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Hirayuki posted:There've been some changes to the tachiai: a new "get ready" phrase from the shinpan and a more tightly regulated requirement that all four rikishi hands are actually touching the dohyo before the bout begins. Despite the headline making it sound like the changes are only for amateur sumo, I believe they apply to professional-level sumo as well; am I reading it right? That's half the fun of watching the match. Drawing out the tachiai is part of the ritual!
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Hirayuki posted:There've been some changes to the tachiai: a new "get ready" phrase from the shinpan and a more tightly regulated requirement that all four rikishi hands are actually touching the dohyo before the bout begins. Despite the headline making it sound like the changes are only for amateur sumo, I believe they apply to professional-level sumo as well; am I reading it right? Crouch, touch, pause, engage  e: the double standards continue with a warning for Onosato only after the press got it 7 months later NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Buttchocks posted:That's half the fun of watching the match. Drawing out the tachiai is part of the ritual!
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Ichinojo will be part of the US Sumo Open on May 1th in Long Beach, CA.
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Bentai posted:Ichinojo will be part of the US Sumo Open on May 1th in Long Beach, CA. Oh, neat. I'll be there.
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NTRabbit posted:Crouch, touch, pause, engage Ono is something a golden boy, yeah?
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Hirayuki posted:There've been some changes to the tachiai: a new "get ready" phrase from the shinpan and a more tightly regulated requirement that all four rikishi hands are actually touching the dohyo before the bout begins. Despite the headline making it sound like the changes are only for amateur sumo, I believe they apply to professional-level sumo as well; am I reading it right? I think the Japan Sumo Federation is different from the Japan Sumo Association, I don't think this impacts Ozumo at all.
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yeah that first paragraph is confusing and thought the headline writer may have not been gunning and made a mistake. every thing past that first paragraph in the body of the article seems to be talking about strictly amateur sumo tho
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Thauros posted:yeah that first paragraph is confusing and thought the headline writer may have not been gunning and made a mistake. every thing past that first paragraph in the body of the article seems to be talking about strictly amateur sumo tho I think it's just a case of English language information being impossible to find about them, best I found is this page: http://www.ifs-sumo.org/19-organization.html ISF Site posted:The Japan Sumo Federation, established on September 1, 1946 also holds several championships every year in the sport of Amateur Sumo, in which overseas teams are invited to compete. The oldest Amateur Championships date back to the year 1915. The years mentioned in that paragraph seem to indicate that they are not talking about the JSA.
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At some point I was trying to figure out how to get the better sumo seats (I ended up giving up and buying through buysumotickets again). I ended up signing up for the official sumo fan club where they do a lottery system to buy tickets, and they email with all kinds of interesting promotions that I can't read. I guess they made some digital trading cards and this cracked my poo poo up: 
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Use Google lens
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Elephant Ambush posted:Use Google lens Somehow I never considered this for translating text on pictures, despite using it extensively while traveling. Translate actually does a decent job with the printed text. But specifically why I was sharing this picture is the middle card of Endo(?) making that smirk in his training mawashi.
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Nah that’s Kirishima.
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My brain was telling me it was Kirishima, but then I was confused by the surrounding pictures of Endo
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Strangely, that is two very slightly different pictures of Endo rather than the same picture twice, like I originally thought. Anyway the other one is definitely Kirishima though I would guess the picture is from before the name change.
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If you learn four or five common kanji for maybe shima, no, taka, and like.. yama, you can probably pick out 80% of rikishi based on a picture and "something-yama -- oh yeah! kore-wa-pen-desu-yama". That's how I stumble through some of the rikishi I sometimes forget exist 
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https://twitter.com/patriciajaydee/status/1783876279105982962 Good news about Asashoryu.
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Banzuke is out! https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/ Takerufuji gets M5, Onosato promoted to Komusubi.
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Kerrzhe posted:the banzuke is out! i mean dude went 22-8 over the past 2 tournaments from #15 and #5. He is on the express line to Ozeki if he keeps it up
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kotonowaka is also now officially kotozakura. thought they were putting that on hold a bit
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He just did one basho as Kotonowaka because he wanted his dad’s shikona on a banzuke as ozeki, iirc
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Khizan posted:He just did one basho as Kotonowaka because he wanted his dad’s shikona on a banzuke as ozeki, iirc Yep. And now he wants his grandpa's shikona on a banzuke as Yokozuna. Again.
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Kerrzhe posted:the banzuke is out! Good
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So, here's a list of top division Yusho winners who were not promoted to sanyaku following their win, Takerufuji set a new record there.
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Brut posted:So, here's a list of top division Yusho winners who were not promoted to sanyaku following their win, Takerufuji set a new record there. I was expecting him to at least get to M1.
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bessantj posted:I was expecting him to at least get to M1. Tokushoryu was promoted to M2 after that insane yusho and he finished that basho 4-11. I'm actually in favor of the old folks actually showing restraint in promotions this once. We always see examples of guys betting promoted too high after a good basho and struggling mightily at the new rank, which can't be good for their confidence.
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I’m in favor of the way he was promoted because I think he’s a solid pick at M6 but a very iffy pick at M1.
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bessantj posted:I was expecting him to at least get to M1. If you wanna hear people who know a lot more than I do talk about this for an hour you should check out Grand Sumo Breakdown's Banzuke prediction episode and probably also their Banzuke review episode But long story short it made some sense for Takerufuji to end up anywhere from M2 to M6, with M6 apparently being mathematically most appropriate (but unusual because Yusho winners typically get a bit of a boost beyond the math), I don't think M1 was ever in the cards.
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Brut posted:But long story short it made some sense for Takerufuji to end up anywhere from M2 to M6, with M6 apparently being mathematically most appropriate (but unusual because Yusho winners typically get a bit of a boost beyond the math), I don't think M1 was ever in the cards. There was no way for him to get higher than M5 without loving someone else over. M1-3 are all locked in some order: Atamifuji was 8-7 at M2e must take an M1 slot. Hiradoumi at 9-6 from M4w, Gonoyama at 10-5 from M6w and Takayasu at 11-5 from M8w all also deserve M1w by the numbers. No 6-9 Sekiwake has dropped below M2w since 1944 and literally never below M3e so Daiesho gets a spot and Tobizaru was 8-7 at M4e. M4: 6-9 Ura from M1e and 7-8 Oho from M3e don't deserve to drop lower than M4. M5: 9-6 from M8e Onosho has a claim on M5e and Daiesho 6-9 from M2w claims M5w. M6: 13-2 M17e Takerufuji, 7-8 M5e Midorifuji both should slot in at M6e so Take gets the tiebreaker. When Teru won from M17, the top of Makuuchi was a bloodbath with only 1 person deserving of an M1 spot so instead of giving everyone an extra rank to fill it out, they just gave Teru all the banzuke luck and no one got less than they deserved (except Takanosho going to M1w instead of M1e) Same with Toku. He got the highest free space without bumping anyone out. Just unfortunate for Takerufuji that guys above him had good enough tourneys that there was no available banzuke luck to give him a boost. pseudodragon fucked around with this message at 05:17 on May 2, 2024 |
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Is it unfortunate though? He's outside the joi so might have an easier time next basho compared to if he was M2 or M3, if he does really well he might punch through to sanyaku, we know how the joi meatgrinder is so for all we know this might actually be better. Anyway I was just summarizing the podcast I linked with the M2-M6 thing, I don't know much myself beyond how to run simple sumodb queries to see precedent.
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So, did we come up with a solution for Kenning potentially not having time to run fantasy sumo ? Or was I misreading that?
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Brut posted:Is it unfortunate though? He's outside the joi so might have an easier time next basho compared to if he was M2 or M3, if he does really well he might punch through to sanyaku, we know how the joi meatgrinder is so for all we know this might actually be better. Yeah, he's probably better off this tourney getting the lower rank, but there's probably the pride of getting a higher rank that hers hurt. Not doing anything crazy either, just doing simple W-L=rank change math and just having the Teru/Toku bashos open and manually seeing where guys wound up compared to where they deserved. Actually listening to the podcast convinced me that M6 was the only justifiable spot. I missed that in the Toko yusho that Yukatayama and Ryuden were given a 1/2 rank lower than they should have so combined with Teru forcing Koto down, dropping dudes a 1/2 rank seemed reasonable. So I was thinking M5e and pushing Onosho and Meisei down an extra 1/2 each would have been fine but their talk about avoiding over demoting means Meisei would be locked to M5w so putting Toko at M5 would mean dropping Onosato below Mesei as well and giving him a full rank under promotion.
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Haven't really been engaged with sumo since November 2023, but finally catching up and prepping to dive back in and man, it's wild seeing the banzuke and seeing what's changed and what's the same. What happened to Kotoeko? *googling* Oh.  What happened to Hokuseiho? *googling* ...........oh. 
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Mode 7 posted:What happened to Kotoeko? *googling* Oh. Little man big injuries
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anakha posted:Tokushoryu was promoted to M2 after that insane yusho and he finished that basho 4-11. Let him rumble with the big boys! Brut posted:If you wanna hear people who know a lot more than I do talk about this for an hour you should check out Grand Sumo Breakdown's Banzuke prediction episode and probably also their Banzuke review episode Maybe I should of said I was 'hoping' rather than 'expecting' if only because he seems to be on a real roll at the moment and I would like to see how he measures up to the real best rikishi.
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:I'm enjoying the first banzuke with Takerufuji and Takarafuji. Simple pleasures. Oh yeah, Takarafuji made it back up form Juryo, just barely. Neat.
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