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Post by subtleagent on Feb 3, 2023 6:37:22 GMT -5
Anyway here's mine. I don't really think I'd change Stage 1 much given Stage 1 has become kind of a slog at this point anyway and usually I'm just waiting to get through it to all the good stuff. In fact if any I'd probably digest Stage 1 MORE.
Stage 2 #3910 Koji Saikawa: FR #3924 Yoshinori Isa: FR #3943 Shunsuke Nagasaki: FR #3949 Takasuka Hayato: DG #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: FR #3955 Masashi Hioki: VT, FR #3965 Hayate Kajihara: FR #3971 Ryoichi Tsukada: FR #3972 Jun Sato: VT, FR #3973 Tatsuya Tada: FR #3974 Naoyuki Araki: DG #3975 Keitaro Yamamoto: FR #3976 Tomohiro Muto: DG #3977 Yusuke Suzuki: FR #3982 Ayano Oshima: FR #3984 Stefanie Edelmann: DG #3985 Jessie Graff: FR #3987 Yoshikazu Fujita: DG #3990 Oliver Edelmann: DG #3991 Kane Kosugi: VT, FR #3993 Tomohiro Kawaguchi: FR #3995 Shingo Yamamoto: VT, FR #3999 Yuji Urushihara: VT, FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: FR
Stage 3 #3924 Yoshinori Isa: FR #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: FR #3965 Hayate Kajihara: MC #3972 Jun Sato: MC #3973 Tatsuya Tada: FR #3974 Naoyuki Araki: DG #3975 Keitaro Yamamoto: FR #3976 Tomohiro Muto: DG #3977 Yusuke Suzuki: DG #3993 Tomohiro Kawaguchi: MC #3999 Yuji Urushihara: FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: FR
Stage 4 #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: VL, FR #3973 Tatsuya Tada: VL, FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: VL, FR
Yeah a bunch of clears in a row would be boring, but c'mon. Not showing ANY of them isn't really a good idea either (except Isa and we all know what happened there). Of course since nowadays we have the Paravi digesting and cutting doesn't quite have the same distasteful effect it had 10 years ago.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 3, 2023 13:58:01 GMT -5
Of course since nowadays we have the Paravi digesting and cutting doesn't quite have the same distasteful effect it had 10 years ago. This is actually a good point. I think the Paravi edits and Sasuke YouTube channel give more of an excuse for Inui to cut/digest more of the veterans in favour of aggressively showing the celebrities, knowing that he can show them in full capacity via other means to satisfy people like us. Inui knows that followers of the YouTube channel are, on average, much more hardcore Sasuke fans than viewing the live broadcast, many of whom are only watching for certain celebrity faces, so reserves most of the good content for those videos which gives him more time in the main broadcast to allocate to celebrities. This sort of has the double effect of giving him more 'exclusive' content to post throughout the months after a tournament has aired, hence boosting the YouTube channel following/preventing decline between tournaments. While the main broadcast panders more to the mainstream audience and hence boosts ratings. People tend to judge 'popularity' by numbers alone, so subscribers and ratings are what Inui is fundamentally after. I think this why he suddenly started boosting celebrity presence and Stage 1's runtime for 38 onwards, because that's when started regularly posting on the Sasuke YouTube channel. Of course this didn't make Stage 1 any more bearable to sit through nor did it make Stage 2's edit seem less..... odd, but pragmatically it is a smart move I suppose. Besides, I've kind of accepted that a 3 hour Stage 1 is going to be the status quo from now on as it has been for the past three tournaments now; it's way too long and padded out and some parts of it are boring as f***, but unfortunately I feel like this format is here to stay.
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Post by topazneo on Feb 17, 2023 21:13:31 GMT -5
This was extremely hard to choose who to show and who to cut. I most likely broke the celebrity rule since I did definitely cut at least one celebrity (I read the rule wrong, but I'm not gonna change it honestly), but I really wanted to give competitors the spotlight, whether its their best performance in a while (Shunsuke and Kanno), being in an event associated with the tourney (the Trials) or just because I want to! EDIT: Formatting got screwed over.
Stage 1 #3901 Taiga Harada: FR #3902 Abareru-kun: AC #3903 Katsuhide Torisawa: FR #3904 Mei Higashimura: VT (shared with Kaede), FR #3905 Kaede Sato: FR #3906 Boruneesan: DG #3907 JP: AC #3908 Shogo: MC (skip Silk Slider) #3909 Yusuke Motegi: AC #3910 Koji Saikawa: FR #3911 Takashi Honma: DG #3912 Nishida: DG #3913 Yuta Nakajima: FR #3914 Kaiou Nagano: DG (sorry, had to choose someone) #3915 Tsubaki Suzuka: AC #3916 Acrobat Demon: DG #3917 Ryuji Ota: DG #3918 Atomu Kitabatake: AC #3919 Yu Yamane: DG #3920 Yusuke Shido: DG #3921 Asuka Takagi: AC #3922 Tasuku Mugishima: AC #3923 Koki Takayanagi: DG #3924 Yoshinori Isa: FR #3925 KAREN: DG #3926 Reina Sumi: DG #3927 Honoka: DG #3928 Nozomi Nagasaki: DG #3929 CIMA: AC #3930 Ryusei Houjou: DG #3931 Shinya Iwasaki: DG #3932 Kango Iketeru: AC #3933 Takutaro Soma: AC #3934 Akira Okubo: DG #3935 Mitsutoshi Bemi: DG #3936 Shunpei Yaegashi: VT (shared with Nishimura), FR #3937 Wataru Nishimura: FR #3938 Obata no Onii-san: DG #3939 Yusuke Goto: FR #3940 Daisuke Matsuda: VT, FR #3941 Hideki Ajima: DG #3942 Rinne Sugeta: DG #3943 Shunsuke Nagasaki: VT, FR #3944 Hitoshi Kanno: MC (skip Silk Slider + Fish Bone) #3945 Koji Hashimoto: VT, FR #3946 Naoki Iketani: DG #3947 Toshiaki Kasuga: FR #3948 Fuwa-chan: FR #3949 Hayato Takasuka: VT (shared with Yoshiyuki), DG (sorry, had to choose someone; show highlights at the start, Dragon Glider and the 2nd Warped Wall) #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: FR #3951 Calvin Joe: DG #3952 Kaito Kiyomiya: AC #3953 Kattsuu: AC #3954 Takka: DG #3955 Masashi Hioki: VT, FR #3956 Masanori Hasegawa: AC #3957 Akira Omori: DG #3958 HIKAKIN: VT (let's be real, they'll likely force us to give him one), FR #3959 Sho Kiryuin: DG #3960 Kaito Streets: AC #3961 Crystal Noda: AC #3962 Daiki Kanechika: AC #3963 Soshina: FR #3964 Seiya: FR #3965 Hayate Kajihara: FR #3966 Sho Fukuma: AC #3967 Yusuke Kawano: DG #3968 Masayasu Yagi: DG #3969 Yuta Ozawa: AC #3970 Satsuki: AC #3971 Ryoichi Tsukada: VT, FR #3972 Jun Sato: DG #3973 Tatsuya Tada: DG #3974 Naoyuki Araki: DG #3975 Keitaro Yamamoto: DG #3976 Tomohiro Muto: DG #3977 Yusuke Suzuki: DG #3978 Mitsunori Konnai: AC #3979 Masaki Ito: AC #3980 Yutaka Kyan: DG #3981 Miki Ando: FR #3982 Ayano Oshima: VT, FR #3983 Kanna Asakura: AC #3984 Stefanie Edelmann: VT (shared with all internationals), DG #3985 Jessie Graff: FR #3986 Yoshio Itoi: AC #3987 Yoshikazu Fujita: DG #3988 Hikaru Iwamoto: VT, FR #3989 Kazuya Katayama: AC #3990 Oliver Edelmann: DG #3991 Kane Kosugi: VT, FR #3992 Ikuma Horishima: MC (skip Silk Slider) #3993 Tomohiro Kawaguchi: VT (shared with Matachi), FR #3994 Ryo Matachi: FR #3995 Shingo Yamamoto: VT, FR #3996 Katsumi Yamada: VT, FR #3997 Kazuhiko Akiyama: VT, FR #3998 Makoto Nagano: VT, FR #3999 Yuji Urushihara: VT, FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: VT, FR
Stage 2 #3910 Koji Saikawa: FR #3924 Yoshinori Isa: FR #3943 Shunsuke Nagasaki: DG #3949 Takasuka Hayato: DG #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: DG (controversial, but had to show the fastest Stage Two clear tho) #3955 Masashi Hioki: VT, FR #3965 Hayate Kajihara: FR #3971 Ryoichi Tsukada: FR #3972 Jun Sato: DG #3973 Tatsuya Tada: DG #3974 Naoyuki Araki: DG #3975 Keitaro Yamamoto: DG #3976 Tomohiro Muto: DG #3977 Yusuke Suzuki: DG #3982 Ayano Oshima: FR #3984 Stefanie Edelmann: DG (gonna pull an M9 and show after Jessie) #3985 Jessie Graff: VT, FR #3987 Yoshikazu Fujita: DG #3990 Oliver Edelmann: DG #3991 Kane Kosugi: FR #3993 Tomohiro Kawaguchi: MC (skip Spider Walk) #3995 Shingo Yamamoto: FR #3999 Yuji Urushihara: FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: FR
Stage 3 #3924 Yoshinori Isa: FR #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: FR #3965 Hayate Kajihara: DG #3972 Jun Sato: DG #3973 Tatsuya Tada: FR #3974 Naoyuki Araki: DG (gonna pull an M9 and show before Tada) #3975 Keitaro Yamamoto: MC (skip to Swing Edge) #3976 Tomohiro Muto: DG #3977 Yusuke Suzuki: DG #3993 Tomohiro Kawaguchi: FR #3999 Yuji Urushihara: FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: FR
Stage 4 #3950 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto: VT, FR #3973 Tatsuya Tada: VT, FR #4000 Yusuke Morimoto: VT, FR
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