Kashunowaka

Pardon me if this has been mentioned before, but 121 entries for GTB is the highest turnout since Nagoya 2006! And not too far from the all-time high, which is 132.

Congrats to the yusho! I did just as bad as I thought, although there are some forum members who did even worse.

It was a lot of fun to be back in the fantasy sumo games this basho. All the games haven't been scored yet, but it went something like this: Pre-basho GTB - 8-7, just. I will gambarize and do better next time. Sekitori-Oracle - 31/57, probably makekoshi. Ditto. Totoro's Hoshitori - not scored yet. Middling, around 8-7. Ditto. SalaryCap - 17/57. I am happy with that. UDH - not scored yet. I was never good at this game. Daily Sekitori-Toto - 5-10, can only get better. Sumo Game - 10-5. Was in the makushita yusho race but finished with three losses. Still, my best result this basho. Sekitori-Quad - 7-8, 30/69. I know how unforgiving this game can be and I finished quite strongly, so I am fine with that. Bench Sumo - 8-7. Bench Sumo is IMHO the king of fantasy sumo games so getting kachi-koshi is a good feeling!

To me Meisei - Hoshoryu in the juryo playoff was Bout of the Day, when it comes to exciting sumo. Twenty seconds of oshi-yotsu-nage-zumo between two evenly matched rikishi who obviously know each other well, with the right man winning in the end. I'll root for them both next basho.

It is a good thing! Someone needs to set the record straight about these things.

Yes, I am aware of that... You are following in my footsteps.

That would be a parallel to Musashimaru in 1994. They didn't promote him.

It's an awesome performance in fact. It just feels like he blew it... And I mean no disrespect to Terunofuji, you can only fight from the rank where you are.

It always feels like a bit of a letdown to me when the yusho is won by a rikishi who has faced juryo opposition earlier in the basho.

Yes, but he is 4th in line, isn't he?

Akua lost that bout before he stepped on the dohyo.

WOW! What a bout!

...and Akua will take it! Nah. It should be one of the others.

Am I seeing correctly, three from the same heya?

Yes, it's "just" a 6-man playoff.

No need for that now...

@Seiyashi: as you can see in the thread, the record is 12-way playoff (!)

I think 7 would be like 8, but with a bye for one rikishi. Perhaps that's what you wrote.

No, everyone participates. 4 man, it's semi + final. 6 man, it's 3 semis and then three-way playoff. The others are too long to explain. :)

I can't help feeling that the schedule is a little unfair to Ichinojo. He gets much less rest than the others, if he wins against Shohozan.

Woohoo!

And we are back to a tenor. That's better.

That last yobidashi had a voice pitched a fourth lower than usual. A baritone, no doubt.

Nope.

It's been discussed quite a lot earlier in the thread. The general consensus seems to be that those 8-7 last basho makes it unlikely (but not impossible) that he will get ozeki with 12-3. Edit: Seiyashi beat me to it (and is more pessimistic about Shodai's chances than I am.)