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Onosato Y Hoshoryu Aonishiki O Kotozakura will pull out of a basho early and then fail to clear kadoban next time around.

Will bounce in and out of the sanyaku, but never drop below M4. No yusho or jun-yusho. His best record will be an 11-4 which will be accompanied by a gino-sho.

Y: Onosato 2 (one of which will be a zensho), Hoshoryu 1 O: Aonishiki 2 S: Yoshinofuji 1

Atamifuji will continue being a marshmallow. His biggest accomplishment will be one kinboshi over Hoshoryu. He will not reach sanyaku.

He had a really good 2025, so I'm more optimistic, I'd say he probably yo-yo's in and out of the joi, picks up 1 kinboshi, and starts 2027 at M7w.

In January 2027 I predictify that aforementioned Aonishiki will be O1e, will win 4 bouts by uchimuso, win 2 yusho; one will be a 12-3 in which he beats Onosato in a playoff, the other a 13-2.

Only 5 rikishi have won a Makuuchi Yusho at a younger age than Aonishiki. Takanohana, Taiho, Kitanoumi, Hakuho, Musashiyama. That's 5 Yokozuna... 4 Dai-Yokozuna.

It's all about how it is spun. Hoshoryu: 'Aonishiki is very strong, I want to train against the strongest rikishi, iron sharpens iron, yada yada' Aonishiki: 'It is a priviledge to train against Yokozuna'

^ GTB: Guess the M7-M13 train wreck edition? Otherwise looks pretty clean, the K1w coin flip, whichever order one wants to put Tamawashi - Atamifuji - Daieisho, and maybe who gets M17w? That is assuming of course the Aonishiki Ozeki promotion is official?

Did anyone else notice Ura ripping off Oshoma's tassels and throwing them in his face?

That's some ozeki-level sumo speak right there lol.

GTB meta-banzuke. Goshobiyama starts a rope run and will need another J in Hatsu to complete it. Reonito is promoted to Ozeki after his string of strong performances that have gotten him to #1 overall ranking (K 10-5, S 11-4 D, S 13-2 J). All 3 sekiwake are making their sekiwake debuts. Shosei and Pepenohana make their Makuuchi debut. HarlanT, yet to hit the wall, makes his Juryo debut, and Ganzohnesushi evidently did not enjoy his first vacation from the sekitori ranks since 2007. Former Yokozuna Ekigozan makes a strong return after a 10 year absence. EDIT: A very stressful incident yesterday left me very tired today and I made an administrative error that resulted in slightly exaggerated amplitude of wins and losses in the sekitori ranks, meta-banzuke has been updated to resolve this.

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Maybe seeing that there drink bottle you be mentioning reminded some of negative feelings about Tomokaze?

Of course it's subjective. It seems a K1e can go 6-9 and hang on in (not super extreme) circumstances, but I think a 5-10 or less would be goners no matter what. I don't think the rest of the results could work out in such a way that the best candidate would be worse than that.