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Intro SASUKE 25
The 25th competition, official name: SASUKE2010春 (literally SASUKE2010 Spring) is the first tournament after Urushihara Yuuji’s kanzenseiha and, like the 5th and 18th competitions, the course was altered to increase the difficulty significantly. Recorded February 20, 2010, it aired March 28, 2010 on TBS and ran 4 hours. People from every prefecture in Japan and many major geographic regions were represented in this tournament.
Start positions #1-#97 were drawn at random using a lottery, resulting in regular competitors Takeda Toshihiro, Levi Meeuwenberg and Satō Jun receiving their lowest start positions ever. The final three start positions were reserved for the three former champions; Akiyama Kazuhiko was given #98, Nagano Makoto wore #99, and reigning champion Urushihara Yuuji was granted the coveted #100.
Stage One was peppered with new obstacles and obstacles returning from retirement. The time limit was decreased by five seconds from the previous competition. The carpets returned to green carpets. Of the new obstacles, few had problems with the Bridge Jump and the Dome Steps took out competitors at a similar rate as its predecessors. The three returning obstacles — the Rolling Maruta, Jump Hang and Circle Slider — had similar success rates to their first go around on the SASUKE course. A total of eleven people cleared: SASUKE All-Stars Takeda Toshihiro and Yamamoto Shingo, former SASUKE Trials qualifiers Satō Jun, Hashimoto Kōji, Kanno Hitoshi and Urushihara Yujji, international competitors Li En Zhi, Levi Meeuwenberg and Brian Orosco, and SASUKE veterans Takahashi Kenji and Okuyama Yoshiyuki. All eleven had cleared Stage One in prior tournaments.
Stage Two, although remaining largely unmodified, began with two new obstacles — the Slider Drop and a variant of the old Salmon Ladder, the Double Salmon Ladder. Together, these new obstacles eliminated Urushihara, Takeda and Meeuwenberg, all of whom had reached Stage Three multiple times in the past. Ultimately, five men cleared the stage, including Orosco, who did so with a mere 1.4 seconds left on the clock. Orosco had never cleared the Second Stage before while the other four were all finalists in the previous tournament.
The biggest renovation to the course came in Stage Three, with all seven obstacles making their respective SASUKE debuts. Large curtains covered the obstacles until the Third Stage was to commence. Orosco failed the second obstacle, the Doorknob Grasper, while everyone else failed the new Ultimate Cliffhanger. The names of the three remaining obstacles aren’t known.
Stage 1
Obstacles
① ^Dome Steps ドームステップス
② Rolling Maruta ローリング丸太
③ Jump Hang ジャンプハング
④ ^Bridge Jump ブリッジジャンプ
⑤ Log Grip ロッググリップ
⑥ Soritatsu Kabe そり立つ壁
⑦ *Circle Slider サークルスライダー
⑧ Tarzan Rope ターザンロープ
⑨ Rope Ladder ロープラダー
^ Denotes New Obstacle
* Denotes Modified Obstacle
Time Limit: 115 seconds
Length: 130 m
Stage 2
Obstacles
① ^Slider Drop スライダードロップ
② ^Double Salmon Ladder ダブルサーモンラダー
③ Unstable Bridge アンステーブルブリッジ
④ *Balance Tank バランスタンク
⑤ Metal Spin メタルスピン
⑥ Wall Lifting ウォールリフティング
Time Limit: 95 seconds
Stage 3
Obstacles
① ^Roulette Cylinder ルーレットシリンダー
② ^Doorknob Grasper ドアノブグラスパー
③ ^Floating Boards フローティングボード
④ ^Ultimate Cliffhanger アルティメットクリフハンガー
⑤ ^Unknown
⑥ ^Unknown
⑦ ^Unknown
Stage 3
Obstacles
① ^Unknown
① ^Unknown
① ^Unknown
