Ryoshishokunin

Man, 3 hours of answering questions sounds like enough punishment.

This is theoretically a misunderstanding of what's going on--the san'yaku ranks are "supposed" to be substantively equal on both sides, so it's "not" a dmeotion to move someone from E to W if the other guy is moving from W to E. This is what happens with the Ozeki and Yokozuna every basho, and happens in the lower sanyaku iff there are a bunch of KKs in those ranks.

Then there wouldn't be either slot at M17.

The idea of following one rikishi appeals to me---I like Asashosakari's year-by-year proposal. We can start with the beginning of the new era shortly :) I feel like shodai is too bad and I'm worried that ichinojo is `too good' at the present, but would be happy either way. If we have to try non-joi schedules sometimes then the scores get worse, but I'd be surprised if the best players don't win anyway.

The problem with 'terut' is that it mangles the Japanese really badly. The 'ts' are a single sound, and part of the syllable forming 'tsu', not the vowel before. (This is also the complaint with Hak and Kak, but that's much less bad.)

14. Nishikigi

13. kaisei

No, we won't.

12. tamawashi

11. hokutofuji

10 mitakeumi

8. takakeisho

7. tochinoshin

5. Takakeisho

4. tochinoshin