The 12th Sports Danshi tournament, official name:「究極の男は誰だ!?最強スポーツ男子頂上決戦2024」 abbreviated as SpoDan was the reboot of Sportsman No. 1. The main broadcast aired on May 3, 2024 on 6:30pm JST with a time slot of approximately three hour and thirty minutes. However, this tournament has a similar format to Pro Sportsman No. 1, where various celebrities would compete in a series of events to gain points.
Filming[]
The official website has revealed that the filming would take place on April 16, 2024 at 4pm JST at the Tokyo Ariake Arena. Early tickets was released on March 13, 2024 at 10am JST and are up for grabs for incoming audiences to attend. A second ticketing round was held from March 22 to March 27, 2024. Based on the official website, it is the first time in the entire history of Sportsman and/or SpoDan that general audiences are allowed to watch the competitions unfold. However, before the filming commence, Shupei suffered some discomfort in his left leg during training and was diagnosed with left thigh muscle strain, forcing Shupei to withdraw from the tournament. As such, Fujimitsu Kenji was been selected as an substitute to compete in his stead.
The event involves competitors running down a runway onto a springboard and vault over a giant vaulting box that increases in height after all competitors have attempted the current height. In this tournament, the male competitors would start at 14 Levels which has an equivalent height of 2 metres and 16 centimeters and gradually increases by 10 centimeters with each levels.
The event involves competitors laying down flat on their stomachs facing behind the track. Once a whistle is blown, they must stand up and run across the track to grab a limited number of flags. There were a total of eight rounds in this competition, which would slowly eliminate competitors one by one as the rounds progress. In the finals, the competitor who managed to grab the last flag would be the winner of the Event.
The event involving competitors where two competitors in the opposing sides using pure brute strength to push a wall towards the other side against each other. The time limit for each round is 60 seconds and these rounds would occur until the final round to indicate the winner of the Event. As a side note, there is no time limit for the Finals.
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Competitor pushed the wall farther than opponent after the time limit.
This event involves competitors jumping over a series of 40 cm high fences that is designed to rotate automatically in a circular motion towards the competitor. Each round would continue until one competitor is remaining.
