Given that I slept awfully and decided to just wake up early anyway to watch the F1 GP and the sunday morning sumo, I was not fully awake enough to have an actual relevant or coherent opinion unfortunately. Still, it was great to know that we're back again for two weeks of sumo!

I'm definitely rooting hard for Aonishiki to make Yokuzuna, even if I think that he'll need luck to make that, which maybe means he doesn't fully deserve it. (I think that if he wins, he'll again win with a 12-3 and win the deciders) In that respect he's already lucky that Onosato lost his first match and some of the other people that can realistically beat him, already have a loss on day 1.

Hoshoryu won, but he's still not looking like he's a 100%. Kotozakura is looking very strong though, I honestly kind of dismissed him from my own list of contenders to win, but he looked great.

It was great to see Ura use some classic simple sumo to get a win for once. I hope he can get a real good record after the negative score he had last time that didn't really reflect how close some of those matches were.