September (Aki) Basho- offical thread (yay..)

[Kintamayama 44,251]

Thread.

Edited September 1, 2020 by Kintamayama

[Golynohana 314]

http://www.sumo.or.jp/EnTicket/year_schedule/

September 13, 2020 - September 27, 2020

Looks official.

[Kintamayama 44,251]

1 minute ago, Golynohana said:

http://www.sumo.or.jp/EnTicket/year_schedule/

September 13, 2020 - September 27, 2020

Looks official.

Indeed. Just wanted to make sure..

[Amamaniac 2,078]

We're six weeks away,

and I hope and pray,

コロナウィルス doesn't get in the way.

 

[Akinomaki 39,547]

Applications for the pre-advance sales ticket lottery start tomorrow, till the 3rd, only for the masu seats this time. Advance ticket sales start on the 4th, 10:00h JST. Ticket sales will again only be on the ticket ozumo site. Again no tamari seats, no special seats, no tickets for day and the other restrictions like last basho. VIP box seats on sale from the start for 2 persons per box. You can't chose your masu (nor box- ) seat location, only the group, but you can do so for the chair seats.  Limit to buy: 2 for masu and chair seats, 1 for the boxes. The new masu S seats (row 1-4) are not on sale this time. http://sumo.pia.jp/info/info-202009-tokubetsu.jsp ...

nice to have Terunofuji among the ozeki

Message from Hakkaku about holding the basho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nc_0kYlSCA

Edited September 1, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,900]

Oooh, a basho thread. Shiny 

VOTE!

 

[WAKATAKE 2,614]

1 hour ago, Benihana said:

Oooh, a basho thread. Shiny 

I would like to once again nominate the thread by Moti to be the official spoiler thread for the basho

Edited September 1, 2020 by WAKATAKE

[Akinomaki 39,547]

The gomen-fuda for the basho is in place

o

The dohyo matsuri will again take place  without rikishi. This time there will be a yusho portrait presentation (only for Terunofuji) o

The English side of ticket ozumo is again not working for this basho http://sumo.pia.jp/en/sumo09.jsp

Edited September 1, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Karasukurai 165]

Coming to the site all I saw in the title was ...

 

September (Aki) Basho- off

 

Phew! Glad to see the rest of the title

ical thread (yay..)

 

[code_number3 694]

18 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

This time there will be a yusho portrait presentation (only for Terunofuji) o

No yusho potrait for Tokushōryū and Hakuhō?

[Akinomaki 39,547]

On 02/09/2020 at 09:36, code_number3 said:

No yusho potrait for Tokushōryū and Hakuhō?

Those were to put in place at the canceled basho, unceremoniously

So I thought, but they don't do that: they had their 2 basho late ceremony this time

Edited September 13, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Karasukurai 165]

NHK casting doubt on Hak's participation in the upcoming basho. (As seen on Tachiai).

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200903_03/

Edited September 3, 2020 by Karasukurai

[Shinobi Steve 146]

I'm certainly not a doctor, but it seems that skipping a basho to heal a month after surgery on both knees should be a given. 

[Yamanashi 3,687]

3 hours ago, Shinobi Steve said:

I'm certainly not a doctor, but it seems that skipping a basho to heal a month after surgery on both knees should be a given. 

Ha, get a clue, newbie!  Healing and rehab after major surgery are for sissy footballers and baseball wimps.  Real tough-guy rikishi throw a little salt on the scars for good luck and then they get out there and gambarize!

Oh, wait a minute, you said Yokozuna Hakuho.  That's different; they're allowed the honor of treating double knee surgery like normal people would.

[Akinomaki 39,547]

Ticket sales have started today, Shibatayama told that he got the information that pre-advance sales reservations were better than last basho http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202009040000476.html, but already plenty of tickets are in the resale (chairs, masu) - have to be from those reservations

No day is sold out yet, at least the masu seats for days 1 and 15 are sold out. http://sumo.pia.jp/vacant/va09.jsp

[Churaumi 725]

On 03/09/2020 at 05:26, Shinobi Steve said:

I'm certainly not a doctor, but it seems that skipping a basho to heal a month after surgery on both knees should be a given. 

What kind of fool wants to be able to walk after forty?

Edited September 4, 2020 by Churaumi
*sarcasm grows*

[WAKATAKE 2,614]

Banzuke topics according to the NSK:

- 3rd consecutive basho for Shodai as sekiwake and also as sanyaku
- 2nd consecutive basho for Mitakeumi as sekiwake and as sanyaku
- Sekiwake debut for Daieisho, first shin-sekiwake debut since Asanoyama in January 2020. First shin-sekiwake from Oitekaze beya since Hayateumi back in November 2000. First shin-sekiwake from Saitama prefecture since Wakachichibu back in July 1963, and second post war
- The last time there were 3 sekiwake was in November 2017 with Mitakeumi, Yoshikaze and Terunofuji. The last time there were 3 sekiwake with no ozeki experience was September 2011 with Kotoshogiku, Kisenosato and Kakuryu
- 2nd consecutive basho for Okinoumi at komusubi
- Endo returns to komusubi after 2 basho
- Tobizaru makes his makuuchi debut and is the 10 wrestler from Oitekaze beya to make makuuchi since the establishment of the heya. He is also the first wrestler from the heya to debut in the top division since Tsurugisho in September 2019. 31st post-war wrestler from Tokyo prefecture and the first since Tsurugisho. 38th wrestler from Nihon University and the first since Tsurugisho. Brother of Hidenoumi, making them the 11th pair of brothers to make makuuchi and the first since Chiyomaru and Chiyootori accomplished this in March 2014
- Hoshoryu, nephew of Asashoryu makes his top division debut. 4th wrestler from Tatsunami beya to make makuuchi since the current stablemaster took over, and the first since Meisei in July 2018. 27th Mongolian to make the top division and the first since Kiribayama in January 2020. 50th foreign born wrestler overall to make the top division
- Meisei returns to the top division after 2 basho
- Kyokutaisei returns to the top division after 11 basho
- Ichinojo returns to the top division after 4 basho
- Oki makes his juryo debut, and is the 5th wrestler from Shikoroyama since the establishment of the heya, and the first since Irodori in May 2019. 17th post-war wrestler from Niigata prefecture and the first since Oyanagi aka Yutakayama III in November 2016
- Nishikifuji makes his juryo debut and is the first 2nd division debut from Isegahama beya since Midorifuji in March 2020. 65th post-war wrestler from Aomori prefecture and the first since Daiseido in September 2017. 14th wrestler from Kinki University
- Chiyonokuni returns to juryo after 7 basho
- Kitaharima returns to juryo after 17 basho. This is the 8th promotion for Kitaharima to juryo, which ties him in 2nd place with Sumanofuji. Recent retiree Kizenryu is the record holder with 9 promotions

[WAKATAKE 2,614]

One rikishi in the lower levels has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now hospitalized. The NSK is working on tracking down who would have had contact with this individual. Shibatayama is quoted as not knowing all the details at present. One thing they do know is that the wrestler belongs to one of the bigger heya, so they'll have to see how everyone else is doing. 

One week before the basho.

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202009060000387.html

[robnplunder 974]

14 minutes ago, WAKATAKE said:

One rikishi in the lower levels has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now hospitalized. The NSK is working on tracking down who would have had contact with this individual. Shibatayama is quoted as not knowing all the details at present. One thing they do know is that the wrestler belongs to one of the bigger heya, so they'll have to see how everyone else is doing. 

One week before the basho.

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202009060000387.html

I sure hope it has not spread to others.  We need the basho to go on even if it gets delayed a few weeks.  

[Jakusotsu 5,742]

All these "after x basho" statements are +1 too much. Did they count the cancelled basho as well?

Edited September 7, 2020 by Jakusotsu

[Pitinosato 116]

Is Abi allowed to take part this Basho ?

[Hakuryuho 334]

2 minutes ago, Pitinosato said:

Is Abi allowed to take part this Basho ?

No. 3 tournament suspension. He will be able to compete again in March of 2021.

[Seiyashi 4,068]

2 minutes ago, Pitinosato said:

Is Abi allowed to take part this Basho ?

No, he's suspended for three basho (read: three banzuke creations, not six months) starting from this one. 

[Sakura 1,462]

8 hours ago, Jakusotsu said:

All these "after x basho" statements are +1 too much. Did they count the cancelled basho as well?

That's usually the way they do things. I think in Japanese the counting is different (maybe? I think I heard that once). So for Meisei it was 2 banzuke ago. The only equivalent thin in English I can think of is the phrase in Christianity `after three days he rose again', where the time frame is Friday through Sunday with Friday being Day 1, Saturday Day 2 and Sunday Day 3. Nowadays, we would say two days later, or after two days. 

[Yamanashi 3,687]

8 hours ago, Sakura said:

the phrase in Christianity `after three days he rose again', where the time frame is Friday through Sunday with Friday being Day 1, Saturday Day 2 and Sunday Day 3

Yeah, that was clearly a Union thing.  As evidence, remember that other parable where the guys who showed up at 5 PM still wanted a whole day's pay.