Sumo: Through Banana Canada, we have all now vicariously been to Meatland. (page 68)

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Shodai?
	Shodai
	SHODAI

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

ANIME IS REAL DAVID IS REAL

# ? Jul 14, 2023 09:19

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# ? May 25, 2024 02:14

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Can't just stand there and be like, lol I'm tall, my friend.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 09:21

anakha: Sep 16, 2009

Hokuseiho really looked like a bumbling idiot there

# ? Jul 14, 2023 09:22

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Shodai

# ? Jul 14, 2023 09:56

Robviously: Aug 21, 2010; Genius. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist.

gently caress it, I believe

I'd like to trade Meisei for Nishikigi if available.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 10:16

Beeswax: Dec 29, 2005; Grimey Drawer

I will always keep the faith

# ? Jul 14, 2023 10:42

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

i really want literally some guy gonoyama to win personally and not just for fantasy reasons

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:07

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

OK SHODAI, I KNOW YOU ARE SHODAI, BUT THIS MAN IS INJURED. HE'S LIKE HOMER SIMPSON'S HOBO OPPONENTS. YOU JUST NEED TO NUDGE HIM. SHODAI! SHODAIIIIIIII!

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:10

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

can't believe he didn't somehow gently caress up the teru fight

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:11

Beeswax: Dec 29, 2005; Grimey Drawer

On a nice lower card note, it's cool to see ol' salaryman Takarfuji doing well and clearly doing more aggressive sumo. Not just doing that defensive, 0-lateral-movement sumo that has failed him a lot in previous bashos.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:13

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

does anyone have any theories of what the gently caress happened to mitakeumi?

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:30

some kinda jackal: Feb 25, 2003; �
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Beeswax posted:

I will always keep the faith

I was going to say.. Any sumo newcomers who find themselves excited about Takayasu in a position to make a yusho run, I have some... mental health advice for you...

Hokuseiho knows that you're allowed to use both hands,, right?

some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Jul 14, 2023

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:41

anakha: Sep 16, 2009

Marching Powder posted:

does anyone have any theories of what the gently caress happened to mitakeumi?

Previously (what led to his ozeki demotion)? Long COVID was suspected.

Right now? Well, his dad did pass away last week.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:55

Vargatron: Apr 19, 2008; MRAZZLE DAZZLE

Kuros posted:

everything looked so good on paper.

I'm pretty sure everybody has had this exact same reaction to a team they drafted. The wiles of sumo!

# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:11

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

anakha posted:

Previously (what led to his ozeki demotion)? Long COVID was suspected.

Right now? Well, his dad did pass away last week.

that's.... well i wish i never asked. sorry mitak.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:42

pseudodragon: Jun 16, 2007

Marching Powder posted:

that's.... well i wish i never asked. sorry mitak.

That sucks. If I knew that before the tourney, I would have thought the only possible results for him would have been a 15-0 triumphant win one for pops tourney or 0-15 dude is a mess and should probably stay out to not get hurt if he's not thinking straight basho.

Dude was so consistently solid for so long I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around how he's fallen so fast. For like a 6 year period, dude was almost a lock for 8-9 at S/K. Just looked up his stats and after a rough 6-9 debut at Komusubi, he went on a 5+ year run ending with his Ozeki promotion where he only had back to back MK once, his worst result was a singular 6-9 and was never lower than M3.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 16:31

Samuel L. Hacksaw: Mar 26, 2007; Never Stop Posting

Tommy Mawashi yusho?

# ? Jul 14, 2023 16:51

Kuros: Sep 13, 2010; Oh look, the consequences of my prior actions are finally catching up to me.

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

Tommy Mawashi yusho?

Tommy Bahama is already on the big side, I want to see a Tommy Bahama branded mawashi.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 17:03

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

# ? Jul 14, 2023 17:50

net work error: Feb 26, 2011

I love Ura

# ? Jul 14, 2023 21:06

Ben Nerevarine: Apr 14, 2006

net work error posted:

I love Ura

Incredible effort and stick-to-it-iveness today

# ? Jul 14, 2023 21:11

Bentai: Jul 8, 2004; NERF THIS!

Hakuoho removed the shoulder tape to unleash his full power on Gonoyama.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 21:18

Tiny Bug Child: Sep 11, 2004; Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

I love when Hokuseiho appears to forget he has two arms

# ? Jul 14, 2023 23:03

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Hokuseiho might have hit the plateau of Being Big because his tachiai is ugly as sin and his technique isn't there either. He's the only rikishi who looks to be straight up terrified to be in the ring.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 23:09

Boogalo: Jul 8, 2012; Meep Meep

Lid posted:

Hokuseiho might have hit the plateau of Being Big because his tachiai is ugly as sin and his technique isn't there either. He's the only rikishi who looks to be straight up terrified to be in the ring.

He does have the longest way down when going bowling for shimpan.

# ? Jul 14, 2023 23:47

verbal enema: May 23, 2009; onlymarfans.com

https://twitter.com/tochinoshin/status/1679992503838326785?s=19

# ? Jul 15, 2023 00:22

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

verbal enema posted:

https://twitter.com/tochinoshin/status/1679992503838326785?s=19

he should have retired sooner for many reasons.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 01:17

net work error: Feb 26, 2011

verbal enema posted:

https://twitter.com/tochinoshin/status/1679992503838326785?s=19

I love it

# ? Jul 15, 2023 03:07

Lucasar: Jan 25, 2005; save a few for lefty too

pseudodragon posted:

That sucks. If I knew that before the tourney, I would have thought the only possible results for him would have been a 15-0 triumphant win one for pops tourney or 0-15 dude is a mess and should probably stay out to not get hurt if he's not thinking straight basho.

Dude was so consistently solid for so long I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around how he's fallen so fast. For like a 6 year period, dude was almost a lock for 8-9 at S/K. Just looked up his stats and after a rough 6-9 debut at Komusubi, he went on a 5+ year run ending with his Ozeki promotion where he only had back to back MK once, his worst result was a singular 6-9 and was never lower than M3.

Mitakeumi is my favourite active guy (along with Hokutofuji) and it was so rough watching him get Ozeki only to lose it basically immediately. For like 6 years he was more of an Ozeki than any of the guys who actually were Ozekis; he had an equal or winning records against all of them except the Yokos and a better winrate in Sanyaku than any of them except maybe prime Takayasu. And then he's just fallen off a cliff. Like he's had 15 makekoshi in his 50 basho career and 6 of them were in a row last year.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 03:21

Charles Gnarwin: Jul 31, 2014; I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.

he knows...

Really happy that my value pick of Endo at M12 is paying off.

Not happy that I almost picked Nishikigi on accident but remembered the time that happened and he went MK so I was certain to change for Nishikifuji as intended. Should have let the accident happen dammit.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 05:14

Apraxin: Feb 22, 2006; General-Admiral

pseudodragon posted:

Gonoyama needs to be tearing through the lower ranks if he wants to be something. Dude's 25, if he can't win now, hes never going to. His peer group is Kotonowaka and Hoshoryu. And he's even behind Hiradoumi, Oho and Hokuseiho who are all 2 years younger.

i get what you mean, but at the same time he entered the sumo world much, much later than the average, and his first bout at the bottom of Sandanme was only two years ago, so i don't know if it's fair to say he's 'behind' guys who had a one-to-five year headstart.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 05:30

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

Charles Gnarwin posted:

Really happy that my value pick of Endo at M12 is paying off.

Not happy that I almost picked Nishikigi on accident but remembered the time that happened and he went MK so I was certain to change for Nishikifuji as intended. Should have let the accident happen dammit.

endo used to be a lock for 10 wins at anything at or below m7 in my memory. at some point that changed but i'm happy to see him to well at any rank.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 07:42

Khizan: Jul 30, 2013

I went with Hakuoho/Gonoyama/Shonannoumi for my M11+ picks just because I felt like all the other established names down there were a coin toss on injuries. Healthy first-timers seemed like a better bet. Glad to see Endo actually putting up numbers, though. It's always sad to watch people fall down the ranks.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 08:06

Fearless: Sep 3, 2003; DRINK MORE MOXIE

If Kirishima had to lose to someone, I am glad that it was Mitakeumi.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 11:11

Kuros: Sep 13, 2010; Oh look, the consequences of my prior actions are finally catching up to me.

Thoughts so far on various rikishi this tournament:

Hokuseiho's inexperience is being exposed heavily now that he's fighting people who can overcome his "be big" strategy. I'm sure he will have a lot of lessons to be learned after the tournament back at the stable.

Hoshoryu looks to be nearly a lock for Ozeki promotion, for sure if he finishes with 12 wins or better.

It will be sad to see Aoiyama out of the Makuuchi division. On the flip side, it's great to see Tamawashi still holding his own at his age.

What the gently caress is Midorifuji doing? You are the smallest man there by both height and weight, stop getting into pushing battles with people who have 20-70 kgs on you.

Finally a couple of non-rikishi things, my husband watches with me mostly for the gyoji's outfits, he loves them. The one with the pink outfit is his favorite this tournament. I like the guy in purple more.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 16:27

MyChemicalImbalance: Sep 15, 2007; Keep on smilin'

Kuros posted:

everything looked so good on paper.

The second week is where champions are made. Not in either of our teams, but like, generally.

Great Basho so far though, even with the loss of some of the top guys how can you not love this kind of run from Nishikigi?

# ? Jul 15, 2023 16:30

Marching Powder: Mar 8, 2008; stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

Kuros posted:

Finally a couple of non-rikishi things, my husband watches with me mostly for the gyoji's outfits, he loves them. The one with the pink outfit is his favorite this tournament. I like the guy in purple more.

hope he likes these ones

https://www.pocketmonsters.net/news/5540

# ? Jul 15, 2023 16:49

Buttchocks: Oct 21, 2020; No, I like my hat, thanks.

Have they ever called for a rematch due to gyoji interference? I had to wonder after the Shodai/Tobizaru match.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 18:31

Banana Canada: Sep 2, 2003; I'd tax all foreigners living abroad.

Can the gyoji call torinaoshi instead of making a decisive call? I'm guessing not since I've never seen it happen and it can only be declared as a result of a mono-ii.

Seems unfair to them and to the declared losing riskishi that it isn't an option to do so in an actual dead-heat scenario.

# ? Jul 15, 2023 18:46

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# ? May 25, 2024 02:14

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Hoshoryu looking nasty this basho, you love to see it. Also, I've liked Nishikigi since he snagged a kinboshi off of Kakuryu back in January 2019. Apparently he's blind as a bat without his glasses, so he tries to stay real close to his opponent in the ring. Also strong as hell in his upper body.

Robviously posted:

gently caress it, I believe

I'd like to trade Meisei for Nishikigi if available.

Trade registered for Day 7. According to tradition, you ensured he got his first loss of the basho.

Day 7 standings

Makuuchi

code:

23.5	NuclearPotato
23.5	Pakled
22.5	Brut
22.5	Vargatron
21.5	Akiosan
21.5	Charles Gnarwin
21.5	Eli949
21.5	Mode 7
20.5	Banana Canada
20.5	Fluffdaddy
20.5	GoatSeeGuy
20.5	Khizan
20.5	Marching Powder
20.5	Saturnine Aberrance
20.5	whats for dinner
19.5	bessantj
19.5	Ice Phisherman
19.5	Iron Chef Nex
19.5	Kenning
19.5	MyChemicalImbalance
19.5	pseudodragon
19.5	Teddybear
19.5	Thauros
19.5	Tiny Bug Child
18.5	Everyones Favorite Poster
18.5	Kuros
18.5	Lid
18.5	Netsky
18.5	Tochiazuma
17.5	anakha
17.5	Helianthus Annuus
16.5	bartolimu
16.5	Communist Thoughts
15	Robviously
14.5	LlamaTrauma

Juryo

code:

26.5	FART BOSS
25.5	rare Magic card l00k
23.5	Crusty Nutsack
22.5	Bentai
22.5	Chinook
21.5	Average Lettuce
21.5	NTRabbit
20.5	Nativity In Black
20.5	Samuel L. Hacksaw
20.5	Single Tight Female
20.5	Takuan
20.5	Xerzes
19.5	Ben Nerevarine
19.5	Boogalo
19.5	Dead Goon
19.5	Eldoop
19.5	Fearless
18.5	Octatonic
17.5	Gaghskull
17.5	oldskool
17.5	PJ
17.5	QuasiQuack
16.5	Log082
16.5	ratmosphere
15.5	ImplicitAssembler
13.5	Medenmath

# ? Jul 15, 2023 21:28

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