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Post by dakohosu on Oct 23, 2022 12:30:14 GMT -5
Thought I’d make a thread regarding missing faces this year: - Takeru is in the US so he’s not competing - Mori injured his Achilles tendon (I think) so he’s obviously not competing either - Darvish isn’t competing for unknown reasons. I believe he was ill for a while, potentially Covid, and has taken a while to recover. Here is evidence for all of the above: - Takeru: http://instagram.com/p/CkDnBP5JZyO - Mori: http://instagram.com/p/CjzTYtNLr9o - Darvish’s Instagram: instagram.com/ketsu.no.kamisama?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=I fully realise that if numbers come out in the next day or so that this thread will immediately become outdated, but if anyone hears anything else post it on here. Also please don’t post competitors who are very obviously not competing like those who haven’t competed in years, or even Takeda. |
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Post by azn on Oct 23, 2022 13:30:16 GMT -5
- Mori injured his Achilles tendon (I think) so he’s obviously not competing either Your right about Mori, translating his post will mention that he came back from Achilles surgery Idk if he was intending to compete or not but damn, a second achilles injury, first from Sato and now from Mori. If that is the case for Darvish, then this will be his first missed tournament in 9 years. Considering his rep around SMF being akin to a rollercoaster in terms of how people feel about him, that's either gonna be a great thing for some, or vice versa. |
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Post by dakohosu on Oct 23, 2022 15:41:51 GMT -5
- Mori injured his Achilles tendon (I think) so he’s obviously not competing either Your right about Mori, translating his post will mention that he came back from Achilles surgery Idk if he was intending to compete or not but damn, a second achilles injury, first from Sato and now from Mori. If that is the case for Darvish, then this will be his first missed tournament in 9 years. Considering his rep around SMF being akin to a rollercoaster in terms of how people feel about him, that's either gonna be a great thing for some, or vice versa. Yep unfortunately Achilles injuries are incredibly common in this line of sport, apparently up to 18% in athletic individuals. Don’t forget Kanno also injured his Achilles in 33, so that makes three. Yeah the reason I linked Darvish’s whole profile is cos there was no post outright saying he wasn’t competing, but if you translate a lot of his recent posts it’s always something along the lines of him saying that he’s struggling to walk or run a short distance. I know he was ill a while ago, my first thought was that it was long Covid or something, because he seems to still be in the recovery process. I also figured that he’s losing interest due to the amount of bulls**t surrounding his recent fails (wet weather, obstacle malfunction, wet weather, in that order), as he went from posting loads of Sasuke related content several times a week to not posting at all. But I wouldn’t suspect he’d retire this early, so clearly there’s a different reason for his absence, hence I hypothesised the above. |
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Post by azn on Oct 23, 2022 19:44:09 GMT -5
Your right about Mori, translating his post will mention that he came back from Achilles surgery Idk if he was intending to compete or not but damn, a second achilles injury, first from Sato and now from Mori. If that is the case for Darvish, then this will be his first missed tournament in 9 years. Considering his rep around SMF being akin to a rollercoaster in terms of how people feel about him, that's either gonna be a great thing for some, or vice versa. Yep unfortunately Achilles injuries are incredibly common in this line of sport, apparently up to 18% in athletic individuals. Don’t forget Kanno also injured his Achilles in 33, so that makes three. I kinda wrote it like that considering this was the second occurance in the last 2-3 yrs but yeah, Kanno's thus makes it 3 in 5 yrs so luckilly it isn't that much of a common occurence but still, we know how Kanno has done since, Sato seems to have recovered based on his IG posts but we'll see what happens this yr. Mori apparently threatened retirement when he competed on SPODAN, and this injury probably is gonna help him do that in case he was contemplating that sentiment, and it could have it's effect on SASUKE. Either way it's unfortunate and as someone who's strained their achilles, it's rough dealing with a strain, I'm sure it's rougher dealing with a complete tear. Just to go back on topic here and mention that Shunsuke MAY be absent, and I think you actually stated this on another thread. But until the numbers come out, it's a big maybe. |
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Post by dakohosu on Oct 24, 2022 8:37:25 GMT -5
Yep unfortunately Achilles injuries are incredibly common in this line of sport, apparently up to 18% in athletic individuals. Don’t forget Kanno also injured his Achilles in 33, so that makes three. I kinda wrote it like that considering this was the second occurance in the last 2-3 yrs but yeah, Kanno's thus makes it 3 in 5 yrs so luckilly it isn't that much of a common occurence but still, we know how Kanno has done since, Sato seems to have recovered based on his IG posts but we'll see what happens this yr. Mori apparently threatened retirement when he competed on SPODAN, and this injury probably is gonna help him do that in case he was contemplating that sentiment, and it could have it's effect on SASUKE. Either way it's unfortunate and as someone who's strained their achilles, it's rough dealing with a strain, I'm sure it's rougher dealing with a complete tear. Just to go back on topic here and mention that Shunsuke MAY be absent, and I think you actually stated this on another thread. But until the numbers come out, it's a big maybe. Well it doesn’t look like they’re going to release numbers for a little while at least. After 36 and 37 were taped they came out immediately but there was a 3-week gap between 38/39’s taping date and numbers being revealed. Yeah on the topic of Shunsuke I figured it was because he was posting Instagram stories about food during taping where pretty much everyone goes radio silent as photos and social media activity is banned during the tournament for obvious reasons, but I didn’t take note of what time he posted those stories. After all, he wouldn’t have gone to a training session (albeit his one annual training session before each competition) if he wasn’t going to compete, nor would he make a big fuss about retiring in 40 if he wasn’t going to show up in the first place. |
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Post by katoshiho on Oct 25, 2022 2:33:07 GMT -5
Maybe Ugajin Shogo will compete this year.
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Post by Dazed (Wiin) on Oct 25, 2022 4:57:15 GMT -5
Maybe Ugajin Shogo will compete this year. I hope so! |
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Post by dakohosu on Oct 25, 2022 13:49:10 GMT -5
Maybe Ugajin Shogo will compete this year. Honestly I doubt it. He was part of that Stage 2 group that miraculously disappeared after 34-36, likely because Inui didn’t think they had enough potential to be rising stars and wanted to boost the number of joke competitors and celebrities so something had to give with only 100 slots available. Kind of supported by the fact that every single one of his six runs got either digested or cut, the fact that he got declined from 39, and how he’s now confirmed not to be a part of the Morimoto Sedai. Given the direction the show is going in his chances of coming back are getting slimmer with higher celebrity presence at the expense of regular competitors, as well as the fact that it seems as though they’re allocating several slots to rookie competitors recommended by Yusuke etc. Hence rendering his chances of getting on even lower. It is a bit of a shame though, as he would’ve probably reached Stage 3 in 36 had he not slipped on the Reverse Conveyer as he had enough time left, which let’s be honest could’ve easily resulted in him being perennially invited back and even actually becoming a Morimoto Sedai as it was the tournament of their conception. Hot take, but I could have definitely seen Tada and Araki also having stopped being invited if they didn’t break out in 36. Just makes you think what could’ve been. |
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Post by zoran on Oct 26, 2022 4:19:46 GMT -5
Maybe Ugajin Shogo will compete this year. Honestly I doubt it. He was part of that Stage 2 group that miraculously disappeared after 34-36, likely because Inui didn’t think they had enough potential to be rising stars and wanted to boost the number of joke competitors and celebrities so something had to give with only 100 slots available. Kind of supported by the fact that every single one of his six runs got either digested or cut, the fact that he got declined from 39, and how he’s now confirmed not to be a part of the Morimoto Sedai. Given the direction the show is going in his chances of coming back are getting slimmer with higher celebrity presence at the expense of regular competitors, as well as the fact that it seems as though they’re allocating several slots to rookie competitors recommended by Yusuke etc. Hence rendering his chances of getting on even lower. It is a bit of a shame though, as he would’ve probably reached Stage 3 in 36 had he not slipped on the Reverse Conveyer as he had enough time left, which let’s be honest could’ve easily resulted in him being perennially invited back and even actually becoming a Morimoto Sedai as it was the tournament of their conception. Hot take, but I could have definitely seen Tada and Araki also having stopped being invited if they didn’t break out in 36. Just makes you think what could’ve been. I don't get why Shogo was shunned, he has that working class, relatable family man vibe that made the all stars and competitors like Hioki so popular. |
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Post by dakohosu on Oct 26, 2022 14:57:34 GMT -5
Honestly I doubt it. He was part of that Stage 2 group that miraculously disappeared after 34-36, likely because Inui didn’t think they had enough potential to be rising stars and wanted to boost the number of joke competitors and celebrities so something had to give with only 100 slots available. Kind of supported by the fact that every single one of his six runs got either digested or cut, the fact that he got declined from 39, and how he’s now confirmed not to be a part of the Morimoto Sedai. Given the direction the show is going in his chances of coming back are getting slimmer with higher celebrity presence at the expense of regular competitors, as well as the fact that it seems as though they’re allocating several slots to rookie competitors recommended by Yusuke etc. Hence rendering his chances of getting on even lower. It is a bit of a shame though, as he would’ve probably reached Stage 3 in 36 had he not slipped on the Reverse Conveyer as he had enough time left, which let’s be honest could’ve easily resulted in him being perennially invited back and even actually becoming a Morimoto Sedai as it was the tournament of their conception. Hot take, but I could have definitely seen Tada and Araki also having stopped being invited if they didn’t break out in 36. Just makes you think what could’ve been. I don't get why Shogo was shunned, he has that working class, relatable family man vibe that made the all stars and competitors like Hioki so popular. Lacklustre results mate. Two Stage 2 fails on fairly easy/stale courses isn’t much to brag about. Same with Dai Igarashi or Takaharu Nakagawa. One’s a professional footballer and the other was pretty fast on Stage 1, which are in and of themselves good qualities to have, but they just didn’t deliver anything beyond mediocre performances. And as I mentioned Inui had to cut a few guys out to make way for more celebs and comedians, so for him at least the stragglers/fodder were the obvious choice. I get what you mean, but Ugajin is definitely no Hioki. I agree Hioki is a little bit overhyped, but prior to when Inui really ramped up the celebrity presence, Hioki had a much stronger presence on the show, having already reached Stage 3 several times and fundamentally having a much longer history with the show, similar to Ryo and Kawaguchi as well. He also has a very popular personality generally. Ugajin was relatively new at the time and clearly his on-screen presence wasn’t worthy of showing. Not saying this as fact, as we never saw any of his interviews etc, but that was obvs Inui’s line of thinking. I agree it sucks that anything short of a deep Stage 3 run is seemingly not enough to warrant being invited back with slots for regular competitors getting tighter and tighter, but we unfortunately have to get used to this. Inui’s greedy as hell. |
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