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Post by dakohosu on Feb 12, 2023 14:09:38 GMT -5
Here’s another fun fact.
Tada now ties Yusuke for most consecutive Stage 3 appearances with more than one clear on the stage. Tada has made Stage 3 every tournament from 36-40, clearing in 37 and 40. Yusuke’s longest streak was also 5 with 31, 33-36 (he missed 32) and he cleared in 31, 35, 36.
Okuyama still holds the record for most consecutive Stage 3 appearances with at least one clear at 6 )22-27, cleared in 24) while Jun holds the all time consecutive Stage 3 appearance record at 8 from 32-38 and 40 (did not compete in 39).
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Post by YourResidentKojiFan on Feb 12, 2023 15:13:46 GMT -5
Tada has also now broken Jordan Jovtchev's record for the most Second Stage attempts without ever failing it, with the former now being five for five on the stage. Crazy to think how he went from a rando to easily a top 3 competitor in the span of a couple tournaments.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 12, 2023 16:39:27 GMT -5
Tada has also now broken Jordan Jovtchev's record for the most Second Stage attempts without ever failing it, with the former now being five for five on the stage. Crazy to think how he went from a rando to easily a top 3 competitor in the span of a couple tournaments. Just shows how you need to give people a couple of tournaments’ contingency for them to get settled into competing and prove themselves before immediately blacklisting them and replacing them with another Kasuga or Soshina/Seiya. I’m actually very surprised Tada even got invited back after his failures in 34-35. Inui’s approach of giving a competitor one tournament, if that, to prove themselves, is really throwing away some legitimate new talent down the line that we so desperately need at this point. Think about what would’ve happened if Yuuji, Yusuke, Ryo, Kawaguchi, Hioki, etc all got dropped after they failed Stage 1 in their first attempts, which they all did….. very possible the show wouldn’t have survived. Hell, there are even rumours circulating around that Yusuke Goto, who fits the bill for a promising dark horse down the line, may not get invited back after his fail in 40. And no, as much as I’d like to I’m not going to yet again bring up Shinya Iwasaki, lol.
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Post by subtleagent on Feb 14, 2023 6:41:21 GMT -5
At 23 clears this tournament is not only the (20, 22, 32, 35, 36, 40) sixth tournament to have a 100% completion rate on the Salmon Ladder, but also has the most attempts on it to achieve such a statistic.
20 - 2 22 - 5 32 - 8 35 - 8 36 - 15 40 - 23
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Post by m4tt3r0x on Feb 16, 2023 23:30:37 GMT -5
Just gonna put this here, and I'm not sure if this has already been known (I could imagine at least to an extent).
Kajihara had 2 full minutes rest before the Cliffhanger Dimension if you watch his Stage 3 feature on the YouTube channel. Is this news to anyone else?
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 17, 2023 5:57:24 GMT -5
Just gonna put this here, and I'm not sure if this has already been known (I could imagine at least to an extent). Kajihara had 2 full minutes rest before the Cliffhanger Dimension if you watch his Stage 3 feature on the YouTube channel. Is this news to anyone else? Yeah I noticed this as well. I always wondered about the rest for the Cliffhanger given that if it was a strict 30 seconds like it is for other obstacles then that would result in competitors being forced to start the obstacle at potentially the worst time in terms of the ledges syncing. But what is weird is how I could hear Inui saying ‘ipun mai’ which means one minute left so clearly they extended the rest time for the Dimension, and even then he took longer as I presume it was one minute plus the amount of time for the ledges to be at their optimal position. Was this the case for anyone else? I’m not on my laptop so I can’t look at the Paravi runs, the only other YouTube video shown was Jun’s and they skipped a chunk out of his rest time before the Cliffhanger. Edit: I'm watching the Paravi runs now; despite it being 'unedited' they actually cut the 2 minutes of rest Kajihara got which was shown in the YouTube video, so I presume they gave this to everyone else and it just wasn't shown. I didn't hear a 'san ju byo' (30 seconds) when any of the competitors touched down on the mat after the Swing Edge which supports my point. They clearly wanted to hide this from viewers as they even cut it from the Paravi version, but I think they probably had enough of the constant Cliffhanger fails so they extended the allocated rest time.
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Post by Sasuke Mania on Feb 20, 2023 13:39:32 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone looked through/pointed these out, but prefectural/regional records. Naoyuki Araki ties his record for Aichi of course by making it to the second transition of Dimension.....and Mei Higashimura's result is actually a personal best for Nara. Nara really hasn't done the best.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 22, 2023 19:39:47 GMT -5
Here’s another one.
First time Kawaguchi went shirtless on the course. I believe this is because he used to have tattoos that he would constantly hide on set due to the implications they have in Japan, but he’s seemingly lasered them off in the last year.
That’s also why he kept taping his arms up on the international shows where they were forced to wear sleeveless tops.
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Post by Sasuke Mania on Feb 23, 2023 15:52:20 GMT -5
Just gonna put this here, and I'm not sure if this has already been known (I could imagine at least to an extent). Kajihara had 2 full minutes rest before the Cliffhanger Dimension if you watch his Stage 3 feature on the YouTube channel. Is this news to anyone else? Yeah I noticed this as well. I always wondered about the rest for the Cliffhanger given that if it was a strict 30 seconds like it is for other obstacles then that would result in competitors being forced to start the obstacle at potentially the worst time in terms of the ledges syncing. But what is weird is how I could hear Inui saying ‘ipun mai’ which means one minute left so clearly they extended the rest time for the Dimension, and even then he took longer as I presume it was one minute plus the amount of time for the ledges to be at their optimal position. Was this the case for anyone else? I’m not on my laptop so I can’t look at the Paravi runs, the only other YouTube video shown was Jun’s and they skipped a chunk out of his rest time before the Cliffhanger. Edit: I'm watching the Paravi runs now; despite it being 'unedited' they actually cut the 2 minutes of rest Kajihara got which was shown in the YouTube video, so I presume they gave this to everyone else and it just wasn't shown. I didn't hear a 'san ju byo' (30 seconds) when any of the competitors touched down on the mat after the Swing Edge which supports my point. They clearly wanted to hide this from viewers as they even cut it from the Paravi version, but I think they probably had enough of the constant Cliffhanger fails so they extended the allocated rest time. I'm gonna be honest, I don't think it was really ever a strict "30 seconds". Some cases in early Sasuke had 20 seconds. Some cases have had 30 seconds. I've seen 45, I've seen a minute. I haven't seen 2 minutes yet though. Depends on the time period I guess, as the obstacles get harder the competitors need a bit more than thirty seconds in order for it to be a fair shot. ...it also depends on whether production is running behind or not as I've just heard them say "at your own pace" instead of counting when there's only one or two left but that's not the point
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Post by katoshiho on Feb 24, 2023 7:35:49 GMT -5
Another fact that people almost forget. This is the first time that having finalists after only 2 tournaments after a Kanzenseiha. Normally, competitors will need 3 tournaments(sometimes even 4, even 5) to having a next finalist after a Kanzenseiha.
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Post by subtleagent on Feb 24, 2023 14:05:58 GMT -5
Yeah I noticed this as well. I always wondered about the rest for the Cliffhanger given that if it was a strict 30 seconds like it is for other obstacles then that would result in competitors being forced to start the obstacle at potentially the worst time in terms of the ledges syncing. But what is weird is how I could hear Inui saying ‘ipun mai’ which means one minute left so clearly they extended the rest time for the Dimension, and even then he took longer as I presume it was one minute plus the amount of time for the ledges to be at their optimal position. Was this the case for anyone else? I’m not on my laptop so I can’t look at the Paravi runs, the only other YouTube video shown was Jun’s and they skipped a chunk out of his rest time before the Cliffhanger. Edit: I'm watching the Paravi runs now; despite it being 'unedited' they actually cut the 2 minutes of rest Kajihara got which was shown in the YouTube video, so I presume they gave this to everyone else and it just wasn't shown. I didn't hear a 'san ju byo' (30 seconds) when any of the competitors touched down on the mat after the Swing Edge which supports my point. They clearly wanted to hide this from viewers as they even cut it from the Paravi version, but I think they probably had enough of the constant Cliffhanger fails so they extended the allocated rest time. I'm gonna be honest, I don't think it was really ever a strict "30 seconds". Some cases in early Sasuke had 20 seconds. Some cases have had 30 seconds. I've seen 45, I've seen a minute. I haven't seen 2 minutes yet though. Depends on the time period I guess, as the obstacles get harder the competitors need a bit more than thirty seconds in order for it to be a fair shot. ...it also depends on whether production is running behind or not as I've just heard them say "at your own pace" instead of counting when there's only one or two left but that's not the pointI remember David Campbell on his YouTube saying they'll generally let you wait a few extra seconds, but if it's clear you're not gonna go on the obstacle then it's declared a forfeit basically. My guess is they extended it for the Cliffhanger because even they realize that constant Cliffhanger bloodbaths without any real forward movement have become tiresome and it's not like we didn't have a fair few fails on it this time as well (only three out of eight, but that's nothing to scoff at either). But even then Drew took like 40 - 50 seconds in SASUKE 32 before the Ultra Crazy Cliffhanger so I'm guessing it's possible to ask for time extensions? I don't know. I think it's not that big a deal given the current Stage 3 is pretty difficult as is.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 25, 2023 20:49:46 GMT -5
This isn’t so much of a fact as more of an observation.
I find it incredibly weird how the only other tournament with three finalists, Sasuke 12, had a similar makeup of competitors in terms of their careers. 12 had a teacher, a civil servant, and a champion (I know Nagano wasn’t a champion at the time but he did go on to win).
Yoshiyuki is a teacher, Tada is a civil servant, and Yusuke is a champion.
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Post by YourResidentKojiFan on Feb 25, 2023 22:06:20 GMT -5
At 23 clears this tournament is not only the (20, 22, 32, 35, 36, 40) sixth tournament to have a 100% completion rate on the Salmon Ladder, but also has the most attempts on it to achieve such a statistic. 20 - 2 22 - 5 32 - 8 35 - 8 36 - 15 40 - 23 Sorry for quoting this after a while, but this has to be addressed. Aside from 20, which had Okuyama and Levi, and 22, which had arguably the four greatest competitors of that era, (the less said about the fifth guy the better) these have all been the Salmon Ladder Nobori/Kudari. Now you may think, "Oh, well, people have gotten better at the Salmon Ladder, it's been around for 15 years. That makes sense." True, but let me introduce you to... *intense drumroll* THE SALMON LADDER FODDER GANG™! Basically, a list of people who I think probably would've failed if the Salmon Ladder was upgraded to a reasonable degree. Obviously this is subjective, but I think most if not all of us can agree on these. Yusuke Suzuki, Kenji Darvish, Shunsuke Nagasaki, (only in 40 as he just simply hasn't been training) Takaharu Nakagawa, Wataru Mori, Shogo Ugajin, Ryoichi Tsukada, Hikaru Iwamoto, and maybe Kane, Shingo and Oshima. So we probably would've had at least one Salmon Ladder fail in all four of those tournaments if it was upgraded. And yet, this abomination has lasted ten tournaments and two renewals... Inui, Inui, Inui...
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 26, 2023 3:23:59 GMT -5
At 23 clears this tournament is not only the (20, 22, 32, 35, 36, 40) sixth tournament to have a 100% completion rate on the Salmon Ladder, but also has the most attempts on it to achieve such a statistic. 20 - 2 22 - 5 32 - 8 35 - 8 36 - 15 40 - 23 Sorry for quoting this after a while, but this has to be addressed. Aside from 20, which had Okuyama and Levi, and 22, which had arguably the four greatest competitors of that era, (the less said about the fifth guy the better) these have all been the Salmon Ladder Nobori/Kudari. Now you may think, "Oh, well, people have gotten better at the Salmon Ladder, it's been around for 15 years. That makes sense." True, but let me introduce you to... *intense drumroll* THE SALMON LADDER FODDER GANG™! Basically, a list of people who I think probably would've failed if the Salmon Ladder was upgraded to a reasonable degree. Obviously this is subjective, but I think most if not all of us can agree on these. Yusuke Suzuki, Kenji Darvish, Shunsuke Nagasaki, (only in 40 as he just simply hasn't been training) Takaharu Nakagawa, Wataru Mori, Shogo Ugajin, Ryoichi Tsukada, Hikaru Iwamoto, and maybe Kane, Shingo and Oshima. So we probably would've had at least one Salmon Ladder fail in all four of those tournaments if it was upgraded. And yet, this abomination has lasted ten tournaments and two renewals... Inui, Inui, Inui... They actually nerfed the Nobori/Kudari in 34 as well. Granted, it was literally about an inch reduction in the spacing between each rung, but still just goes to show how hell bent on keeping this obstacle Inui seems to be…..
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Post by sasukewarrior333 on Feb 26, 2023 9:50:51 GMT -5
Hioki, Keitaro, Tomo, Yuuji and Yusuke maintain their streaks of being the only people to beat the Dragon Glider in every tournament that it's appeared in since SASUKE 35. Of these people, only Hioki has cleared in all of these tournaments as well.
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Post by dakohosu on Mar 11, 2023 11:19:38 GMT -5
New video on Keitaro released. R/e the whole rest time situation, he got a full minute and a half before the Swing Edge, two minutes before the Cliffhanger, and almost two minutes before the Vertical Limit and Pipe Slider each.
Honestly, hot take but I don't really have a problem with this. 30 seconds between obstacles on a course of this difficulty was clearly far too absurd, and there was much needed progression in the results from anyone not called Yusuke Morimoto.
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Post by SasukeDoctor on Apr 5, 2023 22:11:25 GMT -5
I don't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet (please tell me if I'm wrong), but i'm certain we are mostly aware of it by now: Tada becomes the 7th competitor in the shows history to reach the Final Stage at least twice, joining this list: - Omori Akira - Shingo - Nagano Makoto - Urushihara Yuuji - Matachi Ryo - Morimoto Yusuke However he is the only member of this group to have never reached the Tsuna Nobori Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t he only one of two finalists to never touch the Tsuna Nobori? The other being Jotchvev?
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Post by azn on Apr 5, 2023 22:20:51 GMT -5
I don't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet (please tell me if I'm wrong), but i'm certain we are mostly aware of it by now: Tada becomes the 7th competitor in the shows history to reach the Final Stage at least twice, joining this list: - Omori Akira - Shingo - Nagano Makoto - Urushihara Yuuji - Matachi Ryo - Morimoto Yusuke However he is the only member of this group to have never reached the Tsuna Nobori Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t he only one of two finalists to never touch the Tsuna Nobori? The other being Jotchvev? Rene never touched the Tsuna Nobori in SK37, so I believe it's just Jovtchev, Tada, and Rene who never touched the rope.
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Post by moistynoisy on Apr 22, 2023 12:36:27 GMT -5
I love these fun facts!
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