Hardest Stage One bar 19

[darthvaderlim]

Which Stage One do you think is hardest by difficulty besides 19, since that Stage One was way too overkill?

For me, it has to be 22, mainly because like 19, the time limit is pretty strict and you couldn't afford to waste time on the Circle Hammer, Half-Pipe Attack, and Slider Jump. Even Miyazaki timed out despite not spending too much time on each obstacle expect for the Half-Pipe. The Slider Jump being a new obstacle in that tournament doesn't help either. However, unlike 5,10 or 19, at least someone cleared with more than 5 seconds remaining which is Yuuji

Another hard Stage One I would consider would be 10. Due to the Tarzan Rope, many competitors spent too much time and energy. Even Iketani and Nakata, despite going at a decent pace, only cleared with less than 3 seconds. This is currently the only tournament where nobody cleared with more than 3 seconds, beating Sasuke 5. The modified Jump Hang was pretty brutal as it took out Nagano and Takeda.

[dakohosu]

Agreed on 22. Had pretty much all of the difficulty of 20-21's Stage 1 which were minorly nerfed variants of 19's, but with the added Slider Jump in its most brutal form.

10 I'd say was very difficult for the time but in the grand scheme of things less so, especially as we got 10+ clears in the next tournament with most of the same obstacles, I just think the changes to 10's Stage 1 threw a lot of competitors off guard in the moment, specifically the buffed Jump Hang and Tarzan Rope. But it's certainly easier than most Shin-Sasuke Stage 1s, because competitors overcame the changes pretty quickly, compared to Shin-Sasuke which took several tournaments to break into the double digits in terms of clear numbers.

I'd also say 26 is definitely up there, given how damaging the Rolling Escargot and re-buffed Jumping Spider were. We'd not had that many early fails from veterans who'd consistently made it to the later stages in years. Kong, Kanno, Shingo, Yuuji, Nagano, etc. Not to mention that the Step Slider is probably the hardest 1.1 in Sasuke.

[subtleagent]

22 and 26 for the reasons above, but I would also nominate 15 for the heat and reduced time limit on an extended course. If I'm not mistaking it's the longest course with a time limit sub 100 seconds.

[zoran]

I think 17 was longer, it had 8 obstacles and the circle slider is obviously longer than the crooked wall and butterfly wall combined. It had a 85 second time limit compared to 15s 95 second time limit.