Re: Three or four-way playoff?

"David Hungerford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> What happens if there are three or more rikishi tied for the best
> record after the last day?  Do they do a round-robin against each
> other?  Something else?  Is it done the same day or is there a point
> where it carries over to the next day?
>
> Dav2.718

November 1996 I seem to remember a four or five man play-off which
Musashimaru (oozeki at the time) eventually won.  So he won the yusho with a
...let me check....11-4 record...so pretty useless AFA yokuzuna promotion
was concerned but still helped keep him in beer for the Christmas holidays.
I don't remember the play-off format exactly - but in the one day
tournaments that they often have in non-Grand Sumo months they usually have
a format that deliberately creates a three-man final fight-off and it's the
guy who wins two consecutive fights who is declared the winner and gets to
take home the 'cow'.  BTW some of the most 'exciting' if not exactly 'true'
bouts I've ever seen are from these one-day tournaments - definitely no
'henka' moves and quite often you'll see ring-edge pirouettes, ankle grabs
and even jumping.

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jonathan