Aki Basho: Final Results

[osumo3@native.usc.edu (Luigi Manna)]

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|Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 21:00:19 JST
|From: Riley@hachi.hi-tech.ac.jp
|Subject: Aki Basho:  Final Results
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|Being admittedly partial, I have declared my new baby as the
|winner of the basho.  She was born Saturday afternoon.  I was
|really lucky and got to stay there and see the birth (a rarity
|here in Japan)!!!  
|
|As for the regular rikishi here are the results:
|
|East:                       West:
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|Akebono         14-1
|Takanohana      12-3        Wakanohana     9-6
|Konishiki        0-2        
|Musashimaru      8-7        Takanonami    10-5
|                            Kotonishiki    9-6
|Takatoriki       7-8        Kotonowaka     8-7
|
|Wakashoyo        5-10       Mitoizumi      4-10
|Kotofuji         6-9        Akinoshima     9-6
|Tochinowaka      6-9        Kotobeppu      5-10
|Kenko            7-8        Terao          6-9
|Higonoumi        6-9        Daizen         5-10
|Misugisato       8-7        Kasugafuji     7-8
|Kiraiho          5-10       Tokitsunada    7-8
|Minatofuji       5-10       Takamisugi     8-7
|Kitakachidoki    6-9        Oginohana      7-8
|Tomonohana       9-6        Daishoho       9-6
|Kyokudozan       8-7        Toyonoumi      7-8
|Kirishima        9-6        Daishoyama     8-7
|Kushinaumi      12-3        Tomoefuji      4-11
|Mainoumi         9-6        Kotoinazuma    9-6
|Tatsuhikari      2-13       Musoyama       9-6
|Tamakairiki      8-7
|
|Akebono has shown that he is the man to beat, and he has still
|improved and changed his style.  One of the sports rags counted
|up, and he only won 3 times by oshidashi, which used to be his
|main game, and he won 5 times by yorikiri.  
|
|Disappointments:
|
|Out of the maegashira 1-9, only 3 guys could get kachikoshi.
|Tomoefuji: hate to see ya go, but we'll see you back later.
|Tatsuhikari: take off, eh, you hoser!
|
|
|Bright spots:
|
|Musoyama looks pretty impressive at 9-6 in the majors.
|Akinoshima won his last 5 matches to get a decent record.
|
|
|I think it should be a really hard job for the Kyokai to set 
|the banzuke for next basho.  There will likely be some long 
|jumps up (and down!) in the maegashira ranks.  I wasn't too 
|pleased the way they let Kushimaumi run his score up.  The 
|highest rank he faced was komosubi (just once).  I mean, hey,
|he's not even in Futagoyama Beya!  There's also some talk still
|going on about Takanohana's chances for Yokozuna.  Personally,
|I'll be revolted if they give it to him.  But the Kyokai is just
|dying to get a Japanese Yokozuna back in there.  I don't think
|he's ready, and he definitely hasn't met the qualifications 
|laid down during the Konishiki/Akebono confusion.
|
|Well, it's been.  Can't say it was always fun, cuz the UNIX 
|eunichs (neat term I heard somewhere) weren't very nice to me.
|Hope things are a little better for the next time around.
|
|See ya!
|
|David Riley
|riley@hachi.hi-tech.ac.jp
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