Kaito

Odd and Quad are back to not sending e-mails.

Only 6 wins so far. They'll need Takanosho or Tsurugisho to win tomorrow for the yes.

Quad pretends to send the e-mail, but Odd straight up says "Error sending confirmation mail". Edit - Good news, both are working day 2. I even got a UDH e-mail when I resubmitted.

Konosato's been begging me to trade with him. Is that allowed?

I think that happened to me once also, so I've been searching there. This is the 3rd basho in a row where I'm getting no e-mail at all. It's not a big deal, but the game's more interesting to follow when you at least know your own team! It'd be cool if we could view everyone's teams on the site.

Odd and Quad aren't sending e-mails either. Says there's some kind of error.

I'll take things one day at a time and do my brand of sumo in this game too.

I'm still not getting UDH confirmation e-mails. Guess I'll re-enter again so I can screenshot my team.

1-5 Golynohana6-10 Pandaazuma11-20 Andoreasu21-40 Kotononami41-80 Taka81-120 Jejima121-200 Beeftank201+ Gernobono I'm a little scared to not take DeRosa in the 121-200 range. Don't let me down, Spiffy!

Tsukahara, J10E

Nagoya 2018, Mitakeumi's 13-2 yusho from S1W was good enough to swap with 8-7 Ichinojo. So there is a limit.

Write a script for the opening of a Seinfeld episode guest starring Hakuho. Sure! Here is a script for the opening of a Seinfeld episode guest starring Hakuho: (The show's iconic bass-heavy theme song plays as the camera pans over the city skyline. The words "Seinfeld" appear on the screen as the camera zooms in on Jerry's apartment building.) (Inside Jerry's apartment, Jerry is sitting on his couch, flipping through channels on the TV. He stops on a sumo wrestling match.) Jerry: (excitedly) Oh my god, it's Hakuho! (Hakuho, a Japanese sumo wrestler, appears on the TV screen, wearing a traditional sumo wrestler's mawashi and preparing to enter the ring.) Jerry: (to the TV) Come on, Hakuho! You got this! (Jerry's neighbor, Kramer, enters the apartment.) Kramer: Hey Jerry, what's going on? Jerry: It's the sumo wrestling championships! Hakuho is about to take on the Yokozuna! Kramer: (excitedly) Oh man, I love sumo wrestling! Can I watch with you? Jerry: (smirking) Sure, as long as you don't mind watching a couple of big guys in diapers push each other around. Kramer: (unfazed) Hey, there's a lot of strategy involved in sumo wrestling. It's not just brute force. Jerry: (sarcastically) Oh, I see. So it's like a high stakes game of Red Light, Green Light. (The two continue to watch the sumo wrestling match, rooting for Hakuho as he takes on the Yokozuna. The scene fades to black, and the words "Seinfeld" appear on the screen again.)

The early reports also haven't altered my assumption of whether Kotonowaka is going to komusubi. As far as I know, it was one article, written before the banzuke meeting, where the author made an offhand assumption that Kotonowaka would be komusubi, with no apparent inside information. The article concludes with something to the effect of "Regarding the ranking, (Kotonowaka) said, "I don't know until I wait for the announcement." My fear is that you'll take that author's assumption as fact, confidently predict Kotonowaka at komusubi, and be right for the wrong reason. I hope credible information does leak this time, but I at least want you to suffer in uncertainty with me for now.

Frustrating basho overall. It seemed like I had a great read on it the whole way, but it just led to a bunch of near misses. Pretty dodgy win awarded to Daieisho today costing me a win in Bench. And poor Takayasu. Oh well, see ya in January.

To be fair to Keisho, Wakatakakage did put his hand down in one of those 4 "wins".

Try not to worry about that. I'm sure everyone will understand. I hope your wife feels better soon. Good luck to both of you.

It's likely that Hoshoryu has made some improvement or is in slightly better than usual form, but I honestly can't tell from watching. I'd still be impressed and surprised if he got through that group with 1 loss, let alone 0. I think Takayasu's brought the best sumo this basho and I'm still hopeful he'll come back into the lead.

I don't know what was announced, but when Kiribayama almost pulled Ryuden out of the ring at the start, he had his hand on the back of Ryuden's head. I believe they were looking for a hair pull there.

I can't be upset overall today. I had to enter the games last minute and when I saw the Toto picks, I was convinced I was gonna have a bad day. Watching the matches, I thought I was having a bad day and had lost for sure by the end. Then I checked the Toto results and didn't even have to scroll down? The bad part was looking around at others' Tipspiel picks and being influenced to move Myogiryu from 1 or 0 up to 4, as well as moving him onto the bottom of my Sumo-Game lineup to lose an important match I was otherwise winning.

Of course I get a 15. I'm sure it would've been a high-scoring day, but still.

I'm pretty sure Takayasu/Kiribayama wasn't a choice, but I don't remember for sure what it was. Hiradoumi/Kotoeko?

If the next Ozeki is just Takayasu again, I'm fine with that.

Yeah... I accidentally picked 2 Xs today when I meant to have 1. After losing the last match, I totally called it. "I'm gonna end up tied with a bunch of people who win but I'll lose with my terrible tiebreaker." First one under the line. Sad stuff.

Here are some stills to compare the Hoshoryu/Kotonowaka and Nishikigi/Takarafuji finishes. Spoilered in case anybody's bothered by a wall of images.

Takarafuji was pushed out of the ring before Nishikigi landed. To win with a pulldown, you must keep at least one foot planted inside the ring until your opponent hits the ground. Oftentimes (too often for my taste), they call for a rematch if it was close, but this time they judged it was clear that Takarafuji was fully airborne before Nishikigi landed. I assume your confusion is because Nishikigi landed before Takarafuji, but that's not what decides it. Takarafuji was dead from the moment his feet left the dohyo for the last time.