“Shhhh…Aki Basho? Andy, what the hell. Nagoya just ended, hangovers aren’t even cured and you’re on about Aki? Just pass the pickles and turn out the lights, man.“
As is customary, the Banzuke Committee met and the ranking sheet for Aki has been drawn up — though it won’t be released in full for several weeks. But, we do learn about promotions to Juryo. This time, there are five and Takasago-beya has the Triple-promotion that Leonid discussed yesterday. And, as predicted, Ishizaki changed his shikona to something more appropriate for Takasago beya: Asasuiryu (朝翠龍). Of course the kanji has to be ridiculous, typing Asa-midori-ryu to get this nonsense to show up properly.
So, from Takasago-beya we have Asanoyama, Asasuiryu, and Asahakuryu coming up in the first triple promotion since Aki 1979. Joining them, we have Kyokukaiyu from Oshima-beya and Nishinoryu of Sakaigawa, in a bit of a surprise. We won’t know for certain who was demoted yet, but that might be bad news for the Daiamami fans out there.
In honor of 1979 and the Sadogatake triple promotion for Kotonoryu, Kotochitose, and Kototateyama enjoy this by the Koto-Smashing Pumpkins.
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I think it pretty much has to be Daiamami going down, despite winning the “exchange bout” which turned out to be just to see whether Kitanowaka or Nishinoryu replaced him.
That committee is fantastic. Now it surprises us even when it’s doing the standard thing!
Bad news not only for Daiamami but also for Kotoeiho?
It seems likely but Kotoeiho would remain sekitori.
Thx for the Pumpkins <3
“Pass the pickles!” For real, the Nagoya Sake isn’t even gone yet!!! Nice one Andy.
It really feels like the banzuke committee wants to shake things up and reward the rikishi who have the opportunity to be promoted right now. We’ll see if that trend continues after the Aki basho.
With the juryo promotions, they did what the standard math would suggest. It’s only a bit of a surprise that Nishinoryu is going up because Kyokukaiyu missed out in a very similar situation last basho, but in that case the demotion candidate was half a rank higher…
Andy: “Nagoya just ended….”
I’m sorry but…..the calendar on the front page seem to disagree with you Andy. It’s still underwaaayyyyyy !!!!!! (˵ ¬ᴗ¬˵)
I need to delete that thing.
Finally fixed it!