over the laughter from the audience. It was.. weird.. even when he lost to burning diaper man (I haven't looked up his name sorry) people were STILL laughing.. it was.. weird. Yamada kidna had a pushed smile.. he really did look like a fish out of water. I think half the people or more than half the people in the audience were figuring out wtf was he doing there.. either way they put Sasuke's date and time on the screen and so people know to watch next week. Ube told me later that even an hour past his bout Mr. Sasuke was still trending on Japanese twitter and was even after I logged off. Maybe that little thing on this week will bring more people next week? Stranger things have happened.
As for the taping. I have it but it's not very good. My VLC has a weird way of screwing up the taping so I'll check on Youtube later to see if they have his bout isolated. Given how much he was trending on twitter.. I'm sure at least one recording exists by now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 16:51:05 GMT -5
Crud! I was hoping Yamada would at least win the first round. Did he just not know how to fight, or was it because his opponent outweighed him by 33 pounds?
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Post by arsenette on Sept 25, 2011 17:01:56 GMT -5
No actually the fight itself was good. It was just he got his weight forward on one end and the opponent capitalized and shifted his weight and then fell on top of him as Yamada rolled backwards. Both were locked together trying to grap the seam of the waistband so it wasn't a cheap fight at all. Out of most of the fights.. it was one of the more technical ones. Other ones went by so fast where they were just shoved aside.. this one was actually pretty good. Ya'll know I'm not a Yamada fan at all but Yamada should not be embarrassed at all at how he did. He did pretty good.. just missed-timed a sidestep. If he lost like Dante did to Bobby.. I would have been laughing.. but Yamada did very good.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 17:45:06 GMT -5
Oh, well, that's good. At least he fought well. It can still be frustrating, though. When I grapple in martial arts tournaments and lose, I have to remind myself that I did my best, and I can try again next time and do better. I hope Yamada wasn't too disappointed in himself. I kinda hope he does something like this again.
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Post by lostinube on Sept 25, 2011 21:21:46 GMT -5
The room wasn't in shock. They were confused. The big 誰 - dare - on the screen was an indication. Dare meaning "who." They didn't know who Yamada was until it was explained to them.
Akatsu actually fought against people with sumo experience and then trained with those gangster looking guys (Mikami bakufu) who are "underground" MMA fighters. Yamada made a sumo ring in his driveway and practiced by himself. Yamada was the better athlete and that's the main reason he survived that long.
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Post by arsenette on Sept 26, 2011 14:24:19 GMT -5
There is a video found for the whole thing. Check the usual place. If you don't know what the usual place is.. PM a mod.
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Post by Badalight on Sept 26, 2011 15:07:00 GMT -5
God, that really hurt to watch.
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Post by Badalight on Sept 26, 2011 15:23:07 GMT -5
Also, is that Hirohiko Araki as one of the announcers? I assume not, but he looks exactly like him. edit: nvm |
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Post by lostinube on Sept 27, 2011 10:31:56 GMT -5
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Post by arsenette on Sept 27, 2011 13:29:46 GMT -5
Hmm.. so although it trended in twitter there were actually less people actually watching? At least it seemed from the Google translation I got. |
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Post by lhii789 on Sept 27, 2011 18:49:43 GMT -5
Oh well. There goes our hopes for future SASUKE.  (Unless the rating will be high, which I highly doubt). |
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Post by supersheep on Sept 27, 2011 19:00:15 GMT -5
Oh well. There goes our hopes for future SASUKE. (Unless the rating will be high, which I highly doubt). Uhh why would the ratings for that show have the slightest bit to do with the future of Sasuke? |
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Post by TCM on Sept 27, 2011 19:09:12 GMT -5
Oh well. There goes our hopes for future SASUKE. (Unless the rating will be high, which I highly doubt). Uhh why would the ratings for that show have the slightest bit to do with the future of Sasuke? If anything, it's low-risk, high-reward. It got Sasuke trending on Twitter for a bit because Yamada was on it, could mean couple extra viewers Sasuke would gladly take right now. |
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Post by supersheep on Sept 27, 2011 19:51:23 GMT -5
I don't see how they relate at all, I mean, that's like saying Football is doomed because the Celebrity Wheel of Fortune with Tom Brady on it got bad ratings. I mean, it wasn't a Sasuke show, Yamada wasn't even a major part of it, he was just a guest.
It is nice that it was trending for a little while, though i suspect in the grand scheme of things it will be irrelivant.
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Post by lhii789 on Sept 27, 2011 21:07:30 GMT -5
Uhh why would the ratings for that show have the slightest bit to do with the future of Sasuke? If anything, it's low-risk, high-reward. It got Sasuke trending on Twitter for a bit because Yamada was on it, could mean couple extra viewers Sasuke would gladly take right now. Here's the thing. The sumo show had more promotion than SASUKE. Like Arsenette stated in her blog, there were at least dozen of articles, while SASUKE had none. The show is a weekly show. The sumo part was special. The show had a lot of celebrities and athletes. Even a show that had more promotions and stars, than SASUKE for last couple of years, the show had a rating under 10 percent. The show was also on same day and time slot as the SASUKE, which will air next Monday. If show like that had less than 10, what makes you guy think SASUKE will have high rating, where there hasn't been any promotion at all, not even commercial (Navi doesn't count, since that's day before.)?  I'm not being mean spirited o hateful to you guys. I'm just saying that this is a reality, the show "tanked" in their dictionary.  Don't get me wrong, I do want SASUKE to have high rating. Even though the chance is really small....... I would be baffled if the show got rating above 10.  |
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Post by Badalight on Sept 27, 2011 21:23:49 GMT -5
It's possible the sumo show was up against heavy competition.
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Post by dudesky1000 on Sept 27, 2011 21:35:19 GMT -5
It's possible the sumo show was up against heavy competition. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE HAHAHAHA! Yeah it could've been up against a lot, and at the very least the Yamada profile bit reminded people of SASUKE. I wouldn't be surprised if those who were interested in the sumo show that night were interested in looking up the SASUKE air date. What's stopping at least 3/4 of those 8.5 percent from tuning in again at the same time next week? |
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Post by lostinube on Sept 27, 2011 21:36:03 GMT -5
The show was not being aired in the same time slot as SASUKE. SASUKE will be on a Monday. This was aired on a Sunday. And it was an atypical programming day since this was the first Sunday after the drama season ended. I'm pretty sure Monday is more competitive.
The sumo participants though, were a very narrow band of people - either celebs or MMA fighters/pro wrestlers. It's like seeing WWE guys on a game show. It would stoke the fires of the fans who already follow but it's not going to draw in lots of new people.
If anything, the one thing this proves is that it may not actually matter if TBS promotes SASUKE or not. If no one is watching TBS to begin with then why waste the time, money and effort?
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Post by lostinube on Sept 27, 2011 21:38:06 GMT -5
The shows it was up against and some of their ratings are in the link I provided.
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(Unless the rating will be high, which I highly doubt).
