SASUKE 11 ~ Sasuke Ninja Warrior

The 11th Competition, official name: SASUKE2003春 (literally SASUKE 2003 Spring) is the first competition in 2003. Preliminary trials were held in Taiku Ookoku in the Monkey Bars event. This was the first time trials were held to send people to compete. The top three from the event got a chance to compete in SASUKE 11, most notably was third place finisher, Kobayashi Shinji. The Rolling Maruta was particularly ruthless in this tournament, eliminating over 40 people including ten straight people from #4 to #13. Numbers 95-100 all cleared, including all of the SASUKE All-Stars for the first time in history. The results of the first were greatly better than in SASUKE 10, with more than double the First Stage clears between the two tournaments. It is also the first time since Akiyama Kazuhiko's kanzenseiha that there were double digit clears. Three and a half years after that kanzenseiha, Akiyama finally beat the First Stage, clearing with only 0.03 seconds left. He would eventually make it all the way to the Third Stage before falling at the Body Prop. Also, for the first time since the Third Stage redesign in SASUKE 9, the Third Stage was cleared, this time by Nagano Makoto. This would be the first of three consecutive Final Stage attempts.

TBS Date: March 21, 2003

TBS Ratings: 16.3%

SASUKE Announcers:

1st Chair Furutachi Ichiro (Stage 1 (#81-100), Stages 2,3, Final)

2nd Chair Hatsuta Keisuke (Stage 1 (#1-80)

SASUKE Results

Best: Nagano Makoto, Final Stage, Tsuna Nobori

Stage 1: 11 Clears

Stage 2: 7 Clears

Stage 3: 1 Clears

Final Stage: 0 Clear

First Stage

Obstacles

① Godantobi 五段跳び

② Rolling Maruta ローリング丸太

③ ^Balance Bridge バランスブリッジ

④ Jump Hang ジャンプハング

⑤ Soritatsu Kabe そり立つ壁

⑥ Tarzan Rope ターザンロープ

⑦ Rope Climb ロープクライム

Time Limit: 85 seconds

^ Denotes New Obstacle

Second Stage

Obstacles

① Chain Reaction チェーンリアクション

↓ Brick Climb ブリッククライム

② Spider Walk スパイダーウォーク

③ Balance Tank バランスタンク

④ Gyakusō Conveyor 逆走コンベアー

⑤ Wall Lifting ウォールリフティング

Time Limit: 80 seconds

Third Stage

Obstacles

① Rumbling Dice ランブリングダイス

② Body Prop ボディプロップ

③ Lamp Grasper ランプグラスパー

④ Cliffhanger クリフハンガー

⑤ Pipe Slider パイプスライダー

Final stage

Obstacles

① Spider Climb スパイダークライム (12.5m)

② Tsuna Nobori 綱登り (10m)

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