mugatake

It's now let me log in, and with an https address. I can't even begin to guess what the problem is. Are things changing behind the scenes?

Apparently, I can still react to posts if I do so on the first frame during which the page is loaded. With a 60 frames per second monitor, that's not an ideal solution.

I also cannot react to posts anymore. Has been so for a few weeks, possibly since my last post. This applies to all browsers that I have tested.

Kinta-san, for the name of the 11th Tokitsukaze, I think you meant to write Kokumonryuu?

I have had this problem on my desktop for a few weeks. I believe it started at the same time that the browser began to tell me that I am "not securely connected" to sumoforum, and that by using it I have made a security exception. Is this something to do with the security certificate?

This same Professor Yuasa also later claimed that Hakuho's tachiai moved at the same speed as Usain Bolt's starting dash, if that rings a bell for anyone. https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO84435650W5A310C1000000/

What a ridiculous supposition. Terunofuji, Kisenosato, Kakuryuu, Harumafuji, Musashimaru, Asahifuji, were all ozeki or lower at age 26. All save Terunofuji needed years after that to improve their sumo enough to earn a promotion to yokozuna. The prime years of a rikishi's skills are not like the prime years of an MMA fighter or a boxer. Unless you mean to tell me that the 4 kilograms Harumafuji gained over the course of 4 years brought him to the optimal sumo body he had theretofore failed to build in a decade-long career, or the 1 kilogram Kisenosato gained made all the difference. And "advanced technical skills" are continuously improved until they decline with age or injury; they don't exist in a binary sense as something one does or does not have. Sotogake isn't an unlockable on a tech-tree.

Is there such a rule?

He mentioned consulting his lawyers about an appeal on Twitter yesterday, but it seems financially unlikely.

Tsubota cites the same "sand" rules I mentioned earlier. http://tsubotaa.la.coocan.jp/binran/binran_r.html If Tsubota says it, it must be true.

Moti, you may be right. It looks like the official sumo rules (相撲規則勝負規定) refer to a loss being determined by a rikishi making contact with the sand, rather than more broadly "the dohyou": 第6条 土俵内において足の裏以外の体の一部が早く砂についた者を負けとする。 第7条 土俵外の砂に体の一部でも早くついた者を負けとする。 Very very strange, and I've never heard of any part of this before. Would the shinpan seriously consider this distinction?

Using the query system with the "group by rikishi" and "show highest rank" filters seems to frequently, but not always, produce a lot of results for Highest Rank which read __0. In other cases, doing the same style of search, a number is produced but the number is wrong. Is this a known issue?

Would you count Azumafuji? I haven't had time to properly research this, but I think they were trying to balance the written banzuke here, as well as in the previous basho. If we rephrase your statement as "promoted from lower than the highest-ranked ozeki slot", I believe it's correct.

Looks like Tachiyama's oyakata was Kaizan I, and Shounosuke 16 was 61 years old when Tachiyama was promoted. Shounosuke appears to have joined sumo in 1864 and Unryuu retired in 1865, so that works out.