Ryoshishokunin

Match 1: MitakeumiMatch 2: Oho Match 3: Hokuseiho Match 4: Daieisho Match 5: Midorifuji Match 6: Shodai Match 7: Hokutofuji Match 8: Tobizaru Boy, that's a really big font!

There's something nice about "our guy". Ideally one that doesn't get pinned to the Se slot, but occasionally falls a bit.

He'll still be #3 on the Banzuke. I'd like to second "one more basho" for Kiri.

Correct. There's also another requirement level for inheriting a heya IIRC, so there's three tiers (Can be an elder/Can be a stablemaster/Can *start* a stable). I may be making up the middle tier.

Not a chance. At least not in any way that matters: de jure perhaps. Japanese cultures are so hard to change, and this is just another example of it. It doesn't really matter what you change on paper, because the paper isn't part of the culture. Nor is the law. And so now we have black market dealing in something that in principle isn't owned.

I would be opposed to extending the deadline much on the last day--certainly not after the bouts start. Some of us are in timezones/situations where having only a brief window to play would be unacceptable.

My assumption was always the latter. He's certainly gotten royally buggered by the whole thing.

Kosho, I think. Will recover some time and gambarize next time.

Hopefully it's a long time before Nakamura needs to wear a tie again, and in the meantime someone teaches him how.

I have so much technique. Hopefully that translates into wins in future!

15. Daieisho

14. Wakatakakage.

13 endo.

*demotion queue. Thanks, Seiyashi. These threads are my favourite part of following sumo, and you're doing your best to fill Asashosakari's shoes. They're very large, and you're doing well at it.