Long Kachikoshi Streaks - Nagoya 2012

[Kameumi 1]

2% too grab a complete surprise Yusho is all I need.

COME ON BOYS, IT'S MIRACLE TIME ! (Laughing...)

[Asashosakari 19,331]

Day 14:

A lot of decisions were settled today, headed by Kotoshogiku's 10th win to reach his LKS basho target. The two unanimous KK picks in makushita split their decisions, with collegiate Irie posting his 7th straight KK since debuting, while Wakamisho hit the wall at last. Fukamiyama's quest in low sandanme also came to an end, after five consecutive 4-3's it's only a 3-4 this time.

Leaving aside the two obvious decisions the best day was had by Vikanohara with correct predictions on both Giku and Fukamiyama, while Kameumi missed on both.

Here are the penultimate standings:

Day 14: 13/16 Decisions, TB 12-13
Pos	Player	Pts	TB
1	kuroimori	9	18
1	Profomisakari	9	15
3	Achiyama	8	17
3	Asashosakari	8	14
3	Vikanohara	8	16
6	Jejima	7	15
6	Mmikasazuma	7

6

Pandaazuma

7

14

9

Fay

6

10

Asojima

5

15

10

Kameumi

5

16

The remaining three decisions will rest on Takanoiwa in a tough KK decider against yusho-chasing Jokoryu, and a direct matchup between Kisenosato and Kotooshu - winner reaches his target, loser doesn't.

Unsurprisingly Kameumi is now out of the yusho race after today's results. Profomisakari is also out - both he and Kuroimori have the same remaining picks, but Kuroimori will win on the second bracket via Fukamiyama. However, Jejima is still in. He'll need a loss by Takanoiwa and an Osh victory to grab the yusho, via bracket decision on Kei. On the other hand, if both decisions fail to go Jejima's way, he'll even finish makekoshi.

[Fay 1,677]

hehe, at least I'm not in the last rank anymore ganbatteeee

[Kameumi 1]

hehe, at least I'm not in the last rank anymore ganbatteeee

Happy to please someone! :-P

Edited July 21, 2012 by Kameumi

[Fay 1,677]

hehe, at least I'm not in the last rank anymore ganbatteeee

Happy to please someone! :-P

Thanks a lot ;-)

[Asashosakari 19,331]

Senshuraku:

And the winner is...Kuroimori! Jejima got what may have been the harder part of the day (Osh beating Kise), but it was already all over for him after Takanoiwa had secured his last-second kachikoshi.

Day 15: 16/16 Decisions, TB 13
Pos	Player	Pts	TB
1	kuroimori	10	18
2	Profomisakari	10	15
2	Vikanohara	10	16
4	Achiyama	9	17
4	Asashosakari	9	14
4	Mmikasazuma	9	0
4	Pandaazuma	9	14
8	Fay	8	0
8	Jejima	8	15
10	Asojima	7	15
10	Kameumi	7	16

For the records, the yusho playoff:

- All three players missed the tie-break prediction (as did everybody else).

- All are wrong on the 1st bracket (Kotooshu+), then Profomisakari is eliminated on the 2nd (Fukumiyama-).

- Kuroimori and Vikanohara battle each other through the next 8 brackets: correct on Shosei-, wrong on Kei+, correct on Takanoiwa+/Irie+/Sasanoyama+/Tamadaiki-, wrong on Wakamisho-, correct on Jokoryu+. Kakuryu- then decides it in Kuroimori's favour on the 11th slot.

If Profomisakari had survived on Fukamiyama, he would have snatched the yusho on Kei two brackets later. Alas.

And I would be remiss if I didn't congratulate Kameumi on his Kotooshu pick. Yes, the rest of his slate didn't quite work out ;-) but that was a really gutsy selection. All in all we managed to get 99 out of 176 predictions right this time, for a 56% accuracy rate. We did much better on the positive predictions (58 of 97 turned out correct) than the negative ones (only 38 of 79 were correct there). Pretty surprising that we still managed to overshoot the tie-breaker with our guesses, but that's probably to be laid at the feet of the backup squad - only one KK out of 9! Thank you to talented Masunosho for preventing the whitewash.

In addition to the 12 holdovers and the one regular newcomer, we will have one additional entry: Veteran Kotoyutaka not only secured his juryo return after 3 years, he did so by establishing a 4-KK streak, sufficent for our recently introduced sekitori dispensation. Shotenro had a chance to join him on the ballot, but fell to 7-8 on senshuraku. Next basho's backup squad will be rather short at just 7 rikishi, incidentally.

And here's the upcoming lineup:

[Asashosakari 19,331]

Scores for banzuke purposes:

kuroimori 11 (10+top)

Profomisakari 11 (10+top)

Vikanohara 11 (10+top)

Achiyama 9

Asashosakari 9

Mmikasazuma 9

Pandaazuma 9

Fay 8

Jejima 8

Asojima 7

Kameumi 7

Total: 99 / 11 = 9.00 ---> -1 win

Aki 2012 banzuke:

Profomisakari (Oe 10-5 D) O1 Asojima (Ow 6-9)

kuroimori (Ke 10-5 Y) O2 ---

Vikanohara (Kw 10-5 D) S Pandaazuma (Sw 8-7)

Asashosakari (M1e 8-7) K Mmikasazuma (M3e 8-7)

Jejima (Se 7-8) M1 Achiyama (M3w 8-7)

ryafuji (M2e kosho) M2 Holleshoryu (M2w kosho)

Fay (M1w 7-8) M3 Kameumi (NR 6-9)

Gusoyama (M4e kosho) M4 ---

I didn't even realize until I set out to make the new banzuke that kuroimori also won the Natsu yusho. Needless to say that's a well-deserved ozeki promotion even from the komusubi rank. Congrats!

Asojima will be kadoban in Aki while Profomisakari will be on a tsunatori. This is actually only the second time in the 3-year history of the game that an ozeki was among the top scorers of a basho. Asojima's tsunatori opportunity in Hatsu 2011 ended in a 6-9, and demotion one basho later after another makekoshi. Hopefully our new candidate will fare better. :-)

Edited July 22, 2012 by Asashosakari

[kuroimori 1,634]

Scores for banzuke purposes:

kuroimori 11 (10+top)

Profomisakari 11 (10+top)

Vikanohara 11 (10+top)

Achiyama 9

Asashosakari 9

Mmikasazuma 9

Pandaazuma 9

Fay 8

Jejima 8

Asojima 7

Kameumi 7

Total: 99 / 11 = 9.00 ---> -1 win

Aki 2012 banzuke:

Profomisakari (Oe 10-5 D) O1 Asojima (Ow 6-9)

kuroimori (Ke 10-5 Y) O2 ---

Vikanohara (Kw 10-5 D) S Pandaazuma (Sw 8-7)

Asashosakari (M1e 8-7) K Mmikasazuma (M3e 8-7)

Jejima (Se 7-8) M1 Achiyama (M3w 8-7)

ryafuji (M2e kosho) M2 Holleshoryu (M2w kosho)

Fay (M1w 7-8) M3 Kameumi (NR 6-9)

Gusoyama (M4e kosho) M4 ---

I didn't even realize until I set out to make the new banzuke that kuroimori also won the Natsu yusho. Needless to say that's a well-deserved ozeki promotion even from the komusubi rank. Congrats!

Asojima will be kadoban in Aki while Profomisakari will be on a tsunatori. This is actually only the second time in the 3-year history of the game that an ozeki was among the top scorers of a basho. Asojima's tsunatori opportunity in Hatsu 2011 ended in a 6-9, and demotion one basho later after another makekoshi. Hopefully our new candidate will fare better. :-)

Thank you all, I can't believe I won this very special game two times in a row! (Yusho winner...)

Needless to say that I am humbled to be promoted to the prestigious rank of Ozeki in this game.

A deep bow to the organizer and moderator of this game. (Bow...)

I will do my best to continue with forward moving guessing at Aki basho in order to show honor to my new rank.

See you all again in September!

[Kameumi 1]

And I would be remiss if I didn't congratulate Kameumi on his Kotooshu pick. Yes, the rest of his slate didn't quite work out ;-) but that was a really gutsy selection.

Haha thank you.

"Throw out enough seeds and some are bound too take."

That said I'm very pleased that this was the one that took!

Edited July 22, 2012 by Kameumi

[Profomisakari 857]

Asojima will be kadoban in Aki while Profomisakari will be on a tsunatori. This is actually only the second time in the 3-year history of the game that an ozeki was among the top scorers of a basho. Asojima's tsunatori opportunity in Hatsu 2011 ended in a 6-9, and demotion one basho later after another makekoshi. Hopefully our new candidate will fare better. :-)

Many thanks for the good wishes !

I'm afraid to be come into this situation.

And I'll try to do to next basho my very very best, Miss Sophie!

But it's only possible, if the guys on the dohyo all this do what I say them.

Profomisakari

Edited July 23, 2012 by Profomisakari