Re: Guess the Banzuke

[Paul Eckermann <pjeckerm@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>]

  I have been thinking about my entry for the Guess the Banzuke
competiton and have one question.
  I think that there will be an extra sanyaku rikishi in the next basho
making a total of 10. (The last time this happened was in the Nagoya
basho of last year if I remember correctly).
  This means that there will be only 30 Maegashira rikishi down to
nishi 15-mai-me. But Tomonohana is supposed to stay at higashi
16-mai-me because of his injury. Does that mean that :
     1) An extra rikishi is promoted from Juryo to nishi 15-mai-me
        making a total of 41 rikishi in Makuuchi?
     2) Nishi Maegashira 15-mai-me remains vacant?
     3) Tomonohana moves up to nishi 15-mai-me?
     4) Something else...???

     
      from Paul Eckermann (Ekigozan)