Day 13 of the 15-day tourney in Japan just finished a couple hours ago! Here's how you can watch recaps, replays, or live! Feel free to post images, video links, opinions, 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 (kind of like an old-fashioned TV station); 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. Look here: 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 should 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!!?!!
I just watched it last night.
Phew! That was an incredible tournament.
Hoshoryu pulling a henka on the second-to-last day was kind of understandable, almost like he was trying to offset the fact that Onosato didn't even have to wrestle Kotozakura that day. So both yokozunas were basically fresh for their match on the last day. Was very surprising to see Hoshoryu pushing out Onosato in that first match.
On a related note, seemed like there were far more henkas this tournament than what I've seen in the past. Asakoryu did three (or four?) by himself.
Takayasu may not have ended up with a winning record, but I thought each of his victories looked pretty impressive. He made some very strong defensive moves to avoid being thrown out quite a few times.