Kashunowaka

It's fixed so I'll be able to play next basho.

I would like to play Juryo Game next basho, but my shikona Kashunowaka is reserved by another player, namely myself. Could someone help me unlock my player account?

And Oho!

And he seems like a nice guy as well!

So, how did we do?

Hence no fighting spirit prize.

In Swedish, avec means an alcoholic beverage (such as cognac, liqueur etc.) served after dinner together with your coffee.

Aki 2018.

Congrats @Andonishiki! I was awaiting the final result with some anticipation, but in the end putting Takakeisho on 9 points was too big a handicap.

Mea culpa!

It happened as late as July last year, but the instance before that was in 1966.

As far as I can see, three gino-sho winners is a first.

It's a good thing that this bout was essentially meaningless.

I also searched for my name several times before I realized that the tables were images.

I wonder what happens if Daieisho wins tomorrow and then gets say 12 wins next time from sekiwake? That would be 35 wins in three basho. Even though the first two were from M2/M1 he would have faced all the top rankers in each of these bashos, coupled with the feat of having defeated all of them in Hatsu. I'd sure hope that would be enough for ozeki promotion.

Let's remember that Shodai is in his second basho as ozeki after withdrawing with an injury from the first one, so we could count this as his real debut. With that in mind I would argue that he is doing very well and is exceeding the expectations of most people. Very few rikishi are ready to become yokozuna after just a few bashos as ozeki.

The interesting thing would be to see if there is any evidence of the opposite. It might just be a coincidence - after all, kachi-koshi records with absent days are not that common.

How about Kitaharima's henka against Wakayama? I can't say that I generally approve of henka, but I thought that was quite hilarious and well executed.

8 + 13 + 11 = 32 If Terunofuji had gone 12-3 this basho, I think that he would have been promoted to ozeki. It would be quite similar numbers compared to his last promotion, and I don't see why 8-5-2 would be treated differently than 8-7. They could decide to raise the bar for a second promotion like they did with Miyabiyama, but the latter had a really poor ozeki career compared to Terunofuji.

Asanoyama keeps repeating the same strategy over and over against Terunofuji. Their bouts have been remarkably similar since they are both trying to get the same migi-yotsu grip and then Terunofuji wins from there. Try something else goddammit.

I think we are doing pretty ok!

Nah, I don't remember that.

It's not very often that you watch such a long bout and think there is no way one of the rikishi could win. And he didn't.