Green Day came through DC last week and I’m gutted that I couldn’t get a ticket. They were playing the 930 club which is a pretty small venue so I’m not surprised. Nevertheless, I was online when the tickets went on sale and somehow they were all gone within seconds. However, the system still let us try for the next two hours. As a result of all of this bitterness, I’m going to rip off one of their song titles and butcher it for my pleasure. Here goes: “Wake Me Up When [October] Ends.”
The banzuke won’t come out for weeks but I wanted to give it a stab. I found it very difficult to make sense of the lower-level maegashira ranks since everyone below M10, save Endo, belongs in Juryo and none of the top-ranked Juryo wrestlers deserve promotion. If others want to try, I think we could try to score our attempts: 2 points if you get the right rank, 1 if you get the right side (E vs. W). I think I’ll score well from Sekiwake up…the rest is likely pretty far off but still fun to try.
Rank | East | West |
Y | Harumafuji | Kakuryu |
Y | Hakuho | |
O | Goeido | Kisenosato |
O | Kotoshogiku | Terunofuji |
S | Takayasu | Okinoumi |
K | Mitakeumi | Aoiyama |
1 | Tamawashi | Tochiozan |
2 | Kotoyuki | Yoshikaze |
3 | Chiyonokuni | Shodai |
4 | Shohozan | Nishikigi |
5 | Takekaze | Kaisei |
6 | Sadanoumi | Endo |
7 | Takarafuji | Chiyoshoma |
8 | Takanoiwa | Tochinoshin |
9 | Ikioi | Myogiryu |
10 | Kagayaki | Kyokushuho |
11 | Ichinojo | Chiyootori |
12 | Daishomaru | Daiki |
13 | Hidenoumi | Sokokurai |
14 | Gagamaru | Amakaze |
15 | Toyohibiki | Chiyotairyu |
16 | Ishiura |
It was a big shock that there were not a raft of Juryo upper level rikishi that were primed to move up a division. As such the Kyushu basho is going to have some interesting re-runs. Do you think Ichinojo may get a larger drop? I remember what happened to Ōsunaarashi.
Let me cook up my guesses and post them soon.
yeah, i got to the bottom of the maegashira and still needed to fill the M13-M16 ranks. The lower maegashira had terrible records, too.