The November Sumo tourney (Kyushu Basho in Fukuoka) starts November 9, 2025! HYPE!!! I think that in the US Eastern Time we'd be watching the top matches... um... Saturday night / Sunday morning? or you can just watch the compilation videos the next day.
Like last tourney I plan to post something here around the beginning, middle, and end of the tourney. You are encouraged to post whenever else you want!
Check out the latest rankings (Banzuke) to see how your fave sumotori is placed!
Here's the info from last tourney on how we can watch it, much of it's probably the same:
Live / Replay:
- try searching on twitch, there are usually 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 look for the pointing hand emoji 👉 it should be next to one of the first links under "お知らせ" (which means "News" ?) If you use a translator, click on the link that says like "2nd day's effort video / results ".
- 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:
Intro to Sumo
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