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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Jan 21, 2023 11:48:06 GMT -5
This is the first tournament to feature a stage completion time range of more than a minute, with Stefanie Edelmann's time of 124.25 seconds being 62.52 seconds slower than Hayate Kajihara's time of 61.73 seconds and 60.26 seconds slower than Jun Sato's time of 63.99 seconds, with Ayano Oshima's time of 122.4 also being 60.67 seconds slower than Kajihara's time.
This is also the second anniversary tournament in a row where Yuuji cleared Stage One in an exact amount of seconds, as he beat 30's Stage One in 82.00 seconds and he beat 40's in 88.00 seconds.
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Post by moistynoisy on Jan 24, 2023 3:16:09 GMT -5
Interesting fun facts!
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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Jan 29, 2023 17:47:12 GMT -5
More facts that would only be useful in a SASUKE Jeopardy type-thing: While only Nagano had ever cleared in two anniversary tournaments before 40, (in 20 and 30) Nagasaki, Hioki, Tomo, Shingo, Yuuji and Yūsuke have now all cleared in both 30 and 40. The Backstream actually claimed victims for the first time since 34 (where coincidentally, there were 24 First Stage clears). Oshima is the first Japanese woman to make it over the Soritatsu Kabe in an actual competition (though Mika Izumi/Watanabe did beat it in 13's trials). Morimoto now holds the record for the most times reaching the top of the Final Stage with 4, (his two Kanzens and his near misses in 36 and 40) beating Nagano and Yuuji who both made it thrice. Adding to that first fact, this also means that Tomo is now the only person to reach Stage 3 in two anniversary tournaments with the rest mentioned having failed on Stage Two in at least one of them. Now for a more bittersweet fact: assuming Akiyama doesn't out of nowhere start competing regularly which is unlikely, we are looking at the final point in history where he's ever competed in over half of all the SASUKE tournaments that have been held, with 40 being his 21st appearance with 19 tournaments where he's been abscence. Savour this people, it's likely never happening again.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 2, 2023 14:42:43 GMT -5
Again, apologies if this has already been said.
Sasuke 40 is only the second tournament that has had no first timers attempting Stage 3 (by first timers I don't mean rookies, I mean their first Stage 3 attempt) where more than 5 attempts are made on the stage. The only other tournament to achieve this was Sasuke 23, which only had 7 attempts vs. 12 in this case.
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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Feb 2, 2023 16:00:06 GMT -5
Again, apologies if this has already been said. Sasuke 40 is only the second tournament that has had no first timers attempting Stage 3 (by first timers I don't mean rookies, I mean their first Stage 3 attempt) where more than 5 attempts are made on the stage. The only other tournament to achieve this was Sasuke 23, which only had 7 attempts vs. 12 in this case. Still find it crazy that everyone on Stage Three had been there before. Oliver and Stefanie got very close to it at least. Anyway, a few more facts related to a thread I made before. Saikawa and Yoshiyuki now stand next to Kane as the only competitors to compete at least four times without failing Stage One. Yoshiyuki is also the only person to have competed four times and never failed Stage Two (and alongside Ken Hasegawa and Paul Kasemir is one of only three people to compete multiple times without failing before Stage Three) while Saikawa now has the most attempts on Stage Two without clearing with 4. Kane ties Yamada's record of never failing Stage One within your first six appearences.
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Post by brz0ny on Feb 2, 2023 16:27:18 GMT -5
After his time out in Second Stage this tournament, 25 is still the only tournament where Shingo failed Second Stage by falling into the water.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 3, 2023 17:40:52 GMT -5
Right, I'm certain this one hasn't been said before.
With Shunsuke's edit in 40, he has now been fully digested five tournaments in a row, which I'm certain is a record for a former finalist. This means that out of his 12 appearances post-hiatus, 11 have had at least one of his runs digested/cut (with 35, which had the joint lowest number of clears in this block of tournaments, being the only exception). 7 of these have been full digests (30, 34, 36-40), while he was all cut in 1 tournament (31). He's only had at least one of his runs shown in 4 of his 12 appearances (Stage 2 in 29, Stages 1 and 3 in 32, Stage 3 in 33, and Stages 1-2 in 35).
Granted a lot of these statistics are driven by the fact that he's largely sucked for the last 5 years and hasn't made it past Stage 1 so there hasn't been much worth showing, but yeah.... TBS REALLY hate his management company lol.
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Post by YourResidentKojiFan on Feb 10, 2023 20:59:33 GMT -5
If we just consider the First Stage's 99.9 second time limit 100 seconds, (which I mean c'mon, what's one tenth of a second matter) then this was the second time the First and Second stages had the same time limit, the first being SASUKE 32.
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Post by yamfriend on Feb 11, 2023 10:51:11 GMT -5
If we just consider the First Stage's 99.9 second time limit 100 seconds, (which I mean c'mon, what's one tenth of a second matter) then this was the second time the First and Second stages had the same time limit, the first being SASUKE 32. To be fair, 99.9 seconds is still different from 100 seconds. As we've seen in the past, every fraction of a second can make the difference between a clear and a time out. In fact, had the time limit for the Second Stage been 99.9 (rather than 100) seconds in Sasuke 40, Kawaguchi would not have gotten a Third Stage attempt.
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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Feb 11, 2023 11:08:23 GMT -5
If we just consider the First Stage's 99.9 second time limit 100 seconds, (which I mean c'mon, what's one tenth of a second matter) then this was the second time the First and Second stages had the same time limit, the first being SASUKE 32. To be fair, 99.9 seconds is still different from 100 seconds. As we've seen in the past, every fraction of a second can make the difference between a clear and a time out. In fact, had the time limit for the Second Stage been 99.9 (rather than 100) seconds in Sasuke 40, Kawaguchi would not have gotten a Third Stage attempt. This is something I noticed as well, he took 99.91 seconds. If he had timed out by 0.01 seconds... I would've literally broken my keyboard in pain
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 11, 2023 13:28:48 GMT -5
which I mean c'mon, what's one tenth of a second matter Terukazu Ishikawa, Jordan Jovtchev, and Tomohiro Kawaguchi would all vehemently disagree with this, lol.
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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Feb 11, 2023 13:32:54 GMT -5
which I mean c'mon, what's one tenth of a second matter Terukazu Ishikawa, Jordan Jovtchev, and Tomohiro Kawaguchi would all vehemently disagree with this, lol. Akiyama and Tadanori Fukayama too lol.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 11, 2023 13:39:23 GMT -5
This is something I noticed as well, he took 99.91 seconds. If he had timed out by 0.01 seconds... I would've literally broken my keyboard in pain I watched his Paravi Stage 2 run and the dude was going fairly quickly throughout the course, he wasn't especially slow on any particular obstacle, yet to say he narrowly avoided timing out would be a grave understatement lol. They definitely made Stage 2 harder other than just taking 5 seconds off the time limit, because a lot of competitors were barely clearing despite hauling absolute a$$, compared to in 39 where we were easily getting 10+ second clears without breaking a sweat. The Backstream and Reverse Conveyer definitely seemed stronger but could just be my imagination. Either way, not complaining. The difficulty of 40's Stage 2 was pretty on point imo.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 11, 2023 13:40:54 GMT -5
Terukazu Ishikawa, Jordan Jovtchev, and Tomohiro Kawaguchi would all vehemently disagree with this, lol. Akiyama and Tadanori Fukayama too lol. Ah yeah thanks, I knew I was forgetting someone, lol.
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Post by brz0ny on Feb 11, 2023 17:55:08 GMT -5
Terukazu Ishikawa, Jordan Jovtchev, and Tomohiro Kawaguchi would all vehemently disagree with this, lol. Akiyama and Tadanori Fukayama too lol. Also the man, the myth, the legend James Okada aswell right?
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 11, 2023 19:05:34 GMT -5
Akiyama and Tadanori Fukayama too lol. Also the man, the myth, the legend James Okada aswell right? I purposely left him out because I’m pretty confident he didn’t actually clear in time but they just let him through with 0.1 seconds left for the drama; it was never made clear how much of your body had to get past the line to signify as a clear, which is obviously why they added the buzzer for the next tournament. The same could be said for Ken Hasegawa and Yo Takashi in Sasuke 1; the time out gun shot went off before they fully got across the line and it seemed too good to be true that they just happened to legitimately pass through in the nick of time.
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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Feb 11, 2023 19:23:38 GMT -5
Akiyama and Tadanori Fukayama too lol. Also the man, the myth, the legend James Okada aswell right? In that case he would've pulled a Jovtchev haha
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Post by darthvaderlim on Feb 11, 2023 19:26:34 GMT -5
Araki has the closest clear second with 4.89 seconds on Stage One and 4.88 on Stage Two in a single tournament. The first was Suzuki with 4.95 on Stage One and 4.96 on Stage Two, but that was on different tournaments (Stage One in 37 and Stage Two in 39).
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Post by YourResidentKojiFan on Feb 11, 2023 19:49:46 GMT -5
Also the man, the myth, the legend James Okada aswell right? I purposely left him out because I’m pretty confident he didn’t actually clear in time but they just let him through with 0.1 seconds left for the drama; it was never made clear how much of your body had to get past the line to signify as a clear, which is obviously why they added the buzzer for the next tournament. The same could be said for Ken Hasegawa and Yo Takashi in Sasuke 1; the time out gun shot went off before they fully got across the line and it seemed too good to be true that they just happened to legitimately pass through in the nick of time. To play devil's advocate, it's not like they're just going to slam the gates closed when a competitor has half their body on either side of the line. There's just no way that would end well. So I think you only had to get your head or a hand across the line, in which case the three above did fairly clear.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 11, 2023 20:18:49 GMT -5
I purposely left him out because I’m pretty confident he didn’t actually clear in time but they just let him through with 0.1 seconds left for the drama; it was never made clear how much of your body had to get past the line to signify as a clear, which is obviously why they added the buzzer for the next tournament. The same could be said for Ken Hasegawa and Yo Takashi in Sasuke 1; the time out gun shot went off before they fully got across the line and it seemed too good to be true that they just happened to legitimately pass through in the nick of time. To play devil's advocate, it's not like they're just going to slam the gates closed when a competitor has half their body on either side of the line. There's just no way that would end well. So I think you only had to get your head or a hand across the line, in which case the three above did fairly clear. So I rewatched the footage of all three runs (Okada, Takashi, Hasegawa). For Takashi and Hasegawa, the timer stopped once any part of their body got across the finish line. In Okada's case, the timer only stopped once he got about half of his body across the finish line. I believe this may have had something to do with the fact that in Sasuke 7, the colour of the goal area was contrasted with the colour of the Wall Lift platform, while in Sasuke 1 they were the same colour. So in the case of the former it was much easier to gauge how much of Okada's body had got across the line. I also stand corrected in terms of the gun shot going off comment; the gun shot did technically go off before the two cleared in Sasuke 1, but for some reason it went off at around 0.5 seconds before the time expired. Agreed on the gate comment, but that's sort of their problem and it's not like they cared about safety back then in any way, shape, or form; far more dangerous obstacles etc. Either way, there was some clear ambiguity as to whether Okada cleared or not as the fact that the buzzer got added for the next tournament couldn't have been a coincidence. Besides, they actually did hoax the timer on ANW4 as apparently Brent didn't clear in time but they just allowed him through with '0.03 seconds' left to prevent there being no Stage 2 clears, so after I found that out I naturally became very distrustful of a lot of these close call clears, lol. That said, NBC are a whole new level of questionable when it comes to these things (e.g. Morimoto on USA vs. World). And yes, I'm a complete saddo for analysing frame by frame footage from an old game show at 1am on Saturday night, I don't regret it one bit (I did go out earlier though...).
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