Splendid. May Ichinojo continue the streak of last-on-the-banzuke yusho winners.
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No top division rikishi involved, but WTF?
https://twitter.com/InsideSportJP/status/1303915848608788480
Basho starts this weekend and it is increasingly looking as if we may be in a Nokozuna situation from the beginning.
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Day 1 in the books. Kokugikan looks a lot more crowded this time. Haven't seen anything specific in the news, but looks to me that while boxes are still max 1 person, every box is now full (no distancing). Overall, sumo was kind of boring (last couple of bashos have taken 2-3 days to get going because of the lack of practcing across heyas), but the Endo-Asanopyama fight was awesome. Terunofuji looked a little bit lost trying to deal with a newly-healthy Takakeisho. Enho looked terrible.
My pick for this basho is Shodai. Now that his tachiai is not desperately slow, he looks consistently good. Also, have a feeling Mitakaeumi will make double-digits this tournament, which means both of them will conceivably be in a position to make Ozeki in November.
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The first two or three days of all the COVID bashos have been a mess because of the ban on inter-heya practice. But they settle down and get better as they go along. This one was great and Shodai's win (and promotion to Ozeki) was hugely deserved. Terunofuji proved his yusho was not a fluke. Asanoyama proved he can consistently win 10 matches. Lots of newcomers to like (Wakatakakage and Tobizaru among others). Chiyonokuni's juryo yusho means he's back in Makuuchi. The only sad part of this basho really was that it is almost certainly Kotoshogiku's last.
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#13 was new to me, and #15 I thought was done by each rikishi's attendants.
Tachiai blog's preview show is is out, making a solid case for why this is going to be an awesome basho. https://tachiai.org/2020/11/02/tachi...odcast-part-1/
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After two days.
1) Chiyonokuni is back, baby! Weak knees and bum shoulder, but still very fleet-footed.
2) Enho is just done. Nothing is working.
3) Terunofuji is on track for a yusho. He absolutely clocked Asanoyama today. And i could not be happier.
4) Takayasu seems to have shaved his back. This is traumatic for me: when I first started watching and was trying to keep all the rikishi straight, knowing that Takayasu was the dude with the hairy back was one of my touchstones.
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Also, Little Miss Sumo has developed a new shitlist of rikishi. Since Natto Sumo's highlights now include a lot more of the warmups, we get to see more of the per-match stretching, face-washing, etc. Most people scriub their face with a handtowel, then various other bits of their bodies - as it should be. But LMS has now noted that several of them (most notably Kotonowaka) actually do armpits first, then face. She has decided she is never cheering for these people. Matter of principle.
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Not sure if there is a technical term for it, but "flying henka" seems like the best description. He's done that before and won. Mainoumi - the 1990s rikishi Enho pretty clearly models himself on - used it sometimes, too.
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Watch the first bout here, a juryo bout between Ura and Azumaryuu. It contains the exact sumo equivalent of a Cruyff turn and is just freaking awesome.
This basho is picture perfect: Musubi-no-Ichiban on senshuraku is 12-2 Terunofuji vs. 13-1 Takakeisho. A keisho win gives him the yusho and starts a Yokozuna run. A fuji win brings us to an immediate playoff. Can hardly wait.
Chiyonokuni has nine wins, which means he is back to his spiritual home in the middle maegashira ranks. Kotoshoho is making good, steady progress. Enho has been a horror show.
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Brilliant finish. Terunofuji wins, but Takakeisho bounces back in the playoff match. Cue the giant macaron.
With Kakuryuu and Hakuho almost certain to be out of sumo before the end of 2021, we've got a whole new banzuke coming into play. 2021 sure seems likely to add at least one Ozeki (Terunofuji) and maybe two (Hokutofuji? not impossible). And, who knows: maybe Takakeisho becomes Yokozuna #73.
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The knee was never going to withstand a second bout within five minutes but his resurgence is incredibly good news for the competition.
We won't have a clear view of what the banzuke looks like until the distortions created by the Olympics are behind us (something that applies to a troubling aspects of Japanese life)
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