I am a bit late to defend this take (although they did agree with my thesis about keeping Takayasu at Komusubi), but my argument was that if they wanted Aonishiki to move into Sanyaku to open July they might not have placed him against Sadanoumi on day 15.
so am I crazy for thinking Takayasu will get to stick around? I looked at the matchups for Aonishiki (and Onokatsu, and Kinbozan) to close out the tournament and felt like none of them had been taken too seriously, but there might not be any precedent backing this opinion.
hey now, I remember how much I didn't care about Churanoumi. I even posted him as the textbook example of me not caring a year or two back and it sent his career soaring to new heights.
oh man ... well I recently purchased sumowidgets.com so if I ever get back into it (sumo has taken a back seat in my hobbies for the latter part of this year) there will be a natural home for this
Something about the banzuke algorithm just doesn't sit quite right with me. Obviously if you look at the last 2.5 months you can say it's 50-50 which one of these rikishi should go ahead of the other, but if I had to pick one resume to send to my employer I would sure want it to be the one on the right.