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Post by zoran on May 1, 2024 14:57:46 GMT -5
Based on his skill as a competitor at the time.
My opinion
18: Jumping Spider 19: Pole Maze 21: Jumping Spider 22: Jumping Spider 27: Metal Spin or Balance tank (if the rumors about him struggling/being worried about balance obstacles are true. 29: Swap Salmon Ladder (rushes due to time pressure and gets dqed) 30: Swap Salmon Ladder (either it glitches out during his run or he underestimates it). 31: Vertical Limit Kai 33: Fishbone 34: UCCH second jump (after completing the second jump, he hangs on the ledge to powder up his hand, either he loses his grip or thinking about it causes him to make a mental error failing the second jump). 35: Vertical Limit Tri 36: Vertical Limit Tri (Although he was the only person to beat it, you could see the agony on his face in both tournaments so I think it's reasonable he could have failed in both tournaments). 37: Warped Wall 38: Cliffhanger Dimension second ledge (Yoshiyuki fails normally, leaving Morimoto to get screwed over by the wet patch) 39: Warped Wall or Rolling hill dismount (you could see him slip a little when dismounting, obviously not as bad as Yamada's fail there but it could be possible he jumps just a little too low). 40: Half way up the rope (combination of the extra difficulty with the rockwall and mental errors on the salmon ladder causes him to fail roughly where he did in 35)
Do you think he could have done worser in some tournaments? How do you think this Morimoto would be seen/ranked in Sasuke assuming someone else still kanzens in 31 and 38 and the course evolves the same?
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Post by subtleagent on May 1, 2024 15:18:39 GMT -5
A certain something convinced me that even the mightiest can get tripped up by the start line.
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Post by dakohosu on May 1, 2024 16:20:10 GMT -5
Agree with most of these except the Vertical Limit ones.
Just because he was wincing doesn't mean he was necessarily close to failing it, he still cleared the obstacle pretty cleanly. If he couldn't hold himself up in a 90 degree position anymore, his grip was about to go and he made a last minute save reaching for the green resting bar then it'd be a different story.
Others I'd add would be a time out in 27 as he did clear with like 4 seconds left despite how lenient that Stage 1 time limit was. We obviously didn't see his run so hard to pinpoint where exactly, but him taking multiple attempts on the wall seems likely, so could go with wall time out.
And as subtleagent mentioned, anything is a possibility. One thing to be mentioned, apart from the possibility to make freak mistakes, is the fact that Yusuke does tend to take his time on the course, often clearing with the slower times. He obviously can go faster but chooses not to in order to be more careful, but I always wondered whether he might occasionally make a bad call and take too much time, and either time out, or have to rush towards the end and make a mistake. We've seen from 37 and 39 (yes it was wet but still) that he can definitely crack under time pressure.
I do wonder if anything would've changed had Yusuke failed the Fish Bone in 33 (as he was like millimetres away from his foot skimming the water). Yusuke definitely strikes me as a lot more mentally resilient than, say, Yuuji or Ryo, who had one bad tournament which set them off on Stage 1 failure streaks, but you never know.
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