The banzuke for the upcoming Kyushu basho has been posted to the official website of the Sumo Association.
http://sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/
Some items of note –
- Yago did not make the cut to Makuuchi.
- Chiyomaru survives at Maegashira 16.
- Nishikigi is catapulted all the way to Maegashira 3, entering the joi-jin for the first time.
- Hokutofuji is at Maegashira 1, now’s his chance!
- As expected, Kaisei takes the open Komusubi slot.
Further down the banzuke –
- Oguruma’s rising start Tomokaze makes his Sekitori debut at Juryo 14.
- Gokushindo gets the Juryo 13 berth after a fantastic tournament and yusho in September.
- Hawaiian Musashikuni ranks in at Makushita 53.
- Returning fan favorite Ura is Sandanme 33.
- Texan Wakaichiro finds himself at Jonidan 5 after a disappointing Aki.
We will have our usual podcast later in the week, once Josh returns from his current exotic locale.
Ha – thanks for the shout out ;)
Excited to see Tomokaze, someone we’ve talked about for a while, make his bow. No points for guessing he was a pusher-thruster…
Sad for Wakaichiro to be demoted but hopefully he can run the table on this guys in Jonidan
Word is he was nursing an injury or two. Plus he had the torikumi from hell. I would expect he is going to do much better in Kyushu.
Hoshoryu slightly advances to Ms#49, while Naya, as expected, drops back to Sandanme at #11.
Stick insect Chiyotaiyo finally makes it to Jonidan – not a bad advancement at #76.
Torakio only drops to Sd#40 – not horrible. Let’s hope he can improve.
Not so far away from him is Yoshoyama, at Sd#49, up from Jd#11. Let’s hope he can finally live up to his potential.
Interesting names in the Makushita purgatory. I’m going to follow Tomisakae at #6.
Gagamaru said goodbye to his akeni and kesho-mawashi today, but at Ms#1 all he needs is the tiniest of kachi-koshi to get them back.
I really need to start following the Juryo – Makushita boundary more closely. It’s too easy to get fixated on the joi-jin!
One that I’ll be followinging is Tsukahara, who will be making his first appearance in Makushita.
Looks like we can have a Naya vs Ura bout next basho. As I have faith in Ura that would require Naya not to make so many unforced errors like in the last tournament ;)
Sign me up for that bought!