Tamanaogijima

Selection Stats Day 1 Standings Day 2 Standings Day 3 Standings Day 4 Standings Day 5 Standings Day 6 Standings Day 7 Standings Day 8 Standings Day 9 Standings Day 10 Standings Day 11 Standings Day 12 Standings Day 13 Standings Day 14 Standings Final Standings

Le Monde du Sumo had a article about how to read a banzuke; the first paragraphs also tell you how it is written. Generally speaking, there are usually eight (or nine) weeks between the banzuke announcements that are split equally into four parts: 2 weeks between announcement and basho start, 2 weeks of basho, 2 weeks of setting new ranks and writing the banzuke (indeed still done by hand today, and always by the same man - usually a juryo or makuuchi gyoji, who gives up the duty when promoted to sanyaku - at present it is only the ninth man since 1927) and finally 2 weeks of printing and distributing to the heya. So technically it would be possible up to the ca. 15th of an even month to blank out people, but as Asashosakari said, that is today rather done as a "last punishment" to a dismissed person and not to a run-of-the-mill intaier that has just picked the wrong date.

Noticed the same after the retirement of Kotoyuki, which was also in the mid of an even month. Too late to be removed from the (printed) banzuke and so still listed as rikishi in the next basho. I guess they cannot or want not to have them on their site as both rikishi and oyakata, as it would create the appearance of a nimai-kansatsu. Sadanofuji and Nishikijima are an oyakata-only changes that does not make the person appear twice.

Hello gamers, the UDH entry form is ready now, and waiting for your selections. Rules in a (very small) nutshell: Guess the thirteen makuuchi rikishi you expect to have the fewest wins this basho. You may submit your entry at http://udh.seisa.de/udh_index.html. Once you have selected your team, please root for them as much as you can. The game was not intended to honor any failure, but to stimulate interest in the less successful rikishi. The deadline for your entries will be the first day of the basho (Sunday, May 09th) at 12pm Japanese Time. Good luck! Link to the latest available standings >>> http://udh.seisa.de/udh_stand.html

Kotononami indeed has also 411 points, but collected fewer losses (122 vs. 130). Both points and W-L count for your position in the standings, so Kotononami‘s 411 is different from the other ones.

Final Standings After a long time we have a tie at the top again. As always in that case there is only one jun-yusho then but the unlucky second scores a 15-0 result, too. The yusho winner was decided on the best daily score (which was a 38 on day 1).

Day 14 Standings

Day 13 Standings

Day 12 Standings

Day 10 Standings Day 11 Standings

Day 9 Standings

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Day 7 Standings

Day 5 Standings Day 6 Standings

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Day 3 Standings

Thanks for spotting -- I have set August 1997 without specific day as the date of the heya change now. Funny thing is, it has already been hidden in my data. Their Oitekaze-beya was and is noted as being part of the Tatsunami-Tomozuna subichimon* and not of the "main" Tatsunami one, and even has set Tomozuna as their parent heya. * The entity starting as Takashima-beya in the 1920s and being renamed under Tomoegata's shishoship at the beginning of the 1960s; plus all of their issues.

Selection Stats Day 1 Standings Day 2 Standings

Selection Stats Day 1 Standings Day 2 Standings Day 3 Standings Day 4 Standings Day 5 Standings Day 6 Standings Day 7 Standings Day 8 Standings Day 9 Standings Day 10 Standings Day 11 Standings Day 12 Standings Day 13 Standings Day 14 Standings Final Standings

Hello gamers, the UDH entry form is ready now, and waiting for your selections. Rules in a (very small) nutshell: Guess the thirteen makuuchi rikishi you expect to have the fewest wins this basho. You may submit your entry at http://udh.seisa.de/udh_index.html. Once you have selected your team, please root for them as much as you can. The game was not intended to honor any failure, but to stimulate interest in the less successful rikishi. The deadline for your entries will be the first day of the basho (Sunday, March 14th) at 12pm Japanese Time. Good luck! Link to the latest available standings >>> http://udh.seisa.de/udh_stand.html

Day 14 Standings Final Standings 39 wins over the last three basho? 14-11-14, check. At Ozeki rank in those three basho? Oe-Ow-Ok, check. At least 11-4 in every of those three? Check. At least one jun-yusho ever? Even three, check. After two and a half years the UDH has more than one yokozuna again. Terarno is promoted to the 16th UDH yokozuna! We look forward to your acceptance speech.

Really strange... Does the "latest available standings" link http://udh.seisa.de/udh_stand.html work when that happens?

Day 13 Standings

Day 12 Standings

Day 11 Standings