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SUMO: November 2026 tourney in Japan has just started! (see this post for how to follow it) (media.piefed.social)
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Day 3 of the November sumo tournament in Japan finished a couple of hours ago! The tourney lasts for 15 days, so this is a great time to start watching!

Video Clips:

click here for instructions to see the NHK Japanese videos

They are re-doing their Japanese website. I THINK that to see the latest videos on the NHK site in Japanese, you look here: https://www.nhk.jp/g/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/pm1VNbJpWQ/bp/pExrRxao2y/ and click on the topmost link that says "NHK ONE", it should look like this:

Click "I understand" to acknowledge that you're not in Japan (lel) and then scroll down til you see this button:

it might look like this:

click on that and you should see all the videos?!

For the listings in Japanese, try automated translations if there's a lot of text. Alternately, look for something like: 9月14日 which in this case refers to the 9th month and the 14th day (September 14th). Automated translation doesn't work that well on sumotori names, but this is a great opportunity to learn them by sight! (The JSA web site has pictures of them all.)

Additional fan youtube channels (I haven’t checked them out too thoroughly)

Live / Replay:

  • try searching on twitch, there are usually at least 3 different streamers providing live video feeds with English commentary, and it's fun to have a community to chat with in real time. The top Makuuchi matches start around 3am US Eastern Time though. At least one of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).

Text Info in English:

Intro to Sumo

"You're gonna watch sumo... RIGHT?"

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My family and I stumbled onto an annual tournament in Texas last year looking for things happening that weekend to take some visiting relatives to. Went again this year. It's an open weight competition .. as there aren't enough competitors to doe it otherwise. But this year there were actually two women to compete in the women's division! Members of the US men's team (Edobor Konyeha and Dominus Davis-Williams) are local to the tournament, so that's cool to see them.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah, Texas is known for having top-tier amateur sumo wrestlers. There are amateur sumo groups all over, it's a lot of fun checking them out!

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    Texas is known for having top-tier amateur sumo wrestlers

    Really‽ I'd legit never heard of international sumo being a thing until we caught the Texas Open last year. So I had no basis to gauge on other than a few compilation videos of traditional Japanese tournaments!

    But yeah it's been a super fun thing to watch.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 18 hours ago

    Well, it's very niche (in countries other than Mongolia, which has a recently been feeding wrestlers to the pro Japanese league.) In the US it's been growing slowly over the last 10 years or so, now there are amateur clubs across the country.

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    • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    Thanks for the list of channels! There are some I didn't know yet and that I'll check out. I'd also add Sumo Spiffy to the list. He makes tier lists and banzuke predictions that help fill the gap between bashos.

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