Tsuchinoninjin

I forgot to enter my guess, but here it is for fun.

The odds do move with wagers as well, professional gamblers are usually on bet teams so they can put more money on a favorable line by betting all at exactly the same time (their accounts usually have bet limits imposed on them because they win too often). If they are late with a bet by some seconds the line will already turn to not be favorable.

Alright, we can read more complaints about Asanoyama ‘stealing’ a promotion spot to Juryo from a career-makushita underdog once again

The odds move based on placed bets, so I guess people who are randomly betting sumo?

The only link to a source on the JP wikipedia is an old book, and strangely the date is completely different. 'Araiwa Kamenosuke, real name Yamazaki (Yamasaki on sumodb) ?Gokuzau? (doesn't make sense, stupid old readings), born on the date Meiji 5 month 10 (1872 Nov?), in [really long place name] Later in the text it says he was in Makushita at 20 years old in Meiji 24, which is maybe what the wiki is using? BUT they could have been using the convention of coming out of the womb at 1 year old and incrementing the age on the new year. Or the first date isn't his birth date and they're getting that from somewhere else. Regarding the given real name, 徳藏 ? Tokuzou? It completely doesn't match anything on wiki. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/860416/1/39 If anyone wants to take a look, 廿 is 二十 by the way.

It’s basho like these that make me glad I don’t play the games so much anymore, I would have lost my mind. No way to tell if Terunofuji is able to barely move or is coming out swinging. Takanosho in 2nd after years of being invisible? Honestly. I saw Takakeisho cook for himself once. He boiled chicken breast and broccoli in nothing but pure water then had the audacity to complain it was bland. Did he never watch the guys make chanko even once???

Does anyone else think that Konosuke’s tachiai hakkiyoi has a different, interesting inflection this basho?

https://youtu.be/X8Ow1nlafOg?t=193

The last few days it looks like 10 wins are not in the cards.

Also says Nagoya takes place in September

What is this Damn, I could go for some sumo

It’s boiled chicken breast and broccoli

I mean, if you take the numbers right before the wakataka boom, it’s about 150 a year, and right before Covid, it’s about 75 a year. The number of 15-19 year old males in Japan roughly halved between those times, so really the demographics of the country accounts for most of the drop.

I’m surprised people aren’t knocking your door down to sign up for a bet app. I can bet on India domestic league cricket and women’s international volleyball but not sumo. It seems like the sports league has to petition the state of Michigan to be included in the accepted catalog of betting sports so I doubt you’ll ever see sumo in there.

Came across a nice photo from the event, can you guess them all? Some are easy, some are near impossible.

I got the juryo promotions right, got asanoyama right, but the takanosho thing tanked me

Going by max capacity it would be 18th biggest indoor 'hall' in Asia (for some reason covered stadiums are counted separately, even if the stadium uses the same girder concept to hold the roof. I can understand dome construction separated but otherwise somewhat grey). By sumo capacity it'd be 48th in Asia. In North America it'd be somewhere in the 150s going by max capacity, so probably why some people will think its strange to brag about the size.

Well, it’s hard to imagine the Shimanoumi saga happening then, and that’s juryo

I lifted takanosho way up for some reason, clear mistake!

Sorry but shouldn't you be on the beach for weeks straight until submitting at the last second? Why did you leave the beach to make your GTB entry early?

Don’t worry I had a computer randomize the banzuke a million times a second until it kind of followed by the numbers and then submit that, and it did better than I do now without it…

Just 3 years ago there were 7 chiyo sekitori and now there are just going to be 2.

Unfortunately the bit about the subsidy time limits only comes from a chiebukuro post, but look at the person's other sumo answers they seem to know what they are talking about. Unfortunately (again) they only link to the website I pulled the graph from which doesn't have much other information: https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11262149976?__ysp=MTk1N%2BW5tOOAgOS4ieauteebruOAgOW8lemAgA%3D%3D I'll be getting a Japanese phone number this summer, so I should be able to contact them directly if it comes to that. Anyway, maybe Makushita didn't get paid the same way as sekitori, but I really want to redig up those articles of incorporation. I have a good idea of what year they are from now so I just have to refind it. I'm going to save all the interesting documents I find this time to a drive :/

I found more tangentially related information today, probably some or all of this is known to some members here. From here: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_999435_po_153.pdf?contentNo=1 When Futabayama was taking over as riji in 1957, the sumo association started getting a lot of heat for taking profit when that was not their status, especially through the tea house ticket distribution system - essentially being accused of self-scalping the tickets. Anyway, this seems to be the catalyst for cost-cutting steps described in previous posts. Strangely, the same section also intertwines a 1971 incident that exposed yakuza influence and also junior high school students participating in basho (I assume without officially joining a heya). Anyway, this book might be a good grab for this era: https://www.amazon.co.jp/激動の相撲昭和史-高永-武敏/dp/4583028164/

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