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Day 11: Average rikishi win% by utchari: 0.23% Wakamotoharu's win% by utchari: 2.5% Truly one of the most hair-raising kimarite.
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Lucasar posted:Day 11: I was still at work (from home) when that happened and I nearly shouted down the phone call I was on anakha posted:Day 11: Teru was taking no poo poo today. Those clamps came on FAST. Also looked like they really hurt, nephew shaking the feeling back into his arms right after 
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Tobizaru was feeling the pain from the clamps too. I forget which day it was, but I noticed Hokuseiho using the clamps after Teru used then a few times to great effect. it seems like a great way to lock down someone smaller than you.
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May 24, 2023 16:48
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Quite excited to see what Wakamotoharu will end on. July Basho could be an exciting Ozeki push from him.
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Day 11: It looked to me like Hoshoryu was paying attention to Meisei's match; he came in quick and just a little offset to try to avoid the clamps, I think. Unfortunately for him, Teru was paying attention too and wasn't letting anyone pull that one again. The Wakamotoharu match was fantastic.
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Found out more about the two lovely foreign fans at Osaka that nearly blackballed BuySumoTickets.com: The fans tried to enter the stadium with their sales invoice, and when they were rightly refused, started loudly raising a fuss until they were asked to leave. They never opened the ticket envelope that actually had their tickets, nor did they ever contact BuySumoTickets about "whurr ticket?" Eventually they did get the bright idea to open the envelope, but were then refused entrance because of their tantrum earlier in the day. loving gaijin ruining it for the rest of us!
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May 24, 2023 19:17
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Bentai posted:Found out more about the two lovely foreign fans at Osaka that nearly blackballed BuySumoTickets.com: We're not sending our best.
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Did Wakamotoharu and Wakatakamoto do a blood ritual to drain the essence from Wakatakakage's knees? Just asking questions about if perhaps there was a blood magic sumo ritual. Or maybe WMH and WTM just decided they're good at sumo now?
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Bentai posted:Found out more about the two lovely foreign fans at Osaka that nearly blackballed BuySumoTickets.com: Lmao this is somehow so so so much worse than I could have imagined
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May 24, 2023 23:45
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A really good day of sumo. Glad to see Takayasu back and winning.
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May 25, 2023 05:38
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JSA announced Day 13 matches. Terunofuji vs Asanoyama. Odd they'd put these two up before day 14 or 15.
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Bentai posted:JSA announced Day 13 matches. Day 15 is gonna be reserved for Keisho unless he goes kyujo (I hope he gets his kk soon so he can do so). They probably want Day 14 set aside for Kiribayama since he's at 9-2 and a sekiwake to boot.
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Day 12: Hokuseiho vs Hoshoryu - the first of hopefully many Hakuho-Asashoryu proxy matches lol Experience and technique won out this time.
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Day 12: Kiribayama reaches 33 wins with 3 days left to go, looks like we have a new ozeki.
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Day 12: WMH looked good against Terunofuji, if he hadn't gotten pulled to the side at the edge he might have had a shot at forcing Teru out. Unlikely, though, Big T is strong at the edge from what I've seen. Hoshoryu wriggling out from under the crushing embrace of Hokuseiho looked like a recipe to combat Hokuseiho's Be Big pro strat. Congrats to Kiribayama and good looking getting your 33rd win against an Ozeki. Kinbozan and Onosho not looking great.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Did Wakamotoharu and Wakatakamoto do a blood ritual to drain the essence from Wakatakakage's knees? Of course we still have to see if this time he ends up with a 6-1, but so far Wakatakamoto has gotten plenty of 5-2 scores from around his current rank, there tends to be quite a significant difference in competition between Ms25~ and like the top 10 ranks or so of that division, so I don't really think this is anything out of the ordinary for him.
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Ura is a wizard.
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ura with another kimarite not seen since tungsten arm
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Ura and Tobi grinning like loons at the end of their match was good for the soul
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It's funny that this thread has hardly mentioned Takakeisho this basho, he has been a real non entity.
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Because he's injured, I'm actually surprised he's doing so well.
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Me when seeing Ura and Tobizaru squaring up: "This should be something." Me after the match: "That sure was something." Loved it. Edit: In addition to takakeisho being injured and having a very mediocre performance because of it (at least by his standard), there's a bunch of other interesting stories: A four sekiwake race to ozeki (even if Daiesho and Hoshoryu would be long shots) Asanoyama and Terunofuji returning to makuuchi (after being absent for very different reasons) And two young rising stars trying to prove themselves. Nativity In Black fucked around with this message at 22:57 on May 25, 2023 |
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Nativity In Black posted:A four sekiwake race to ozeki (even if Daiesho and Hoshoryu would be long shots) Looked to me like Hoshoryu and Wakamotoharu would have been the longshots, Kiribayama was obviously the best set up for it but Daiesho isn't that far off.
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Daiesho has the numbers but I thought they only considered tournament records at sanyaku? Edit: I just revisited the Wikipedia article about this and I guess not. In that case, let's fuckin go Daiesho. Nativity In Black fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 25, 2023 |
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It depends, I think another 12-3 would've done it, but it is hard to say.
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Sorry that I haven't been updating, but I do still have everyone's records here going into Day 13: Day 12 Standings: code:I'm not surprised they set Asanoyama up to meet Teru today. If he wins today, it's plausible that there will be a three way tie at 11-2 with Kiribayama. That would set up either Asanoyama or Terunofuji to go against Kiribayama on day 14 or 15 or possibly one after another to test Kiri for promotion. Kiribayama definitely had the best set up coming into this, boasting the yusho in March. He can absolutely put an exclamation point on it in the next day or two.
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Day 13: Hell yeah Keisho keeps his rank. Now take the last two days off and rest up. Guess tomorrow decides the basho.
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Day 13: lmao at all the hype for the Terunofuji vs Asanoyama match and in the end it all seemed so simple for Teru. Kinda weird that we will have Teru vs Kiri tomorrow, are they expecting Teru to fight Takakeisho on the last day?
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Average Lettuce posted:Day 13: lmao at all the hype for the Terunofuji vs Asanoyama match and in the end it all seemed so simple for Teru. Kinda weird that we will have Teru vs Kiri tomorrow, are they expecting Teru to fight Takakeisho on the last day? don't they usually try to save the highest ranked match for day 15?
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:don't they usually try to save the highest ranked match for day 15? They will also give special thought to avoiding the need for playoffs later on. If Teru wins here, his road to victory is easier than having the complete clusterfuck of standings at the top that this could have become.
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At some point these channels should just accept that nhk is not willing to play ball and switch to abema.
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Lid posted:natto been pulled again because nhk is dumb lol just increase the number by 1 as usual https://www.youtube.com/@nattosumo7 (8 is already set up and ready to go  )
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Kintamayama currently lurks about as "Mord Dresner" on youtube as well if your time is more limited.
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Lucasar posted:I want people to start attacking Hokuseiho's legs with sotogake Quoting myself for no reason at all.
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Day 12 Standings:code:Day 12 Takakeisho 7-5 Hoshoryu 8-4 Ura 6-6 Tananosho 4-8 Hokuseiho 8-4 7 + (8+1) + 6 + (4-0.5) + (8+1) = 34.5 Day 13 Takakeisho 8-5 Hoshoryu 9-4 Ura 7-6 Tananosho 5-8 Hokuseiho 8-5 (8+1) + (9+1) + 7 + (5-0.5) + (8+1) = 39.5
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I imagine Kiribiyama has sealed up an Ozeki promotion, which is neat, and Wakamotoharu should be in decent position to give it a go next time. The logjam might be finally breaking somewhat. Also OCHIAI!
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What's the highest rank someone's made their makuuchi debut at? Gonoyama's gonna have to be placed real high since this score of his is coming from J1e. Bright future for Goeido's student.
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