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Post by darthvaderlim on Jun 12, 2021 2:38:00 GMT -5
Another one, Yamada has made it to Stage Three with only one All-star in his first three attempts: Shingo in 3, Akiyama in 4, Takeda in 6, and himself in 10. Yamada is also the only person to attempt the first three versions of the Cliffhanger. Yuuji has cleared the most Cliffhanger versions with 4 (except for Crazy). Sasuke 27 is the only Kanzen tournament where the previous champion did not fail Stage One. Every Kanzen tournament has a seven one way or another: Sasuke 4 has 37 Stage One clears. Sasuke 17 for being the seventeenth tournament and for the being the first Kanzen in 7 years. Sasuke 24 has 7 Stage Two clears and is the seventh tournament in Shin-Sasuke. Sasuke 27 for being the twenty-seventh tournament and has 27 Stage One Clears. Sasuke 31 has 17 Stage One clears. Sasuke 38 for being the seventh tournament after Yusuke's first Kanzen. Yuuji is the only Grand Champion not to wear a number below #70.
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Post by sasukeninjawarrior on Sept 15, 2021 14:00:43 GMT -5
Everytime Yamada fails Pipe Slider, a competitor last tournament would fail Pipe Slider, and would make it to the final stage the tournament after Yamada, while failing the 1st stage in the tournament Yamada makes it to pipe slider.
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Post by zoran on Sept 15, 2021 14:56:01 GMT -5
Everytime Yamada fails Pipe Slider, a competitor last tournament would fail Pipe Slider, and would make it to the final stage the tournament after Yamada, while failing the 1st stage in the tournament Yamada makes it to pipe slider. That is....bizarre.
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Post by subtleagent on Sept 15, 2021 20:12:55 GMT -5
Had Nagano not grabbed the top of the Shin-Cliffhanger, he would have been the first competitor to defeat a Cliffhanger in it's introductory tournament (as he beat the Kai in 9 being the first (and last) to attempt it) twice (consecutively as well). I'm banking that if he didn't refuse that rerun, he would have done it.
Takeda was the first competitor to complete the Shin-Cliffhanger (21) as well as the last to attempt it (24).
Kong is the only competitor to attempt both the Gyakuso Conveyor and the Reverse Conveyor.
Yamada, Nagasaki and Kane are the only competitors to complete Stage 1 five times without ever failing it (although Nagasaki did fail it in 19, his 6th appearance). Yamada beats the record by doing it six times without a failure (although he would fail it in 7).
Yuuji went the longest without failing Stage 3 with 3 tournaments, failing it in his 4th attempt in 28. Akira Omori ties that record from 1 - 3. Having never failed it in his career.
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Post by dakohosu on Sept 16, 2021 5:18:01 GMT -5
This isn't really a concrete fact per se but whenever Yamada mentioned he was worried about a certain obstacle in Stage 2 he would always fail that obstacle, even if he'd passed it before, the three most salient examples being: - His infamous Sasuke 9 fiasco - He mentioned he was worried about the Balance Tank in 11 (despite having cleared it the tournament prior) then failed it that tournament - He mentioned that he was worried about the Spider Walk again in 12 which leads me to believe he kept his gloves on on purpose (I mean no one had had a problem with remembering that rule before) and got disqualified for that reason.
Other facts....
Koji Yamada, Yuuji, Yamada, and Nagano are the only competitors to be the oldest to attempt Stage 2 in a given tournament and be under the age of 35.
Sasuke 38 was the first tournament since Sasuke 20 where no competitor over the age of 30 reached Stage 3, and the first tournament since Sasuke 1 where there were also at least 5 attempts on the stage.
Sasuke 32's Stage 2 was originally supposed to have a 90 second time limit however due to the poor Stage 1 clear rate they increased it to 115; this is strange as we've never seen the time limit dropped below 105 seconds since then.
Sasuke 31 is the first and only tournament since Sasuke 4 where Stage 1 clears have been completely cut and not acknowledged until the end of the stage (Alexander Mars, whoever #86 was, and Kongu). Sasuke 30 is also the first and only tournament since Sasuke 4 where a competitor has reached Stage 2 yet had both runs completely cut in their entirety (Terukazu Ishikawa).
Sasuke 20 is the only tournament where no competitor who cleared Stage 1 that tournament had cleared in the previous tournament. Sasuke 8, 10, and 19 only had one competitor who had cleared previously, these being Kane Kosugi, Daisuke Nakata, and Yuuji Washimi respectively.
Brian Orosco is the only competitor to have attempted Stage 3 more than once yet never reach the first rest point.
Daisuke Nakata and Masaaki Kobayashi are the only two competitors to have attempted Stage 3 three times or more yet never reached the Cliffhanger obstacle (obviously discounting competitors who attempted Stage 3 prior to Sasuke 4).
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Post by subtleagent on Sept 16, 2021 11:30:17 GMT -5
Funny thing is Yamada didn't even wear gloves in 9 (Ishikawa didn't in 14 either), so he could've easily opted not to again in that case. Then he would have cleared no problem and 12 would've had it's second 100% clear rate, which also baffles me as to why Stage 2 wasn't touched in 13 (guess the producers had a problem with not touching Stage 2 well before post-RISING made it a thing), granted the only prior tournament failure was Shingo (Nakata attempted it in 11, but 11's Stage 2 had 10 extra seconds in that tournament so I don't really count him), but still.
The only other times the glove rule was "forgotten" were in 8 when Shoei sprayed his gloves before taking them off (thankfully for him 8's Stage 2 time limit was ridiculously lenient, no way he would've been able to clear in 12/13's Stage 2 with something like that), and in 16 where Nagasawa started the Spider Walk with the gloves, but went back, took them off, and restarted the obstacle so I don't think he would have been DQed.
Either way I guess that makes Yamada the only competitor to both not wear gloves on the Chain Reaction AND get disqualified for wearing them on the Spider Walk.
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Post by dakohosu on Sept 17, 2021 14:35:17 GMT -5
Yeah as long as you don’t actually complete the obstacle with gloves on you’re fine. I think it’s a bit of a dumb rule generally given that basically every Spider Walk failure has been as a result of the legs slipping rather than the arms, but it was a rule nonetheless that Yamada knew about and still tried to get away with because he was worried about the obstacle that tournament.
He definitely had some sort of block with Stage 2 given that he failed it 6 times and most of those fails were due to him freaking out about a random obstacle that he’d completed before, then failing that obstacle. He’d completed the Balance Tank no problem in 10, got worried about it in 11, then failed it. He got worried over the Spider Walk in both 9 and 12 and both his respective strategies caused him to fail. He never really seemed to have that issue with any other obstacles bar the Warped Wall and that was only after he failed it several times in a row.
That’s why even in his prime I never saw him as a major threat to achieving Total Victory. He always found a way to let his anxiety get the better of him on Stages 1, 2, or 3, and I think even had he made the Final he would’ve been too slow to reach the top in time. If it took Nagano four tries then Yamada definitely wouldn’t have had much of a chance.
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Post by subtleagent on Sept 17, 2021 18:45:54 GMT -5
My guess is Yamada's Stage 2 blocks were because he knew speed was his weakest attribute. So he tried to hack the course in order to dance around that which only ended up causing him to fail anyway. Be it time out or disqualification. I'm still under the impression he lied about the button in his second attempt in 12 since he looked like he only grazed it (Asa did the same in 30 before pressing it legitimately).
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Post by sasukeninjawarrior on Sept 17, 2021 21:34:29 GMT -5
My guess is Yamada's Stage 2 blocks were because he knew speed was his weakest attribute. So he tried to hack the course in order to dance around that which only ended up causing him to fail anyway. Be it time out or disqualification. I'm still under the impression he lied about the button in his second attempt in 12 since he looked like he only grazed it (Asa did the same in 30 before pressing it legitimately). yeah Yamada was never... speedy in stage 2, but him trying to hack it just made it worse.
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Post by subtleagent on Sept 28, 2021 17:44:02 GMT -5
*Naoki Iketani is the only competitor to fail the Double Salmon Ladder twice (26 and 27). *Ragivaru Anastase is the only competitor to attempt a jumping Cliffhanger twice and never make it to the jump. Every other competitor who made it to the obstacle at least attempted the jump.
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Post by dakohosu on Sept 29, 2021 12:15:20 GMT -5
Really not surprised about the Anastase fact.
The guy was just far too big and bulky to have had a real chance on Stage 3. Not saying it isn't possible; guys like Drew were on the bigger side and he did pretty well on Sasuke but he also owned a ninja gym and trained on it like 10 hours a day. As it stands specifically Sasuke's Stage 3 which is far more grip oriented and hence biased towards small rock climber types basically renders it almost impossible for someone of that build to do well.
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Post by subtleagent on Sept 29, 2021 12:27:27 GMT -5
I agree, he had no chance in hell at the jump (not that anyone had any real chance on that Stage 3 in 34 anyway, but still). He was pretty good in getting to Stage 3, but he didn't really leave any tangible impact. That said he did get to Stage 3 in 3/4 of his attempts with his Rolling Hill fail in 33 being the exception, and even then he arrived at the tournament on short notice and had like no time to prep for his run so it's not like he failed it out of lack of skill.
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Post by dakohosu on Sept 29, 2021 13:31:40 GMT -5
Yeah which is mad if you think about it. He could’ve easily had a 4 for 4 on Stage 3 which is literally unheard of, especially given that this is a time where rookies doing well is basically non-existent, let alone getting the fastest times in Stages 1 and 2. I always remember his Sasuke 31 debut as one of the most badass breakouts we’ve ever seen. Rolling Hill translation issue thing aside the guy just looks as though he’s a joke competitor then comes out of nowhere to clear the stage with 35 seconds left.
But yeah agreed he had no shot on Stage 3, which isn’t too much of an insult given that basically no one does bar Yusuke these days. I wonder how he would’ve done had he kept competing given his mad consistency. I reckon he would’ve become a Stage 3 regular easily.
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Post by subtleagent on Oct 2, 2021 22:16:29 GMT -5
*Kawaguchi is the last competitor to fail the Crazy Cliffhanger and Ultra Crazy Cliffhanger as well as the last to attempt the former altogether. *Shingo was the first competitor to attempt the Body Prop as well as the last to fail it. *Nagano was the last to attempt the Cliffhanger Kai and Ultimate Cliffhanger as well as being the last to fail the latter.
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Post by ChiBiJKT48 on Nov 2, 2021 15:03:38 GMT -5
Wednesday and Saturday are currently the top two picked days in terms of when SASUKE being aired. However, SASUKE had never been aired on a Saturday since they separated from Kinniku Banzuke, in contrast to when it always being aired on a Saturday when it was still under Kinniku Banzuke.
Complete list: Monday: SASUKE 22, 27, 35, 36. Tuesday: SASUKE 13, 14, 37, 38. Wednesday: SASUKE 10, 12, 15, 17-21, 31. Thursday: SASUKE 28-30. Friday: SASUKE 11, 16, 24. Saturday: SASUKE 1-9. Sunday: SASUKE 23, 25, 26, 32-34.
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