"I don't know without trying"
Kazushi Sakuraba said that. Yuki Nakai also said. What are the performances that the athletes who produce the tournament and the referee chair say "I don't know"?
No, I don't know exactly that, but I'm clear about why I don't. This is because QUINTET is the first attempt in the history of martial arts.
It is a big event of grappling, and the form of the game is a group game, and also a “missing game”. The team consists of five people, and the total weight of the entire team is limited, so not only heavyweight players will participate. If there is one big player, the light weight / medium weight player will be included accordingly.
How will it affect games? A player of 60 kg and a player of over 100 kg may fight. Because it is a rule without blows, it also holds. Moreover, there is no judgment other than the general warfare game. If you do not take one, you will draw and the two disappear. That means that a light fighter might "crush" and crush the opponent's point getter.
While it may be that there are five people of Ace, there is a possibility that the scoop may be scooped by an ambush. It can be said that it is a strange way of "group battle / extra games". Winning / losing / drafting by each player greatly affects the team's victory or defeat. The game is not just for myself. For example, what is the feeling of fighting while thinking that "If you play a strange game yourself would bother Sakuraba-san?"
Even the same athletes may change their way of fighting depending on the situation placed. If you fight in the same class, how do players going to extreme gangs fight with weight difference matches? Do you aim for a draw or just to attack? The degree of consumption of the stamina will also be involved.
Moreover, in the QUINTET rule, "guidance" enters in foul fighting and negative passive game, it becomes disqualification three times "guidance". This is a big difference from conventional jiu-jitsu and grappling, so it can be said that athletes will be "moved". Which players will exert their power with such rules. Will strong players who can not adapt to the rules come out? I do not even understand such a thing.
At the moment, everything is only "prediction". Probably in the game, various factors will influence and chemical reaction will occur. The chemical reaction creates the possibility of new fighting sports and the world view. (Martial arts writer ◎ Hashimoto Munehiro)
