Sumo Pool Update

Monday November 19th, we sprang for some box seats (you would have seen us on Sunday night in Canada). Unfortunately, they were on the same side as the internet feed camera is on, so you probably didn't see us. You might have heard us cheering. Maybe. Probably not.

We got some great photos of the wrestlers and some video too. We've even tried to get some stuff particularly for our sumo loving friends. Hopefully we'll get some time to get those posted/uploaded/emailed soon! And it was a good time to have those tickets as we saw some great sumo.

But this post isn't really about that. It's an update on the Sumo betting that Lance and I have going on. We realized we never actually posted which wrestlers we picked, so I thought I'd do that now quickly. So far our Locutus-wrangling time has been fairly evenly split.

Lance's Picks (mostly based on the wrestlers he's noticed/followed/liked, though not necessarily on those he thought might win):

• Satoyama
• Sagatsukasa
• Takamisakari
• Sotairyu
• Kotoyutaka
• Kotoyuki
• Tamaasuka
• Takanoyama
• Tenkaiho
• Tokushoryu

Jenn's Picks (mostly based on who has easy, distinctive names she *might* remember, though she does not manage to remember them at all):

• Tanzo
• Kitaharima
• Takamisakari
• Chiyootori
• Sadanofuji
• Takanoyama
• Ryuden
• Nionoumi
• Masakaze
• Homerafuji

We were allowed to overlap our picks so of course we both picked Takamisakari and Takanoyama. But Monday, several Juryo wrestlers went Kyujo (which means pulled out injured, and will accrue losses until they fight and win again). The wrestlers that withdrew were: Chiyootori, Ryuden, and Kotoyutaka. As you can see, that puts me down by 2 wrestlers while Lance still has 9 fighting for him. My odds of watching more upper division fights are getting pretty slim!