Best/Worst Toshihiro Takeda Runs

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Best:
SASUKE 5: His debut, beating a first stage that mangled everyone.
SASUKE 6: First time he made Stage 3 and in exciting fashion.
SASUKE 8: First Pipe Slider attempt, he really struggled here.
SASUKE 12: Watching him break his shoulder on the jump was heartbreaking, but watching him tear up the course to get as far as he did was incredible.
SASUKE 14: Setting the times he did for Stages 1 and 2 were insane.
SASUKE 15: It's too bad he didn't have enough left to finish.
SASUKE 17: Again so close, when I first watched this I thought he was gonna make it.
SASUKE 21: Was happy to see him make it back to the Third Stage once more.
SASUKE 23: Happy he came back from his Jumping Spider fail to nearly beat Stage 3.
SASUKE 24: His fail was painful to watch, but seeing him do his best for the All-Stars despite the immense amount of pressure he was under really solidified how much he was pushing himself despite that blockade.
SASUKE 38: Even though he got DQed on the Fish Bone, I was glad to see him destroy the First Stage for the first time in a while.

Worst:
SASUKE 10: He messed up the Jump Hang bad.
SASUKE 20: He had the perfect opportunity to clear yet he wastes time on the Flying Chute.
SASUKE 22: He was off on the Jumping Spider and the fact that it was spoiled in the promos left me bitter.
SASUKE 25: That cocky remark about no one failing the Salmon Ladder... nuff said.
SASUKE 28: This one was just painful to watch, especially since we thought this'd be his last SASUKE.
SASUKE 30: Watching him get DQed thanks to a bogus rule was upsetting.
SASUKE 31: Not only did he copy Shingo's mistake, but he did arguably worse.
SASUKE 36: His injury was heartbreaking to watch.

[hoseasasuke]

Didn't he compete in 29? Imo that run was his worst run ever. He failed on an obstacle that he really should have cleared.

[tns8597]

I agree with all of your 'best' choices so I won't repeat what you've already said.

For his worst I'm going to go with the entire RISING era; he was still tough as nails well into his mid-30s prior to his hiatus, even taking down the Shin-Cliffhanger 3 times despite failing the easier Kai when he was younger, and was still arguably the most consistent All-Star.

Then he takes 2 years off, comes back, and performs the worst out of any All-Star competing for 4 tournaments in a row except for Sasuke 30 where only Yamada did worse, and that's really not saying much. And yes he technically tied with Shingo in 31 but given that he copied Shingo's failed tactic I'd say his fail was worse.

His run in 28 was just painful to watch, his run in 29 further confirmed that he was sort of 'out of the game' and not the same Takeda we knew pre-hiatus. Sure, he cleared Stage 1 in Sasuke 30 but that was one of the easiest iterations we'd seen, and he did worse than Wakky on the Swap Salmon Ladder (I know he was DQ'd but given that the rule should've been that if you land lopsided then you have to redo the swap transitions, I couldn't have seen him making it much farther)..... then as mentioned above his run in 31 was one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen: actively copying a tactic that only minutes ago resulted in an embarrassing fail, unsurprisingly leading to an embarrassing fail. The old, firefighting, orange pants wearing Takeda would never have made such errors back in the day.

Sure, he's done worse in other tournaments that have been mentioned, but in most cases these were on either f*** off hard courses (e.g. 19 and 20) or were freak accidents that were surrounded by Third Stage appearances (e.g. 10 and 22). The RISING era just stands out to me as quite depressing for him because it was the only era where his performances just consistently sucked. I'm glad he's (sort of) bounced back though.