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Lone Goat posted:show us the spreadsheet!!!!!! It's a really awful spreadsheet and I'm frankly embarrassed about it. Here's a copy people can view and edit. If someone out there isn't garbage with spreadsheets and wanted to make a more efficient one I wouldn't mind at all.
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Jan 14, 2020 08:06
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Brut posted:He's 2-0 at M8e what do you mean? I missed him in my usual places, I thought he was out for whatever reason. He cuts quite the figure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gTWRC4BfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDL4Fzstr0
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Jan 14, 2020 08:18
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Marching Powder posted:I'm sticking by my useless idiots
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Jan 14, 2020 08:22
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Oof. I’ll have to watch the replay tomorrow but onosho looked straight up concussed there
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Jan 14, 2020 08:59
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Oh jeez. Tomorrow is Tochinoshin vs Enho.
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Jan 14, 2020 09:08
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TINY GOD
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Jan 14, 2020 09:11
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Bentai posted:Oh jeez. Tomorrow is Tochinoshin vs Enho. I'm.... Not ready for this.
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Jan 14, 2020 09:34
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ChrisBTY posted:Also; the lengths Sumo goes to not protect anybody is astonishing. The fans are actually further from the dohyo than the used to be - you used to sit right against the dohyo. And the dohyo used to be wider, apparently. I think they actually mentioned this on today's broadcast. Also, the little roof dangling over the dohyo used to be supported by columns on the dohyo, so that would have been very OHS.
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Jan 14, 2020 09:35
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It always seems like the audience enjoys it when a rikishi comes flying at them. Hell, I think I'd enjoy it myself but there's no way I'll ever make the Yakuza/celebrity connections to get a spot there 
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Jan 14, 2020 09:40
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Nah, it's just a money thing. Pretty sure all the good seats come through the various koenkai. The former Osunaarashi's heya's website had a price list for supporting donations and (from memory) a basic donation of about $2000 AUD would guarantee a fancy seat for one day at one basho each year. Of course, there's some faces you'll see in the front rows for most days in a basho and you wonder how much money they're pissing into sumo each year.
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Jan 14, 2020 09:54
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What in the hell?! It’s raining kinboshi this tournament.
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Jan 14, 2020 10:00
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I think it's possible we have a basho with no Yokozuna on the banzuke in 2020. That hasn't happened since 1932.
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Jan 14, 2020 12:12
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Me, this basho:  Wat in the heck. Don’t get me wrong, this is shaping up to be one of the most entertaining since I started watching, but...
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Jan 14, 2020 12:40
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ENDO ZENSHO LETSO GO
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Jan 14, 2020 13:16
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This basho has been amazing so far.
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Jan 14, 2020 13:58
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I love everything that is happening 
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Konstantin posted:I think it's possible we have a basho with no Yokozuna on the banzuke in 2020. That hasn't happened since 1932. So what happens if Goeido gets demoted? Wikipedia says there must be at least one East and West Ozeki (dunno if that's gospel), but that they've gotten around it in the past by designating active Yokozunas as Yokozuna-Ozeki. If both of them are out, then....
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Jan 14, 2020 14:43
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How does sumo work at the university level? It seems like there's a decent size structure for amateurs, and there's means for them to get introduced straight into makushita, but how do most of these guys do once they turn pro? How is their training or are most of them still attached to a heya? Tochinoshin: Disappointed to see him fall to 1-2. I love the big european boys. the abi-tamawashi match was pretty interesting in the way it ended. Endo looking like he's about to get real paid. ilmucche fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 19:32
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really stoked enho scored another w showing maegashira 5 is definitely where he belongs, but have at least two yokozuna been kinboshi'd 2 days in a row before? god drat guys find the fighting spirit!
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Jan 14, 2020 20:57
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ilmucche posted:How does sumo work at the university level? It seems like there's a decent size structure for amateurs, and there's means for them to get introduced straight into makushita, but how do most of these guys do once they turn pro? How is their training or are most of them still attached to a heya? i'm sure someone more knowledgeable will chime in, but although there are sumo clubs at universities most guys join stables younger than that and forego uni. it's actually one of the reforms that may have to come in sumo to keep the young people competing in the sport - nowadays, promising sumo are foregoing joining a stable to educate themselves and live a more normal life (and who can blame them)
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Jan 14, 2020 20:59
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Man, no Yokozunas. Any speculative reason as to why there haven't been any standouts among the rank-and-file over the last decade(?) or so?
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Jan 14, 2020 21:11
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ChrisBTY posted:Man, no Yokozunas. Any speculative reason as to why there haven't been any standouts among the rank-and-file over the last decade(?) or so? Asashoryu scary Hakuho scarier 
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Jan 14, 2020 21:13
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I guess having the G.O.A.T. ready at all times to slap a digit to the right of the dash doesn't help.
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Jan 14, 2020 21:17
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ChrisBTY posted:I guess having the G.O.A.T. ready at all times to slap a digit to the right of the dash doesn't help. Pretty much. Yusho are the way to get to yokozuna, and those are hard to come by when the GOAT of GOATs is around. Harumafuji is the only guy of the Hakuho era able to consistently get wins off of him (consistently being one out of every three bouts). Kakuryu's got a terrible record against him, but won the two matches that really mattered. Same for Kise. There's been a few other quality Ozeki that in any other era might have been shoo-ins, but y'know...
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Jan 14, 2020 21:24
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I've decided to be a Kotoeko fan based purely on his stylish lavender mawashi and it's shaping up pretty decently so far.
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Jan 14, 2020 23:49
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This is my first ever basho and I'm easing my way in by just watching the big matches uploaded by Jason's Sumo YouTube channel but I'm loving it. I always liked watching it on TV as a kid when I was on vacation in Hawaiʻi and understanding more of it as an adult makes it so much more fun. Enho is my loving guy and I will already die for him.
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Anime Reference posted:I've decided to be a Kotoeko fan based purely on his stylish lavender mawashi and it's shaping up pretty decently so far. Yeah I feel like Kotoshogiku is headed for retirement soon so he's probably gonna be the ranking Sadogatake beya dude for a long time, though Kotonowaka (formerly kotokamatani) is 2-1 at J2e and Kotoshoho (former Kototebakari) is 3-0 from J8, so they've certainly got some young ones coming up too.
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Jan 15, 2020 01:14
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Hey Martytoof could you share how yoh go about getting sumo tix? A friend here in Korea said the only way he could go was via a tour group because tickets weren't available to buy when he tried to get them on his own.
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Jan 15, 2020 01:28
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Bentai posted:Oh jeez. Tomorrow is Tochinoshin vs Enho. Feeling bad for Tochinoshin. He looks weak and tired.
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Jan 15, 2020 01:46
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Charles Gnarwin posted:Enho is my loving guy and I will already die for him.
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Mekchu posted:Hey Martytoof could you share how yoh go about getting sumo tix? A friend here in Korea said the only way he could go was via a tour group because tickets weren't available to buy when he tried to get them on his own. My understanding is people use a broker such as buysumotickets.com
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Jan 15, 2020 01:47
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Right but my friend said that didnt work out well for him when he went so I was just curious how martytoof did it. Edit - i should add I am not aware of what broker he used to buy tickets on his own. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Charles Gnarwin posted:This is my first ever basho and I'm easing my way in by just watching the big matches uploaded by Jason's Sumo YouTube channel but I'm loving it. I always liked watching it on TV as a kid when I was on vacation in Hawaiʻi and understanding more of it as an adult makes it so much more fun. Welcome to sumo! Jason is a great way to get started. My first year or so watching was just Jason, then I watched Jason and Kintamayama once I started recognizing some of the lower rank guys. I also highly recommend the Grand Sumo Breakdown podcast. Go listen to their Intro to Hatsu 2020 episode, they'll have a midway episode out sometime this weekend. We've got some kinboshi on the board this basho! I don't know if Hakuho has ever given up 2 in a row. That's pretty intense. It's also made for some interesting scoreboard shakeups! Day 3 standings code:
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Jan 15, 2020 01:59
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Same. If Goeiedo were doing better I may actually be higher up in the points.
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Jan 15, 2020 02:07
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Mekchu posted:Right but my friend said that didnt work out well for him when he went so I was just curious how martytoof did it. There's a link for official ticket sales on the NSK website: http://www.sumo.or.jp/En/ Its over on the right side, but the one in the middle works when tix are up for sale. I used this when I went back in 2015. The only caveat is that you need to be online and buying as soon as they are available. They sell out quickly. Plan want you want to buy before hand so you don't miss out while fiddling around. I watched seat numbers slowly getting worse in the short time I was online in 2015 and that was before the surge in popularity in the past few years.
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Jan 15, 2020 02:21
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Hakuho kyujo. Get your trades in, y/o ranks are gonna have no restrictions, since there will only be 2 options between Takakeisho and Kakuryu.
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Jan 15, 2020 02:32
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I will drop Hakuho for Takakeisho
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Jan 15, 2020 02:41
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Ty about the ticket thing. It sounds not too uncommon from Korea so I'll try to keep an eye out so I can get weekend tix for the May basho.fisting by many posted:I will drop Hakuho for Takakeisho Same for me. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Jan 15, 2020 02:58
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Is there a database of Rikishi Win-Loss-Withdraw records? My google-fu is apparently weak.
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Charles Gnarwin posted:This is my first ever basho and I'm easing my way in by just watching the big matches uploaded by Jason's Sumo YouTube channel but I'm loving it. I always liked watching it on TV as a kid when I was on vacation in Hawaiʻi and understanding more of it as an adult makes it so much more fun. cool, more new guys. bit of advice that was given to me - next basho, pick a few guys for the, er, fantasy sumo (?) tournament thing we have going. that way, you get to know a dude at every level of the top division that you can follow and root for as time goes on, and watching them rise (.... and fall....) is extremely interesting. or just stick around for the enho circle jerk with us and all of japan.
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