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The “King of Conte 2026” loser’s revival round, held on October 17, debuted a new format in which 60 comedy acts — those who placed 11th through 20th in the semifinals — were scored from 1 to 5 points by fellow comedians acting as judges, drawn from acts that advanced past the quarterfinals or placed near the bottom of the semifinals. Aoyama Fall-Katsu of the comedy trio Nelsons, the only act to receive a score of 1, updated X (formerly Twitter) by the 21st demanding that the judge who scored him “come forward,” publishing an email address and declaring he would “resort to drastic measures” if no one contacted him. On 5ch forums, opinions split between those who saw this as pro-wrestling-style theater (kayfabe) and those who saw it as excessive, bordering on extortion.
Comedian in KOC Comeback Round’s “1-Point Controversy” Demands Judge “Come Forward,” Threatens “Drastic Measures” After Publishing Email Address
Aoyama Fall-Katsu (40) of the comedy trio Nelsons updated X by the 21st, declaring he would keep hunting for the judge who gave him a score of 1 in the comedian-judged scoring at the October 17 “King of Conte 2026” loser’s revival round.
In the competition’s first-ever revival round, 60 comedians who had advanced to the quarterfinals or beyond served as judges, each scoring acts from a minimum of 1 point to a maximum of 5.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Yeah, it's probably kayfabe (pro-wrestling-style theater), but we live in an age where this kind of stunt gets taken at face value.
The rules let judges score anywhere from 1 to 5 — so why's he mad someone actually used the 1?
Re: #7
Apparently it's fine if an amateur does it, but not okay for a pro comedian to give another comedian a score of 1… Doesn't really track — if 3 is the midpoint, there's nothing weird about a 2 below that, or a 1 below that.
Won't this cause problems for how things are run going forward? It's a scoring competition, and he's lodging a direct complaint against a judge — and this is a contest with prize money on the line.
but to an outside observer it just looks like he's lecturing the referee.
For you lot raised on Japanese high-school baseball culture (where you never talk back to the umpire), that's probably unforgivable, huh?
Didn't he say 'please contact me, let's eat pasta together at my place'?
What he's really saying is, 'Everyone give out 1s again next year's revival round too, got it?' Win or lose the revival round, it's nothing but good PR for Nelsons.
A little anger would be understandable, but he's way past that.
Is he an idiot?
I haven't watched a second of the show so I don't know who the judges are or how the scoring works, but if this is what happens to you, nobody's going to want to be a judge anymore.
Even if an act isn't funny, people will feel too pressured to give it a 1.
The revival-round entrants are the ones who placed 11th-20th in the semifinals.
The judges are lower-ranked semifinalists and higher-ranked quarterfinalists, scoring out of 5.
Nelsons were the only entrants to get a 1, and they lost it.
he's giving people who already want to laugh a reason to laugh, getting laughed-for rather than earning the laugh.
That's exactly the issue here.
Not funny: 1
Meh: 2
Average: 3
Funny: 4
Hilarious: 5
Something like that works.
>'If there's no contact, Nelsons will resort to drastic measures'
Isn't that a threat?
even the guy running the bit is probably stunned.
Either way, it clearly wasn't funny — that's a fact.
That's why he lost.
This is probably scripted too.
Exactly.
There've been plenty of times you'd think it was just a wrestling angle, but he was genuinely pissed off for real.
The way he reportedly won't appear alongside Shibuya Nagisa just because she made a spot-on criticism of him — that was seriously off-putting.
Background and Points of Debate
The revival round was a newly introduced format this year, in which comedians who placed 11th through 20th in the semifinals were scored from 1 to 5 by fellow comedians — those who placed highly in the quarterfinals or near the bottom of the semifinals. There’s no floor built into the scoring rules, so giving a 1 isn’t itself against the rules. What split the thread was whether Aoyama’s protest is the kind of parody stunt (echoing comedian Soshina’s signature bit) that amounts to pro-wrestling theater, or something closer to genuine intimidation. Some posts noted that publishing an email address follows a format other comedians have used before as a bit — context that’s easy to miss from the article alone. At the same time, some worry that singling out and pursuing an individual judge could affect how judging is handled going forward, leaving it an open question whether this can simply be brushed off as a joke.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geino Sokuho+) thread “[Entertainment] Comedian Given a ‘1-Point’ Score in King of Conte Revival Round Demands Judge ‘Come Forward’ — Threatens ‘Drastic Measures’ If No Contact, Publishes Email Address.”
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