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Ah yep I'm an idiot, it's at unsociable hours for most of the thread. My b.
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i'm in favor of a basho thread. i seldom watch live but it feels awkward to even discuss after i watch a digest in the morning (us time) as people watch on different times and the convention is usually to keep everything in spoilers.
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Threads aren't a limited resource. Can always try a basho thread and see how it goes.
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My personal instinct is to just treat this thread as a "poster beware" zone for daily spoilers during the basho. Almost every post in the two weeks the basho is on is about how wrestlers are doing and cool bouts or whatever, and it always seems funny the spoiler those since almost every post is spoilered sometimes. We could just make it clear that we strongly recommend watching the day's bouts before reading the thread and it would accomplish much the same thing. It's what I do anyway, despite the spoiler tags.
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I'd say maybe spoiler if you're doing live viewing as not everyone has the opportunity to do that, but as soon as the digests like Kinta are up, everything should be fair game and it's your own drat fault if you go into the thread before watching.
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Yeah, I think spoilers while the bouts are happening are appropriate, but by 6 pm Japan time the thread can be all bets off.
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Yeah I think its fairly understood that you should watch the match day prior to clicking spoilers. Match digests are usually up by 8 EST so its pretty easy to watch the matches before the day shift posters come in.
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Kenning posted:Yeah, I think spoilers while the bouts are happening are appropriate, but by 6 pm Japan time the thread can be all bets off.
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Anyway shitposting aside, this is neat: https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1646079623040466956
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Brut posted:Anyway shitposting aside, this is neat:
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I love that this sport that takes itself super seriously and is up its own rear end 99% of the time has no problem with their stars showing up on the ring so sacred that icky girls can't enter wearing a bad cartoon frog or hello kitty fighting a dragon.
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it's serious business
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Brut posted:Anyway shitposting aside, this is neat: Tuna in Japanese is 'maguro'?
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Tuna in Japanese is 'maguro'?
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also, maguro is generally bluefin tuna. skipjack tuna is katsuo, for instance
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Apraxin posted:it's serious business Why does Kumamon continue to haunt me? Kumamoto prefecture got their money worth with that bear - it's everywhere like Big Brother on Kyushu.
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https://twitter.com/sumofollower/status/1646639698930958337 WTK gonna be off the banzuke for quite a bit with ACL rehab after the surgery. 
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That could be it for WTK at sanyaku. Assuming an 8 month recovery period, he'd miss 4 basho which would have him at lower Makushita for January. It took Abi 4 basho to make it back from that point, but that was a healthy dude with back to back 7-0s. A recovering guy putting up 5s or 6s would take another 1 or 2 tourneys. He might not be back in Makuuchi until Jan 25 at which point he'd be on the wrong side of 30 so getting back up isn't a given.
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https://youtu.be/8GsW3tQf88k Shodai with incalculable strength
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Apraxin posted:it's serious business Kumamon IS serious buisness. That prefecture is making bank off that creepy rear end bear
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verbal enema posted:https://youtu.be/8GsW3tQf88k Shodai has every attribute one would want out of an ozeki except consistency.
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Fluffdaddy posted:Kumamon IS serious buisness. That prefecture is making bank off that creepy rear end bear Case in point, I just bought a plushie at the Kumamon Village store last week.
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verbal enema posted:https://youtu.be/8GsW3tQf88k The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > Punch Sport Pagoda > Sumo: My power comes from eating raw horse meat.
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Banana Canada posted:Case in point, I just bought a plushie at the Kumamon Village store last week. I'm secretly fond of the anime Keroro Gunsou. I've got a keyring of the main character, an alien invader, wearing a Kumamon shirt.
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Hakuho's hands: pretty big! 
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https://twitter.com/patriciajaydee/status/1651064446452903937 Poor lil' Bird.
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According to Kintamayama's newsletter: Asanoyama went for degeiko at Tokitsukaze, as did Nishikigi and Hokutofuji. Asanoyama went 12-4 including 3-1 against Shodai. I really hope Asanoyama can make it back to the joi in short order as I'd love to see him against Kiribayama and Hoshoryu and Kotonowaka. I'm pleased in general with how many solid yostu guys are at the top of the card these days.
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Yeah Asanoyama will definitely be at a rank where he's fighting all the top guys very very soon, it'll be interesting to see if they manage to offer enough resistance to stop another Ozeki run, but I have no doubt he can maintain M3 or higher for a few years to come.
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May Banzuke is up! https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/
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I personally wouldn't mind a basho-focused thread. I actually have trouble following the action even if I just take joy in WATCHING the sport on MidnightSumo. I also tragically have to go to bed before the big boies come out most of the time.
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Bentai posted:May Banzuke is up! Quite the jump for Kinbozan! Also, I'm glad that Oho didn't go down.
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Bentai posted:May Banzuke is up! Lmao, M6-M10 is a wasteland of mediocrity.
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That's a generously light fall for Tochinoshin, J2w getting 5-10 could have sent him much further down than J5e, buys him a little extra time if he can pull out a few 7-8s.
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Lid posted:This the first time Wakamotoharu had been above Wakatakakage? in sekitori yes. wakamotoharu is only a year older but debuted considerably earlier as a teenager in january 2012. wakatakakage went to college and did well enough to debute at sandame 100 in march 2017. last time the elder brother was ranked higher was 2018's new year basho. wakamotoharu went 3-4 from makushita 6 while his little bro had a zensho yusho from ms17.
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is there any good comparison chart somewhere of how these boys either went up or down the ranks this basho, or do i need to do the heavy lifting myself? because i will, but i thought maybe there was some website or something that i didn't know about yet! edit: also, people are saying that teronofuji will be participating in may. that's exciting! when does the yokozuna usually participate? i assume it'll be very late in the day/night.
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https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Default.aspx they haven't updated for the upcoming basho yet but they will soon and that's the best place to find guys' career history and current trajectory my cat is norris posted:
yes if he participates he will be in the last match every night as the sole yokozuna
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I usually check the charts from Fred Pinkerton but they haven't provided the latest one yet. Check fredpink.com for updates.
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