Day 1 of the tourney finished a couple hours ago! Here's how you can watch recaps, replays, or live! I only plan to post this again towards the middle, and then again near the end of the 15-day tourney. So feel free to post images, video links, comments, or anything else related!
Live / Replay:
- try searching on twitch, this tourney there are 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 1 of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).
Video Clips:
- youtuber DonDon makes a daily video of the "best 10" matches listed in English with replays including on-screen English analysis; those are listed here: https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2/videos Besides the "best 10" of the top Makuuchi tier, DonDon also makes a "best 5" of the second Juryo tier.
- NHK makes a daily video that has all the top-tier Makuuchi bouts with English spoken commentary. This video is replayed on their web site several times during the following day; you can see the schedule here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/ look for "Grand Sumo highlights." After a day of scheduled replays, the video is put up for "on demand" access here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos
- NHK immediately posts individual videos of each bout listed in Japanese with Japanese commentary. Their site is being redesigned and the reorganization is still a little unclear, but it looks like it's available here: ... CORRECTION: go to this page: https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/ and use a translator to click on the link that says like "2nd day's effort video / results ", or just try one of the first links under "お知らせ" (which means "News" ?) it might have a pointing hand emoji 👉 next to it.
- JSA immediately posts individual videos of each of the highest-ranked 10+ matches listed in Japanese with no commentary, here: https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-video/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.)
Text Info in English:
- all results and standings and next-day schedule by sumodb
- results and more info from the JSA
- daily writeups by The Mainichi (may be delayed on weekends)
- for commentary, see the tachiai fan site
Intro to Sumo
- introductory video
- more English-language intro videos at NHK's Sumopedia
- the wikipedia article has a lot of great information including on sumo terms.
SPOILERS OK IN COMMENTS!!?!!
pm to ask me about Natto condensed, but complete, tournament footage, with statistics: Makuuchi, Juryo, and Makushita divisions
You do your own channel?
Oooh, I've heard of that, there's this person called Natto who used to have a channel on youtube, then twitch, then a couple other places but they kept geting kicked off those services. Basically Natto would make a video containing only the matches, but the pre-match statistics they displayed were really well done. Last I heard (a year ago?) there was a discord you had to get invited to, then in the discord they'd post a download location. But I think that discord got shut down, or they moved to a new one or something. Dunno why Natto gets picked on so much, JSA oughta just offer em a job or something. Anyway personally I just use the resources listed above.
No, but I think Natto's a great way to enjoy the tournaments, so I just shill for him whenever possible.