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Hi! I'm Seseragi. I started watching sumo in November, keeping up with the Kyushu basho. One of NHK World's catchup videos appeared in my Youtube feed and I've been following sumo ever since! One thing I enjoy about sumo is the storylines and narratives that can develop over the course of Bashos. Like when people are on Yokozuna watch or whether this can finally be the time someone in particular wins a yusho. I've also been getting in to the fantasy games like Kachi Clash, Guess the Banzuke and Sumo Game, and for this basho I've tried out the Super Banzuke games (Chain Gang, ISP, Roto). Hoping to try some of the forum games in the future! It's good there are still traditional forums around!

Actually rather totally Kame-sennin - a master, but far from wise o the master of kame-hame-ha o

I see you haven't heard about the special maegashira 0 rank created especially for Aonishiki

Also, to vent as a biased Onosato fan, it gives me a headache how many people are yet again claiming he's been found out and will struggle to win tournaments going forward. This happened when he went 9-6 after his first yusho, when he went 9-6/10-5 after his 2nd, and now when he's at 10-4 after his 3rd and 4th. The standard for him is that if he doesn't win a tournament, he's been solved and things just won't be the same for him. It's as if there is no awareness that results for virtually any rikishi, even if they are a fantastic competitor, will have ups and downs and then ups again. And the yokozuna debut is often one of those downs. You really are only as good as your last basho (or even your last match) in the eyes of many observers... Maybe to avoid frustration I should only read this forum and some of the more well-educated Discords from now on lol.

His father, Shimomura Shigekazu, who runs the chanko restaurant "Nishinoryu" in Osaka, was former Maegashira Tsunenoyama (active 1980-1993) who used the shikona Nishinoryu before changing it to Tsunenoyama.. This is the 14th father-son sekitori pair in history. Nishinoryuu smiled and said, "My father made it to Juryo when he was 25. I wanted to be promoted earlier than that, so even though I'm turning 25 next month, I'm glad I made it in time. I want to surpass my father's ranking," he said, vowing to surpass his father, whose highest rank was East Maegashira 12. In fact, he has been entrusted with a "memento" from the late Misawa Mitsuharu, founder of the professional wrestling organization Noah. Misawa, Fujigane Oyakata (former komusubi Daizen), and his father Shigekazu were close friends. During his lifetime, Misawa donated a kesho-mawashi bearing the name of the Noah organization to the then Oyakata Fujigane. At the time, he told the Oyakata, "Please give it to his son when he becomes a sekitori in the future." True to his wish, the kesho-mawashi is said to be at Nishinoryuu's parents' home, awaiting the day it will once again be in the spotlight. Perhaps feeling a sense of awe, he said, "I don't know if I'll wear it yet, but I do remember meeting Misawa when I was little. I don't know anything about baseball, but I love professional wrestling. Of course, I'm a Noah fan." Nishinoryuu began sumo midway through his second year of junior high school. Misawa had high hopes for Nishinoryuu's performance on the dohyo, even though he was still undecided about whether he would even start sumo, let alone become a sumo wrestler. Carrying on the legacy of Misawa, who fought countless memorable matches in the ring, the Osaka-born new Juryo rikishi, known for his spirited sumo, is sure to liven up the Aki Basho. "Where's the flag?" pose:

Jonidan: Fujinotani Ginseizan Jonokuchi: Kototaisei Wakayahara (yahara means "You piece of sh%^" in Hebrew..) Uchiumi Nakaie Hashimoto Fujihara

The YDC has been causing a stir with comments it has made regarding both Yokozuna. Yesterday, the council held a regular meeting at the Kokugikan, where it harshly criticized Yokozunae Oonosato and Houshouryuu, who both missed out on the yusho, calling it "very unfortunate." Regarding Oonosato, who showed overwhelming strength but also handed out four kinboshi, they said, "He showed his bad habit (of pulling)." Regarding Houshouryuu, who withdrew midway through the tournament due to a cracked bone in his left big toe, they said, "Unfortunately, he was forced to withdraw due to injury. This is also extremely unfortunate." Social media was buzzing with comments, such as, "Before placing the blame solely on the Yokozuna, the Kyokai itself has issues to consider," "The YDC also bears some of the responsibility for the fact that the Yokozuna they unanimously recommended is not performing as expected," "It was you guys who recommended him," and "You can't force an Ozeki who isn't up to it to be a Yokozuna." Opinions have been raised such as "It's unfair to promote someone and then criticize them harshly for poor performances like giving up a kinboshi or going kyujo" and "The standards for promotion to Yokozuna have become quite lenient."

Kumagatani (Ex-Tamaasuka) will be taking over Ootake beya after September as the current Oyakata will be retiring. Kumagatani will be assuming the Ootake name..As there was no other Oyakata coach at Ootake, the search was on for a non-Oyakata from the same Nishonoseki Ichimon to take over the heya. No name change for the heya, same rikishi will remain there, only the Oyakata's name changes. Premises stay the same as well. The retiring Oyakata will remain at the heya as Kumagatani.

Yes, dear friends, he is ok! In the middle of the first week, I had an appointment with my Lady Cardiologist for a scheduled major checkup. I didn't feel me very good, but I thought it is because of the hot days. I drove to the consultation and wanted to get home quickly. But instead of letting me drive home in my own car, she ordered the big, blaring car, which took me 300 meters to the nearby clinic, where, at her request, a pacemaker was implanted without me being able to resist. This prevented me from seeing the fights and than from posting the results. At the weekend I came home and could see the last bouts. But I had to do with the other game I manage since 20 years: The “Capture the Sagari” in the German Sumoforum. There I had to report each day one bout and give prices for the best players. And - please excuse me! – this game cost me many time. As you can see above I did also something for the game 21 (bout results table), But as I saw I wrote something in German, not English, I decided to wait until after the Basho, And as I Monday Afternoon tried to correct the game 21 results – I found there was a good friend, who made my work. And I saw: He made it correct. Thanks, Yarimotsu! C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s, Papayasu! and Tetsuarashi ! Thanks to all Players for Participation! 39 participants are a good record But you all and many new (and former) players are invited to participate in September (Aki Basho) to a new game 21

Kinboshi-aside, if your "disappointing" performance is 10/11 wins facing the top of the pack, you're probably pretty good at this whole sumo wrestling thing. Onosato will be more than fine. I also love me some Hoshoryu, and I'm not stoked about this most recent withdrawal, but he will also be fine. History is littered with Yokozuna with < 10 yusho. I have an extremely hard time believing Hoshoryu won't win at least 1-2 more, even if he proves injury prone. I have an extremely hard time believing Onosato won't get to 10+. They are 25 and 26. Yet to hit their peak by modern athlete standards. Let'm grow.

The age gap between Tamawashi and Aonishiki, who fought for the first time this basho, is 19 years, 4 months, 7 days. I can't be certain that's a record for a Makuuchi bout, but the previous biggest age gap I can find is 19 years, 1 month, 8 days between Wakasegawa and Toyonoumi, in 1958 Aki.

Age and losses options are now added to the bout query.

A typical day at the heya:

Huzzah! It's a bit preliminary, but if I made no major mistake, Final Standings for the Masters Series will be identical (I checked for the Top 10 in Hoshitori Game via manual inspection). Nagoya 2025 is in the bags, and it gave rise to a first-time Green Mawashi winner: Unkonoyama! He won yusho in Tippspiel and Odd Sumo, and added jun-yusho in Hoshitori Game and Ozumo Bingo for a whopping 83.20 points. Pandaazuma was a distant second (59.24 points) but grabs two sansho. First, he gets the shukun-sho for getting yusho in Norizo Cup and Sumo Game plus jun-yusho in Ozumo Bingo and Sekitori-Toto. It's his ninth career shukun-sho already, thus tying Andoreasu's record. Second, the Panda gets his fifth career gino-sho, with more than 28 points in both gaming categories, respectively. I could have given the kanto-sho to Pandaazuma as well, but to create some (random) variation in the sansho sheet, I handed the Prize to Andoreasu (both finished 7 games among the Top 10). It's the sixth career-kanto sho for Andoreasu. Congratulations to all the winners! Nagoya Masters 2025 (permalink) The race for the World Championship is pretty intense. Reigning champion Pandaazuma (122.09) took the lead in front of Flohru (120.91), with two more players in triple digits, four more players between 90 and 100, and eight more players between 80 and 90 points. Standings World Championship 2025

Kusano's 38 wins in his first three basho as sekitori set the all-time record, beating Ichinojo by one and 3 better than Hakuoho and Onosato.

With Kotoshoho winning the Yusho, a surprisingly steady stat in modern Sumo history has been thrashed very early. Unique Makuuchi Yusho winners per decade. 1950s: 14 1960s: 15 1970s: 16 1980s: 16 1990s: 15 2000s: 13 2010s: 14 2020s so far: 17

I added the option to show and sort by age in the basho query. You can also filter by certain ages in the basho constraints.

DAY 15 We entered day 15 with 13 out of our 21 bouts decided. Unfortunately as Daieisho and Endo were never scheduled, bouts 4 and 13 are ruled as void for our game. Of the remaining 6 outcomes, one bout occurred on day 15 leaving 5 X outcomes, two of which were predicted by nobody. Players ranking day 15 Rk Player Pts TB 1 Papayasu 11 204 2 Tetsuarashi 11 193 3 Gusoyama 10 189 4 Asset 10 164 5 Bunbukuchagama 10 161 6 ChickyStarr 10 160 7 Andreas21 10 160 8 Eatplaysleepsumo 10 154 9 Suwihuto 9 184 10 Hidenotora 9 152 11 glacier 9 145 12 Kimyama 8 163 13 Reonito 8 156 14 Wamahada 8 152 15 Tochinofuji 8 128 16 Asapedroryu 8 125 17 Fia 8 123 18 Hakumadashi 8 116 19 Ippikiōkami 8 115 20 Susanoo 8 111 21 Karasukurai 7 129 22 Rokudenashi 7 129 23 Profomisakari 7 124 24 Flohru 7 122 25 chishafuwaku 7 121 26 WAKATAKE 7 118 27 Hisui 7 116 28 Hakuryuho 7 114 29 Shatsume 7 113 30 Fujisan 7 108 31 andonishiki 7 93 32 E9 6 114 33 RaeucherLax 5 91 34 Benihana 5 75 35 Robizaru 5 66 36 Athenayama 5 59 37 Yarimotsu 4 80 38 Fashiriteta 4 61 39 Hakuhonofan 3 50 Congratulations to Papayasu for winning Game 21 this basho! Also well done to Tetsuarashi who also scored 2 on the final day and was a narrow second on tiebreaker.@Tetsuarashi Thank you to all participants for a great participation this time around. I hope you can all join us again next time. But most importantly, I hope our good friend Profomisakari is OK. @Profomisakari

Now possible to see with a query

Not to derail the argument, but I genuinely did not expect Kusano to beat Aonishiki. Edit: Oh, I guess I should add that clearly Aonishiki has now been solved, and he'll never win a match again. Also, all his goats will get fleas and, uh, the toilet in the heya won't flush properly. Heh. Yeah, that's a good curse.

I'm glad you said it. Also, for anyone genuinely confused as to why Kotoshoho's schedule looks the way it does—the standard method for a while now has been to let maegashira contenders get to eight wins, then stick them against the san'yaku. Since the schedule for day X + 1 gets made before matches on day X, that means someone with eight wins can hit nine against another maegashira before the san'yaku comes calling. That's precisely what happened here. When Kotoshoho was scheduled against Takanosho, Koto was 7-2 and Taka was 6-3. That's an extremely reasonable matchup. Then he got three san'yaku opponents. To suggest his schedule was unnecessarily easy—as in, the schedule-makers should have made it harder—is results-oriented thinking. Koto was scheduled the same way everyone else in his position normally would be. The san'yaku is expected to be a roadblock for maegashira contenders fighting above their weight. Kusano was in the same position. Ichiyamamoto was in the same position. Atamifuji had an extra loss, but slid into the same position a day later. But Koto's the only one who won all his san'yaku matches. And now he's the guy who controls his own fate. All that being said: yes, you can find counter-examples where guys in lower maegashira were scheduled against the san'yaku before they reached eight wins. But in those cases, the wrestlers had either one loss or no losses. If they have two, the schedule makers wait until they get to eight wins. I don't know exactly why they draw that line, but it's been standard practice for some time. Koto hasn't backed into anything. As for fighting Aonishiki instead of Wakatakakage... there's no outcome where him against Waka and Aonishiki against ??? (Atamifuji?) looks good. If he wins, he did it without fighting someone who could catch him, with the opportunity to do so right there. If he loses and it goes to any sort of playoff, then best case is we end up with a "worthy" champion, but if Aonishiki makes that playoff, then he had to back into it by letting someone else beat Koto rather than do it himself. And if they all lose and Koto wins anyway, that just feels shitty. It's way more fun when the champ wins on the last day. Dude's bigger and stronger than he used to be. Not that he isn't in the zone, but he used to look physically overmatched; now he's the beatdown, so to speak. Health permitting (and that is a huge question mark until proven otherwise), we should expect his sumo to look more like this going forward.

Well sumo fans, I'm going to Japan on Saturday and my trip will indeed include a trip inside Tatsunami Beya through my contact inside. I wonder if I can go shirts off like Okaryu.

Special class tokoyama Tokotsuru had his 65th birthday on the 22nd, though senshuraku was his last day, by convention those reaching mandatory retirement age during a basho can keep working until it ends. After graduating from junior high school in March 1976 he joined Kimigahama-beya, run by former Sekiwake Tsurugamine, later to change names to Izutsu-beya. Sakahoko, Terao, Kirishima 1 & 2 and Kakuryu are among the sekitori whose oichomage he has carefully prepared over the years. He hasn't thought of what he will do after retirement - "It doesn't really feel real yet. I've been at the basho, living and working with everyone. Maybe it'll feel real when I go back to Tokyo but no longer go to the heya." However, after nearly five decades in the job his services are still in demand - Otowayama-oyakata (former Yokozuna Kakuryu) has asked him to go with the heya when they are travelling on jungyo.

"There is no way Tobizaru is going to fly out of the doyho... Oh, Tobizaru has flown out of the dohyo!"