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Post by ItalianNinja08 on Feb 3, 2024 9:22:19 GMT -5
SK 1 #100 Hiroshi Kawashima
SK 2 #100 Kazuhiko Akiyama
SK 3 #98 Yasutoshi Kujirai
SK 4 #94 Travis Schroeder
SK 5 #97 Mitsuya Nagai
SK 6 #92 Nicholas Pettas
SK 7 #93 Unknown
SK 8 #96 Gota Miura
SK 9 #95 Robert Prayat Vinodo
SK 10 #96 Chikara Aoki
SK 11 #94 Unknown
SK 12 #92 Masaaki Kobayashi
SK 13 #95 Shimei Kobayashi
SK 14 #95 Unknown
SK 15 #89 Chan Seui Wa
SK 16 #88 Unknown
SK 17 #94 Unknown*
SK 18 #100 Ryouta Kume
SK 19 #94 Norihito Kamei
SK 20 #98 Daisuke Miyazaki
SK 21 #92 Henry Cejudo
SK 22 #96 Tomoki Kitagawa
SK 23 #91 Leszek Blanik
SK 24 #81 Kazuyuki Toda
SK 25 #97 Takatsugu Mihara
SK 26 #82 Unknown
SK 27 #95 Kohei Hasegawa
SK 28 #95 Koki Sakamoto
SK 29 #92 Naoyuki Araki
SK 30 #88 Takeru
SK 31 #86 Masamitsu Kikuchi
SK 32 #85 André Sihm
SK 33 #79 Masaki Kamegawa
SK 34 #87 Jessie Graff
SK 35 #85 Ryosuke Yamamoto
SK 36 #90 Nguyễn Doãn Thọ
SK 37 #95 Sam Kendricks
SK 38 #92 Yoshikazu Fujita
SK 39 #95 Kenji Fujimitsu
SK 40 #92 Ikuma Horishima
*In SASUKE 17, #97 didn't appear on the competitor list, so presumably there was no competitor wearing #97 who competed in that tournament.
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 3, 2024 10:40:14 GMT -5
Sasuke 33's highest numbered rookie was #85, the guy who cleared in 31 wearing #86 was his brother (hence why they have the same surname). But you can tell by both the difference in name listed, as well as their age; the guy who cleared in 31 was 23yo compared to 27yo in 33, when 33 aired less than 2 years after 31.
Also had no idea #97 was a no show in 17. I presume the weird numbering in that tournament may have had something to do with the fact that a lot of the prolific competitors didn't compete in 17, like Kong, the Kobayashis, Hamm, Jovtchev, Iketani, Asaoka etc. etc. so to avoid a load of vacancies in the 90s they spread out the strong competitors throughout the running order a bit more. I would imagine Bunpei was supposed to be #97, but when Iketani (who usually wore #81 or #90) couldn't compete, they moved him to #81, to avoid the playing field being a bunch of randos until the 80s-90s.
As for the most recent tournaments, unsurprising; seems like no matter what they always have to shoe horn a rando athlete into the 90s, lol. 40's last few runners were arguably the most stacked they've ever been; with Kane, the four champions, All-Stars, former finalists, then Ikuma just slotted in there.... not sure why they continuously do this given that most end up failing Stage 1 and get cut/digested anyway, with Fujimitsu being the highest ever All-Cut in the entirety of the Inui era. Eh, at least it's better than 19 and 22, where they literally filled the 90s with rando athletes who got mass digested.
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Post by zoran on Feb 3, 2024 11:17:54 GMT -5
Sasuke 33's highest numbered rookie was #85, the guy who cleared in 31 wearing #86 was his brother (hence why they have the same surname). But you can tell by both the difference in name listed, as well as their age; the guy who cleared in 31 was 23yo compared to 27yo in 33, when 33 aired less than 2 years after 31. Also had no idea #97 was a no show in 17. I presume the weird numbering in that tournament may have had something to do with the fact that a lot of the prolific competitors didn't compete in 17, like Kong, the Kobayashis, Hamm, Jovtchev, Iketani, Asaoka etc. etc. so to avoid a load of vacancies in the 90s they spread out the strong competitors throughout the running order a bit more. I would imagine Bunpei was supposed to be #97, but when Iketani (who usually wore #81 or #90) couldn't compete, they moved him to #81, to avoid the playing field being a bunch of randos until the 80s-90s. As for the most recent tournaments, unsurprising; seems like no matter what they always have to shoe horn a rando athlete into the 90s, lol. 40's last few runners were arguably the most stacked they've ever been; with Kane, the four champions, All-Stars, former finalists, then Ikuma just slotted in there.... not sure why they continuously do this given that most end up failing Stage 1 and get cut/digested anyway, with Fujimitsu being the highest ever All-Cut in the entirety of the Inui era. Eh, at least it's better than 19 and 22, where they literally filled the 90s with rando athletes who got mass digested. Amazing they could attend all 3 tournaments in 2005 and not the single one in 2006 and that was the best of the 4 by far lol. |
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Post by ItalianNinja08 on Feb 3, 2024 11:33:00 GMT -5
Sasuke 33's highest numbered rookie was #85, the guy who cleared in 31 wearing #86 was his brother (hence why they have the same surname). But you can tell by both the difference in name listed, as well as their age; the guy who cleared in 31 was 23yo compared to 27yo in 33, when 33 aired less than 2 years after 31. Also had no idea #97 was a no show in 17. I presume the weird numbering in that tournament may have had something to do with the fact that a lot of the prolific competitors didn't compete in 17, like Kong, the Kobayashis, Hamm, Jovtchev, Iketani, Asaoka etc. etc. so to avoid a load of vacancies in the 90s they spread out the strong competitors throughout the running order a bit more. I would imagine Bunpei was supposed to be #97, but when Iketani (who usually wore #81 or #90) couldn't compete, they moved him to #81, to avoid the playing field being a bunch of randos until the 80s-90s. As for the most recent tournaments, unsurprising; seems like no matter what they always have to shoe horn a rando athlete into the 90s, lol. 40's last few runners were arguably the most stacked they've ever been; with Kane, the four champions, All-Stars, former finalists, then Ikuma just slotted in there.... not sure why they continuously do this given that most end up failing Stage 1 and get cut/digested anyway, with Fujimitsu being the highest ever All-Cut in the entirety of the Inui era. Eh, at least it's better than 19 and 22, where they literally filled the 90s with rando athletes who got mass digested. No, Masayuki Kikuchi also competed in 32 wearing #78. I've always confused Masamitsu and Masayuki Kikuchi, it almost seems like they're the same person, but that's obviously not the case. I was certain that they were brothers, also given their extremely similar profession and the fact that both were trained by Iketani. |
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 3, 2024 11:37:30 GMT -5
Sasuke 33's highest numbered rookie was #85, the guy who cleared in 31 wearing #86 was his brother (hence why they have the same surname). But you can tell by both the difference in name listed, as well as their age; the guy who cleared in 31 was 23yo compared to 27yo in 33, when 33 aired less than 2 years after 31. Also had no idea #97 was a no show in 17. I presume the weird numbering in that tournament may have had something to do with the fact that a lot of the prolific competitors didn't compete in 17, like Kong, the Kobayashis, Hamm, Jovtchev, Iketani, Asaoka etc. etc. so to avoid a load of vacancies in the 90s they spread out the strong competitors throughout the running order a bit more. I would imagine Bunpei was supposed to be #97, but when Iketani (who usually wore #81 or #90) couldn't compete, they moved him to #81, to avoid the playing field being a bunch of randos until the 80s-90s. As for the most recent tournaments, unsurprising; seems like no matter what they always have to shoe horn a rando athlete into the 90s, lol. 40's last few runners were arguably the most stacked they've ever been; with Kane, the four champions, All-Stars, former finalists, then Ikuma just slotted in there.... not sure why they continuously do this given that most end up failing Stage 1 and get cut/digested anyway, with Fujimitsu being the highest ever All-Cut in the entirety of the Inui era. Eh, at least it's better than 19 and 22, where they literally filled the 90s with rando athletes who got mass digested. No, Masayuki Kikuchi also competed in 32 wearing #78. I've always confused Masamitsu and Masayuki Kikuchi, it almost seems like they're the same person, but that's obviously not the case. I was certain that they were brothers, also given their extremely similar profession and the fact that both were trained by Iketani. Damn, I just checked and you're right. So weird how many revelations we've got in the past couple of months from the Sasuke book lol. |
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 3, 2024 11:44:17 GMT -5
Amazing they could attend all 3 tournaments in 2005 and not the single one in 2006 lol. Yeah I always wondered about why that was. It wouldn't have been due to 17 being taped on an awkward date as it aired in October, so would've been taped in August-September like a lot of the other fall tournaments, as well as tournaments like 14 and 16 being taped during usual times of the year, yet they still all attended. My only hunch is that the tournament was announced really late with little to no notice, and they might've pre-determined the numbers before inviting the competitors (which they don't do now) which is why they possibly had to rearrange the running order when a lot of the invitees couldn't make it. That's the only possibility I can think of, but even then, 26 was apparently announced two weeks prior to taping, and we still got pretty much everyone of note returning, including foreigners, lol. |
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Post by katoshiho on Feb 4, 2024 7:27:20 GMT -5
Will No.97 be Kobayashi Shinji in 17?
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Post by dakohosu on Feb 4, 2024 11:47:53 GMT -5
Will No.97 be Kobayashi Shinji in 17? Probably not given that he failed Stage 2 in 16. I reckon that #97 was meant to be given to Bunpei and Iketani was meant to get #81, but when Iketani couldn't compete they had to shift the running order to avoid #1-90 being mostly randos. That's also probably why Takeda got bumped down to #91 whereas he usually wore #97-98. Though why Nakata ended up getting #96 I have no idea. I would've personally bumped Nakata down to the 80s and had Bunpei as 96-97. |
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