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Post by darthvaderlim on Nov 27, 2023 19:26:00 GMT -5
Sasuke 35 was the most recent tournament to have less than 10 clears on Stage One with 8, with Sasuke tournaments now being held annually, do you think it would happen again?
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Post by zoran on Nov 27, 2023 19:40:06 GMT -5
Inui and the producers don't want it but it could happen with a mixture of bad luck and underestimation.
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xelA197
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Post by xelA197 on Nov 27, 2023 20:11:05 GMT -5
Here's why I enjoyed a lot SSK 35, the light in the darkness after the horror trio 32-34. Mainly thanks to my man, the Dragon Glider, the most deadly debuting obstacle ever.
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Post by dakohosu on Nov 28, 2023 17:17:22 GMT -5
Simply put, the worse the results are, the less material Inui has to put on the YouTube channel to drive continued interest post-tournament. He also wants his mascot celebrities to do well, which again limits the degree to which he wants to make the course difficult. If we get a course with only 5 clears, it's unlikely that ABC-Z or Iwamoto, which drive ratings by reaching the later stages, are going to be among them. And 5 clears mean fewer runs he can digest and then put on the YouTube channel.
Remember that 40 had 24 S1 clears and 12 S2 clears, most of which were digested, but it kept the channel going for a good 2 or so months, before they ran out of more meaningful content to post. They need that kind of traction given that there's a good year between tournaments, unlike 6 or so months with the older tournaments. It's very easy for viewers to lose interest in that time period otherwise.
This is why he's seemingly had this aversion to building courses with fewer than 15 clears for the past few years and hence doesn't bother to change anything despite its staleness or lack of impact.
Personally I'd love to see a rogue hard tournament like we had in the older days, because it would really be a survival of the fittest to see who can resiliently pull through in spite of unforeseen difficulty spikes. Especially as we've had so few changes it's hard to gauge competitors' adaptability and I think a spike would shed some surprising light on that. But knowing Inui's approach to marketing I just don't see it happening any time soon.
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