If you could live in an alternate Sasuke universe...

[Ninja Relaxer]

...where just one Sasuke result was different, what would it be?

For me, it would either be a universe where Nagano achieved a second kanzenseiha (in Sasuke 23), or a world where Yamada achieved kanzenseiha in Sasuke 6 (because his loss is just too heartbreaking).

[terrellnelson16]

Man that's a hard decision I would say for SASUKE a world if Takeda made it to the final stage in sasuke 17. Him with nagasaki and nagano all together in the final stage at the same time would be insane (in my opinion).

[Cosmic Castaway]

Easy for me, a Sasuke 24 where Kongu did not have the safety wire mess up his climb to the top of the tower.

[LusitaniaAngel313]

Mine may potentially be... odd... but Shingo in SASUKE 5. If his shoulder wasn't agitating him so much I think he could have made the final in 5. Giving him the wisdom to face it even better in 7. It just depends if his shoulder doesn't repeat itself then...

[tns8597]

I’m sorry but for me I can’t go with Nagano winning again. I feel like at that point he’d had his years of limelight and it was time to pass the baton to someone else. Sure, it would’ve been cool if he’d won again in Sasuke 23, but firstly that would’ve immediately been followed by a bunch of almost Akiyama-level disappointments based on his SASUKE 24 onwards performances, and I think the demographic of high profile competitors was leaning towards the younger rising stars starting to take precedence. Not to mention that the same person winning twice is just a bit underwhelming (sorry Yuuji).

Also I feel like Yamada would’ve probably failed the second Final Stage, given that it took Nagano, who’s much smaller and agile, 4 attempts to beat the course. I don’t think Yamada would’ve been able to do it, and it would’ve further exacerbated his frankly dislikable obsession with the show.

Also, please correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like Kong was about 4-5 seconds slower than Yuuji by the time he finished the ladder, and given that Yuuji cleared with 3.5 seconds left, there was no guarantee that Kongu would’ve cleared. Especially that Yuuji aggressively trained rope climbing. This is down to pure memory, so again correct me if I’m wrong.

I’ve got quite a few alternate ‘universes’ and I can’t decide which one:
- Shinji reaching the Final Stage in SASUKE 11, where he could’ve easily had a chance of total victory due to his speed.
- Bunpei reaching the Final Stage again and potentially achieving victory given how much he trains. He came super close in 13 and 16, imagine seeing someone Kanzen at the age of like 39.
- Takeda reaching the Final in 17, where again I think he could’ve won. I know he was technically closer in 12 but then he dislocated his shoulder; whether that was due to the impact of his failure we don’t know so I’m ruling that out.
- Nagasaki not retiring after SASUKE 19. He was definitely the second strongest competitor only behind Nagano at the time and definitely could’ve achieved victory had he not taken a hiatus. Ever since he’s come back, something about him has just seemed..... sort of off..... especially since Sasuke 34 where he’s been making these really dumb errors.
- Not nerfing the course in 27 and seeing how people do then.
- Kanno reaching the Final in Sasuke 31. This is partially so the results weren’t spoiled; we know there was going to be a Kanzen from the start of the show, so once Kawaguchi failed we knew it was obvs going to be Morimoto.
- Ofc Yuuji reaching the Final in SASUKE 37 at age 41.

[darthvaderlim]

Here are mine

If Asa didn't retire after Sasuke 33

Yamada didn't waste time removing the tape on Sasuke 9

Yamada removing his gloves in Sasuke 12

Akiyama clearing Stage One more often

Bunpei not getting injured and competing after Sasuke 21

Kane not retiring after Sasuke 8

Hashimoto Kouji not retiring after Sasuke 29

Tada Tatsuya competing during the Sasuke Rising era

Tajima Noaya competing after Sasuke 27

[Kane-Not-Kosugi]

There are SO many answers I could go with, but the event that will forever break my heart is that Takeda never got to attempt the final. That'd be my one change. The man deserves it. I don't care which Final Stage either, or which tournament, but that'd be my change.

[tns8597]

Got to be 24 for me.

Seeing 5 far less experienced competitors before you clear and then failing earlier than you did before despite training excessively for years must suck; especially on your 13th attempt at the stage.

At least Tajima didn’t clear (obviously that sucks in its own right) because imagine how bad it would be if Takeda was the only one out of seven to fail Stage 3, it would definitely represent some sort of curse.

Such a shame he never got that far again; ever since his comeback he’s kind of sucked ..... never made it past the Salmon Ladder. Not the iron fireman he once was.

[ChiBiJKT48]

There is one for each All-Stars.

Yamada: SASUKE 6 moment. I can't use SASUKE 3, if he get that Kanzenseiha, he will stop competing because he feel enough and SASUKE will be cancelled together with Kinniku Banzuke. So, no. But, I really wonder if he attempt Final Stage in SASUKE 6.

Yamamoto: Didn't stupidly crash himself in SASUKE 5 that result in his shoulder injury.

Akiyama: Once again clearing Third Stage in SASUKE 12.

Takeda: Didn't broke his shoulder in SASUKE 12.

Nagano: Achieve Kanzenseiha five tournaments earlier.

Shiratori: Didn't get injured after SASUKE 21.

[tns8597]

How did Yamamoto injure his shoulder again? I can't remember but I know it was in Stage 1 because it was taped up before his Stage 2 run.

[Ninja Relaxer]

In the G4 broadcast of Sasuke 5, they say that Shingo's shoulder has a history of dislocating, so I don't think he injured it for the first time on Sasuke. I'm not sure what he did to re-injure it, though.

[ChiBiJKT48]

Sept 12, 2020 16:20:30 GMT -5 tns8597 said:

How did Yamamoto injure his shoulder again? I can't remember but I know it was in Stage 1 because it was taped up before his Stage 2 run.

A little bit promotion here, but, I put SASUKE 5 All Clears video in my YouTube channel. You can see what caused the injury here:

[tns8597]

I wouldn't trust what G4 says.

They tend to bulls*** a lot to make things sound more dramatic.

[tns8597]

Also, imagine how much of a 'f*** you' SASUKE 5 would've been if we went from a competition with 11 Stage 3 contendors and a Kanzenseiha to a tournament where no one even made it past Stage 2.

I say this because that could've genuinely happened given how down to the wire Shingo's run was.

Also yeah I just saw the run now. For those of you that say that alone that bang couldn't have caused a shoulder problem, I minorly injured my rotator cuff doing muscle-ups last year and it's never fully recovered. Certain exercises will also aggravate it.

[nicholasofficial]

Akira Omori wins Sasuke 2 and 3
Katsumi Yamada wins Sasuke 3
Yamamoto wins Sasuke 5 and 7
At least one contestant advances to Sasuke 6 final
Kosugi wins Sasuke 8
Nagano wins Sasuke 12 and 13
Katsumi Yamada sometimes still advances to 2nd stage until before 50 year old
Takeda advances to 2nd stage in Sasuke 20 and 22
Nagano wins Sasuke 23
Urusihara wins Sasuke 24 as last man standing and get number #99 and Kanno get #93 instead and Sasuke 24 broadcasted on 31th December 2009 not 1st January 2010 with live final
Sasuke 25 1st stage obstacles is nearly same with Sasuke 18 and 19 with Rope Glider return, Jumping Spider, Halfpipe Attack, Great Wall, and the Escape Pole for 1st stage final obstacle instead of Rope Ladder, and in 2nd stage after Unstable Bridge no Balance Tank but Delta Bridge instead and Shoulder Walk for last obstacle so in Sasuke 25,then in the 3rd stage there was 8-10 obstacles not 7 obstacles, and in Sasuke 25 only 3 contestants who advances to 2nd stage and only 1 contestant who advances to 3rd stage and failed in Ultimate Cliffhanger
From Sasuke 25-present there are 8-10 obstacles in 3rd stage
Rope Glider return again in Sasuke 28 with Jumping Spider,Halfpipe Attack in 1st stage and no Spider Walk in 2nd stage and Spider Walk changes with Balance Tank
No Spider Walk in Sasuke 28-31 2nd stage and Jumping Spider and Halfpipe attack is avaiable in 1st stage instead
Devil Swing is applied before Pipe Slider in Sasuke 28-present and minimum one additional obstacle so the total obstacle is 8(minimum)
There's bounce ball(like Wipeout) in Sasuke 31
Sasuke 30 and 31 second stage time limit is 90 seconds
Sasuke 31 second stage structure is cross slider+(vertical salmon ladder+horizontal salmon ladder/swap salmon ladder+unstable bridge)+delta bridge+metal spin+wall lift in 90 s
From sasuke 32-present there's ultimate crazy cliffhanger(ultimate + crazy cliff hanger) not ultra crazy cliffhanger
From Sasuke 32-36 there's Killer Surf(the slide is like Wipeout) in 1st stage contestants must slide down the waterslide with the slide mat in contestants hand after that contestants swimming to mattress if contestants put off the mat before leaving the pool they will be eliminated and no backstream for 2nd stage and backstream is changed with balanced tank instead
Sasuke 36 2nd stage time limit is 90 seconds
Shunshuke Nagasaki competes with Morimoto Yusuke in Sasuke 36 final
Sasuke 37 second stage structure is new slider drop(the height same as chain reaction)+salmon ladder+spider walk(+spider drop)+balance tank+conveyer belt+wall lift in 70 seconds
Sasuke 37 third stage structure is Roulette Cylinder+Sidewinder+Planet Bridge+Curtain Cling+Cliffhanger Dimension+Flying Bar+Vertical Limit+Devil Swing+Pipe Slider
Toshihiro Takeda,Shunsuke Nagasaki,Morimoto Yusuke, and Kota Honma advances to 3rd stage, and one more female contestant advances to 2nd stage, Rene become kanzenseiha in Sasuke 37
All finals are broadcasted live and the tapping recording for stage 1,2,3 is held 1-2 weeks before the live final

[azn]

Here are a couple of mine (sry if I repeat, they're so many ones here on this thread lol):

- Takeda/Akiyama making it to the final in SK12, if either or makes the final, then their could be a chance that maybe one of them get's a kanzen, but also this was the tournament were Takeda messed up his shoulder, if that ends differently, his career might be even better than it was. Plus the lineup entering into the final stage would be insane. Asaoka, Shiratori, Nagano and maybe Takeda/Akiyama or even both
- Kane does not retire post SK8
- Morimoto making the final in SK29
- Yamamoto doesn't dislocate his shoulder in both SK7 and SK23
- Kanno not rupturing his heel in SK34
- Yamada does not get D.Q'd in SK12
- Takeda does not get D.Q'd in SK38
- Shinji K making it to the final, preferably in SK14 as he was having one of the best runs for a non all-star at that time. I think he also would've had a better chance getting a kanzen that tournament
- Travis Allen Schroeder not dislodging the pipe in SK4
- Levi clearing the Cliffhanger Kai at least once
- David Campbell hanging on longer in SK27
- Yamamoto Yoshiyuki hanging on longer in SK38
- The weather wasn't so hot in SK15, eliminating Bunpei's heat stroke and possibly going further than Takeda
- Ragivaru not going M.I.A post SK34
- Asa clearing the Crazy Cliffhanger at least once, imagine how hype that moment would be
- G4 not going down when the hype for Ninja Warrior was going widespread, this would mean that potentially, if Ninja Warrior was still going on post SK27, then guys like Morimoto, Sato, Hioki and others would get far more attention globally (especially in the states)