What if this tournament?

[darthvaderlim]

What if this tournament had the following result?

Stage One has the Dome Steps, 26's Rolling Escargot, 28's Spin Bridge, and 19's Jumping Spider and Flying Chute.

Yusuke fails the Flying Chute along with the other Morimoto Sedai, Yuuji, and Tomohiro

The only Stage One clears are Daniel Gil, Rene, Oliver, and Jessie. The fastest time is by Rene with 1.01 seconds left.

In Stage Two, all of them cleared the Stage

On Stage Three, everyone except Daniel fails the Cliff Dimension.

Daniel clears the Vertical Limit and also the Stage

On the Final Stage, Daniel Gil achieves Kanzen with 0.01 seconds left, becoming the fifth Grand Champion.

How you rate this tournament and how would Inui edit this in the YouTube Channel?

Overall, this is more extreme version of 26

[dakohosu]

It's weird, I can see glimpses of different tournaments in this one. 19 for (almost) all Japanese competitors failing Stage 1, 26 for the overriding success of foreigners, 32 for the 100% clear rate on Stage 2 and a lot of foreign competitors doing well, etc.

Personally I wouldn't completely hate this tournament. I'd be pretty grateful of a solid course, especially if it means that a lot of the celebrity comedians fail early, as well as shock fails from top competitors not inherently being a bad thing, though most fails being on the Flying Chute would become boring after a while. Down to the wire clears are always fun to watch.

Stages 2 through 4 though would be incredibly awkward. I'm not entirely sure how Inui would edit an all-foreigner stage, I can definitely imagine delegating a lot of the focus to sideline commentaries from Darvish, Yusuke, Tomo etc. to draw some attention away from them. I also wouldn't be surprised if even with only four attempts/clears on Stage 2, we get at least one digest. A 100% clear rate would also just suck, as would majority of fails on Stage 3 being the Cliffhanger.

Gil winning I'm mixed on. It would be cool to see a multinational Ninja champion, and it would certainly be unexpected but at the same time it would create a very weird precedent for the future of the show in terms of marketing and so forth, especially if Gil doesn't return to compete regularly after his win.

Needless to say this tournament would be utterly AWFUL for ratings. No celebrity presence on the later stages, no fan favorites doing well, very little material to show on the Youtube channel, and so forth. I'd probably rate it at a 4-5/10, an odd ball tournament, in some cases in the right ways, but barring the shock fails not much to get excited about re some of my favorite competitors, which are pretty much all Japanese as far as Sasuke is concerned.