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HEAR YE HEAR YE

From this day forth, "Sports" goes in Movies & TV Shows.

Anyway, anyone else watch Sumo?

plumpan wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 11:11 pm HEAR YE HEAR YE

From this day forth, "Sports" goes in Movies & TV Shows.

HAKKEYOI!

Sumo is a big part of my life! I watch every tournament I can get my paws on (before NHK removes them from the internet, of course)!

I'm the biggest Yokozuna Terunofuji fan in the USA~

Serpentsaurus wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 2:04 pm HAKKEYOI!

Sumo is a big part of my life! I watch every tournament I can get my paws on (before NHK removes them from the internet, of course)!

I'm the biggest Yokozuna Terunofuji fan in the USA~

Was very interesting getting into Sumo with Teru at the head. Shows up, completely trashes everyone's hopes and dreams, walks away with a cup and does not elaborate nor re-appear for 6 months. Always crazy to think what things would have looked like had he not been hit by the injury train so hard.

July 2025 Day 12 spoilers
For anyone interested in watching: Your options stink if you don't live in Japan. Basically there's NHK, who airs usually the top one or two divisions each day and is extremely litigious about restreams, and Abema, the free digital service who airs full day coverage for free, if you're requests are coming from a japanese IP.

Some people restream on youtube with minimal modifications to the source material, and there's even a few people that do highlights videos which tend to stay up for only a couple of weeks. Twitch historically was the place to go for live streams but they've been getting more picky lately (two big restreamers got banned at the beginning of this tournament) and the only ones left add a lot of extra stuff which may or may not be to your tastes. Sometimes people restream in various shadier/shittier places, of which I would not touch unless you're doing something like say, using MPV with yt-dlp hooks to pull the video in directly and not bother with the website at all.

Frankly Sumo is rather difficult to get into. There's a ton of stuff to learn up front about what the heck is going on, a lot of the larger english speaking communities have various issues, and you kinda have to know what you're doing or know someone just to find a place to watch it. But if you're into watching it, you're into watching it. It's a heck of a lot different from any other sport out there. And there's almost always something to talk about since there's basically no off season.

And hopefully finding people here to chat about it will help solve that community issue. :3

DAY 15 SOON BEFORE SUMO ENTERS THE ETERNAL SLUMBER

For 6 weeks or whatever until the next tournament and completely ignoring the summer tour.

Day 14 spoilers:

I’ve never watched sumo, but I deeply respect grappling sports in general! I know a tiny bit of BJJ even though this body is built more for striking sports, haha. What is the best way to get into watching Sumo? Any good sites to keep up with it or major events to jump on for?

Faith wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 7:42 am I’ve never watched sumo, but I deeply respect grappling sports in general! I know a tiny bit of BJJ even though this body is built more for striking sports, haha. What is the best way to get into watching Sumo? Any good sites to keep up with it or major events to jump on for?

Kewey's schedule site is a good place to start for a whole pile of resources. Right now NHK world highlights are still up (for another week or so) of the tournament gone by. DonDon's videos are good for getting an idea of what's actually going on during matches, though it's mostly analysis of older matches.

As for watching it live, Sumo tournaments happen every two months, Jan March May July Sept Nov, for the second two weeks of the month. If you wait until between about 01:00 and 07:00 UTC look up "Sumo" on say, twitch or youtube, you'll probably find some streams. I've been using avoidingthehenka lately, nice translation graphics and no added commentary.