Persistence Watch

[Asashosakari]

And to finish out the basho, already-MK Daishiryu and Morikawa (3-4!) won, while already-KK Tateishi and Wakahizen lost. Full round-up coming up in a few days, as mentioned.

[Asashosakari]

I probably won't have time to post the final roundup the next couple of days, so I'll just wait until Wednesday when the intai list is out and we'll know for sure who's going to stick around.

Well, let's pretend it's Wednesday after the basho...

Since it's old news by now, I'll just mention again that a whopping five club members achieved their career-first kachi-koshi in Aki basho, all by a score of 4-3. Here's the very late final results table:

Shikona	Heya	Debut	MK	Current Rank	Highest Rank	Record	Win%	Last Basho	This Basho
Morikawa	Otake	Natsu 2003	26	Jonokuchi 26 West	Jonidan 132	40-139-3	0.223	2-5	3-4
Daishiryu	Kise	Haru 2004	19	Jonokuchi 29 West	Jonokuchi 1	34-99-7	0.256	3-4	2-5
Ishii	Magaki	Haru 2004	18	Banzuke-gai	Jonidan 133	24-103-13	0.189	0-0-7	---
Iwanaga	Michinoku	Haru 2005	14	Jonokuchi 29 East	Jonokuchi 6	27-78	0.257	3-4	4-3
Yamamoto	Naruto	Haru 2005	12	Jonokuchi 14 East	Jonidan 132	33-58-7	0.363	3-4	4-3
Kotoyamaguchi	Sadogatake	Haru 2006	9	Jonokuchi 15 West	Jonidan 128	21-42	0.333	3-4	3-4
Wakahizen	Hanakago	Haru 2006	8	Jonokuchi 21 West	Jonidan 127	23-40	0.365	2-5	4-3
Kanai	Michinoku	Nagoya 2005	8	Jonokuchi 21 East	Jonokuchi 4	17-39-7	0.304	2-5	3-4
Tateishi	Dewanoumi	Natsu 2006	7	Jonokuchi 23 West	Jonokuchi 5	17-40	0.298	3-5	4-3
Higashi	Shikoroyama	Natsu 2006	6	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 4	9-28-12	0.243	0-0-7	---
Akatsuki	Takadagawa	Hatsu 2007	3	Jonokuchi 15 East	Jonokuchi 5	12-16	0.429	3-4	4-3
Asaamami	Takasago	Haru 2005	3	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 26	7-10-11	0.412	---	---

Best of luck to all five graduates in the future, especially of course Iwanaga and Yamamoto who had to persevere for more than two years.

Overall, the second week of Aki wasn't quite as successful as the first, but still respectable at 11-16, or 10-15 (.400) excluding the one head-to-head bout. The winning bouts:

Day 11: Jk26w  Morikawa (2-4)	  yorikiri	   Jk29w  Daishiryu (1-5)

Day 9:  Jk21w  Wakahizen (4-1)	 oshidashi	  Jk24e  Kainofuji (3-2)
	Jk15e  Akatsuki (4-1)	  uwatenage	  Jk16e  Kasachikara (3-2)
Day 10: Jk23w  Tateishi (3-2)	  yorikiri	   Jk24w  Takama (2-3)
Day 11: Jk14e  Yamamoto (4-2)	  yoritaoshi	 Jk11e  Mitsugi (3-3)
Day 12: Jk23w  Tateishi (4-2)	  sukuinage	  Jk25w  Iwasa (3-3)
	Jk21e  Kanai (3-3)		 yorikiri	   Jk24w  Takama (2-4)
	Jk15w  Kotoyamaguchi (3-3) tsukiotoshi	Jk16w  Terasawa (2-4)
Day 13: Jk29e  Iwanaga (4-3)	   yoritaoshi	 Jk18e  Ikataumi (2-5)
Day 15: Jk29w  Daishiryu (2-5)	 hatakikomi	 Jk38w  Wakatoohashi (1-6)
	Jk26w  Morikawa (3-4)	  okuritaoshi	Jk30e  Hamadayama (2-5)

More technical wizardry, with another uwatenage and a sukuinage (Tateishi's second nage win of the basho). (In a state of confusion...)

We started the year with 16 KK-less rikishi, a number that has dwindled to just 7 now after the not entirely unexpected Aki basho kachi-koshi fireworks, and about half of those seven are banzuke-gai and probably all-but-officially gone. Fortunately, we're able to welcome reinforcements from the Haru basho debuts for Kyushu basho, namely the following 10 guys who are surely ready to decimate (pun intended) their make-koshi streaks at the earliest available opportunity (ranks given are as of Aki basho):

Shikona	Heya	Debut	MK	Current Rank	Highest Rank	Record	Win%	2007.05	2007.07	2007.09
Ikataumi	Nishonoseki	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 18 East	Jonokuchi 18	8-13	0.381	3-4	3-4	2-5
Toshi	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 22 West	Jonokuchi 22	9-12	0.429	3-4	3-4	3-4
Takama	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 24 West	Jonokuchi 24	8-13	0.381	2-5	3-4	3-4
Tsuzuranuki	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 25 East	Jonokuchi 25	5-9-7	0.357	2-4-1	3-4	0-1-6
Hamadayama	Shibatayama	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 30 East	Jonokuchi 26	7-14	0.333	3-4	2-5	2-5
Takeda	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 30 West	Jonokuchi 30	7-14	0.333	2-5	2-5	3-4
Masuda	Arashio	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 31 West	Jonokuchi 25	4-17	0.190	1-6	1-6	2-5
Ebisumaru	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 32 East	Jonokuchi 32	5-16	0.238	2-5	1-6	2-5
Hashimoto	Kise	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 32 West	Jonokuchi 32	6-15	0.286	2-5	1-6	3-4
Wakatoohashi	Shikihide	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 38 West	Jonokuchi 30	3-18	0.143	2-5	0-7	1-6

Everything in there, from seemingly hopeless 3 to somewhat promising 9 wins...we'll see who will bail on us quickly and who might end up the next Morikawa.

Edited November 8, 2007 by Asashosakari

[Asashosakari]

Higher Than Hope: Jonokuchi capers, the Class of 2007 edition.

Looks like all 14 club rikishi on the banzuke will be starting the basho. Good luck to everyone in that quest for the elusive kachi-koshi! :-) Kotoyamaguchi and Daishiryu will be trying to prevent their 10th and 20th MK, respectively. (I'm tempted to christen 20 make-koshi "ichidai-persistent" since we've already established dai-persistence as double-digits.) Anyway...

Shikona	Heya	Debut	MK	Current Rank	Highest Rank	Record	Win%	Last Basho
Morikawa	Otake	Natsu 2003	26	Jonokuchi 20 East	Jonidan 132	40-139-3	0.223	3-4
Daishiryu	Kise	Haru 2004	19	Jonokuchi 25 West	Jonokuchi 1	34-99-7	0.256	2-5
Ishii	Magaki	Haru 2004	18	Banzuke-gai	Jonidan 133	24-103-13	0.189	---
Kotoyamaguchi	Sadogatake	Haru 2006	9	Jonokuchi 12 West	Jonidan 128	21-42	0.333	3-4
Kanai	Michinoku	Nagoya 2005	8	Jonokuchi 16 East	Jonokuchi 4	17-39-7	0.304	3-4
Higashi	Shikoroyama	Natsu 2006	6	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 4	9-28-12	0.243	---
Toshi	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 16 West	Jonokuchi 16	9-12	0.429	3-4
Takama	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 17 West	Jonokuchi 17	8-13	0.381	3-4
Takeda	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 21 West	Jonokuchi 21	7-14	0.333	3-4
Ikataumi	Nishonoseki	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 22 West	Jonokuchi 18	8-13	0.381	2-5
Hashimoto	Kise	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 23 East	Jonokuchi 23	6-15	0.286	3-4
Hamadayama	Shibatayama	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 26 East	Jonokuchi 26	7-14	0.333	2-5
Masuda	Arashio	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 26 West	Jonokuchi 25	4-17	0.190	2-5
Ebisumaru	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 27 East	Jonokuchi 27	5-16	0.238	2-5
Wakatoohashi	Shikihide	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 28 West	Jonokuchi 28	3-18	0.143	1-6
Tsuzuranuki	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 36 West	Jonokuchi 25	5-9-7	0.357	0-1-6
Asaamami	Takasago	Haru 2005	3	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 26	7-10-11	0.412	---

Edited November 14, 2007 by Asashosakari

[Asashosakari]

Day 4: A mixed bag so far for our kachi-koshi chasing rikishi. The highest-ranked newcomer Toshi (he of the three consecutive 3-4's) has started out well with two wins and looks poised to take the first available exit from the list. Half a dozen 1-1 records also give some hope for a positive outcome, while another half-dozen already stand at 0-2 (among them three of the four club veterans, hrm) and have to rally if they want to achieve anything.

Edit: Incidentally, our alumni from last time are 1-1 (Yamamoto, Akatsuki) and 0-2 (Wakahizen, Tateishi, Iwanaga) in Jonidan.

Edited November 14, 2007 by Asashosakari

[aderechelsea]

Morikawa lost today and is 0-5 ... (Sign of approval...)

will he continue the latest trend of winning his last bouts ?

[Asashosakari]

Hmm, time to enter the time machine and pretend that we've just finished Day 8 so that I can still do the nakabi summary. (Nodding yes...)

Not such a great tournament for three of our four club veterans...Morikawa and Kanai scored the big goose egg and are already make-koshi after just four bouts. I'll echo adere's concern whether Morikawa can still achieve his usual 2-5, especially now that he has already dropped another bout. If he fails it'll be his first 1-6 (or 0-7...) basho in Jonokuchi in two and a half years. Daishiryu at 1-3 also looks quite questionable and will probably have his 20-MK "anniversary" soon. (In fact, possibly within the next few hours...)

In more positive news, Fay's positive vibes seem to be working for Kotoyamaguchi (Whistling...) and perhaps he can convert his 2-2 score into a kachi-koshi over the next few days. When I was collecting the all-Heisei dai-persisters a while ago, it seemed to me that lots of rikishi end their MK streaks after 9 MK, i.e. just shy of double-digits. Their number seemed to be about as high as the number of 7 MK and 8 MK rikishi combined, even though one would expect the number of streak-ending rikishi to be dropping with each additional step. Whether that's just a statistical artefact or perhaps rikishi are trying harder to prevent the 10th MK, I have no idea, but whatever it is, maybe Kotoyamaguchi will benefit from it, too.

The newcomers have been all over the place so far, with somewhat expected results at the high and low ends. The top rikishi coming in (Toshi with 9-12) was 3-1 on nakabi and has a good shot to exit the list right away. Last basho's injury victim Tsuzuranuki looks like a good bet, too. On the other hand, the clearly lowest-scoring rikishi during the last three basho (Wakatoohashi at 3-18) proceeded to put up an 0-4 by nakabi and looks like a future club mainstay already. Other than that, we had three 1-3's and four 2-2's, the latter still with a good shot at kachi-koshi. All in all I would guess that 3 or 4 of the new rikishi will be leaving us right after this basho. Good for 'em.

Lastly, we now know that none of the three banzuke-gai rikishi will be returning for Hatsu basho. Let's see what the intai list brings...perhaps Ishii will finally be leaving officially, now that Magaki-oyakata has returned from his illness absence.

Shikona	Heya	Debut	MK	Current Rank	Highest Rank	Record	Win%	Last Basho	This Basho
Morikawa	Otake	Natsu 2003	27	Jonokuchi 20 East	Jonidan 132	40-143-3	0.219	3-4	0-4
Daishiryu	Kise	Haru 2004	19	Jonokuchi 25 West	Jonokuchi 1	35-102-7	0.255	2-5	1-3
Ishii	Magaki	Haru 2004	18	Banzuke-gai	Jonidan 133	24-103-13	0.189	---	---
Kotoyamaguchi	Sadogatake	Haru 2006	9	Jonokuchi 12 West	Jonidan 128	23-44	0.343	3-4	2-2
Kanai	Michinoku	Nagoya 2005	9	Jonokuchi 16 East	Jonokuchi 4	17-43-7	0.283	3-4	0-4
Higashi	Shikoroyama	Natsu 2006	6	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 4	9-28-12	0.243	---	---
Wakatoohashi	Shikihide	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 28 West	Jonokuchi 28	3-22	0.120	1-6	0-4
Toshi	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 16 West	Jonokuchi 16	12-13	0.480	3-4	3-1
Takama	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 17 West	Jonokuchi 17	9-16	0.360	3-4	1-3
Takeda	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 21 West	Jonokuchi 21	8-17	0.320	3-4	1-3
Ikataumi	Nishonoseki	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 22 West	Jonokuchi 18	10-15	0.400	2-5	2-2
Hashimoto	Kise	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 23 East	Jonokuchi 23	8-17	0.320	3-4	2-2
Hamadayama	Shibatayama	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 26 East	Jonokuchi 26	9-16	0.360	2-5	2-2
Masuda	Arashio	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 26 West	Jonokuchi 25	6-19	0.240	2-5	2-2
Ebisumaru	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 27 East	Jonokuchi 27	6-19	0.240	2-5	1-3
Tsuzuranuki	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 36 West	Jonokuchi 25	8-10-7	0.444	0-1-6	3-1
Asaamami	Takasago	Haru 2005	3	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 26	7-10-11	0.412	---	---

Overall, our club scored 20-36. We had a bunch of head-to-head matches again (after last basho was pretty devoid of them), and excluding them the score drops to 12-28 (0.300), not that hot. The usual list of wins:

Day 1:  Jk27e  Ebisumaru (1-0)	 yorikiri	   Jk26w  Masuda (0-1)
	Jk16w  Toshi (1-0)		 yorikiri	   Jk16e  Kanai (0-1)
Day 2:  Jk26e  Hamadayama (1-0)	yorikiri	   Jk25w  Daishiryu (0-1)
Day 3:  Jk22w  Ikataumi (1-1)	  yorikiri	   Jk21w  Takeda (0-2)
Day 6:  Jk26w  Masuda (1-2)		okuridashi	 Jk25w  Daishiryu (0-3)
	Jk22w  Ikataumi (2-1)	  oshidashi	  Jk23e  Hashimoto (1-2)
Day 7:  Jk36w  Tsuzuranuki (2-1)   yorikiri	   Jk28w  Wakatoohashi (0-4)
	Jk21w  Takeda (1-3)		oshidashi	  Jk20e  Morikawa (0-4)

Day 3:  Jk17w  Takama (1-1)		sukuinage	  Jk18w  Tochidaiho (0-2)
	Jk12w  Kotoyamaguchi (1-1) oshidashi	  Jk10w  Fukaya (0-2)
Day 4:  Jk23e  Hashimoto (1-1)	 yorikiri	   Jk24e  Daikosei (0-2)
	Jk16w  Toshi (2-0)		 okuritaoshi	Jk17e  Fukusegawa (1-1)
Day 5:  Jk36w  Tsuzuranuki (1-1)   yorikiri	   Jk34w  Daishoai (0-3)
	Jk26e  Hamadayama (2-1)	uwatenage	  Jk25e  Yoshimura (1-1)
	Jk12w  Kotoyamaguchi (2-1) yoritaoshi	 Jk10e  Yoshidayama (1-2)
Day 7:  Jk26w  Masuda (2-2)		oshitaoshi	 Jk34e  Shintaku (1-3)
	Jk25w  Daishiryu (1-3)	 oshidashi	  Jk34w  Daishoai (0-4)
	Jk23e  Hashimoto (2-2)	 okuridashi	 Jk18w  Tochidaiho (1-3)
	Jk16w  Toshi (3-1)		 uwatenage	  Jk15w  Hamaminato (2-2)
Day 8:  Jk36w  Tsuzuranuki (3-1)   yoritaoshi	 Jk35e  Shuho (1-3)

Good luck to all of them for the remaining days! :-)

[Asashosakari]

Incidentally, a bout with strong club and kachi-koshi implications took place on Day 9 between 2-2 Masuda and Hamadayama, won by Masuda to get him that much closer to KK.

[Fukurou]

Lastly, we now know that none of the three banzuke-gai rikishi will be returning for Hatsu basho. Let's see what the intai list brings...perhaps Ishii will finally be leaving officially, now that Magaki-oyakata has returned from his illness absence.

I think I've missed something. Why would we know that they're not returning for Hatsu if they haven't officially retired?

[Zentoryu]

Lastly, we now know that none of the three banzuke-gai rikishi will be returning for Hatsu basho. Let's see what the intai list brings...perhaps Ishii will finally be leaving officially, now that Magaki-oyakata has returned from his illness absence.

I think I've missed something. Why would we know that they're not returning for Hatsu if they haven't officially retired?

I'm guessing because they didn't participate in Maezumo this basho and thus can't return until Haru at the earliest.

[Asashosakari]

I think I've missed something. Why would we know that they're not returning for Hatsu if they haven't officially retired?

I'm guessing because they didn't participate in Maezumo this basho and thus can't return until Haru at the earliest.

Right, that's what I was getting at.

[Asashosakari]

Day 12 update: The important thing first ;-) - Morikawa indeed failed to get a win in his 6th bout yesterday, so he's now guaranteed his first 1-6 or worse finish in Jonokuchi in quite a long time. Kanai at least got one win since nakabi, while Daishiryu dropped both bouts so these two veterans are joined in 1-5 records now. Kotoyamaguchi moved to 3-3 with a win yesterday and gets another shot at kachi-koshi after he blew his most recent chance on Day 13 of Aki basho.

Among the new entrants nobody has reached kachi-koshi yet, either. Takama and Takeda fell from their 1-3 nakabi scores to the expected make-koshi (2-4 in both cases), while Hashimoto was the only one of the 2-2 rikishi to fare that badly over the last four days. The other three moved from 2-2 to 3-3, as did Toshi and Tsuzuranuki from 3-1 and Ebisumaru from 1-3 (good job!). Wakatoohashi did a little dressing-up to his record and is "only" 1-5 after his 0-4 start.

I won't dare to predict the torikumi for the final days but it's likely that some of our seven rikishi still in the kachi-koshi chase will be facing each other, so we should be seeing some success stories here. ;-)

Edited November 22, 2007 by Asashosakari

[Asashosakari]

... it's likely that some of our seven rikishi still in the kachi-koshi chase will be facing each other

And we're right getting started tomorrow with Tsuzuranuki vs Masuda and Hamadayama vs Ikataumi.

[Fay]

Morikawa 0-7, but he did his very best today (Applauding...) (and Takanohana Oyakata was asking himself "why the hell is she making a pic of him, he is not even mongolian ...")

Edited November 23, 2007 by Fay

[Asashosakari]

Many thanks, Fay! (In jonokuchi...)

Tsuzuranuki and Ikataumi achieved kachi-koshi today, so we wave goodbye to them. Hope it won't take another four basho until the next kachi-koshi. :-S Masuda and Hamadayama will stick around for the time being.

Tomorrow our remaining 3-3 rikishi Ebisumaru, Toshi and Kotoyamaguchi will get their shot.

[Fay]

Kotoyamaguchi, we will see your face when you finally made it, I will cheer for you today (In jonokuchi...)

[Asashosakari]

Kotoyamaguchi, we will see your face when you finally made it, I will cheer for you today (Sign of disapproval...)

Seems to have worked. (Holiday feeling...) In his 10th basho Kotoyamaguchi finally achieved his kachi-koshi and avoids being immortalized in the pantheon of dai-persistence. Our best newcomer Toshi (the guy with the three consecutive 3-4 records) also earned his 4th win today over perennial bottomdweller Fukukasuga (7 KK in 48 completed basho!), while Ebisumaru fell to similarly-named Fukusegawa, also a permanent resident of Jonokuchi (with an even more astounding 2 KK in 28 completed basho)...of course, Morikawa now stands at no KK in 27 basho (26 completed), so it's all a matter of perspective.

All club members have already completed their seven bouts as of today, so I may post the final summary a bit early this time.

[Fay]

Yes, yes,yes,yes,yes .............

I was nearly too late this morning, but when I came in and had to pass the Jonidan rikishi in the Hanamichi, Kotoyamaguchi was standing in front and waiting for his bout. So I stopped and said to him "Kotoyamaguchi, gambatte kudasai" and he looked a bit frightened but then he smiled, bowed and murmured something.So i hurried to my seat to fix my camera. When he was announced I clapped for him and Kumegawa Oyakata (former Kotoimazuma) started laughing ... haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa >:-( .

But Kotoyamaguchi won (Sign of approval...) (Clapping wildly...) (Clapping wildly...) and got his first KK ever !!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. And now Kumegawa Oyakata smiled. I think the boy just needs someone to care a bit for him :-D.

[Washuyama]

Fay, looks like you are good luck. You inspired him into a KK win!! You should reward his hard work by placing his name in your adoptee list.

[Fay]

Fay, looks like you are good luck. You inspired him into a KK win!! You should reward his hard work by placing his name in your adoptee list.

yes I thought about this, he did better than most of my others (Sign of approval...) ... Kotoyamaguchi, feel adopted (Clapping wildly...)

[Naganoyama]

Do you realise that you're probably the first person ever to wish him good luck other than his mother? (Sign of approval...)

Anyway it worked!

[Fay]

Do you realise that you're probably the first person ever to wish him good luck other than his mother? (Clapping wildly...)

Anyway it worked!

My aim is to make him a Juryo rikishi (Sign of approval...) (Clapping wildly...)

[Asashosakari]

My aim is to make him a Juryo rikishi (Sign of approval...) (Clapping wildly...)

Whew, that's good to hear...for a moment I thought that your goal might be to de-populate my list by gambatte'ing them all to kachi-koshi. >:-( Well, Kotoyamaguchi is entirely yours now. (Clapping wildly...)

[Washuyama]

I think Fay needs to test her "magical powers..." For Hatsu, wish Morikawa a gambatte every day and see what happens... Oh, and don't forget to cheer for him too... (Sign of approval...)

[Asashosakari]

Hmm, just realized I forgot to post the basho summary last time (again), so here goes in abbreviated form...

Shikona	Heya	Debut	MK	Current Rank	Highest Rank	Record	Win%	Last Basho	This Basho
Morikawa	Otake	Natsu 2003	27	Jonokuchi 20 East	Jonidan 132	40-146-3	0.215	3-4	0-7
Daishiryu	Kise	Haru 2004	20	Jonokuchi 25 West	Jonokuchi 1	36-104-7	0.257	2-5	2-5
Ishii	Magaki	Haru 2004	18	Banzuke-gai	Jonidan 133	24-103-13	0.189	---	---
Kotoyamaguchi	Sadogatake	Haru 2006	9	Jonokuchi 12 West	Jonidan 128	25-45	0.357	3-4	4-3
Kanai	Michinoku	Nagoya 2005	9	Jonokuchi 16 East	Jonokuchi 4	19-44-7	0.302	3-4	2-5
Higashi	Shikoroyama	Natsu 2006	6	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 4	9-28-12	0.243	---	---
Takama	Naruto	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 17 West	Jonokuchi 17	11-17	0.393	3-4	3-4
Takeda	Naruto	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 21 West	Jonokuchi 21	10-18	0.357	3-4	3-4
Hashimoto	Kise	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 23 East	Jonokuchi 23	8-20	0.286	3-4	2-5
Hamadayama	Shibatayama	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 26 East	Jonokuchi 26	10-18	0.357	2-5	3-4
Masuda	Arashio	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 26 West	Jonokuchi 25	7-21	0.250	2-5	3-4
Ebisumaru	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 27 East	Jonokuchi 27	8-20	0.286	2-5	3-4
Wakatoohashi	Shikihide	Haru 2007	4	Jonokuchi 28 West	Jonokuchi 28	4-24	0.143	1-6	1-6
Toshi	Takadagawa	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 16 West	Jonokuchi 16	13-15	0.464	3-4	4-3
Ikataumi	Nishonoseki	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 22 West	Jonokuchi 18	12-16	0.429	2-5	4-3
Tsuzuranuki	Naruto	Haru 2007	3	Jonokuchi 36 West	Jonokuchi 25	9-12-7	0.429	0-1-6	4-3
Asaamami	Takasago	Haru 2005	3	Banzuke-gai	Jonokuchi 26	7-10-11	0.412	---	---

Best of luck to our four now-alumni! (Blowing up furiously...)

The second week's results in Kyushu were a total of 18-24, better than the first week. Excluding the head-to-head bouts it was 11-17, or a fairly respectable .392 winning percentage. The wins:

Day 9:  Jk26w