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New OP looking good! I continue my sumo brand of "Tochinoshin ride or die," even though that's mostly meant dying lately. Y/O: Takakeisho  S/K: Wakatakakage Shodai Hoshoryu M1-5: Nishikifuji Tamawashi Tobizaru M6-10: Oho Takanosho Aoiyama M11+: Tochinoshin Kotoeko Kagayaki
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rare Magic card l00k posted:i feel like my brand of sumo is to start strong and fall apart after day 8, so i am sorry right now for everyone who has members of my team I feel like my brand of sumo is Hattorizakura, the Ls start comin and they don’t stop comin Come down with me, to the bottom of the banzuk-sea
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Jan 11, 2023 03:57
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God drat it. Kenning, can I get the following trades: * Trade Tochinoshin (now kyujo) for Takarafuji, Kotoshoho, or Kotoeko * Trade Oho (who is just plain suckin it up) for Onosho, Aoiyama, or Hokutofuji
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Jan 12, 2023 04:09
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Hokutofuji and Kotoeko for me. Both of them go absolutely full out in every match, every time. I love it, even when it honestly doesn't work very well. Both of them are like the anti-Shodai. I have a minor soft spot lately for Sadanoumi too, who has been on a consistent streak lately after years of bouncing between upper juryo and lower maegashira.
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Feb 13, 2023 19:08
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Thanks and congrats Kenning! Y/O: Takakeisho Terunofuji - S/K: Hoshoryu Wakatakakage Kotonowaka M1-5: Midorifuji Kotoshoho Tamawashi M6-10: Sadanoumi Takayasu Nishikifuji M11+: Kotoeko Kinbozan Bushozan
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Mar 7, 2023 15:55
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I love his style, but Sadanoumi is just making me sad this week. Trade request: Exchange Sadanoumi for Takayasu, Nishikifuji, or Endo.
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Mar 16, 2023 19:02
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Kenning posted:Trades registered Day 7. Also I'm ditching Tamawashi for Midorifuji, making this the first time I've done two non-kyujo trades in a basho in I can't say how long. Hey Kenning — did my day 6 trade make it in? ullerrm posted:I love his style, but Sadanoumi is just making me sad this week.
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Mar 18, 2023 18:29
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Special prizes are up. Shokan-sho (Outstanding Performance): none Kanto-sho (Fighting Spirit): Kinbozan, conditionally Midorifuji Gino-sho (Technique): Kiribayama, Daieisho
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Mar 26, 2023 07:24
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Beeswax posted:Very informative, thanks! https://tachiai.org/2015/10/04/%E9%8C%A6-nishiki-brocade/ TLDR: As a noun it means brocade, but it's used allegorically to describe things that are beautiful, especially in nature. (It also gets occasionally used to describe rewards/honors of success.) Both of the active wrestlers with that in their name use it for heritage reasons: * Nishikifuji is named after Aminishiki, who used to be his elder stable-mate in Isegahama. * Nishikigi is named after an early-1800s Ozeki from Iwate who founded the original Nishonoseki stable (no direct relation to the current stable). ullerrm fucked around with this message at 19:53 on May 29, 2023 |
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Flesnolk posted:potentially odd sumo question: has anyone gone their whole career without going makekoshi? Obviously a full undefeated career is mathematically impossible, but beyond people who were only in the sport for about five minutes like Kototenzan I was wondering if anyone'd pulled it off There was an 1800s-era rikishi called Raiden who was never MKed, although there were only two tournaments per year back then. http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi.aspx?r=3143 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiden_Tameemon FWIW, a lot of wrestlers from that era could technically claim that they never MKed, but the standards were different back then -- they didn't consider kyujo as a loss, and matches could end in draws (which also didn't count as a loss). Raiden is the only one from that era that actually just showed up and KKed every tournament he played in, as far as I know. Absolute unit. I would be shocked if anyone in the modern era managed to go their entire career without an MK, short of "hosed around in Jonidan for a basho or two and decided to quit early." ullerrm fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Brut posted:I don't really know how to read the scores either, like in the basho after his initial Ozeki demotion he got 4-2-1-2d-1a, wtf does that mean? 4 wins, 2 losses, 1 absence, 2 hikiwake (draws), 1 azukari (no decision). Draw calls have been mostly been replaced by mizu-iri (water break, then resume or restart) -- there hasn't been a true draw since 1974. No-decision calls have been replaced by torinaoshi. e: There also used to be "itamiwake," a special kind of draw used for when a torinaoshi or matta was called but one of the wrestlers was injured in the first fight. They eliminated that call in the 1970s, changing it to "a wrestler must either fight or forfeit" -- and that in turn has led to some really loving horrifying scenes where wrestlers fight again while clearly suffering from a concussion. Which has led to even more awkward JSA rules forbidding a wrestler from fighting if they've suffered a concussion prior to the fight. ullerrm fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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Bentai posted:The September banzuke is out: https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/ Hakuoho at M9 and Gonoyama at M5! Sheesh, the youngins are already in striking range of sanyaku. Seeing WTK in Juryo breaks my heart. Pretty reasonable banzuke, not many surprises. September’s gonna be good.
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Aww poo poo, here we go again. Y/O: Hoshoryu Takakeisho Terunofuji S/K: Daieisho Wakamotoharu Tobizaru M1-5: Asanoyama Meisei Gonoyama M6-10: Kinbozan Ryuden Kotoeko M11+: Atamifuji Hokuseiho Sadanoumi
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Sep 7, 2023 02:56
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the salt in MidnightSumo chat is unreal, and hilarious. what an end to the basho.
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Blatantly stealing this one from nattocord: I've been watchin Atami since makushita and a yusho would have been nice... but being perfectly honest, he was nervous as gently caress, and the old pro smelled it and juked him. The only kind of sumo that matters is winning sumo, so well played to hamster.
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Sep 25, 2023 04:57
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Hell yes, it's time again. Thanks again Kenning for running this for us. Y/O: Takakeisho Hoshoryu Kirishima S/K: Daieisho Wakamotoharu Hokutofuji M1-5: Ura Meisei Shodai M6-10: Atamifuji Kinbozan Kotoeko M11+: Roga Sadanoumi Tomokaze ullerrm fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Nov 4, 2023 21:22
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Chiyomaru is kyujo with a shoulder injury. Given that he was 0-3 prior, he’s likely to get booted from Juryo if he doesn’t come back. https://www.47news.jp/10130604.html
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Nativity In Black posted:Fingers crossed. He and Roga are dragging my team down. Hoping week two will be kinder to them. Yep, Ura and Roga are my boat anchors atm. Ura will keep. He started off the week with five sanyaku matches in a row, so I'm hoping that the worst of the meatgrinder is past and he'll scrape out some wins versus the rest of the maegashira and get his momentum back. Roga, idk. If he gets dunked by Takara-loving-fuji then I'm trading him. (TBF, it was a risky pick; most wrestlers' first time in makuuchi is a wakeup call. I remember picking Atamifuji on his first basho at M15 after watching him crush in juryo -- and he got steamrolled 4-11, insta-demoted, and spent four bashos in juryo getting his head back on straight before he came back in his current form.)
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Hokuseiho vs Midorifuji: Well, that's a first for me in 2-3 years of watching sumo. Water break called at the 4 minute mark.
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Okay, can't take any more. I'd like to trade out Roga in exchange for either of my other two M11+ picks (Sadanoumi or Tomokaze), please.
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Y/O: Kirishima Hoshoryu Terunofuji S/K: Kotonowaka Takayasu Ura M1-5: Atamifuji Midorifuji Wakamotoharu M6-10: Asanoyama Tamawashi Meisei M11+: Onosato Aoiyama Shimazuumi Juryo: Roga Kotoeko Tochimusashi Thanks, Kenning!
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Some great matches in sandanme today! SHODAI winning on day one feels weird as hell, man. Terunofuji vs Ura: Kaiju is back. But also holy poo poo ow, I hope Ura's arm is ok ullerrm fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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Jan 14, 2024 09:33
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I was hoping he'd come back energized after the juryo stint, but this looks more like an impending retirement instead. Can I trade out Aoiyama for any of Shimazuumi, Churanoumi, or Kotoshoho?
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Gonna keep Asanoyama for now, no autotrade plz. He only needs 3 more wins to pick up a KK, I figure that will be motivation for him to come back before the second week's out.
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Digital Jedi posted:What? How? How is possible to be that bad? He is, using a wrestling term, a jobber? Like, he just falls over without being touched! He retired two years ago. But tbh he's not unique -- there's often a sandbagger or two in jonokuchi at any given time. Hattorizakura just really loved the sumo lifestyle. He was apparently always upbeat and willing to help out around the stable and do chores/etc. -- well liked, but simply not built for wrestling. He never put on weight or developed good form, got injured a few times... but he also didn't want to be known as a quitter. So the dude wrestled for six years, only won three matches in his entire career (often against other sandbaggers), and never made it out of jonokuchi. Reportedly, when he retired, he moved back in with his parents and was working on starting a post-sumo career, but nobody's seen hair nor hide of him since. And that's fine, he's earned the right to disappear and reinvent himself. I honestly see it as a "dudes rock" sort of thing. Yeah, he was awful, but you gotta respect the tenacity. ullerrm fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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Special prizes have been announced: https://vxtwitter.com/sumokyokai/status/1751455009630462449 Shukun-sho (Outstanding Performance): Wakamotoharu, and also KTW if he takes the yusho Kanto-sho (Fighting Spirit): Onosato, and also Shimazuumi if he wins today's match Gino-sho (Technique): KTW
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Greekonomics posted:drat you Ryuden! It’s another fantasy sumo thing that Kintamayama helps run. http://isp.sumogames.de/Rules.aspx
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Y/O: Kotonowaka Hoshoryu Terunofuji S/K: Daieisho Wakamotoharu Abi M1-5: Asanoyama Midorifuji Atamifuji M6-10: Tamawashi Takayasu Shodai M11+: Sadanoumi Daiamami Nishikifuji Juryo: Wakatakakage Hakuoho Oshoumi
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Day 2: Wakatakakage showing off some impressive reflexes and ring awareness, pulling out a win from what I was sure would be him getting bowled off the dohyo.
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Fearless posted:Leo Dickinson was still up after the other channels got shut down for some reason. Leo got shut down as well a bit later. The suspicion is a dude using a botnet to mass report sumo channels, in retaliation for being banned from Midnight’s chat. Twitch always un-suspends them after a human investigates (sometimes as fast as 10 minutes), but it’s frustrating. Midnight said last night that he’s just going to stick to YouTube for a bit until he can get in contact with Twitch and ask wtf.
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Day 4: SHODAI
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My team's off to a rough start. It breaks my heart to see Tamawashi at 1-4, but I just can't bring myself to abandon the Old Man. No trades for this basho, I think, and hopefully the boys will turn it around. Ura has been a goddamned delight this basho and I think I need to start picking him more often.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I was wondering what happened to him. Too bad, he was fun to watch. Poorly-treated diabetes happened. He admitted in early 2023 that it was impacting his wrestling, but he didn't get it controlled and tried to fight through it instead, and just kept on losing muscle mass (and matches) all year. He looks positively skinny these days compared to his peak, which is not great for a thruster. (For contrast, Terunofuji also has diabetes, but got it under control during that year he took off for his knee surgeries.)
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