RE: [sumo] Judges shifts (was More WakaTaka after the Kyokai Service)

["Barbara Ann" <baklein@attglobal.net>]

Well, if I got there an hour or two earlier, I'd be there for the opening
songs sometimes, wouldn't I? I am very much aware of the rotation schedule
and that the shinpan for the first group of jonokuchi usually have the rest
of the day off since they had to be at the venue so early! This has been
told to me from the tsukebito of the early morning shinpan.

But what has that to do with Takanohana, except to go into correction mode
with me?

Getting ready for my next China stint,

BRTK

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu [mailto:owner-sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu] On
Behalf Of Doreen Simmons
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:58 PM
To: 'Sumo'
Subject: [sumo] Judges shifts (was More WakaTaka after the Kyokai Service)

>At 8:10 -0400 05.6.14, Barbara Ann wrote:
>You rarely saw this on TV since all the shinpan have a couple or three 
>stints a day as judges with an occasional day off. But, I am speaking 
>from watching sumo every single day of 4 of the 6 basho, and 10 days of 
>another, from around 11AM or so.
 
If you got there an hour or two earlier, or read the Japanese program, you
would discover that all the shimpan do either one or two shifts a day. The
first shift is not seen again round the dohyo (but of course they have other
duties like being in the video room in case a mono-ii is called). The other
three shifts return after the juryo dohyo-iri for a second stint, dropping
one member in rotation to make room for one of the shimpan-bucho. 
The four shimpan groups rotate their times each day, and each member of each
group rotates his position. If a judge is off sick one of the first shift
normally fills in for him.

In haste,

Doreen Simmons
<jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>
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