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Tagging some folks who've commented here in the last few months. Get some hype for this basho!

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.

Hoshoryu's hips don't lie

Kirishima had a nice answer to Fujinokawa's throw from against the bales. Then Kotozakura played his positioning well against Yoshinofuji, but it was a strong showing against the ozeki. Yoshino's been doing better than Fujino but they both broke into the top ranks at the same time in July last year and it's been nice watching their wrestling.

How strong is Hoshoryu's back to avoid a loss being pushed down like that, and coming back to win!

Nice starts to Kirishima's ozeki run and of course Aonishiki's yoko run.

Such a shame about Midorifuji's cardiac problem. Hopefully he can get it under control and come back. Sumo needs little guys!

I'm going to comment this sperate to ask about rules/prefrences. As I learn/watch/view what do you guys consider the difference between conversation, hype, and spoilers. If I posted wins/losses or such, should there be a time period before so to make sure it does not spoil anyones viewing experience, should it be immediate for commentary and excitement or should I avoid until post tournament to ensure someone who recorded or watches them in another available format doesn't get a moment ruined by seeing a comment?

Thanks for the mention. I said I'd like to learn more about it because I knew near nothing so I guess now is the time!

So 15 days of tournaments, start and end on Sunday (Saturday for me because I'm 14 hours behind Japan time). So they start here 6:30, 12:30, 1:45, 2:00am it appears).

Bouts (if you call them that?)

Participation by Division

Now I just need to catch some matches tonight and start to figure out the rules/moves, and what to really watch out for!