101st Student Championships 2023

[Akinomaki 39,805]

On Nov 4th (individuals) and 5th in Sakai, Osaka

Pairings were posted on YT youtube@user-us2if8bi7w - A-class individuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1hG9W2RfKw

Day 1 livestream

NHK broadcasts the final part to decide the student yokozuna and all tsukedashi (best 16) on the 4th on NHK-E, 16-17h JST https://www.nhk.jp/p/sumo/ts/78Y6ZMP4VL/episode/te/M966M95V8Z/

 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Asashosakari 18,786]

A rather puzzling way of making drawsheets available, but gift horses and all that - it's not like the Federation itself is bothering to make them accessible to outsiders, as usual.

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Stream up, no action yet though. The on-screen graphic just said 10:00 JST as the start time, the Federation event calendar has it down as 09:30. For now, a microphone in an empty dohyo.

Edited November 3, 2023 by Asashosakari

[Akinomaki 39,805]

They have a dohyo matsuri stream for yesterday which didn't start and now is day 1 - the new day 1 stream that is scheduled to start soon is in the first post now, maybe it will be day 2, maybe the proper tournament - ongoing live is the C class team tournament at first:

Edited November 4, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,805]

When NHK starts on NHK-E, 16-17h JST https://www.nhk.jp/p/sumo/ts/78Y6ZMP4VL/episode/te/M966M95V8Z/ the stream will stop for the last rounds - like in the past. Unfortunately I have no working live stream for NHK-E (maybe because it's on the Russian site), we won't have coverage then.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,805]

Results on the Nittaidai blog as usual - 1st round best 32

http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5476882.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5477346.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5477328.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5477324.html

Edited November 4, 2023 by Akinomaki

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Kokutai runner-up Naoya Kusano (4th year at Nihon U) is the 2023 Student Yokozuna, beating Kanazawa Gakuin's Shun Ikeda (also 4th year) in the final. Ikeda was originally called the winner, but a monoii led to a reversal. 

Joint 3rd are NSSU's Christopher Bill Lee and the Mongolian Bucheroon.

Kokutai champ Kazuma Kawabuchi lost in the round of 32.

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Makushita tsukedashi http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5477584.html

also Yamamoto (Nichidai 3rd year), Sugimoto (Nittaidai 1st year), Hirano (Chudai 4th year) and Matsunaga (Takudai 4th year)

sandanme tsukedashi - best 16 http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5477329.html

Edited November 4, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,805]

VOD for a week https://plus.nhk.jp/watch/st/e1_2023110422999 - Chrome needed - Firefox is not accepted, VPN needed to watch the first minute, login for the rest. ActivePresenter can record the audio, the video has to be filmed from the screen

4th years among the best 16 (sd90TD): Yuuki Hokao (Nittaidai), Ryuya Kitano (Komazawa-daigaku ), Tenarashi Sarukawa (Tonodai - quite a name)

best 8 (ms60TD): Hayato Hirano (Chudai ), George (Jouji) Matsunaga (Takudai), Naoya Kusano and Shun Ikeda

best 16 http://blog.livedoor.jp/nittaidaisumo/archives/5477329.html

Edited November 4, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,805]

Student yokozuna Kusano - "I'm not thinking at all about future things", but "I intend to challenge in ozumo". He was together with Kiho (student yokozuna Kawazoe 2 years ago) on his sumo path since his start in nursery school days ->Buntoku high->Nichidai, Kiho is a classmate of his older brother  o - so we can expect him to join Miyagino-beya.

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final against Ikeda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMVprCmt9I

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he was the one to do the athlete's oath at the opening ceremony

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semi finals

the top 4: Kusano, Ikeda, Christopher and Bucheroon

Ikeda is the nephew of Takenawa-oyakata (Tochinonada) o - so we can expect him to join Kasugano-beya in May or March

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Miyagino seems likely, although he also has ties to Onoe: Onoe oyakata is the uncle of a long-time classmate from high school and uni, Onoe is from his home prefecture of Kumamoto, ties to Nihon U - with multiple classmates already there and likely more in the future.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Katooshu

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Stream for Day 2, hopefully this time without a late change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDiomiPJPU

Links to spreadsheets with results and stuff were posted in the audience chat at the start of yesterday's stream (only noticed it because they've reposted the team file on today's video just now):

Team competitions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LndprcyDZRAi9aqz3jx3XlhbUz7CvqWx6QDUSWHYy6g/
Individual competitions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UOMyX5dKxN8pAHVyn93eOZnnvwhja4r-f8AXx7Go7-w/

Edit: The broadcast got interrupted at some point, the continuation of the stream was here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6UErtn_rU

Edited November 5, 2023 by Asashosakari

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Recording of the broadcast from NHK E: 

https://t.me/SumoCuts/2217

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KINKI!!!!

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Indeed, Kinki scores a spectacular 4-1 over Nihon U to take the team title, sealing the deal in the first 3 matches.

Kinki's Taiki Mita won with a fantastic reversal over individual champion Kusano in the first match, which gave the Kinki team great momentum that helped carry them to 2nd and 3rd wins. Only Kokutai champ Kazuma Kawabuchi managed to win for Nihon University, although it looked to me like Nihon's Ryusho Kawakami deserved a rematch in the final bout - I guess with the champion already determined the shimpan just wanted to go home.

Joint third place for Kanazawa Gakuin and Takushoku. Unfortunately individual runner-up Shun Ikeda fell hard in the semis and was wobbly on his feet after.

Edited November 6, 2023 by Katooshu

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Asanoyama's kohai had to dedicate a yusho to their late dai-sempai Asashio, who passed away the day before the championships: he had won the individuals and with the Kindai team both in his 3rd and 4th year - their last yusho was 13 years ago

Mita wins against Kusano in the final

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Edited November 7, 2023 by Akinomaki

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That Mita winning reversal over Kusano reminds me a bit of the Wakatakakage one over Takayasu for a yusho. Congrats to the champions !

I have to admit that i was disappointed to see Kawabuchi Goshima and Otgombat going down early in individuals, no tsukedashi spots, but i expect them to bounce back in december. Otgombat is only 2nd year i think so he is fine anyway 

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Kawabuchi is kokutai yokozuna and already has the msTD, as has Goshima as 5th, but he is only 3rd year.