Ryoshishokunin

By expanding an event people already didn't care about, they'll.... I don't get it.

If there's one thing that this thread reinforces, it's that sumo is a silly sport. Is 0.7s amongst the shortest contests in any sport?

I'm going to go with Onosato Y Kotozakura Hoshoryu O (Up to YO rules, but close enough.)

Onosato's name sure appears a lot of times on the graph this year. This is one of my favourite end-of-year posts, and long may it continue. It's a great detailed bit of datavis like you don't otherwise see in sumo. Kudos!

The restrictions on foreigners are obviously xenophobic, and very much suppress the viability of sumo as a path for all but the excellent or desperate. If there were both slots and not the punitive long wait for debut (which is *nothing* but punishment for the crime of being foreign), there would be more people willing to join. The isolation of being a foreigner in a stable is also needlessly cruel: I'd think that a limit of two would allow either mentorship or pairs that were friends already to join. I can't think of another life commitment you can get accepted to on a bed-and-board basis these days. It's not surprising that, in the modern world, fewer and fewer are willing to take it up without some pedigree/assurance they'll get to the paid ranks.

J6E

Enters january. Pulls out, retires. (Second guess is does well, retires anyway.)

Now that's a collection of vowels.

My six yusho are for Kotozakura O Kirishima O Kirishima Y Onosato O Kirishima S Takerufuji M

Boo hiss, dropping to M1 from S with a 7-8 :P (Thanks for running the game. I now officially an an anti-fan of Nabatame-san, which I guess is part of the point of this sort of thing--accumulating emotional connections.)

Dammit Nabatame. From 4-1 and 7-4 to 7-8 isn't doing your career any good.

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I suspect this was a 'limited changes after we got the parity wrong' fix.

Well, game's going to be more complicated next time. 15. Kotoshoho?

14. Kotoshoho. The DB is 404, so I'm somewhat picking in the dark.