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!!?!!
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.