Sugiyama Shinya (杉山 真也) is a TBS announcer, who is currently serving as SASUKE's main announcer. Sugiyama made his debut as a TBS announcer in Sports Danshi Grand Prix 5, when he was #3 announcer, replacing Satō Fumiyasu. However, in Sports Danshi Grand Prix 6, Satō returned as the #3 announcer, moving Sugiyama down to #4 announcer.
He would later debut in SASUKE 32, when he replaced Itō Ryūsuke as the #2 announcer. In SASUKE 37, he moved to the #1 announcer, replacing Sato Fumiyasu, and Ogasawara Wataru returned as the #2 announcer and remained as SASUKE's #1 announcer ever since. He was the sole announcer in SASUKE World Cup 1.
He is #2 announcer and the sideline reporter of Qualifying Second Stage during the SASUKE 40 Trials.
In addition, Sugiyama was the #1 announcer of KUNOICHI 9, though swapped the #2 announcer with Komada Kengo during KUNOICHI 10. After missing KUNOICHI 11, he made his return in KUNOICHI 12 as the #1 announcer.
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- Sugiyama is one of the few SASUKE announcers who made their TBS debut in another variety show aired by TBS, in his case Sports Danshi Grand Prix.
- In all the Sports Danshi Grand Prix tournaments in which he was an announcer, he only announced the Heavy Press event.
- During SASUKE 37 where Sugiyama was credited as the #1 announcer, he did not provide live, on-site commentary. Instead, his narration was added during post-production. During the first few runs of the First Stage, a distant announcer’s voice, clearly not Sugiyama’s, is audible beneath his edited commentary. This indicates that his narration was dubbed over the substitute announcer’s audio and that he was not physically present during the tournament’s recording.
- Two of several SpoDan and SASUKE tourmanents that he was announced, Sports Danshi Grand Prix 5 and SASUKE 42, become the first tournaments of SpoDan and SASUKE commentated by four announcers.
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