Osaka Banzuke Arrives Today
in between tournaments, it can be tough to be a sumo fan. Everything goes quiet and there is no source of news or events anywhere. You find yourself with “Learn Kanji” books trying to decode things on Japanese web sites, and all you come up with is Toyonoshima talking about his grannie’s recipe for Oden.
This time was somewhat different as the excitement of shin-Yokozuna kisenosato kept everything buzzing for several weeks after the end of the Hatsu tournament in January. But eventually the Kisenosato mania died out, and even the Japanese sumo press seemed to have run out of things to talk about.
All of that changes today as the banzuke (ranking sheet) for the March tournament in Osaka arrives in a bit under 9 hours. As always, Tachiai will bring you a box-car of sumo love throughout March, starting later today with our possibly painful comparison of the official banzuke with our amateur attempts to rank Sumo’s top men.
Hey Bruce H. I was wondering: wouldn’t it be funny if one of you, the other being Andy, or someone on here (like, LK, A.M. Daley, CelinaJames, Himarayama…) who had provided their own take of the upcoming basho, had nailed it PERFECTLY?! I would laugh my bony, brown butt offed! Ha ha ha! From what I read, people really got into it! Counting down the time…
Interestingly enough, the formula came fairly close. The Tochinoshin ranking was the biggest miss.
I had however warned you ^^
Indeed, but as a former Marine, failure is one way to learn. I embrace my own failures, even the small ones, as an opportunity to improve.
Impressive philosophy of life… being French, this is unknown to me ^^
I got stomped. Seeing how well LK and Andrew did told me I need to step up my game. How’s Uncle Taka so high?
I personally don’t understand why they demoted Myogiryu so low (14E)… Congratulations Andy you are the closest to the truth!
That was a surprise…certainly more so than the 3 sekiwake thing. I say dumb stuff on video.
I was convinced that there would be 4 sekiwake so all my results are shifted one rank to the bottom… bad beat for me!
Did you have Mitakeumi at sekiwake? That would be interesting.
Yes… exactly !