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Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O: Takakeisho

S/K:
Takayasu
Hoshoryu
Wakatakakage

M1-M5:
Abi
Nishikifuji
Nishikigi

M6-M10:
Myogiryu
Hiradoumi
Oho

M11+
Hiradoumi
Kagayaki
Tochinoshin

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Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

I need to trade Takayasu for Hoshoryu or Wakatakakage

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Khizan posted:

Thanks for running this, it’s always a ton of fun.

The upper maegashira ranks are meatgrinders, because they pad out the sanyaku schedules. Figure there’s one ozeki and eight junior sanyaku right now. They’ll all fight each other under normal circumstances, with some exceptions, but that still means that they all need seven or so other matches to fill out their schedules. Those matches come from the upper maegashira, generally, so it’s pretty common for rikishi to hits those ranks and bounce back down.

When you get down to it, M4 is one of the top 15-20 rikishi. They’re going to have to fight the best opponents because they’re supposed to be one of the best themselves.

I'll be passing the title to you tonight

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Goeido can only come back if he wears his glasses and a business suit to the ring

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O:
Takakeisho

S/K:
Hoshoryu
Kiribayama
Wakatakakage

M1-5:
Ryudeb
Nishigiki
Abi

M6-10:
Endo
Ura
Ichiyamamoto

M11:
Oho
Kinbozan
Kotoeko

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Apraxin posted:

it's serious business



Kumamon IS serious buisness. That prefecture is making bank off that creepy rear end bear

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O
Terunofuji
Kirishima

S/K
Abi
Hoshoryu
Wakamotoharu

1-5
Nishigiki
Mitakeumi
Shoudai

6-10
Oho
Nishigikifuji
Takayasu

M11
Endo
Ryuden
Wakatakakage

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

anakha posted:

Day 2: Goongrats to the two lucky bastards that have Nishikigi lol

Somewhere someone told me I was crazy that I thought he was going to be a surprise dude moving upward after years of rank and filing. I told yall hes good.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Brut posted:

That might've been me, and you know what I'm gonna double down on that, calling a makekoshi for this basho.

He will forever have that gold star and will get that paper for it so he will be alright

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

If Nishigiki gets this yusho, my sumo ego is going to be the size of several large planets.

He gives me goeido vibes and that's why I latched on to him. Dude owns

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Gonna have our first Mr. Magoo Ozeki

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

drat I fell hard

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Flesnolk posted:

tbh I'm pretty sure we'll never get a yokozuna again, period. Especially since this is a sport where promising prospects instantly get horribly injured in a way where they're never much good ever again afterwards

I know newer fans were spoiled during the 4 Yokozuna era but this is absurd.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Kenning posted:

gently caress, I wanna go to Meatland.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

MyChemicalImbalance posted:

Dang, sumo frogs own. I've a trip to Tokyo planned for January (obviously around the basho) and also a half plan to get a lil tattoo when I'm there - sumo frog is definitely a contender.

Are there tattoo shops in Japan?

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Elissimpark posted:

Gaga goes to Miyagino for dinner. Hakuoho does a great Hakuho impression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWQJHKI7jM

His weight loss still blows me away

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Komusubi Nishikigi, everyone get on board the hype train!!!

I also see free fantasy sumo points in M11 Mitakeumi unless he has some injuries.

M1-5 is stacked and completely unpredictable, except that Gonoyama is going to get worked right on back to reality.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O
Hoshoryu
Takakeisho
Kirishima

S/K
Daiesho
Tobizaru
Kotronowaka

M1-5
SHODAI
Abi
Hokutofuji

M6-10
Endo
Onosho
Ryuden

M11+
Nishikigifuji
Chiyoshoma
Aoiyama

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O

Takakeisho
Hoshoryu
Kirishima

S/K
Hokutofuji
Abi
Daeisho

M1-5

Nishikigi
Shodai
Onosho

M6-10
Atamafuji
Endo
Ryuden

M11+

Oho
Nishikifuji
Takarafuji

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

I've been Endoing for over a year. I need to be Shodaing

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Nishikigi continues to be my dude and we are welcoming all onto the bandwagon. He is In a place where he will always get you your KK.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O:
Takakeisho
Hoshoryu
Kirishima

S/K:
Kotonowaka
Takayasu
Ura

M1-5:
Hokutofuji
Shodai
Nishikigi

M6-10:
Hiradoumi
Asanoyama
Ichiyamamoto

M11+:
Endo
Onosho
Takarafuji

Juryo:
Kotoeko
Nishikifuji
Mitoryu

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Can I trade Takayasu and get Ura please

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009


dammit

can i get hoshoryu for taka

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Nativity In Black posted:

"I'm embarrassed that I got so excited about someone so low-ranking."

Jesus.

The spirit of Hakuho in that quote

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

No Mods No Masters posted:

I feel like that's a little different (in a worse way) energy than hakuho. But I might have crossed some critical horizon where I just ascribe all positive sports sentiments to hakuho a la contact mike

Yea, Hakuho was an rear end in a top hat when he wanted to be, especially when someone did something he didn't like. But when youre the GOAT you can do that

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Thauros posted:

https://x.com/hochiyama/status/1748453680515366989?s=20

i had to look this up myself as i'm bad with heyas outside of isegahama or the ones headed by big rikishi i remember during their careers. this is major because that's kirishima's heya, although he's the only sekitori in it

Wow and no one has elder stock to replace him?

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

My entire list of picks have gone out this week.

Can I anyone for Hokutofuji

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

New Yakuza protagonist looking good

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Average Lettuce posted:

Bullying and stealing are bad things to do but controversial opinion: he's only 22 and grew up in an environment where these things are kinda common. He should be given a chance to repent and do better.

I was living on my own for 4 years by the time i was 22. Thats a whole adult.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O
Kirishima
Kotonowaka
Hoshoryu

S/K
Abi
Nishikigi
Wakamotoharu

M1-5
Onosato
Ura
Midorifuji

M6-10
Shodai
Hokutofuji
Takayasu

M11
Endo
Ryuden
Ichiyamamoto

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Theres still time to get on the Nishikigi hype train.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Shiroc posted:



I love that they included his glasses in the background pattern

glasses wearing blind bears ftw

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Terunofuji should retire. The win one, disappear for 3 tournaments is not good for the sport or for his health.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Japanese (descriptive) is for the blind. They describe what's happening in the match and what's on screen.

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Shodai is the best

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009


i mean dude went 22-8 over the past 2 tournaments from #15 and #5. He is on the express line to Ozeki if he keeps it up

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

that says hakuho in the picture, yes.

will draft tomorrow

Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Y/O
Hoshoryu
Kirishima
Terunofuji

S/K
Abi
Wakamotoharu
Onosato

M1-5
Daeisho
Ura
Onosho

M6-10
Shodai
Nishikigi
Tamawashi

M11+
Roga
Ryuden
Hokutofuji

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Fluffdaddy
Jan 3, 2009

Elephant Ambush posted:

That's what he said last basho but I was under the impression that whoever was targeting him was targeting sumo twitch streamers in general but I guess that wasn't the case


The stupid hand gesture thing before taking the prize money envelopes is one of those things that pisses me off about sumo culture. There was literally no good reason to make that hand gesture a standard. That gesture didn't exist for 1300+ years but some old retired rear end in a top hat in the 60s decided that he wanted to put his personal little stamp on sumo history and came up with it, and I bet he spent way more time workshopping ideas for it than he did on anything else at the time. As if we need to restrict rikishi self expression even further and increase the amount of conformity in Japanese culture. And I'm sure that guy, on more than one occasion, said something like "this new standard hand gesture will surely please the Shinto gods" out loud in front of some people and nobody pointed and laughed

If you're new to sumo I would say that the first thing you need to learn is that the sumo you see today is a product of the 50s and 60s. They made a lot of big changes back then, including making the ring bigger and moving to a 15 day basho. There are people (not on these forums) who really want people to believe that modern sumo is perfectly preserved from 1400 years ago with minimal changes and that is pure horse poo poo

One of the biggest sumo culture struggles you'll see is the fight between people who see sumo primarily as a sport, and the people who who want it to be primarily about Shinto and Japanese traditions and use sumo as some weird proxy for modeling how all Japanese men should think and behave

Sumo is inextricable from its Shinto roots so you'll probably never see it presented primarily as a sport, and that's fine. But it's also really aggravating to people like Hakuho who is literally the GOAT and was constantly pushing boundaries and dealing with the retired Olds constantly telling him "yeah you won but it didn't feel right. you didn't win the right way". Fortunately for him he was so dominant that he could mostly ignore them but now that he's retired they're really trying to minimize his legacy in a bunch of bullshit ways

I know this has gone off on a tangent but I'll post one final thing that new sumo fans should probably know: the JSA (retired rikishi who are on the board of decision makers) are turbo racist and they are white hot angry at how so many Mongolians are coming to Japan and out-performing some of the best native Japanese wrestlers. They are livid that the guy who not only holds all the most important records but also shattered them over his knee is not Japanese

We just like watching sumo here op

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