For anyone interested in watching the bouts, NHK appears to have finally pulled their heads out of their asses and started posting daily videos of the top division matches:...
For anyone interested in watching the bouts, NHK appears to have finally pulled their heads out of their asses and started posting daily videos of the top division matches: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos
For some reason they post a short 30s-1m clip and then a longer 20-30m of the bouts.
Thank you and @TheInflatableKayak for sharing! I didn't know Tildes had a sumo community; I must have missed the first sumo post. I kept up with the bashos from Jason's channel before the strikes,...
Thank you and @TheInflatableKayak for sharing! I didn't know Tildes had a sumo community; I must have missed the first sumo post.
I kept up with the bashos from Jason's channel before the strikes, but it's good that we now have an official source for highlights. It'd be nice if NHK organized them into a playlist, but I guess I can try creating one and share it.
NHK has a playlist, but it's all of the sumo videos instead of just those from this basho and it's in newest-to-oldest order. So it's pretty much useless.
NHK has a playlist, but it's all of the sumo videos instead of just those from this basho and it's in newest-to-oldest order. So it's pretty much useless.
Community is a big word, but there are fans in here yeah :) Another source would be the Rumble (YouTube alternative) channel of NattoSumo, he now uploads highlights there:...
Community is a big word, but there are fans in here yeah :)
Another source would be the Rumble (YouTube alternative) channel of NattoSumo, he now uploads highlights there: http://rumble.com/user/NattoSumo.
Kintamayama, who I prefer over Natto's uploads, also posts there. Worth noting to anyone in the audience, that Rumble is a YouTube alternative that with minimal moderating and therefore has...
Kintamayama, who I prefer over Natto's uploads, also posts there.
Worth noting to anyone in the audience, that Rumble is a YouTube alternative that with minimal moderating and therefore has attracted a lot of the individuals/groups that simply can't be on/monetized by YouTube any longer (read: right wing nutjobs).
Yes! Fan since summer 2020. Religiously watching all the bouts with a few friends I was able to get on board. Lately, it's been difficult to synchronize to watch as a group, but I cherish these...
Yes! Fan since summer 2020. Religiously watching all the bouts with a few friends I was able to get on board. Lately, it's been difficult to synchronize to watch as a group, but I cherish these moments. How about you?
Yokozunas have been shy since we started watching... so we can't wait to see who's gonna be the next Yokozuna. Kirishima is promising, the new name maybe ?! :)
I'm bad at remembering names and see you piped up in the "Any sumo fans?" post right after the most recent exodus influx. Been watching pretty religiously for a decade+, fan for much longer...
I'm bad at remembering names and see you piped up in the "Any sumo fans?" post right after the most recent exodus influx.
Been watching pretty religiously for a decade+, fan for much longer whenever I could find any media on it here in the states. Had a friend long ago in Japan that would mail me VHS tapes of matches he could record on TV. Was never all of the days or matches, but I wasn't upset with any sumo I could get my hands on.
Yeah, you started watching at the tail end of The GOAT so you're in a bit of a lull/changing of the guard period.
Anytime a Ozeki gets the basho it's exciting times, whether or not he can follow it up with another win with Teru expected to be back in January or a very convincing jun-yusho (read: 1 less win than Teru with the yusho) will be interesting to see. I like Kirishima and he's had a pretty steady rise in the ranks with few setbacks, but he doesn't exactly have a stellar record of double digit wins until this year. Maybe he's come into his own and I'm wrong, but we'll just have to wait and see.
I am disappointed, but not surprised, that Takakeisho didn't pull out all the stops to get his damn rope. Of course being an Ozeki, let alone one for nearly 5 years now, is nothing short of a massive achievement itself and it's fine, the top rank is meant for those that can achieve it and every game has a mini-boss before the end boss. Takakeisho very well may be that cannonball mini-boss before the endgame and he's ended many a hope for a shot at the top dog.
Semi-random end of year factoids about pay courtesy of Kintamayama:
Semi-random end of year factoids about pay courtesy of Kintamayama:
How much money did they lose by losing?
Here is the top list of rikishi who lost bouts this year that had kensho banners placed on them, and how much they left on the dohyo money-wise:
Takakeishou - 686 banners, lost 20,058,000 yen ($140,000)
Houshouryuu - 570 banners, 17,100,000 yen ($119,800)
Kirishima - 496 banners - 14,880,000 yen ($104,251)
Takayasu - 458 banners, 13,740,000 yen ($96,248)
Mitakeumi - 458 banners, 13,740,000 yen ($96,248)
Quickest to get rich was Terunofuji, who in 7 bouts that took 95 seconds in total, (one of those bouts was against Kiribayama that lasted 69 seconds..) won the sum of 9,180,000 yen ($64,000). Translated to hourly wages, it's a whopping 346,780,000 yen ($2,430,000). He also was unbeaten in the seven bouts he had with kensho when the kensho amount was more than 1 million yen (34 banners at least).
For anyone interested in watching the bouts, NHK appears to have finally pulled their heads out of their asses and started posting daily videos of the top division matches: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos
For some reason they post a short 30s-1m clip and then a longer 20-30m of the bouts.
Thank you and @TheInflatableKayak for sharing! I didn't know Tildes had a sumo community; I must have missed the first sumo post.
I kept up with the bashos from Jason's channel before the strikes, but it's good that we now have an official source for highlights. It'd be nice if NHK organized them into a playlist, but I guess I can try creating one and share it.
NHK has a playlist, but it's all of the sumo videos instead of just those from this basho and it's in newest-to-oldest order. So it's pretty much useless.
Community is a big word, but there are fans in here yeah :)
Another source would be the Rumble (YouTube alternative) channel of NattoSumo, he now uploads highlights there: http://rumble.com/user/NattoSumo.
Kintamayama, who I prefer over Natto's uploads, also posts there.
Worth noting to anyone in the audience, that Rumble is a YouTube alternative that with minimal moderating and therefore has attracted a lot of the individuals/groups that simply can't be on/monetized by YouTube any longer (read: right wing nutjobs).
Thank you for sharing!
I see you're one of the new group from the exodus. Sumo fan?
Yes! Fan since summer 2020. Religiously watching all the bouts with a few friends I was able to get on board. Lately, it's been difficult to synchronize to watch as a group, but I cherish these moments. How about you?
Yokozunas have been shy since we started watching... so we can't wait to see who's gonna be the next Yokozuna. Kirishima is promising, the new name maybe ?! :)
I'm bad at remembering names and see you piped up in the "Any sumo fans?" post right after the most recent exodus influx.
Been watching pretty religiously for a decade+, fan for much longer whenever I could find any media on it here in the states. Had a friend long ago in Japan that would mail me VHS tapes of matches he could record on TV. Was never all of the days or matches, but I wasn't upset with any sumo I could get my hands on.
Yeah, you started watching at the tail end of The GOAT so you're in a bit of a lull/changing of the guard period.
Anytime a Ozeki gets the basho it's exciting times, whether or not he can follow it up with another win with Teru expected to be back in January or a very convincing jun-yusho (read: 1 less win than Teru with the yusho) will be interesting to see. I like Kirishima and he's had a pretty steady rise in the ranks with few setbacks, but he doesn't exactly have a stellar record of double digit wins until this year. Maybe he's come into his own and I'm wrong, but we'll just have to wait and see.
I am disappointed, but not surprised, that Takakeisho didn't pull out all the stops to get his damn rope. Of course being an Ozeki, let alone one for nearly 5 years now, is nothing short of a massive achievement itself and it's fine, the top rank is meant for those that can achieve it and every game has a mini-boss before the end boss. Takakeisho very well may be that cannonball mini-boss before the endgame and he's ended many a hope for a shot at the top dog.
Semi-random end of year factoids about pay courtesy of Kintamayama: