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I've fallen behind in my viewing, I usually leave a YouTube live stream on in the background, however, I feel confident in saying this. SHODAI.
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Love Shodai's bizarre ozeki saga. We're witnessing the stuff of legends... Speaking of bizarre -- Chris Sumo's latest video ends with him updating us on the "mood" of the crowd, which he reports as being rattled by shock and disappointment at things like wrestler pullouts and no longer being allowed to sit and eat inside the arena. He's also confused by the idea of isolating, since the wrestlers are all vaccinated. Sure wish there were other English-speaking people based in Japan willing and able to dedicate every waking hour to sumo-related stuff, because seeing stuff from alternate angles and hearing news/interview snippets is neat, but I don't think I can tolerate giving his channel more views at this point.
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Jul 19, 2022 16:58
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News: Chris Gould is an idiot, but still knows some people in the sumo world Views. Praise Be Lord Shodai.
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Jul 19, 2022 17:04
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The thing about chris is his slight unhingedness is probably a condition for the job, I can't imagine the amount of sheer "go away" energy he plows through on a daily basis to do independent sumo reporting as a foreigner. Not to defend it at all, but if whining about covid restrictions is his vent it's probably getting off light
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Jul 19, 2022 17:09
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Is that the guy whose laboured breathing is sometimes audible in some of his videos edit: I'm probably thinking of jason
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Jul 19, 2022 18:12
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It's weird because at the start of the pandemic he was in hard on the JSA for not being strict enough after Shobushi's death. He seems more like an "everything the JSA does is wrong, all the conspiracies are real" type crazy to me. Like I get the feeling he'd be railing on them for not taking a leadership role in society if they followed the gov guidelines and lifted restrictions. But I just ignore everything from him that isn't straight up dudes fighting.
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pseudodragon posted:But I just ignore everything from him that isn't straight up dudes fighting. You're not wrong, exactly, but I find I can get dudes fighting from NHK, nattosumo, or even the MidnightSumo twitch chat. I actually highly recommend the latter. It's a relatively small community and not toxic like every other twitch stream I've seen, and the person who runs it writes up bios for all of the lower ranked rikishi.
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Jul 19, 2022 18:22
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Yeah, midnightsumo chat is awesome. Just the right balance of respect and irreverence for sumo for me.
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Jul 19, 2022 18:30
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The feel I get from Chris Sumo's videos is that he's using the COVID situation to comment on how wrongly the JSA handles having to improvise rules where they don't exist. Like I don't think he's anti-vaxx or thinks COVID is just going to go away. He's questioning things like "if they're only testing symptomatic wrestlers then why are so many testing positive unpromted?". Sure I don't agree with the things he says and it does make me a bit uncomfortable but it's not straight up misinformation or anti-vaxx sentiment. He just sounds weary of the whole situation.
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Jul 19, 2022 18:43
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There was a video I watched a couple weeks ago where he was whining about masking in general so I think he's more towards 'just stop bothering and let 'er rip' than not.
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Jul 19, 2022 19:18
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anakha posted:Yeah, midnightsumo chat is awesome. Just the right balance of respect and irreverence for sumo for me. someone in the midnightsumo chat with the handle GayestSatan rates all the sumo wrestlers by how hot they are and how fat their asses are
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Jul 19, 2022 22:36
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KungFu Grip posted:someone in the midnightsumo chat with the handle GayestSatan rates all the sumo wrestlers by how hot they are and how fat their asses are I'd like to see that banzuke.
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Jul 19, 2022 23:14
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KungFu Grip posted:someone in the midnightsumo chat with the handle GayestSatan rates all the sumo wrestlers by how hot they are and how fat their asses are Chat runs on horny.
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Jul 19, 2022 23:42
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Elissimpark posted:I'd like to see that banzuke. This is in the OP but I guess it could use an update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ieFiAtj7A
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Jul 19, 2022 23:54
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i am so upset with Tochinoshin's latest match oh well!!
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pseudodragon posted:This is in the OP but I guess it could use an update I don't believe that has any ratings of thiccness. Or muchi-muchi, which is apparently the equivalent in Japanese.
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Jul 20, 2022 02:21
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anakha posted:Yeah, midnightsumo chat is awesome. Just the right balance of respect and irreverence for sumo for me. But holy poo poo did I miss being able to watch just the highlights. The amount of time spent just standing/loving around on that dohyo between bouts was painful, even being able to skip through it 30 seconds at a time.
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Jul 20, 2022 02:36
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verbal enema posted:i am so upset with Tochinoshin's latest match Same. I get it, guy's desperate being 3:7 10 days in, but frankly that was not in the spirit of good sumo.
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Liquid Communism posted:Same. In the replay you can see him track Terutsuyohsi around but he clearly knows his knee wouldn't survive trying to recover it so just takes the L 
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Jul 20, 2022 04:03
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Jul 20, 2022 04:08
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Shodai is the smartest man in sumo. Got that ozeki paycheck, only has to work every other basho, doesn’t do anything that could get him injured. He’s in it to stack paper for the long haul.
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Jul 20, 2022 04:16
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Aw, gently caress.
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Congrats to everyone getting hosed by covid this basho!
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Jul 20, 2022 04:30
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Day 15 will consist of a dozen kyujo announcements and Shodai picking up his 8th win.
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Jul 20, 2022 04:36
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shodai is going to get yusho by default at this rate
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KungFu Grip posted:shodai is going to get yusho by default at this rate And I will celebrate it.
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All of these guys popping hot this late means every single person is getting exposed and they're getting infected at the basho
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Jul 20, 2022 04:59
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Dammit, giant baby was looking really good this basho too. I can’t remember if a late kyujo gets me a trade or not. If it does, I’d like to trade Kotonowaka for Ichinojo. If it doesn’t, well, that’s the bad thing I was expecting to knock me off course.
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Jul 20, 2022 05:19
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I haven't been hit by a COVID withdrawal yet, my team just sucks (except for Teru)
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KungFu Grip posted:someone in the midnightsumo chat with the handle GayestSatan rates all the sumo wrestlers by how hot they are and how fat their asses are It's thanks to GayestSatan that I've discovered that Terunofuji has negative rear end. FFS. Kenning, do the Week 2 kyujo rules (no trading) apply in this scenario? anakha fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Official Fantasy rule: Kyujo auto-trading In the event of a kyujo, the following auto-trading rules are in place: Week 1 - Days 1-7 (trading open): If a wrestler goes kyujo 1) Any player with that wrestler can request a trade on the day of the kyujo announcement, which will be registered for the next day as a normal trade. 2) Any player with that wrestler who does not request a trade on the day of the kyujo announcement will get an auto-trade down their initial draft picks, registered for the day after the fusen loss. 3) Any player whose draft picks and wire position mean they cannot get an auto-replacement is boned until they request a specific alternative. 4) Any player who does not wish to make an auto-trade must request so before the auto-trade is made. 5) Any trades (normal or auto-) still result in losing position in the draft wire. 6) In the event of multiple simultaneous kyujo on a single day on a single team, auto-trades will be processed on subsequent days for ranks in descending order, unless otherwise requested by the player. Week 2 - Days 8-15 (trading closed): If a wrestler goes kyujo, same as above except 1) Any player with that wrestler can request a trade on the day of the kyujo announcement, which will be registered for the day after the fusen loss, since trading is officially closed. This rule is a formalization of the rule we developed in Aki 2021, and will be added to the official Fantasy rules going forward. The goal of this rule is to make it so that people who suffer a kyujo can still have a reasonable team, while still suffering a penalty if their guy goes kyujo after trading closes. Kenning fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Fuuuuuuuuuck me Kotonowaka was about to get his KK also :'( Charles Gnarwin posted:Dammit, giant baby was looking really good this basho too. I can’t remember if a late kyujo gets me a trade or not. If it does, I’d like to trade Kotonowaka for Ichinojo. You'll get him for Day 12, after eating a fusen loss, and everyone else with Kotonowaka (myself included) will similarly get a Day 12 new guy at M1-5. anakha posted:Kenning, do the Week 2 kyujo rules (no trading) apply in this scenario? Please see my above post! I've clarified and finalized the procedure for this rule, which we developed in Aki 2021. I hate how much it's come into play this basho. Day 10 standings: Makuuchi code:code:
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Lol that I lost a point while kyujo due to the weakness of my former team. The sumo merch everyone in this thread wants https://twitter.com/sumokyokai/status/1549582616344506368?s=21&t=8fNJm8zAdr1C6ptlxnzEJg Desk Shodai to remind you to only do the work you're paid for
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I was big anti-Shodai since like 2017 when he was mastering the art of the "stand up and look confused" tachiai, but I like hilarious trolls more than I dislike hapless weirdos who wander into the Kokugikan and start wrestling, so I think I've become a grudging Shodai fan.
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Kenning posted:Week 2 - Days 8-15 (trading closed): I think week 2 trades should be restricted to only the wrestlers in your initial draft pick, assuming any are available, because that would base the pick on your initial judgment and it prevents you from using the kyujo to pick up somebody you didn't go for who's on an unexpected hot streak or similar. That said, I'd like to trade Kotoshoho for either Midorifuji(first choice) or Onosho(second choice), who were my other draft picks. Kenning posted:I was big anti-Shodai since like 2017 when he was mastering the art of the "stand up and look confused" tachiai, but I like hilarious trolls more than I dislike hapless weirdos who wander into the Kokugikan and start wrestling, so I think I've become a grudging Shodai fan. I love the way his ability to Mr Magoo himself out of kadoban seems to infuriate the old men of sumo.
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anakha posted:It's thanks to GayestSatan that I've discovered that Terunofuji has negative rear end. Yeah, Teru's rear end is pretty mournful. Now Harumafuji - there was an rear end worthy of a horizontal rope.
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Dear god, MidnightSumo's chat is hilarious. They were racking up some good jabs at Ryuden during his Juryo match.
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Day 8 Standings Juryo 19 ilmucche Day 9 standings Juryo 19 ilmucche Day 10 standings: Juryo 19 ilmucche I have a wrestler kyujo and he scored as many points as the rest of my stable two days in a row
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Terunofuji vs Hoshoryu, holy poo poo. What a great match. Also: SHODAI.
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