Re: Gyoji promotion? What criteria are used?

[TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa <yk815103@fsinet.or.jp>]

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Date:Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:46:33 +0900
Subject:Re: Gyoji promotion? What criteria are used?

>In the case of how many bouts anyone referees, some of you are 
>getting confused by assuming, wrongly, that all the yokozuna bouts 
>are refereed by the two tate-gyoji.
This isn't always right. If 4 yokoduna enter the basyo, there is the 
possibility that the bout of one of them is judged by sanyaku-kaku 
gyouji.

>The system is that Shonosuke referees the final bout, 
>Inosuke the two before that, the top Sanyaku-kaku gyoji the two 
>before that.... etc. The only expectation is that at the very 
>beginning of the makuuchi division, is there is an odd number of 
>bouts that day, the first gyoji on the list may referee just one 
>bout.
In this case, "odd" should be "even" because Syounosuke judges 1 bout. 

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TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa