SASUKE 40

SASUKE 40 (officially,「SASUKE2022」) was officially announced by TBS via Twitter and a trailer posted on the official SASUKE YouTube channel on April 29, 2022. It was initially partially confirmed by TBS via the official fan meeting which took place directly after SASUKE 39 aired. It is the second tournament after Morimoto Yūsuke's second kanzenseiha as well as the 40th tournament anniversary and the silver jubilee since the inception of SASUKE.

Since this is the 40th SASUKE tournament, the start position system is expected to go from #3901-4000 to signify that roughly 4000 attempts have been made in SASUKE, similar in SASUKE 10 (which used #901-1000), SASUKE 20 (which used #1901-2000) and SASUKE 30 (which used #2901-3000) to signify roughly 1000, 2000 and 3000 attempts respectively.

Applications
The application was released on April 29, 2022 on their Official Website and Twitter. The deadline for the applications was not confirmed yet as of late, therefore its recommended to submit applications as soon as possible. Similarly to the previous two tournaments, due to the circumstances brought out by the COVID-19 pandemic, no foreign competitors were invited to compete (due to travel restriction caused by the pandemic).

Online Promotion
Similar to the previous tournament, the tournament was partially confirmed with a video, posted on January 12, 2022, with videos released on the Official YouTube channel sporadically. Each videos serves as a documentary series in relation to the upcoming tournament during that time, featuring current and/or former competitors, tournament related events/behind-the-scenes, production crew and staff members etc.

On March 31, 2022, a video was released showing the Opening Ceremony of SASUKE Vietnam 1, which begun the trend of releasing videos about international competitions. Various runs from competitors in that tournament would be released from May 3, 2022.