Re: Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke

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

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|From: Richard Webb <webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu>
|Subject: Re: Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke
|Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 07:25:02 -0800 (PST)
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|> |1) Why is Takanohana still Ozeki? Is make-koshi not enough to get demoted
|> |if you are an Ozeki?
|
|Ozeki, unlike other rikishi, have a cushion of being allowed two
|make-koshi before demotion.  Takanohana is now in the
|"kadoban-Ozeki" status, just like Konishiki was last basho and
|two basho's before that.  If Takanohana gets a kachi-koshi then he
|will retain his full Ozeki status (like Konishiki did three basho
|ago), but if he gets a second consecutive make-koshi, he will be
|demoted to Sekiwake (like Konishiki in the last basho).  I believe
|a 10-win or better basho after the demotion is enough for an
|automatic promotion back to Ozeki.
|
|> |2) Is Wakanohana on the brink of promotion to Yokozuna? He seems to have
|> |been a competitor all through 1993 (although I can't remember his September
|> |result from the top of my head).
|
|No.
|
|> |3) Can Musashimaru become ozeki with a double figure record?
|
|Yes.
|
|> |4) Why did Mitoizumi keep his rank of maegirisha 11?
|
|This I am not sure of.  Not only him, but also the other rikishi
|who sat out the entire basho kept the same rank.  I thought they
|would drop because sitting out the basho is supposed to be the same
|as losing all 15 matches.
|
|> |5) What is the record for consecutive yusho? Modern times that is (six
|> |basho a year). I don't think Akebono is close, but I was just curious.
|> |
|
|I don't know, but if a dude won 64 straight matches, had one loss,
|and then another long string of victories, we aren't close to the
|record.  This is the longest streak of yusho's in over 10 years,
|though.
|
|Here's to a Musashimaru yusho!
|
|Richard Webb
|webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu
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