Re: Musashimaru = Ozeki

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

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|Date:         Sat, 20 Nov 93 09:26:12 CST
|From: Dave Turkington <U22534%UICVM.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU>
|Subject:      Re: Musashimaru = Ozeki
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|There are no requirements that a rikishi get a yusho before being por-
|moted to Ozeki. The rules bend and sway as the need for Ozekis change
|from basho to basho. There are cases of Sekiwake being promoted immed-
|iately after their first yusho. Likewise there are cases of Sekiwake being
|passed over because there were already enough Ozeki on the banzuke.
|Yokozuna, on the other hand, are required to have either 2 consecutive
|yusho or at least "the equivalent" (runner ups??) t be promoted.
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|On Fri, 19 Nov 93 17:11:22 PST you said:
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|>|Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 17:10:28 -0800
|>|From: Yugo Yodogawa <yyy@soda.berkeley.edu>
|>|Subject: Re: Musashimaru = Ozeki
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|>||Is there any chance Musashimaru will make Ozeki this tournament?
|>||
|>||What exactly ARE the requirements to make Ozeki?  X number of tournaments
|>||in a row with more than Y wins?
|>||
|>||Thanks.
|>||
|>||Eric Peterson
|>|
|>|I'm not sure about the exact requirements for Ozeki, but I think even if
|>|Musashimaru yusho's this basho, he wouldn't get Ozeki yet.  The main reason
|>|for this, I feel, is his lackluster performances in the last two basho's
|>|(8-7 in both).  Also the fact that he has never had more than 11 wins before
|>|this basho.  I feel, though, that if he gets at least a jun-yusho in this
|>|basho and follows it up next time with at least a jun-yusho or 12 wins, he
|>|should get the Ozeki promotion.
|>|
|>|Does anyone know if it is necessary for someone to have at least 1 yusho's
|>|experience before becoming Ozeki?
|>|
|>|-yugo
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