I apologize in advance for the quality or availability of many of the video clips today. My main source, Lulit, enjoyed a day at the Kokugikan, so did not tweet any videos, and I had to use other sources.
Edit: the VK videos have been replaced with ones from Dailymotion.
My apologies, and let’s get day 2 of round 4 on the road.
Day 7 – the first day of round four! This means that any wrestlers in the 3-0 bracket who win today’s match have a straight kachi-koshi. Furthermore, they maintain their chances of a division yusho. The field for the division yusho is becoming narrower as lossless rikishi are eliminated. We’ll see many of those matches today.
I didn’t have enough time to post yesterday, but no matter. As we have seen, in the lower divisions, “rounds” are split over two days each, so I will just cover the whole “round 3”, days 5 and 6, together. So lots of matches today. The matches will be mixed, and the order haphazard, but no worries, it’s sumo!
We are off to the second day of the second round. And in addition to the matches themselves, we also have a few bloopers. Kind of. Let’s begin at the beginning.