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35th All Japan College Sumo Uwajima Tournament (2018-4-29)

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第35回全日本大学選抜相撲宇和島大会

Individual Competition

Winner - Motobayashi Kenji (元林 健治), Kindai University, Osaka

Runner-Up - Enami Masashi (榎波 将史), Nihon University, Tokyo

Semi-Finals - Ishizaki Takuma (石崎 拓馬), Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo
Semi-Finals - Purebusuren (プレブスレン デルゲルバヤル), Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo

Quarter-Finals - Sato Atsushi (佐藤 淳史), Nihon University, Tokyo
Quarter-Finals - Kikuchi Hiroshige (菊池 大史芽), Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo
Quarter-Finals - Tomisakae Hideki (冨栄 秀喜), Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo
Quarter-Finals - Yamaguchi Reo (山口 怜央), Kindai University, Osaka

 

Team Competition

Winner - Toyo University
Shiroyama Seira (城山 聖羅) ・ Shigematsu Tatsuhiro (重松 龍大) ・ Nishino Tomonori (西野 倫理) ・ Fukai Takuto (深井 拓斗) ・ Shiroishi Masahito (白石 雅仁)

Runner-Up - Chuo University
Nishikawa Toki (西川 登輝) ・ Sumigi Genta (住木 厳太) ・ Sugano Yota (菅野 陽太) ・ Tanaka Daisuke (田中 大介) ・ Nakamura Yusei (中村 悠星)

Semi-Finals - Kindai University
Semi-Finals - Nippon Sport Science University

Quarter-Finals - Tokyo University of Agriculture
Quarter-Finals -
Takushoku University
Quarter-Finals -
Meiji University
Quarter-Finals -
Nihon University

 

Videos

Individual Final - Enami Masashi (榎波 将史), Nihon University  vs  Motobayashi Kenji (元林 健治), Kindai University

 

Team Final - Toyo University vs Chuo University

 

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He pulled, and he, won? Motobayashi Kenji pulled (excuse the pun) a Kakuryu there in the final to take the first individual championship of 2018. Runner-up at last year's National Student Championships, 4th year Motobayashi had a relative easy route to the final, which he took full advantage of. His name will probably come up a few times over the course of this year.

The rikishi at Kindai University have some big shoes to fill, considering the success of their senpai last year. So far, they have been up to the challenge, as Enami claims individual silver while their team reached the semi-finals. Former High School Yokozuna and 2nd year Yamaguchi Reo has been very impressive so far, and has started off 2018 with a quarter-final finish.

Meanwhile, Toyo University have completely obliterated their competition to successfully defend their Uwajima title from last year. And I say obliterated because their results last Sunday were 5-0 vs Ritsumeikan, 4-1 vs Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences, 5-0 vs Meiji, 5-0 vs Tokyo University of Agriculture, 4-1 vs Kindai and 5-0 vs Chuo. They will certainly take some stopping this year.

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Toyo being Toyo I guess. 28-2 and from what I saw hardly any of those matches were competitive. On the less positive side that has to be considered a disappointing result in the team competition for Nihon, and the 4-1 loss to Takushoku (which started with 4 straight losses) was particularly poor by Nihon standards.

I noticed a few guys from the high school banzuke competing, namely Takahashi for NSSU, Sumigi for Chuo, and Ida for Takushoku. All of them looked pretty good and managed wins over opponents from top schools like Kinki and Nihon.

NSSU's Ishizaki was new to me, but he really impressed me with his energy, skill, and surprisingly powerful (given his size) belt fighting. Kinki's Tanioka was also a standout, and he served up one of Toyo's rare losses (vs Nishino) with a nice uwatedashinage .Incidentally, I mentioned Ishizaki's size, but there was a team sporting maroon mawashi, and they had the smallest adult competitor I've seen. He must've been close to a foot shorter than 182cm/5'11.5 Shiroshi, and very predictably got slapped down. Great fighting spirit though.

 

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Can't find any video yet, but it looks like Motobayashi also won the May 3rd Usa tournament, beating Nihon's Kisaki in the final. And Toyo star Shiroyama won the Kyushu college + corporate tournament a few days after that, beating Motobayashi in the semis and a corporate rikishi (whose name wont translate) in the finals. Shiroyama also made the semi-finals at Usa, so him and Motobayashi are the two standout collegiate guys so far in 2018. I believe Dergerbayar of Nittaidai is the only other collegiate rikishi to make at least two quarterfinals this year (semi-finalist at Uwajima and quarter-finalist at Usa). He might be the top 2nd year at the moment.

Toyo won the Usa team competition, beating Kindai 4-1 in the finals, although they were much less dominant than in Uwajima, as they were upset 3-2 by Komazawa during the prelims and had a few 3-2 wins on their way to the title.

Takushoku won the Kyushu event, beating Nihon University 2-1 in the final.

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On 5/10/2018 at 10:52, Katooshu said:

Can't find any video yet, but it looks like Motobayashi also won the May 3rd Usa tournament, beating Nihon's Kisaki in the final. And Toyo star Shiroyama won the Kyushu college + corporate tournament a few days after that, beating Motobayashi in the semis and a corporate rikishi (whose name wont translate) in the finals. Shiroyama also made the semi-finals at Usa, so him and Motobayashi are the two standout collegiate guys so far in 2018. I believe Dergerbayar of Nittaidai is the only other collegiate rikishi to make at least two quarterfinals this year (semi-finalist at Uwajima and quarter-finalist at Usa). He might be the top 2nd year at the moment.

Toyo won the Usa team competition, beating Kindai 4-1 in the finals, although they were much less dominant than in Uwajima, as they were upset 3-2 by Komazawa during the prelims and had a few 3-2 wins on their way to the title.

Takushoku won the Kyushu event, beating Nihon University 2-1 in the final.

Looks like some extended footage of the Usa tournament just surfaced, with all or at least most of the knockout rounds covered.

Incidentally, I wonder if this channel (masa2360) is run by someone related to Toyo standout Masahito Shiroishi, as several of the videos were shot by someone whose name is given as 'Masafumi Shiraishi', and a few of them are obviously focused on the recently crowned East Japan champion, such as the 2012 Inter-high video, which features close-ups of him but no other competitor.

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And speaking of Shiroishi, check out 32:09 of the Usa team video to see him literally cross the line and lose his temper with a rather unpleasant display vs NSSU's Ishizaki. They had been there 3 minutes by that point, and Shiroishi had been the first to pull the blatantly intentional matta--> shove. Not sure if they had bad blood from past matches or what, because it seemed testy from the go, mostly on the Toyo man's part.

If you look at some of the officials in the background right after the match (the one in blue is former amateur yokozuna Kazuo Yasui, perhaps getting flashbacks to his All Japan yusho match vs hard charging amateur legend Keita Kushima-), you can see they're not happy with Shiroishi's conduct and they seem to be ordering an admonishment.

Aside from the pre-match conduct, I have to say that Shiroishi goes too hard to the face for my liking. I know it's legal, but I don't like when a rikishi really seems to hone in for the face with hard shots and the lines are blurred between boxer and rikishi. He's being doing that at least since high school, and I recall one match from 2013 or 2014 vs Takakeisho that had the latter's coach and (I think?) father looking not too happy with it.

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