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My style of sumo continues to be mediocre as all get out. Thanks heaps for running it again, Kenning! And Banana Canada for having really nice summaries every day. Congrats to Vargatron and Nativity in Black for their commanding yushos 
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Almost forgot, does the yusho qualify my for the Yokogoona tag again? No big deal if not!
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Thanks again Kenning and Banana Canada! I'm waiting for my beginner's luck to run out soon, but I'll keep applying my brand of sumo and focus on the next match.
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Vargatron posted:Almost forgot, does the yusho qualify my for the Yokogoona tag again? No big deal if not! Has the Yokogoona Deliberation Council called for a meeting?
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Vargatron posted:Almost forgot, does the yusho qualify my for the Yokogoona tag again? No big deal if not! Oh oops I forgot to reply but I queued this up earlier, should go through eventually.
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lol I've now gotten two autographed sumo cards of current rikishi and they're both from our newest Ozeki
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Hell yeah, he had such a great showing in January. You'll have to get a card with his new ring name later this year though!
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Thanks Kenning and Banana Canada!
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Devastated that I would have gone all KK if only I had stuck with my old favorite Nishikigi rather than Atamifuji. It’s wild that with so much carnage in upper maegashira, there’s a non-zero chance that he gets bumped back up to komusubi from M-5 with a 8/7! Much to ponder before March… Thanks to Kenning and Banana Canada for enhancing my sumo watching experience as always!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btLSDNdxnSU Tochinoshin retirement event 
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Final tracker and ranking results. This update assumes my tracker is correct for the discrepancies I already posted about in my last update. Juryo points are now added in and I removed the sansho points that Kotonowaka failed to win. Note that I sorted and labelled the final placings of everyone to account for all seven levels of tie-breakers. This is totally unofficial as Kenning had explained that he only applies it to determine the overall Yusho. Hence, if you have the same number of points as someone else, officially you are tied with them.  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbScv4Ot5ac Apparently Asashoryu was throwing shade at Hoshoryu for pulling out of the tournament. I'm glad Hoshoryu was convinced to drop out because what Asashoryu describes here is mental.
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The two poles of sumo old man advice are always "don't get injured" and "do some tough guy bullshit that is likely to get you injured or exacerbate your injuries"
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Placing the demand on his nephew to just get up on the dohyo blasted out of his mind on painkillers because it's what he did. What a jackass.
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Wasn't Asashoryu the one that all his attendants hated serving? Or was that Harumafuji? I think 90% of Hoshoryu's problems are his mental, and having his uncle constantly poo poo on him can't be helping. What is Asa expecting? Perc Angle??
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I heard Asa's comments and said to myself "What a loving prick." Good on Hoshoryu for being smart about taking care of an injury like that rather than making it even worse. He's going to be a splendid yokozuna some day, and I like to think he's smart enough not to be forced to retire for beating up a waiter.
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Vargatron posted:Wasn't Asashoryu the one that all his attendants hated serving? Or was that Harumafuji? I think 90% of Hoshoryu's problems are his mental, and having his uncle constantly poo poo on him can't be helping. What is Asa expecting? Perc Angle?? Asashoryu was so toxic you can find old articles in English about how the young new Mongolian yokozuna, Hakuho, will bring honour and dignity back to the ranks after how it was desecrated by Asashoryu's behaviours. And this was before he was even forced out. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/30/sport.japan https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/bad-boy-of-sumo-in-trouble-again-20091006-gkt6.html https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/jul/28/sumo-asashoryu-porky-commentator https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-26/critics-controversy-dog-japans-conquering-sumo/2593964 Also while diging through pre-2012 stuff you can find poo poo like this https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/asia-pacific/sumo-wrestles-with-globalization quote:Nevertheless, foreign-born wrestlers can thrive in Japan and have done so. Hakuho, Asashoryu’s Mongolian successor as yokozuna, is as bland and deferential as Asashoryu was controversial and cocky. Naturally, he is beloved by his Japanese fans. So, too, is Estonia’s Baruto, who has been dubbed sumo’s Leonardo DiCaprio by the local media. (OK, maybe there’s a passing resemblance between the two, but, really, not all blond, blue-eyed foreigners look alike.) At one tournament, elderly ladies with powdered faces and dowdy cardigans waved Baruto-emblazoned fans while screaming “Kawaii!” (Cute!). Quite an honor for the son of former Soviet cattle farmers.
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lmao he's being described as sumo's "enfant terrible"
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yeah lol early 00s had like a new asashoryu mini-scandal every few months. i think there were at least three that came out of his feud with kyokushuzan alone
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I saw the video with Asashoryu's comments and laughed. Felt very Four Yorkshire Men. No doubt in Asashoryu's day they all drank concentrated acid and ate hot coals before having their legs amputated and they still turned up for the full 15 days.
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bessantj posted:in Asashoryu's day they all drank concentrated acid and ate hot coals before having their legs amputated and they still turned up for the full 15 days. Luxury.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:Luxury. Ah Mr. Konishiki it's nice to see you posting here. Thanks to whoever posted the stable YouTube channels. I have been watching a ton of the Futagoyama vids, they are great!
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bessantj posted:Ah Mr. Konishiki it's nice to see you posting here. Yeah, I've been watching them every day as I eat lunch. The food looks SO GOOD.
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https://twitter.com/FortuKyle/status/1756230016785170562 brb getting this airbrushed on my car
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Gonna see if the post office will let me put that on my truck. 
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That desperately needs to be on the side of a 70s/80s panel van.
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Beeswax posted:https://twitter.com/FortuKyle/status/1756230016785170562 getting this tat on my back
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Ura's having fun between bashos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLnpR_boWaA
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New sumo content. https://youtube.com/@dreamgirls_cup?si=gnC6NHEXpMWCs_Rp The girls version of the Hakuho Cup for youth sumo streaming on YT from what looks to be an official channel. Not sure if it's just the live or if they'll keep the VODs accessible, but I figure it's worth leaving on in the background when I don't have anything better to watch to give some view time to help support it.
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pseudodragon posted:New sumo content. heh, they have 2 broadcasts going at the same time and you can see the dohyo from one of them in the background of the other.
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Tochinoshin rocking the undercut in his first post-sumo haircut.
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Fluffdaddy posted:New Yakuza protagonist looking good hell fuckin' yes
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pseudodragon posted:New sumo content.
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pseudodragon posted:New sumo content. for me, at this time, it says "this channel doesn't have any content" 
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Helianthus Annuus posted:for me, at this time, it says "this channel doesn't have any content" Boo looks like they didn't keep the VODs available.Midnightsumo which is how I found it in the first place has it though on his twitch replay. Day 9 of the January tourney at about 25:50 in.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:for me, at this time, it says "this channel doesn't have any content" Yeah there were 2 live streams going but the description said they were not going to be archived("アーカイブ配信はございません"), might be some law thing since it is a bunch of kids, could just be Japan internet things 
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