Ridiculous pedictions day 10-15

[Fujisan 500]

This is a bit late but ridicous predictions for the last 6 days? 

 

[Jakusotsu 4,905]

Chiyoshoma yusho.

[Yarimotsu 210]

1 hour ago, Jakusotsu said:

Chiyoshoma yusho.

Someone had to say it.

I guess my ridicule-worthy prediction is that Tamawashi begins his Ozeki promotion campaign by winning out from here (we can dream, right?)

[Seiyashi 3,449]

2 hours ago, Jakusotsu said:

Chiyoshoma yusho.

I'll do you one better: Shōdai yūshō. 

[Yamanashi 2,961]

Enho finally realizes that to win a bout, all he has to do is be "spirited".  With this new policy he runs the table and goes 9-6 on his way to a Makuuchi run.

[Yamanashi 2,961]

Hokuseiho, on the other hand, collapse to go 8-7.  Opponents realize that he's just standing up at the tachiai, so every opponent runs at him hard and knocks him over.

[Benevolance 2,270]

Shodai was the only person who realized that this basho was finishing on opposite day, and he takes the yusho with a 14-1 record. 

[Yamanashi 2,961]

Deep thinkers in the Sumo Forum community are trying to understand what the underlying factors are to make this basho so strange after day 10.  Some ideas:

1) Old boys are taking over Makuuchi (no, Nishikifuji is doing well, and the other old guys like Okinoumi are doing poorly).

2) Sanyaku has received a curse from somewhere; everybody assumes it's Shodai.

3) There's a gigantic conspiracy to make sure that a Japanese wrestler wins the Yusho (the "Chris" model)

4) The NSK, in league with the Bilderberg group and Sony, are fixing matches for some unknown but evil purpose (the Takatoriki model).

 

[Gospodin 164]

From day 11 on, all Dewanoumi beya rikishi are kyujo due to a case of Covid.

 

Edited September 20, 2022 by Gospodin

[Suwihuto 101]

There's something in the salt.

[Jakusotsu 4,905]

21 minutes ago, Gospodin said:

From day 11 on, all Dewanoumi beya rikishi are kyujo due to a case of Covid.

Good job. You almost got me there until I realized which topic this is about.

[rhyen 1,584]

10-5 ketteisen in Makuuchi 

[Jakusotsu 4,905]

One of the most ridiculous of all (pre-basho!) predictions sadly won't come true, although there was a very real possibility: Tamawashi yusho on day 13.

[Kishinoyama 493]

On 20/09/2022 at 13:52, Yamanashi said:

Hokuseiho, on the other hand, collapse to go 8-7.  Opponents realize that he's just standing up at the tachiai, so every opponent runs at him hard and knocks him over.

If he keeps losing you better buy some lottery tickets. 

[Yamanashi 2,961]

At the end of the basho, NSK officials are alarmed to see very few double-digit winners, and the leader board looks like a delta function (in-joke for the stats crowd).  Worried that interest in Makuuchi will collapse, they have their people test out a new name for the division: "A-League Juryo"

[Octofuji 156]

A 3-10 Takarafuji to be selected for the musubi no ichiban on Day 14 

[Yarimotsu 210]

20 hours ago, Octofuji said:

A 3-10 Takarafuji to be selected for the musubi no ichiban on Day 14 

Well he's 4-9 and I'm not sure it was a prediction, but that is quite ridiculous.

[Octofuji 156]

10 hours ago, Yarimotsu said:

Well he's 4-9 and I'm not sure it was a prediction, but that is quite ridiculous.

The 3-10 bit was a prediction and he let me down again!

It's not easy being a Takarafuji fan, he always seems to end up as someone's whipping boy. I scoured the Kokugikan stalls for his merchandise on Tuesday and found nothing... until today when I received an offer from the Kyokai fan club - a mug capturing his historic tsutaezori loss to Ura... 

Edited September 24, 2022 by Octofuji

[Old Shatterhand is dead 26]

Takayasu will not screw it up this time and finally collects his first yusho.

Edited September 24, 2022 by Old Shatterhand is dead