Re: Gyoji promotion? What criteria are used?

["G. Jay Walker" <walker@nhrc.navy.mil>]

>Since play-offs are outside the hon-basho, Shonosuke normally would not 
>supervise them because he is supposed to do only the final 'real' bout.  In 
>the case of multiple play-offs, common sense would indicate more than one 
>gyoji taking turns, but I honestly can't remember.

I checked the 5-man playoff at the '96 Kyushu basho, and these were the presiding gyojis:

Match 1: Musashimaru-Wakanohana   Shikimori Inosuke
Match 2: Takanonami-Kaio   Shikimori Inosuke

(Kettei tomoe-sen between Musashimaru, Takanonami and Akebono, who drew the bye)

Match 3: Musashimaru-Akebono   Shikimori Inosuke
Match 4: Musashimaru-Takanonami   Kimura Shonosuke

It's not a case here of Kimura Shonosuke necessarily returning for the final match of the playoff, since the kettei tomoe-sen would have continued if Takanonami had beaten Musashimaru.  

This was what happened at Kyushu '96, I have no idea what the official rule is for gyojis in multiple playoffs.

-G. Jay Walker