Flohru

Hehe, today I learned an important lesson: Never try to henka/cheat! I woke up at 4.30 a.m., decided to look if Ichihara really went kyujo and then half-asleep changed my fourth Seki-Quad pick from Kotooshu to Kakizoe - so I thought, but apparently I selected Kaiho instead of Kakizoe. If i had not woke up and tried to cheat, Kotooshu's win would have secured me a win today, but that way I got a deserved loss... :'-(

Most of the "3"s are actually consistent with my Seki-Oracle picks, but indeed with some others I hope to capitalize on the double point rule. Nonetheless I have a feeling that the intesting tactic might not be a successful in the end. (Laughing...)

1. 3 2. 3 3. 3 4. 3 5. 1 6. 1 7. 3 8. 3 9. 3 10. 3 11. 3 12. 1 13. 3 14. 1 15. 1 16. 3 17. 1 18. 1 19. 2 20. 2 21. 2 22. 3 23. 1 24. 2 25. 1 26. 1 27. 3 28. 1 29. 3 30. 2 31. 3 32. 3 33. 2 34. 3 35. 1

1. B 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. B 7. B 8. X 9. A 10. B 11. A 12. B 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. B 17. A 18. B 19. A 20. A 21. B

That is true only for the lower divisions, in Makuuchi and Juryo the normal promotion for an 8-7 player is one rank (not counting promotions from Makushita) which the just released banzuke illustrates and without checking I'm fairly sure that you won't find many cases where an 8-7 player got promoted 3 full ranks in the past too.

Probably Doitsuyama (M12W, 4-11 --> J5W) and Damimonay (M13E, 5-10 --> J 4e) didn't expect themselves to drop that far either while Hakaso (J1E, 9-6 --> M17E) might complain even more than you, getting promoted only 1 rank (while you got at least 1,5 ranks, despite the Banzuke makers could have prefered ranking Doitsuyama ahead of you)... Honestly I don't understand at all why people use to complain about their Banzuke rankings in Sumo Games. You don't have a reason to think one of the Bench banzuke makers is trying to "punish" you on purpose, do you? If not, you should accept with a look at the players ranked next to you, that you simply had bad Banzuke luck that time. After all, two bashos ago you got promoted from J10W to J7W with an 8-7 record...

1255! (Showing respect...)

There seems to be a mistake in the results for today: Wakakirin is marked as a winner though he lost to Tosanoumi.

1. (Ye) KK 2. (Yw) KK 3. (O1E) KK 4. (O1W) KK 5. (O2E) MK 6. (O2W) KK 7. (SE) MK 8. (SW) KK 9. (KE) KK 10. (KW) MK 11. (M1E) MK 12. (M1W) MK 13. (M2E) MK 14. (M2W) MK 15. (M3E) KK 16. (M3W) MK 17. (M4E) MK 18. (M4W) MK 19. (M5E) KK 20. (M5W) MK 21. (M6E) KK 22. (M6W) MK 23. (M7E) MK 24. (M7W) KK 25. (M8E) MK 26. (M8W) KK 27. (M9E) KK 28. (M9W) MK 29. (M10E) KK 30. (M10W) KK 31. (M11E) KK 32. (M11W) MK 33. (M12E) KK 34. (M12W) MK 35. (M13E) KK 36. (M13W) KK 37. (M14E) KK 38. (M14W) MK 39. (M15E) KK 40. (M15W) MK 41. (M16E) KK 42. (M16W) MK

1. 2 2. 2 3. 2 4. 2 5. 1 6. 3 7. 1 8. 1 9. 2 10. 1 11. 1 12. 2 13. 2 14. 1 15. 2 16. 1 17. 1 18. 2 19. 1 20. 1 21. 1 22. 2 23. 3 24. 1 25. 2 26. 3 27. 1 28. 1 29. 2 30. 2 31. 1 32. 2 33. 2 34. 3 35. 3

Thanks Charliki! I'm very happy about that Yusho, not only because HIGASHIouNISHI was one of the missing games on my "to-win-list" but mostly as I really enjoy playing it. Especially the last days of a basho are really fun when you have to deliberate about the East/West-options left... So thanks for providing it!!

I rest my case. The veterans just don't want to beat KaioU. "How could I do that under these circumstances"???? WTF??? This is blatanlty admitting to"comraderie yaocho". And no response?? Disgusting. Though I agree with you about the veterans not willing to beat Kaio, I think Kyokutenho's "How could I do that under these circumstances"-comment was only meant regarding the "tried some tricks" thing. Kyokutenho probably knows by now that he can't win against Kaio the "normal" way looking at their head-to-head-record, but trying a henka against Kaio in that situation is really out of question...

1. A 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. A 7. A 8. X 9. A 10. A 11. B 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. B 16. B 17. B 18. A 19. B 20. A 21. A (with that selection of matches, you could unfortunately leave out the fns/x-option...) :/

1. 1 (Y) 2. 1 (O1) 3. 1 (O2) 4. 1 (S) 5. 1 (K) 6. 3 (M1) 7. 1 (M2) 8. 2 (M3) 9. 1 (M4) 10. 1 (M5) 11. 2 (M6) 12. 1 (M7) 13. 1 (M8) 14. 2 (M9) 15. 1 (M10) 16. 1 (M11) 17. 2 (M12) 18. 3 (M13) 19. 2 (M14) 20. 2 (M15) 21. 2 (M16) 22. 1 (J1) 23. 1 (J2) 24. 1 (J3) 25. 1 (J4) 26. 2 (J5) 27. 1 (J6) 28. 2 (J7) 29. 3 (J8) 30. 1 (J9) 31. 2 (J10) 32. 1 (J11) 33. 1 (J12) 34. 1 (J13) 35. 1 (J14)

I don't doubt anything what you said, but I remember a couple of years ago somebody in the German Sumoforum translated an interview with Roho and Hakurozan in a Russian newspaper. They were asked about Orora and said, that he eats very much and most of all drinks a lot of beer, up to 25 (!) litre a day... Couldn't believe that and asked the guy who translated the article if he made a mistake, but he insisted that it was 25...

1. fns 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. B 7. A 8: A 9: fns 10: B 11. A 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. fns 16. B 17. B 18. B 19. A 20. A 21. B

Eight straight days actually, losing also against Tochiozan and Tochinonada, which is already too much for ever really being IN the yusho race. And only because the Ozeki are too weak to fight for a yusho, you shouldn't give San-shos to mid-Maegashiras that are "just" easily overpowering guys like Kitazakura, Ryuo and Kasugao, at least imho...

Higher expectations? for what exactly should Homasho get a Sansho this Basho? The only kk-rikishi he beat was Kakuryu, the other 8 combined a 42-78 record and his losses against the top guys in the last 5 days were all more or less clear...

1. A 2. A 3. A 4: A 5. A 6. fns 7. A 8. fns 9. fns 10. fns 11. fns 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. fns 16. B 17. A 18. B 19. B 20. A 21. A

I don't know if that's an all time record, but in Nagoya 2006 one player only had 193 points. As you're having 105 points at the moment you will "beat" that with an average of 14,6 points over the last 6 days... good luck! ;)

1. A 2. A 3. A 4. fns 5. A 6. A 7. fns 8. fns 9. fns 10. fns 11. fns 12. B 13. B 14. A 15. A 16. A 17. B 18. A 19. A 20. A 21. B

of course they will be demoted, but tosanoumi will stay in makuuchi and kotoshogiku will become komusubi..... that ist much better than juryo for tosanoumi and m1 for kotoshogiku.....and that is what would happen if they had 6-9s, i guess Tosanoumi actually finished 6-9 and not 7-8 and very likely is going to be demoted to Juryo... and i doubt that Kotoshogiku can stay in Sanyak...

I'm able to enter my guess, but the Komusubi slots apparently have not been updated correctly. If you enter Ama the confirmation page shows Kisenosato, if you enter Tokitenku it shows Roho... Edit: Sorry, just saw that Anjoboshi already wrote about that...

1. A 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. A 7. fns 8. fns 9. fns 10. fns 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. fns 16. B 17. B 18. B 19. A 20. B 21. A

Didn't we have way too many discussions like that in the past? A mid-20 rikishi having one good basho at a lower-Maegashira rank is pronounced as an Ozeki-candidate... Homasho is as less likely to become an Ozeki than Asasekiryu, Hokutoriki, Buyuzan or Tamanoshima were in the past. As for this basho, Homasho for sure showed some good sumo against guys like Dejima, Aminishiki or Tochinonada. But he was ranked 1/2-rank too low on the Banzuke too face the real top guy, and in fact faced only three Sanyaku rikishi. He lost to all three of them, though he was awarded a win against Kotooshu for some strange reason! (Laughing...) Next basho he WILL actually heat the wall unless he manages to lose tmr against Kasugao, which would at least probably end up this strange discussion about Homasho as a potential Ozeki! (In a state of confusion...)