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Day 9 Minami-Aso, back again to Kumamoto - 2100-2500 spectators o complete focus on Yoshinofuji - generally the other media focus on him, while NHK has the focus on Shodai (Kurume: https://www.web.nhk/tv/pl/series-tep-7P5MRK4ZKV/ep/RJ2YVNQMG9) - also Fujiseiun is a Kumamoto local after he switched his shusshin there from Saitama Yoshinofuji on the dohyo was appointed hometown tax ambassador for the village local news clips vid also at: https://youtu.be/F4CCYiHk22U youtube?v=9lwMyiNWOz4 vid

Tamawashi regularly goes kyujo at the jungyo and escapes the injury mill - he wants his proper streak to continue. He was quite reckless in Kikuyo, where he had to lose against Kumamoto local Shodai - coverage in the local NHK news prog: https://www.web.nhk/tv/pl/series-tep-7P5MRK4ZKV/ep/RJ2YVNQMG9 The next day he had an energetic win against the other Kumamoto local Yoshinofuji, in Kurume, Fukuoka - the Kyushu locals don't have to win everywhere there, only in their prefs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrGQfRZWZ4 The following day he had a bout against Onokatsu on schedule - no idea what happened there

Very happy with the new layout and design: thank you for your work, Exil! I also hope that the other points raised by the community will be considered for future improvements. I would love too a dark theme, if available.

…And if you really want to feel old, remember that sometimes you even had to wait a week for the results - not because the server was slow, but because the postman was. Younger readers: a postman was basically an analog notification system with legs......And yes, those stamps Tigerboy1966 speaks of .......those were like......... NFTs: tiny, collectible, expensive for no reason - except they actually did something...........

Tamawashi and the camel (Himukamaru) are out with injuries. Himukamaru has been out since the sixth with the flu, and Tamawashi has withdrawn today. That makes 12 sekitori out of the jungyo.

I don't know what my time commitments will be next year, but since I live in a city where games will be played, you can count me in as a player.

While checking all the moderation tools after the upgrade, I realized that the most recent warning we had to issue is four years old. I want to say thanks to this great community and how it evolved over initially more troublesome times! Can't imagine any other moderator's job being that easy.

Day 15 And our final decision of the basho delivered a KK-clinching win to Seihakuho and his name to our upcoming Hatsu ballot. TB score 11, and chishafuwaku became the only runner-up finisher of the basho. The truly final standings: Day 15: 15/15 Decisions, TB 11 Pos Player Pts TB 1 Yarimotsu 11 13 2 chishafuwaku 10 11 3 Bunbukuchagama 10 12 3 Hakuryuho 10 14 3 Oskanohana 10 9 6 Asashosakari 9 11 6 ryafuji 9 11 8 Athenayama 9 14 8 Holleshoryu 9 13 10 Fashiritētā 8 13 10 Profomisakari 8 13 10 Tetsuarashi 8 13 10 WAKATAKE 8 13 14 Pandaazuma 7 11 14 Ryoshishokunin 7 11 16 Jejima 7 16 16 Sakura 7 14 Hatsu lineup and new banzuke are coming after I find out whether I'm still able to post text-only tables the way I'm accustomed to on the new forum version, or need to figure out a different way to do it.

Still Day 14 Fate and the torikumi committee decided to put two of the three remaining LKS rikishi on a collision course: Onosato (11-2) and Kotozakura (7-6) were set to face off. An Onosato win would have prolonged both guys' target quests (and potentially our yusho race) to senshuraku, while Kotozakura winning would have decided things for both. And of course it was the ozeki who took the bout, and thus Onosato was no longer able to reach 13 wins while Kotozakura secured his kachikoshi and simultaneously his 8-7 LKS target. Only two of the seven yusho contenders walked away with both points from these decisions. Yarimotsu became the sole leader. ryafuji was the other one and continued to trail Yarimotsu, but as detailed in the previous post he did still have the inside track to a possible tie-break victory, should Aonishiki (10-3 at this point) fail to get to 11 wins. The results of the other five contenders: Asashosakari got both outcomes wrong, killing his yusho chances just like that. Bunbukuchagama, chishafuwaku and Oskanohana all picked up one point, now trailed Yarimotsu by one point, and all had the same Aonishiki selection as the leader and thus couldn't come back from the deficit anymore. Holleshoryu also picked up one point, trailed Yarimotsu like the others, but still had a shot at closing the gap again. However, that's the scenario in which ryafuji wins any tie-break, so Holleshoryu was also out. One more bout remained on the Day 14 schedule after Onosato-Kotozakura, and it might or might not have ended LKS. Sekiwake Aonishiki went up against yokozuna Hoshoryu - and won! That was his 11th win of the basho, and so his LKS result was decided in favour of those who had believed in him. And with that, the Kyushu LKS champion was determined to be Yarimotsu! Congratulations! A second-time victory following Yarimotsu's inaugural one exactly one year ago. The - almost - final standings: Day 14: 15/15 Decisions, TB 10-11 Pos Player Pts TB 1 Yarimotsu 11 13 2 chishafuwaku 10 11 3 Bunbukuchagama 10 12 3 Hakuryuho 10 14 3 Oskanohana 10 9 6 Asashosakari 9 11 6 ryafuji 9 11 8 Athenayama 9 14 8 Holleshoryu 9 13 10 Fashiritētā 8 13 10 Profomisakari 8 13 10 Tetsuarashi 8 13 10 WAKATAKE 8 13 14 Pandaazuma 7 11 14 Ryoshishokunin 7 11 16 Jejima 7 16 16 Sakura 7 14 A surprising name among those who finished just one point behind Yarimotsu, namely Hakuryuho who was one of the two players eliminated from the yusho race the earliest - but it was Yarimotsu having the same (winning) picks that eliminated him, so Hakuryuho was able to cruise to a high score in the champion's slipstream. Nicely done. The yusho may have got decided, but we're actually still left with a fun scenario for senshuraku where Seihakuho's final bout gets to decide whether the TB value goes to 11 - which five players picked, including chishafuwaku who can secure a solo second place and the jun-yusho - or stays at 10, which nobody picked (and all 10-pointers would then share the jun-yusho).

Day 14 Lots of new results on the penultimate day of Kyushu basho, and in fact all yusho-relevant ones. Let's do this chronologically: In makushita it was the end of the line for yet another rikishi working his way back up after injury (in this case one that took place only a year into the rikishi's career): 6 straight KKs from down in jonokuchi for 21-year-old Gonoumi, but no seventh. Still, he had already blasted past his previous career-high rank, so he's well set to make a proper go of it now, and is certainly still young enough for it. Somewhat surprisingly only three players were unconvinced of Gonoumi's KK chances this basho, so 14 others took a hit to their yusho chances (if they still had any). Quite amazingly only one player was actually eliminated, though: bye-bye Athenayama, 11 players left in the race. Incidentally, there was now a 7-way tie at 7 points atop the leaderboard... Moving on to juryo where former maegashira Kotokuzan has undergone a career revival of late, but it wasn't enough to tack on another KK this basho, ending his streak at 4. Conversely, this time 13 players got it right and only four were wrong about him, but these four all took a critical hit: No more yusho hopes for Fashiritētā, Jejima, Pandaazuma and Profomisakari. Fashiritētā was actually one of the seven co-leaders just prior to this, but the six others all scored and one of them has become uncatchable for him due to having the same three remaining picks. ...time for a quick break. The standings before Day 14 makuuchi: Day 13.5: 12/15 Decisions, TB 9-11 Pos Player Pts TB 1 Asashosakari 8 11 1 chishafuwaku 8 11 1 Oskanohana 8 9 4 Bunbukuchagama 8 12 4 Holleshoryu 8 13 4 Yarimotsu 8 13 7 ryafuji 7 11 8 Athenayama 7 14 8 Fashiritētā 7 13 8 Hakuryuho 7 14 11 Pandaazuma 6 11 12 Profomisakari 6 13 12 Sakura 6 14 12 Tetsuarashi 6 13 12 WAKATAKE 6 13 16 Ryoshishokunin 5 11 17 Jejima 5 16 Still in the race: The six leaders plus ryafuji. Consider that with three slots to go there are actually just eight possible different outcomes, but no less than six of them are represented by these contenders. Bunbukuchagama and Oskanohana do have the same remaining picks, but even they can both still win, with off-ballot Seihakuho as the potential difference-maker between them. ryafuji would have to go through tie-breakers as well in his ideal scenario, but is guaranteed to win them all (either on his TB 11 or on brackets), so Seihakuho makes no difference to him. The other four yusho candidates can still win outright. Incidentally, in the two scenarios that nobody has picked exactly, one of the outcomes would be a Holleshoryu win (via tie-break over Asashosakari), and the other would be another Bunbukuchagama/Oskanohana tie-break that both could win.

Day 13 Only one result today as Isegahama hopeful Yumenofuji achieved his sixth straight kachikoshi to earn a makushita debut for January - at age 17! I really need to get that prospect watch revival off the ground which I've been alluding to for the last 12 months... 7 players got that prediction wrong, and 3 of them saw their yusho hopes ended because of it: Sakura, Tetsuarashi and WAKATAKE were already behind the lead yesterday, are further behind after today, and all have at least one player they can no longer pass now. In further news we found one more rikishi who wants to join the next ballot - former top prospect Yoshii, who actually KK'ed in his makushita debut at 16 (!!) but is now 22 and has been stuck in upper-high makushita for the last three years, has posted up a fifth straight KK which will move him into the promotion zone for Hatsu. Remember what I said about some players having to rely on tie-breakers for their yusho hopes? Somehow none of them were negatively affected by that Yoshii KK, nor were any players who lost their outright victory chances on the Yumenofuji result and now need to rely on tie-breakers. So, no further eliminations from the race here, and we continue on with 12 contenders. Day 13: 10/15 Decisions, TB 9-13 Pos Player Pts TB 1 Bunbukuchagama 7 12 2 Fashiritētā 7 13 2 Holleshoryu 7 13 2 Yarimotsu 7 13 5 Asashosakari 6 11 5 chishafuwaku 6 11 5 Pandaazuma 6 11 5 ryafuji 6 11 9 Oskanohana 6 9 9 Profomisakari 6 13 11 Athenayama 6 14 11 Hakuryuho 6 14 13 Tetsuarashi 5 13 13 WAKATAKE 5 13 15 Jejima 5 16 15 Sakura 5 14 17 Ryoshishokunin 4 11 Still standing: All 7-pointers, all 6-pointers except Hakuryuho, plus Jejima.

Day 12 The other assumed-to-be-certain result came in with Asahakuryu's KK, joined by the widely expected makekoshi for 25-year-old injury returnee Daikisho in the extended makushita promotion zone. Much younger prospect Kazuto also failed in the short promotion zone, missing out not only on juryo but also on entering the ballot for the next LKS edition. And what was a pretty widely dispersed leaderboard a day ago now looks like this: Day 12: 9/15 Decisions, TB 7-13 Pos Player Pts TB 1 Asashosakari 6 11 1 Oskanohana 6 9 1 Pandaazuma 6 11 4 Bunbukuchagama 6 12 5 Fashiritētā 6 13 5 Holleshoryu 6 13 5 Yarimotsu 6 13 8 chishafuwaku 5 11 8 ryafuji 5 11 10 Profomisakari 5 13 10 Tetsuarashi 5 13 10 WAKATAKE 5 13 13 Athenayama 5 14 13 Hakuryuho 5 14 13 Sakura 5 14 16 Ryoshishokunin 4 11 17 Jejima 4 16 Geez. 6 slots remaining normally means I'm going to do a yusho race preview now, but this time it's much easier to say who isn't in the race than who is. Somehow the 17 entrants have managed to produce 15 different sets of choices for the 6 rikishi who haven't decided their fate yet, and only two unlucky players who share theirs with somebody else can no longer hope to win: Ryoshishokunin is out as he trails WAKATAKE with identical picks, and so is Hakuryuho who trails Yarimotsu. Everybody else is still in, including Jejima despite his two-point deficit and being behind so many other players (and he even has better chances than some of the 5-pointers, believe it or not). All the 6-pointers can still win outright, as can actually some of the 5's - that's a side effect of all the unique entries - and while Jejima and some other 5's will finish tied with co-contenders even in their respective best-case scenarios, all of them have at least one successful path to the yusho through tiebreakers. I'm honestly not quite sure how the stars have aligned for all that, but they have. So, three days and six results to go, 15 yusho candidates.

Day 11 Quite a few new results on this day, led by Asanoyama picking up the universally expected kachikoshi. The two young hopes Hakuoho and Yoshinofuji also decided their fates, but both in opposite fashion of what we had expected. Makekoshi and thus no sanyaku debut for Hakuoho, while Yoshinofuji is posting up a big performance despite between-tournaments injury news that seemingly scared a lot of entrants. In addition, Day 11 saw a makekoshi down in sandanme for injury returnee Arise; this at least was a narrow majority prediction. And off-ballot, our first successful applicant for Hatsu 2026 - 24-year-old Chiyotaiyo joins us with his fifth straight kachikoshi (having started the basho 0-2, no less). A big day for Holleshoryu who was the only entrant to collect all four points today. Even three points was quite rare and only achieved by four players. Three others picked up nothing beyond the guaranteed Asanoyama point - including our now-former leader chishafuwaku: Day 11: 7/15 Decisions, TB 6-15 Pos Player Pts TB 1 Bunbukuchagama 5 12 2 Holleshoryu 5 13 3 Asashosakari 4 11 3 chishafuwaku 4 11 3 Pandaazuma 4 11 6 Oskanohana 4 9 7 Fashiritētā 4 13 7 Profomisakari 4 13 7 Yarimotsu 4 13 10 Athenayama 4 14 11 ryafuji 3 11 12 Tetsuarashi 3 13 12 WAKATAKE 3 13 14 Hakuryuho 3 14 14 Sakura 3 14 16 Jejima 3 16 17 Ryoshishokunin 2 11

Day 9 An early kachikoshi for Aonishiki as well, but that's another slot where we're not yet at the points-awarding stage. Day 10 Conversely, a very early MK for 21-year-old juryo debutant Himukamaru who has found himself severely outclassed in the new division. Only just under half of us expected to see that. Day 10: 3/15 Decisions, TB 3-17 Pos Player Pts TB 1 chishafuwaku 3 11 2 Oskanohana 2 9 3 Asashosakari 2 11 3 Pandaazuma 2 11 3 ryafuji 2 11 6 Bunbukuchagama 2 12 7 Fashiritētā 2 13 8 Ryoshishokunin 1 11 9 Holleshoryu 1 13 9 Profomisakari 1 13 9 Tetsuarashi 1 13 9 WAKATAKE 1 13 9 Yarimotsu 1 13 14 Athenayama 1 14 14 Hakuryuho 1 14 14 Sakura 1 14 17 Jejima 1 16

No bugs, but a huge thank you from me for the work you have put in. I'm also a dev (mostly back end but I've dabbled in full stack) if you ever need an extra pair of hands.

Day 8 Part of this update could have been labelled "Day 2" as Mita got injured on that day and had to withdraw from the basho without a single win, so he was officially makekoshi by nakabi. Good news for chishafuwaku but nobody else (including poor Mita). In better news we also got two straight 8-0 KK with Onosato and Fujiryoga which, oddly enough, means that the two almost-unanimous slots were both resolved in minimum time; WAKATAKE's anti-Fujiryoga vote turned out to be less fortunate than chishafuwaku's against Mita. Onosato's eight wins are of course only the start of his quest towards his 13-2 target score, so no points scored there just yet. The first of five off-ballot outcomes was also determined already; Onomatsu-beya's 22-year-old Daishimatsu's 0-4 start put an early end to his hopes of a fifth straight kachikoshi. Still, in the course of this run he improved his highest KK rank by more than 60 ranks, an impressive mark. The first standings, with perhaps the strangest sole leader situation ever: Day 8: 2/15 Decisions, TB 2-18 Pos Player Pts TB 1 chishafuwaku 2 11 2 Asashosakari 1 11 2 Oskanohana 1 9 2 Pandaazuma 1 11 2 ryafuji 1 11 2 Ryoshishokunin 1 11 7 Bunbukuchagama 1 12 8 Fashiritētā 1 13 8 Holleshoryu 1 13 8 Profomisakari 1 13 8 Tetsuarashi 1 13 8 Yarimotsu 1 13 13 Athenayama 1 14 13 Hakuryuho 1 14 13 Sakura 1 14 16 Jejima 1 16 17 WAKATAKE 0 13

And time for the LKS Kyushu coverage, featuring 17 players for the first time in over five years - thank you! Player Onosato Aonishiki Yoshi Hakuo Mita Gonou Daiki Yume Arise Kotozak Asaha Asano Kotok Himuk Fujir TB Cons Athenayama + 13-2 + 11-4 + + + + + + - + 9-6 + + - + + 14 1.51 Fashiritētā + 13-2 + 12-3 - - + + - + + - MK + + + - + 13 1.74 ryafuji - 11-4 - 10-5 - + + + - + + + 8-7 + + - - + 11 1.34 Ryoshishokunin - 12-3 - 10-5 - + + + - - + + 8-7 + + - + + 11 1.38 Tetsuarashi + 13-2 + 11-4 - + + + - - - + 8-7 + + - + + 13 1.36 Oskanohana - 12-3 + 11-4 - + + - - - - - MK + + - - + 9 1.64 Jejima - 8-7 - 8-7 + + + + + + + + 8-7 + + + + + 16 1.69 Hakuryuho - 12-3 + 11-4 + + + + - + + + 8-7 + + - + + 14 1.36 Profomisakari + 13-2 + 12-3 + + + + + + - + 11-4 + + + + + 13 1.67 Yarimotsu - 12-3 + 12-3 - - + + - + - + 8-7 + + - + + 13 1.38 Holleshoryu + 13-2 - 9-6 + - + + + + - + 9-6 + + - + + 13 1.69 Sakura - 12-3 - 10-5 + + + + - - + - MK + + - + + 14 1.58 Bunbukuchagama - 12-3 + 11-4 - - + + + + - - MK + + - - + 12 1.60 WAKATAKE - 12-3 - MK - - + + - - + + 9-6 + + - - - 13 1.81 Pandaazuma - 12-3 - 10-5 - + + + - - - - MK + + + - + 11 1.66 Asashosakari + 13-2 + 11-4 - + + - - - - - MK + + - - + 11 1.69 chishafuwaku + 13-2 + 11-4 - + - - + + + + 8-7 + + - - + 11 1.90 7:10 10:7 6:11 12:5 16:1 14:3 6:11 10:7 8:9 11:6 17:0 17:0 4:13 9:8 16:1 Results - (KK) + + - - - - + - + + + - - + A large ballot like that makes it more bearable that both Takasago-beya rikishi Asahakuryu and Asanoyama were uniformly expected to KK, reducing the game to 13 effective picks. In addition, recent MsTd newcomers Mita and Fujiryoga each attracted only a single thumbs-down vote on their chances of a winning record. Yokozuna Onosato's target record predictions repeated Aki basho almost exactly, with a slight majority expecting him to fall short of a 13-2 record. Aonishiki, meanwhile, found himself severely upgraded to a majority-vote 11-4 target (two months ago only two entrants went higher than 10-5). Players were much less optimistic about perpetually ailing ozeki Kotozakura who received more MK picks than 9-6's and thus ended up with the minimum possible target of 8-7, no different from a random rank-and-filer. Beyond the four (near-)unanimous selections there is a lot of disagreement this time. Almost every pair of players disagrees on at least three rikishi, with just five exceptions (featuring eight different players, so no particular cluster) who differ on just one or two choices each. Conversely, two player-pairs have voted differently on a whopping 10 picks and so just share five slots, these being Asashosakari/Jejima and Profomisakari/WAKATAKE. On average, any two entries have agreed on 9.6 slots or 64% of the time. The top three most uncommon lineups per the consensus scores unsurprisingly include the two players who bet against Mita (chishafuwaku) and Fujiryoga (WAKATAKE), both of whom have picked against the majority on six rikishi apiece, but they're joined up there by another six-against entrant, namely Fashiritētā. It's even more crowded at the other end of the spectrum with no less than five players clocking in with similarly low consensus scores (= highly mainstream picks) between 1.34 and 1.38, narrowly headed by ryafuji's lineup. Surprisingly he's not particularly close to the top in the slot-by-slot view where he does have three picks that - all narrowly - went against the majority, trailing behind Tetsuarashi and Hakuryuho (two minority picks) and Yarimotsu (just a single one, Hakuoho). Some overall odd picking in the tiebreaker values where roundabout one-third each went for the non-contiguous picks of 11 and 13 (and only a single 12 in between), with a smattering of other choices as low as 9 and as high as 16.

One other thing: Is it possible to style links differently? It's rather confusing that they are in simple black (okay, actually dark grey) text now and look indistinguishable from text that's underlined. Link? Link?

He will drop to juryo in March. Get 2 MK and retire in July. Hope I'm completely wrong and he will be back to the SW - M5 zone, but not seeing it happening.

I see that the calendar is gone now from the main page, replaced by events, the calendar has to selected from there. Peculiar display on the page, upcoming events till the end of the year and then a few for next year, including birthdays of this year https://www.sumoforum.net/forums/events/

Ah, my spirited rikishi posts relied on that

[b][u]Day 15[/b][/u] [u]Makuuchi[/u] 1. Asakoryu 2. Ichiyamamoto 3. Aonishiki 3. Tamawashi [u]Juryo[/u] 1. Asanoyama 2. Fujiryoga 3. Asasuiryu

Yes, they just now popped up. Thanks for notifying me. And thanks, Exil, for fixing the problem.

Oh, [i]BBCode[/i] support is now gone entirely. I forget, was that something that we needed to specifically install in the previous version already, or was it still supported natively by 4.3 and it's now no longer there? Although, am I the only one who still even bothers to type formatting tags? I could do without that if I have to, although my bigger concern is that I'm also using BBCode to mass-style posts sometimes, especially those that include a lot of URLs... Edit: Oof, right, no BBCode would also mean no more fixed-width text for me via [font] unless I want to go back to using CODE boxes (which don't support the inclusion of URLs or any other custom formatting like colours), or resort to generating HTML for every simple thing.

It shouldn't be necessary now, as per Exil's message above some layout adjustments have been done, and you should be seeing the notification and messaging buttons again in the mobile browser mode.