Kaito

In for a penny, in for another boring slouch.

UGH. Knocked myself out on day 10 trying to set up my tiebreaker for the yusho among what was still a large crowd. If my tiebreaker were bad to begin with, I'd still be cruising. Grats, Choc! At least Panda didn't win either. He's getting enough points already.

Yeah, there's not a chance in the world he thought the match was still going on. He really ought to be punished.

I don't know who you're confusing Hakuyozan with, but my boring slouch lost on day 9 so he's actually not doing quite so well as you keep displaying.

Your apologies should be to me, good sir. My boring slouch actually won on day 4 and isn't doing quite as badly as you keep displaying. I demand justice.

No, and I've looked.

I feel like I got away with making a handful of strange picks that lost. What's got me salty today is the Kotonowaka decision that kept me from a 3-0 Sumo Game start and lifted a new leader above me in Odd.

Rewatch it? Tobizaru jumped but landed back in bounds. And he was still standing there as Kotozakura faceplanted.

Yeah, I thought Tobizaru had obviously won live. But not a single person from a group sitting ringside thinks it's even worth another look. That call could easily determine the yusho.

I found my name up pretty high so I definitely don't hate it.

Yeah, it cleared up shortly after. Guess it didn't matter, since my best lineup still would've lost by Doitsuyama rule. At least my comment wasn't a lie. You were just too good today.

Bench is acting up again. Not sure if my picks went through, but guessing not. Bench Sumo entries for day 5 are now closed!

Well, you can. It's happened a few times, but there hadn't been a need in recent decades. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first time in history a komusubi has ended up ranked behind a fellow komusubi they'd had more wins than.

No confirmation email, but 56 here I think. I was my own worst enemy. Flipped the S and K ranks. Flipped Kagayaki and Sadanoumi against the math...thought it was probably dumb at the time and definitely would've taken it back after the deadline. Tried reversing Hokutofuji/Nishikigi/Ryuden against the math too, so they'd all get reasonable demotions...I knew I didn't want to put Takayasu or Onokatsu above them and couldn't see Hokutofuji staying in place. But then I got Takayasu and Onokatsu the wrong way around anyway for 0. I was pretty sure about Shirokuma's placement at least. GTB aside, I hate Nishikifuji holding rank.

If I were playing Meta-Metasumo, I'd back Jakusotsu at the moment.