#however likiya in general tends to have bad luck in challenges

[thistaleisabloodyone]

Watching the newest RMPG video on CL Live, where they are divided into three teams to complete challenges. When they assigned the teams, I think they ever-so-slightly stacked the athletic cards in Team Likiya's favor. (note: it does not yet have English subtitles and I am nowhere close to fluent in Japanese, we are rolling with visuals and the few words I can recognize only)

(second note: I am inherently a sarcastic human being and I curse like the dickens, but this is all meant in good humor and good fun.)

Team Likiya is the six man team and has Likiya, Kaisei, Riku, Makoto, Shogo and Kenta. Likiya, Kaisei and Riku all tend to excel athletically. And they've proven they can excel athletically together - while it did not last all of Dodgeball Kingdom, the three managed to basically shut out Rampage Silver for their first game. Kenta and Makoto were also basically the MVPs for Rampage Silver during Dodgeball Kingdom as well. Shogo, in my estimation, has not necessarily been the most excellent athlete in the Rampage, but he's also very determined.

And they were the team to have the most people go twice on the bicycles - Kaisei, Kenta and Shogo all went twice. Team Likiya also seems to have run off with the most paired bicycles, as they had 3 paired bicycles and Kaisei and Shogo both did both their runs as a pair (Kaisei & Makoto; Shogo & Kenta; Kaisei & Shogo).

Team Zin is Zin, Rui, Itsuki, Hokuto and Takuma, with Zin and Hokuto both going twice (once as a pair together, then each one individually). And... We love Hokuto. Hokuto is fantastic. Hokuto is not exactly the best athlete in the group. Hokuto's here to have a good time and that's valid.

Itsuki is, honestly, probably the best athlete on this team. In an episode of Run! Run! Rampage!, there was a challenge to see who could run, then dive and slide across a pad to grab a flag. They were in groups of four - Riku won his group (notably running and sliding with so much force he slid off the pad and into the wall - there were people to catch them for following rounds), Likiya won his group, Kaisei won his group and Itsuki won his group. Kaisei won the challenge over all (with a beautiful dive, in my opinion - and having basically four inches on everyone else in that round probably didn't hurt), but I am just recapping this to point out that Itsuki's the only one from that final round who isn't in Team Likiya.

Team YamaSho is YamaSho, Kazuma, Shohei, Ryu and Takahide. Takahide and Kazuma both went twice - once as a pair together, then each one individually. None of them stand out to me as particularly weak or particularly strong athletes. In the Run! Run! Rampage! live show, Takahide and Ryu were both chosen for the tug of war challenge - and Team Silver did win the first round of tug of war (ah... before Team Gold tagged Kaisei in and promptly won the next two rounds).

(when it comes to athletic challenges, Kaisei almost seems to be the cheat card - that might be why Kazuma tried to steal him for Team YamaSho when they were assigning teams at the start 😂)

Kaisei and Makoto started off for Team Likiya on a joint bike and, goddamn, were they fast. Took the lead quickly and did not let it go, then Likiya was also similarly fast. Then it was Shogo and Kenta and them going "Ni ni ni ni ni" in unison was fucking hilarious.

Then Riku fucking lapped Itsuki, who was still trying to finish lap 3 for Team Zin, while Team Likiya was on lap 4. Kaisei and Shogo took off on Lap 5 and Takuma really, really tried his best to help Team Zin catch up, but it's hard to catch up when you're a lap behind.

And then Kenta, for Team Likiya's final lap, also lapped Zin, trying to complete Lap 5. Team Likiya obviously won, with Team YamaSho in second place and Team Zin, unfortunately, in third by a decent amount.

But, yeah. TL;DR - in my opinion, Team Likiya pulled most of the best athletes in the Rampage and that made itself very evident in this weird bicycle challenge. However, we'll see how it works out for them overall in this series.

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