David Campbell's Run

[Ninja Chris]

That was me asking once about how to order one of those shirts. But I didn't understand the process of wading through all that Japanese, and I believe I also heard at the time that they don't ship outside Japan anyway, so unless someone has an idea of what I can do, I don't know how to order one :/

[SRW]

I've got a quick question - I just curious how long after stage 1 finishes is it till they start stage 2? since they usually wait till dark.

[RiderLeangle]

I kind of want to see stage 2 while it's still light. and the new obstacles in stage 1 while it's dark too. Obviously not the same tournament.

Have we even had a daytime stage 2 since Sasuke 2? (Sasuke 1 doesn't count because it's inside so we don't know time of day)

[Lennon]

The 1st stage probably takes so long that they just always seem to have it at night.. Maybe, I don't know. Oh well, I'm sure David can explain.

[Badalight]

Unclesam: Ube was not reffering to you. Someone had ordered if irc 3 shirts.

I think they're like 20$ each, but the shipping is wha hurt him really bad.

Then we talked about if we ever wante to order shirts we'd do it all at once because we'd only have to pay for the shipping once.

[Captain Obvious]

May 4, 2009 3:32:05 GMT -5 davidcampbell said:

after watching the testers run it and get nowhere

Wait... seriously?

As much as I hate to pump you for details on a tiny part of one of your posts:

How many testers?

How did they do (bad, really bad, all about the same bad, some worse than others, some timing out on the ladder)?

Did they climb the ladder portion nearly as fast as Yuuji?

Did they seem just to run out of steam at some point before the top?

After seeing the testers run it, did 45 seconds seem "almost impossible", or did you think it was much more doable than that?

Were you aware of anyone making a comparison between this Final Stage and the previous Final Stage difficulty-wise?

In regards to the speculation by some about some degree of a bungee aspect to the "G Rope", did the testers' runs give you any reason to suspect this speculation to be certain/reasonable/possible/unlikely?

[davidcampbell]

Oh, about the electronic devices. They don't seem to really care, lots of people including my girlfriend can phones and cameras and whatnot. It's not like they search you or anything. It's my understanding though that all guests sign an NDA, so any pictures they take that would be considered spoilers would of course be covered under that. They do seem to be more lenient and trusting than most evens here in the states.

The shirts say "Saske 22" on them, so I don't know if they're the same ones they sell at muscle park? I'm pretty sure they were 2200 yen.

They didn't waste a whole lot of time between stage 1&2 or 2&3, maybe an hour at the most? Though for some reason it took them like 3 hours to hang a rope for stage 4 after stage 3 ended.
I suspect that everything went a little faster than usual and maybe the crew needed to get paid for a certain amount of hours? Some of that time of course was having a few testers run stage 4 and deciding on a time.
It was pretty funny to watch the tester try to do stage 4! They'd barely get to the rope and time out.

[RiderLeangle]

[quote author=davidcampbell board=s22 thread=718 post=18772 time=1241511127
It was pretty funny to watch the tester try to do stage 4! They'd barely get to the rope and time out.
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And there goes Yuuji who gets to the rope with almost 30 seconds left... XD

[davidcampbell]

Just remembered about this picture with Lee Yen Chi!

[lostinube]

blog.livedoor.jp/musclepark/archives/51371236.html

This is only for shirts for 20 and 21 and only during Golden Week (meaning ending the 6th in Japan).

I'll take a guess and say that the shirts the day of the taping are a different price.

Amazingly enough, despite the fact that phones with camera and video have been de rigueur in Japan for quite a while there have never been any true spoiler photos on the net.

[supernovamaniac]

Wow.... they actually take the time limit after the testers run?

interesting...

[RiderLeangle]

He said that they kept testing the time before Yuuji's run so that "it would be impossible".
He said that in the forum chat where everyone was watching 22 live(ish)

[davidcampbell]

Yeah, I guess they couldn't know what would be an appropriate time limit until they had a few people attempt it. They had a few testers attempt it with various time limits. I believe I said they were trying to make it "almost impossible"? Which it did look watching the testers run it. It looked a lot more possible to see Yuuji attempt it though. I think if he had a better rope climbing technique he would have made it.

[RiderLeangle]

When he was 5-10 feet away with 6 seconds I thought he WAS going to have it.

[Captain Obvious]

May 5, 2009 3:12:07 GMT -5 davidcampbell said:

It was pretty funny to watch the tester try to do stage 4! They'd barely get to the rope and time out.

Was this with the 45 second time limit, or various time limits? Various testers?

Was the ladder swaying and being more uncooperative as you'd expect a rope ladder to be (like for those poor Kunoichi ladies climbing that First Stage ladder leaning backwards at a 45 degree angle), or were they simply just not as fast?

Sorry to keep the questions on this coming, but you've shaken my
(hopefully incorrect) perception that the third version of the Final Stage is easier than the second.

[SRW]

Can you clarify at all about the G rope did it pull down like a bungee cord when bigger tester guys climbed it?!

It's kinda silly they were messing about with the time like this you would think they would already have had all this planned in mind beforehand.

Makes you wonder if they still did not expect a 3rd stage clear and they were all caught off guard,,,,, hmmm.

[davidcampbell]

I didn't notice any spring in the rope. Yes some of those time outs I mentioned were with shorter time limits, should have specified. I think the closest a tester got with the 45sec limit was about half way up the rope.

It makes sense that they'd have to adjust the time limit on the spot, because Sasuke is the only place that can set up this 80 foot tower. I guess they didn't test it the day before because they wanted to keep it secret?

[RiderLeangle]

Well if it took two hours to set up I think at this point they just expected the Final Space to be a decoration. I mean how often do you see big LED setups on a final stage and them not setting it up until someone reaches it.

[SRW]

I still firmly belive this thing should be 30 - 35 seconds personally regardless if the G rope drags you down or not.

It just sounds like Yuuji 3rd stage clear caught them all off guard and while the obstacles have always been determined ladder - g rope - they for whatever reason never thought of a plausible time for it when they were designing the new course and so they kinda had to really mess about here to come up with one for it, maybe they were confident it would not be reached for a long time who knows.

Still interesting how the original ladder on it seen briefly in 20 credits ad in 21 is stationary steel one and then they made it ropey in this one to make it harder, makes you wonder how easy that would have been in comparison.

[VenusHeadTrap]

I'm not so sure it's been steel at one time. What if you fell? Sure you'd have a bungee harness but you'd be falling right next to a steel ladder, no safety there.