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Vargatron posted:Next tournament I should just do a babyface stable with the likes of Ura, Takayasu, et al. Just guys who are generally entertaining to watch and haven't had any breaches of hinkaku. Nah heel stables sell tickets and have done so since the Ric Flair NWA days. Gotta have Ryuden (likely M11+), Abi, Asanoyama (one of which will be S/K and the other M1-5), and maybe Hoshoryu (likes to play heel) or Keisho (gets a lot of flack online) for your Y/O. Just need a M6-10 guy and you're set.
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anakha posted:Nah heel stables sell tickets and have done so since the Ric Flair NWA days. Terunofuji's kimedashi has to be the sumo equivalent of the figure four leg lock.
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I'm joining for the next basho and yeah, it's just gonna be my stable of Good Boys. Plus Shodai.
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anakha posted:Nah heel stables sell tickets and have done so since the Ric Flair NWA days. Tamawashi was 8-7 on M10 last basho. Done and done.
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bartolimu posted:Tamawashi was 8-7 on M10 last basho. Done and done. With the number of people in M1-10 that went mk, I honestly think Tom's gonna find himself in M1-5 next basho.
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Liquid Communism posted:Tochinoshin rocking the undercut in his first post-sumo haircut.  But I loved Tamawashi taking his snip and leaning in to say something, then giving Tochinoshin a little kiss on the cheek. Adorable. 
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More kids sumo on https://youtube.com/@hakuhocup Boys Hakuho Cup. They have last year's VODs up so these might stay unlike the girls tourney.
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So I just got this in my email and apparently it starts in six minutes and wtf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O01547Hk5UI https://www.trillertv.com/vl/p/international-sumo-league/
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Lid posted:So I just got this in my email and apparently it starts in six minutes and wtf Going by the comments in this reddit thread, it's not very good: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sumo/s/9AFTczySwh
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Sumo/s/Aaa9oJOGUx Huge news Sumo streams legal coming to America and Canada However it's 25 a month because well they can't make it easy
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Lid posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/Sumo/s/Aaa9oJOGUx $25 per basho is a little steep but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
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Feb 19, 2024 20:42
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Technically it's $50 per basho because you're still paying the month it isn't on
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Lid posted:Technically it's $50 per basho because you're still paying the month it isn't on Only if you don't unsub at the end of the basho.
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Lid posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/Sumo/s/Aaa9oJOGUx People are getting really excited but this says "NHK World" which I believe is not the channel we want. I'm not totally sure about "NHK World Premium", but here is the schedule of it's programming: https://nhkworldpremium.com/en/schedules Unfortunately it only shows 1 week at a time and none of the snapshots I can pull up on the wayback machine overlap with basho dates so I can't figure out if they actually show the sumo or not, but I'm guessing they do not.
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I'd legit sub this for $25/mo every other month if we do end up getting a sumo feed on one of these channels. Time to put my money behind what I've been saying. Give me a legal way to watch the raw feed and I will. $25 USD is a lot, and even more in Canada, but I'd probably at least trial it.
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One goon pays for the 25$ sub and everyone watches them livestream it on discord
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Jobbo_Fett posted:One goon pays for the 25$ sub and everyone watches them livestream it on discord In if (s)he does the stupid bit where they’re holding a console controller and pretending it’s a video game, just so I can chat spam “shitatenage”
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We've had TV Japan for ages. If that's going into streaming now, too, I guess now we can finally cut the cord and stream everything we watch. I wish I had assurances that it was the same thing. I'll have to check the TVJ site more closely. e: TVJ's Japanese site does make clear that Jme (pronounced "Jamie," btw) will offer the same content as TV Japan, which presumably includes sumo (all of makuuchi along with a separate highlights show). I don't know about an English audio track, but it'd be a popular feature for sure. Hirayuki fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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So Jamie will only show top division?
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It looks like sumo as well as some other stuff will be getting an English track. It's $25 for 3 TV Japan channels and some on demand stuff. Other programs will also have English subtitles it looks like. $25 is a stupid asking price but it seems like they're gonna offer a 30 day trial if you sign up between March 20 and April 30. So just in time for May. If they put the sumo broadcast on demand as well, I'd almost be tempted. $25 is just way too much but it sounds like that's just Japan's pricing structure in general.
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even if it was 10 i don't know if i coudl justify it as an american as i usually can't watch live. i prefer digests when i cant tbh
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Especially with DST coming soon and then top rank not starting til 3am, the only sumo I can live watch is the low ranks and I usually gotta bail before juryo even starts. The service not having all of the ranks makes it kinda useless for the east coast at least 
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Bentai posted:So Jamie will only show top division? Robviously posted:$25 is just way too much but it sounds like that's just Japan's pricing structure in general. Hirayuki fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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I guess whether I try it depends on whether I can DRV sumo or whether I have to actually get up at 3AM.
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Yeah. The two main things are time shifting for so the big matches aren't at 3 in the morning and VOD digests so it's not a multi hour commitment each day. English overlays (even if it's just names/record) would be nice too. Commentary would be even better but as long as I can tell who's fighting when it's mid/lowercarders I can't quite recognize yet that's about the minimum requirements.
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Unrelated to the current topic: I understand that if one buys sumo tickets from a kokugikan tea house it comes with some extra perks, such as a goodie bag and also folks that will help acquire refreshments throughout the tournament. Does anyone know how to do this as a foreigner? I'm going back in May and if I can avoid standing in line for beer and missing matches, that would be great. Alternative opinion is to smuggle some Sapporo in my backpack.
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https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1760278078536777838?t=3eFbkoVRmjWoSTlLu97szw&s=19 Looks like Hokuseiho might be done. What a weird career. Dude was invincible in the lower ranks and quickly became the most boring wrestler in the world and now he's probably going to be forced to retire
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Chiyotairyu makes his MMA debut, bro should've stayed in Meatland
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1760278078536777838?t=3eFbkoVRmjWoSTlLu97szw&s=19 What did he do? Slump awkwardly on more junior stable mates? Good riddance treeman.
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According to Sumo Chris, Hokuseiho has been ordered to retire after being found guilty of the bullying.
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https://www.47news.jp/10557038.html And a proposal to demote Hakuho two ranks.
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Tbf Hakuhos stable has a history of bullying and physical violence and I wouldn't be surprised if that comes from the man himself Iirc there was that old video of him jumping up and down on a young rikishis back to get him to stretch that looked very painful
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From Nikkan Sports: https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202402210001519.html DeepL posted:The Compliance Committee of the Japan Sumo Association held a meeting at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on August 21, and decided to give Miyagino Oyakata (38, former yokozuna Hakuho) a demotion of two ranks and a pay cut, according to a source in the association. It was discovered that his apprentice, Hokuseiho (22), a makuuchi wrestler, had routinely hit junior rikishi and engaged in other violent behavior. The supervisory responsibility will be questioned; if the decision is made to demote him two ranks, Miyagino Oyakata will drop from committee member to the lowest rank of nenyoro (except for rehired counselors). The Sumo Association has seven levels of disciplinary action, with demotion being the third most serious, following dismissal and a recommendation to retire (resign). The proposal for Hokuseiho is to recommend his retirement, which will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting of the board of trustees on March 23.  I am disappointed in both of them.
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If they're meeting in March to discuss his forced retirement, does this mean he's still on the March banzuke unless he's forced to "decide"? Hakuho is going to mummify him in a mawashi and entomb him under the heya's practice dohyo.  But joking aside, that seems super lovely of both of them. I don't know how much to read into the fact that Hakuho didn't take appropriate measures; Whether he actually told him to stop loving around and stealing poo poo (and was ignored), or whether he literally just didn't bother doing anything. I guess we'll see. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:Chiyotairyu makes his MMA debut, bro should've stayed in Meatland This doesn't look like MMA, they're getting separated immediately every time they clinch or any time anyone gets dropped (lets be real, when Chiyotairyu gets dropped), this is basically a kickboxing match with MMA gear on, weird.
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hakuho doesn't seem the type to condone un-sanctioned violence. his approach to his heya from what i've seen is him trying to drag sumo into the 1900s and implement some rudimentary sports science like stretching (looking at you shodai) and not violently beating people for no reason. i genuinely believe he believed what he said that yokozuna sumo is winning sumo, and i doubt he thinks winning sumo comes from servant beatings. that said if it comes out he had knowledge about it and did gently caress all, i'll be extremely disappointed.
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