Select & other tournaments 2024/25

[Akinomaki 39,572]

On 19/04/2024 at 23:59, Akinomaki said:

The first big event of the new season/school year is canceled due to damage at the venue from the earthquake in Ehime on the 17th, the 41st national university select Uwajima tournament in the Uwajima general gymnasium was planned for April 29th http://www.ehime-np.co.jp/article/news202404200007

The Uwajima tournament was planned to be the first with the new tachi-ai rules for amateur sumo. It's both hands down without fail now. The national university select Usa tournament on May 3rd will be the first to implement this. From east Japan Nichidai, Takudai, Nittaidai, Toyodai, Tonodai, Chudai, Housei and Waseda university（日大、拓大、日体大、東洋大、農大、中大、法政大、早大）, from West Japan Kindai, Kanazawa gakuin, Asahi and Kansai university teams take part（近大、金沢学院大、朝日大、関大）

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/04/22/kiji/20240422s00005000214000c.html

Edited April 22 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,572]

On 22/04/2024 at 08:15, Akinomaki said:

The Uwajima tournament was planned to be the first with the new tachi-ai rules for amateur sumo. It's both hands down without fail now. The national university select Usa tournament on May 3rd will be the first to implement this. From east Japan Nichidai, Takudai, Nittaidai, Toyodai, Tonodai, Chudai, Housei and Waseda university（日大、拓大、日体大、東洋大、農大、中大、法政大、早大）, from West Japan Kindai, Kanazawa gakuin, Asahi and Kansai university teams take part（近大、金沢学院大、朝日大、関大）

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/04/22/kiji/20240422s00005000214000c.html

The live stream from the 63rd national university select sumo Usa tournament starts in a few hours - pairings https://www.usasumo.net/page550165.html

[Katooshu 3,087]

Individual winner is Takushoku's Masaharu Goshima, a 176cm/170kg bulldozer who made easy work of most opponents with his powerful forward moving sumo. His match in the finals wasn't so easy though, as he overcome a strong effort from towering Toyo Mongolian Ogtonbat. 3rd place goes to Kanazawa Gakuin's Yasuhiro Omori, who beat NSSU's Christopher Lee in the match of losing semifinalists - Omori had lost to Goshima, Lee to Ogtonbat. 

Nihon's Masaki Hanaoka, who won several titles last year, lost his first match in the individuals, while last year's All Japan Championship 2nd place Bucheroon (NSSU) lost in the best 8 to Goshima. Bucheroon otherwise won all his matches, including beating Ogtonbat and Omori in the teams, and looked on form.

The team championship went to Toyo University, which downed NSSU 4-1 in the finals. Nihon defeated Kinki U in the battle for 3rd. As the first competition of the year, it's interesting to see who is featuring in the starting lineup for the first time - many new faces.

Edited May 3 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Yesterday the 32nd national select University-Corporate sumo Kyushu tournament was held. Kanazawa gakuin university won the team title for the first time, their 3rd national title after winning the Kanazawa tournament the last 2 years. Sf against Nichidai, final against Kyushu Electrics.

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Nichidai's Hanaoka won the individual title, in the final against Takudai's Goshima. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/05/06/kiji/20240506s00005000181000c.html 

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Today the 108th high school sumo Kanazawa tournament - local Hokkoku shimbun is promoter https://hk-event.jp/sumou/

- the page lists the sumo fed. explanation video about the new tachi-ai rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE15aQ3luFA

https://www.hokkoku.co.jp/search?fulltext=第１０８回高校相撲金沢大会

The team prelims are complete now - pairings of the 66 school  https://hk-event.jp/sumou/com/pdf/2024/press_20240509.pdf

Results - Rounds 1 https://www.hokkoku.co.jp/articles/-/1402671 2 https://www.hokkoku.co.jp/articles/-/1402677 3 https://www.hokkoku.co.jp/articles/-/1402678

In less than an hour the final starts and 2 hours later the individuals: live streams https://www.youtube.com/@100chare/streams

local TV new clip

reminiscence: Onosato 2018, Oshoumi 2019, Kotozakura 2015, Takakeisho 2014

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Edited May 19 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Tottori Johoku's Nishimura (2nd year) won with the team - graph o - (7th yusho for the school, the last 2 years ago) and the individuals - graph o, final against Saitama Sakae's Samejima, qf against teammate MunkhBilghuun - Saitama Sakae didn't make it to the qf, the team final was against Kumamoto Nogyo.

winner Tottori Johoku: Kato, Nishimura, MunkhBilghuun, Fujimura  o

runner-up Kumamoto Nogyo o

The channel that posted the streams has removed them now, including those from last year - apparently Hokkoku shimbun or Kanazawa TV didn't like it

news clips of the team event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdpygDnhy_I

About 10000 spectators

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(pref.) local teams in the team event

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9h live stream from Tekkan

Edited May 20 by Akinomaki

[Katooshu 3,087]

Goshima won another tournament. This time the college-corporate Wakayama tournament, winning the final against speedy pusher Takeuchi, who graduated from Nihon U a few years ago and has been achieving personal best results after graduation. Mongolians Bucheroon (NSSU) and Ogtonbat (Toyo) continue with their good results too, finishing joint third.

Team event was won by streaking Kanazawa Gakuin, who beat Nippon Sports Science University in the finals. Bucheroon won all his matches in the team event for NSSU, but his team mates couldn't quite keep up.

Edited May 26 by Katooshu

[Koorifuu 860]

I'm particularly curious about Bukhchuluun's progression. There's something in his trajectory that reminds me of Kirishima.

[Adz_517 21]

20 hours ago, Koorifuu said:

I'm particularly curious about Bukhchuluun's progression. There's something in his trajectory that reminds me of Kirishima.

Do we have any idea on his height? Looks quite tall…

[Katooshu 3,087]

I've seen him listed at 181cm, though it's still possible to grow a bit in college. The guy to his right is the tallest competitor on the college scene at the moment, listed at 196cm.

He was only 90kg starting his 2nd year at NSSU (below), but has beefed up to around 120kg. He comes from a wrestling background and like Oshoma was a national champion in wrestling in Japan during high school.

Edited June 1 by Katooshu

[Adz_517 21]

18 hours ago, Katooshu said:

I've seen him listed at 181cm, though it's still possible to grow a bit in college. The guy to his right is the tallest competitor on the college scene at the moment, listed at 196cm.

He was only 90kg starting his 2nd year at NSSU (below), but has beefed up to around 120kg. He comes from a wrestling background and like Oshoma was a national champion in wrestling in Japan during high school.

Thanks for the information. 

[Katooshu 3,087]

The East Japan University Championship took place the other day

Nippon Sports Science University won the team final 4-1 over Tokyo Agricultural. NSSU is a giant of a team right now, with 5 starting caliber competitors 186cm or taller. Joint 3rd went to Toyo and Takushoku. Nihon University went out with a whimper, losing first to an entrant from the B-class tournament, then having to come back from 2-1 down to beat another B entrant, before getting dropped by Takushoku in the first round of knockouts.

The individual final came down to arguably the top two college competitors this year, with Takushoku bulldozer Masaharu Goshima winning by yoritaoshi over Nihon U technician Masaki Hanaoka. Goshima adds this title to the two national events he won earlier in the year, plus a runner-up in the Kyushu national event (Hanaoka beat him that time). Joint 3rd to Haruki Ezure (Toyo; lost to Goshima) and consistently high finishing Mongolian Bucheroon (NSSU; lost to Hanaoka).

Timestamped for individual final - Goshima vs Hanaoka

Edited June 10 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 39,572]

The West Japan University Championships were on the 2nd in Sakai http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/06/03/kiji/20240603s00005000251000c.html

The team for the first time was won by Asahi university with 6 wins - thanks especially to their Mongolian 2nd year Chinzorig, from Asahigaoka high

On 02/08/2023 at 13:07, Akinomaki said:

feature about the last year at Asahigaoka for 5 club members, including the 2 from Mongolia. Chinzorig went to Asahi university, the other 4 to Nittaidai.

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2nd Kindai with 5, then Kanazawa gakuin with 4 wins - the team finals are a round robin event of the 6 universities in the first division plus the winner of the 2nd division, this year Ryukoku-dai.

Individuals won by 2nd year Yuuma Shino  - for the 2nd year in a row the top 4 are from Kanazawa gakuin

final vs. 2nd year Morita

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more videos from the channel https://www.youtube.com/@kgtv7515/search?query="2024第98回西日本学生相撲"

The West Japan student sumo federation had live streams https://www.youtube.com/@user-gc6hg8kx6n/streams

 

Sponichi as usual reports the top results in detail

 

5 hours ago, Katooshu said:

The East Japan University Championship took place the other day

Nippon Sports Science University won the team final 4-1 over Tokyo Agricultural.

the winners - Nittaidai

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Goshima

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[Koorifuu 860]

May I ask whether Yuuma Shino was someone already under the radar, or was his victory unexpected and/or due to a lower level of competition?

[Katooshu 3,087]

Individually he won two national tournaments in high school and was runner-up in another for Kanazawa Gakuin High School, making him a top performer in his age group. That should have set standards fairly high for university, and so far he's done well, having finished 2nd at the West Japan Rookie tournament and 3rd at the main West Japan event last year as a freshman. West Japan's talent pool is much shallower than East Japan's, but still strong enough that those results are impressive. He's already a starter on his team as well, which is arguably the best it's been in years - a bit ironic that they only finished 3rd here despite multiple team wins nationally and sweeping the individuals.

I'd say he was on the radar at least as far as West Japan events go, though his name doesn't pop up much so far in individual competition at national events.

Edited June 11 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Saitama Sakae 3rd year Chugo Saito (176cm, 115kg) won the Kanto tournament open weight category - 2nd son of Kabutoyama-oyakata (Oikari), brother of Wakaikari, who won there 2 years ago. Final against Asahigaoka's 3rd year Mongolian Dulguun (189cm, 152kg) - one of their 2nd years, Batbold lost to Saitama Sakae 1st year Tamiya in the sf of the above 100kg category. Middle school yokozuna Tamiya lost the final to 3rd year teammate Samejima. Saito won against Dulguun also in the team at the world championships last year.

with dad, who is glad that after so far national 3rds, at last he has some yusho

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[Akinomaki 39,572]

Saitama Sakae for the 18th time in a row won the team event on the 16th at the 72th Kanto high school sumo tournament in Utsunomiya, Tochigi - final 4-1 against Asahigaoka. The first win of the streak in 2006 was with Sakuma/Jokoryu.

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Wins by Saito, Tamiya and Okuda were already enough, a loss by Yamada but last a win again by Samejima, who won the above 100kg category the day before. Saito, Tamiya and Samejima were without a loss that day. Asahigaoka with 2nd Dulguun and 3rd Takahara from the open-weight.

[John Gunning 3,510]

On 03/06/2024 at 02:10, Adz_517 said:

Thanks for the information. 

https://cms.uww.org/article/japan-holds-1st-national-level-tournament-feb-high-schoolers-take-mat

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Goshima won the 14th All Japan university select sumo Kanazawa tournament today, final against Bukhchuluun, Sugimoto and Hanaoka 3rd

Nittaidai won the team event against Nichidai 3-2

with detailed results: http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/07/15/kiji/20240715s00005000118000c.html

 

[Katooshu 3,087]

NSSU just beat Nihon University again, this time downing them 4-1 in the final of the National Towada tournament. 

Individual winner, after many 2nd and 3rd place finishes, is the tallest competitor in college sumo, Ogtonbat of Toyo University. He beat Kanazawa Gakuin's Yasuhiro Omori by yoritaoshi in the yusho match, and showed a good mix of oshi and yotsu sumo throughout. Third place was Takushoku's Goshima, who even on an off day (looked stiff legged and sore at times) makes it near the finals. He won the third place match over the other semifinal loser, Nihon University's Ryusho Kawakami. Regular high finisher Masaki Hanaoka lost in the best 8 to Goshima, after having beat him in the team event earlier. 

Edited August 14 by Katooshu

[Katooshu 3,087]

In the high school version of the Towada tournament, held the next day, Saitama Sakae triumphed in the team competition (rare national victory for them these days), while Tottori's Nishimura took the individual title, following up on his yusho in Kanazawa earlier this year. He is probably the high school #2 at the moment. Runner-up was impressive Kinki High 1st year Shigemura, who had also lost to Nishimura 2 years ago in the match to determine middle school yokozuna. Losing semifinalists were from Tottori and Kinki as well (the semis were Tottori vs Tottori; Kinki vs Kinki).

Son of Kotomitsuki, Aiki Tamiya, competed in the event and performed fairly well, but needs to make up ground to catch middle school rival Shigemura again.

High school kingpin, back to back interhigh winner Daiki Nishide, seems to have sat this one out.

Edited August 15 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Pics/streams from Towada, Aomori

University

individual top 2, 1, 3: Omori (3rd year), Otgombat (3rd year, 196cm, 170kg), Goshima (4th year)

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High school

Saitama Sakae team with Saito, Okuda (2nd year) and Samejima

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Captain Saito and taisho Samejima in tears of joy about the 7th yusho, the last 7 years ago

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The Usa tournament won't be held this year, remaining tournament for high school is only the kokuspo, with sdTD chances

[Akinomaki 39,572]

The Tottori Johoku team, which lost to Saitama Sakae in the sf, with middle weight world champion Mitsuhashi, individual  champ Nishimura holding his trophy and 3rd Kobayashi - and 1st year Toyoda Rinnosuke, who only was in the team in the prelims, had 2 wins in the individual prelims, but lost in the decider for the final tournament. Kobayashi beat Samejima in the finals 2nd round, Nishimura Tamiya in the 1st. o

- they are only top with Mongolians, but the Tottori middle school team has some new guys as replacement

- only the students have a 3rd place decider

 

local news clip from the student event http://www.rab.co.jp/news/news1081ygs3acd80ck9znj.html

with 15 universities and 108 individuals

[Akinomaki 39,572]

Mainichi on the 14th will stream for free the typhoon delayed 49th national student sumo individual weight division championships on this page https://mainichi.jp/sumolive/weightclass/s2024

afterwards all torikumi will be in the archive for free o

One video for each of the tournaments of the 7 weight classes plus open weight https://mainichi.jp/sumolive/weightclass/s2024/match/

pairings: https://mainichi.jp/sumolive/weightclass/s2024/tournament/

participants https://mainichi.jp/sumolive/weightclass/s2024/wrestlers/

they also posted a gallery of present and past stars in amateur sumo and later the NSK

active now

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retired - left the NSK

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present oyakata

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no longer alive

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Edited Saturday at 08:55 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,572]

On 11/09/2024 at 09:41, Akinomaki said:

Mainichi on the 14th will stream for free the typhoon delayed 49th national student sumo individual weight division championships on this page https://mainichi.jp/sumolive/weightclass/s2024

PR on the Mainichi YT channel