Lowest number worn by someone who cleared Stage 1

[xelA197]

I take inspiration from the threads with the lowest number worn by someone who reached Stage 3 and by a former finalist, done by dakohosu.

1. NA
2. #11 Takashi Sakamoto
3. #3 Takuyu Ueda
4. #3 Hiroyuki Asaoka
5. #23 Shusuke Sato 
6. #15 Hiroyuki Asaoka 
7. #1 Norihito Eda
8. #21 Toyohisa Iijima
9. #21 Toyohisa Iijima
10. #30 Toyohisa Iijima
11. #31 Toyohisa Iijima
12. #41 Kinnikun Nakayama 
13. #41 Kinnikun Nakayama 
14. #57 Koji Yamada
15. #27 Kinnikun Nakayama
16. #65 Daisuke Nakata
17. #55 Hidenori Nagasawa
18. #26 Lee En-Chih
19. #76 Shinji Kobayashi 
20. #1 Kazuhiko Akiyama
21. #49 Lee En-Chih
22. #20 Kazuhiko Akiyama
23. #25 Kota Honma
24. #62 Kazuhiko Akiyama
25. #18 Jun Sato 
26. #5 Kazutaka Miyazawa 
27. #1 Hitoshi Kanno
28. #40 Koji Hashimoto
29. #36 Shingo Yamamoto
30. #34 Katsumi Yamada
31. #31 Masashi Hioki
32. #31 Masashi Hioki
33. #1 Kinnikun Nakayama
34. #45 Masashi Hioki
35. #39 Katsumi Yoshinaga
36. #71 Masashi Hioki
37. #4 Akira Omori
38. #14 Koji Saikawa
39. #9 Koji Saikawa
40. #10 Koji Saikawa

[dakohosu]

Nice. This was something I wanted to do but given my lack of knowledge of randos from Sasuke 1-4 I couldn't be bothered, and looking at some of these results that there's no way I would've gotten, I was right in my thinking that I'd get most of them wrong, lol.

I was initially quite surprised at how 19 and 36 had no former clearers until the 70s, but then thinking about it a lot of the Golden Era regulars had quit before Shin-Sasuke, and 36 had Hioki higher up than usual while the other typically low numbered competitors had been culled by that point, with the Black Tigers being recast with new competitors after Obata's..... wrongdoings.

[xelA197]

Feb 5, 2024 12:58:34 GMT -5 dakohosu said:

Nice. This was something I wanted to do but given my lack of knowledge of randos from Sasuke 1-4 I couldn't be bothered, and looking at some of these results that there's no way I would've gotten, I was right in my thinking that I'd get most of them wrong, lol.

I was initially quite surprised at how 19 and 36 had no former clearers until the 70s, but then thinking about it a lot of the Golden Era regulars had quit before Shin-Sasuke, and 36 had Hioki higher up than usual while the other typically low numbered competitors had been culled by that point, with the Black Tigers being recast with new competitors after Obata's..... wrongdoings.

I was astonished when I discovered that the 26's competitor was a rando from SASUKE 4. The damn huge amount of randos from 1-4 completely disappeared after Akiyama's victory, and then Kazutaka Kitazawa suddenly reappeared in 26 after 12 years and 22 tournaments lol.

[dakohosu]

Feb 5, 2024 13:42:31 GMT -5 xelA197 said:

Feb 5, 2024 12:58:34 GMT -5 dakohosu said:

Nice. This was something I wanted to do but given my lack of knowledge of randos from Sasuke 1-4 I couldn't be bothered, and looking at some of these results that there's no way I would've gotten, I was right in my thinking that I'd get most of them wrong, lol.

I was initially quite surprised at how 19 and 36 had no former clearers until the 70s, but then thinking about it a lot of the Golden Era regulars had quit before Shin-Sasuke, and 36 had Hioki higher up than usual while the other typically low numbered competitors had been culled by that point, with the Black Tigers being recast with new competitors after Obata's..... wrongdoings.

I was astonished when I discovered that the 26's competitor was a rando from SASUKE 4. The damn huge amount of randos from 1-4 completely disappeared after Akiyama's victory, and then Kazutaka Kitazawa suddenly reappeared in 26 after 12 years and 22 tournaments lol.

My favorite was reading the competitor list for 37 when it was being taped (they used to release numbers during taping) and seeing Omori as #4 lol.

[xelA197]

And unsurprisingly Saikawa will dominate this list in the future.

[loboticialtree]

Kind of not surprised by Hioki and Saikawa placing in this list multiple times. Reason why is because Inui liking putting them early in the competitor roster, to ensure an early clear. Makes sense why they would appear in this list multiple times. Also kind of not surprised with competitors like Iijima, Kinnikun, and Akiyama, but for Akiyama he's close to blind so it makes sense. I guess the biggest surprises for me could be Yoshinaga and Kazutaka, but then again they both made one-off appearances at the time of them competing. Also, they both got cut from the main broadcast, unsurprisingly.