Ryoshishokunin

They were Mongolian, clearly. (Edit: I see this has been expressed upthread, but it's worth pointing out that bigotry needs no further motivation.)

Note: Tatsunami belonged to the Tatsunami ichimon (for a long stretch Tatsunami-Isegahama). It's odd to me that it's wound up in Dewanoumi, but for all the talk of tradition there's always some oddities. Even the name-holder for the ichimon isn't a dictator, it turns out.

I didn't miss the signup, but checking my results I'll be surprised if I did well.

For reasons unclear, the branchout of Hidenoyama-beya isn't noted on the kabu history for Hidenoyama (or for moto-Kotoshogiku). I'm not sure if other events are also missing from the kabu portion of the db.

I'm frankly baffled that we managed to *perfectly* miss all of the ambiguous days. It's really something. (Oh, and day 2, where the kyokai is the one that missed the train.) Some of that is us playing with a lower rikishi than usual--Ura had a particularly delicate rank this basho. Combined with the yusho race.... I would've happily picked someone other than Takanosho if i'd had the opportunity to pick after the others--or set up contingencies in private. Gurowake's late pick was quite harmful to me there as it is set up now. (I would not be opposed to some kind of tiebreaker procedure.)

In. Only for me. :)

Wat. Why would you schedule Kotozakura - Hoshoryu but not Onosato-Wakamotoharu? (Onosato was my first guess, but I couldn't see a world where Onosato didn't get either Kotozakura or WMH after some reflection.) Hell, Hoshoryu-Ura at least gives him an opponent fighting for something. Other headscratchers include Takanosho/Kagayaki and Tobizaru/Meisei. I see no reason this couldn't be the other way around, unless there's a brother-in-law thing going on. (Congrats, Gurowake! With Rank that its privileges.)

Given how close the (right) heel was to the sand, it's hard to fault him from his angle. 'Twas a millimetre or three, with a body in the way. One look at the sand would cue the reversal (or the shimpan on that side, if they were watching the right thing), but I have sympathy for him getting that one wrong.

the problem with being the fourth guy in the tiebreaker logjam is that I couldn't wait for them *all* to pick before me :(

Well, I'm half asleep, so as a contingency 15. Takanosho

Leading Players: 10-4 Kyokai:4-10. That's quite the basho. Gurowake, we await you.

I don't have anything else for him to do so 14. Waka taka kage.

I... had Oho, not Abi, as the guy to fight down the order. If you just swap Abi and Oho's assignments I like the torikumi much better.

Get all your panic done at once, I guess? 13. Abi I guess. It all looked so easy when we were all at 9-1....

Given that Kadoban-incoming Kotozakura was on his slate, not necessarily. Also, the YDC and the scheduling committee are theoretically independent of each other, for what that's worth.