<div>If you have never played this game…</div><div dir="auto">From Moti</div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Moti Dichne</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:niramiai@gmail.com">niramiai@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 4:52 AM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Sumo games: Guess the Banzuke<br>To: Sumo Newsletter2 <<a href="mailto:sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com">sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This is a formal invitation to play the "Guess the Banzuke" game!! 25 years, 153rd basho. Please play. It's pretty much free.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">Game rules: Guess the Banzuke. Simple. Fully automated entry form. You get two points for a bulls-eye and one point for just getting the rank right. You get no points for believing someone is on an Ozeki run.  Tiebreakers - Most total guesses, then we check the banzuke backwards - getting the lower half right will be important.  The most correct guesses in the last ten places will win the tiebreaker. If still tied, we go up a ranking at a time like a penalty shootout. If still tied, the special committee will convene and its decisions will be binding but never revealed. Official secrets act.  If you're still trying to figure this out, don't.<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span>It's up to you to check if you are on the<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntryList.aspx" rel="external nofollow noopener" title="External link" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(61,101,148)" target="_blank">list of entries.</a> It's going to be your fault if you don't notice that your entry went missing in the Internet void. No late entries will be expected or accepted. Those are the rules, and the rules will never be changed. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">For rules that will never be changed, standings and overthinking:  <a href="http://www.dichne.com/Guess.htm" rel="external nofollow noopener" title="External link" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(61,101,148)" target="_blank">http://www.dichne.com/Guess.htm</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">For the nifty entry form, which will hopefully continue to do what it's intended to do:  <a href="http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntry.aspx" rel="external nofollow noopener" title="External link" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(61,101,148)" target="_blank">http://sumodb.sumoga...b/GTBEntry.aspx</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)">For Chiyotasuke's helper: </span><a href="https://chiyotasuke.github.io/gtbhelper/" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(26,115,232)" target="_blank">https://chiyotasuke.github.io/gtbhelper/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">For the "new" archives: <a href="http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/gtbarchive.aspx" rel="external nofollow noopener" title="External link" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(61,101,148)" target="_blank">http://sumodb.sumoga...gtbarchive.aspx</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">See if you are on the entry list: <a href="http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntryList.aspx" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(61,101,148)" target="_blank">http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntryList.aspx</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">Deadline:<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Monday, August 21st, 2023<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span></span></u><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span>at 18:00 GMT ("Gounoyama Must Triumph!!!! ) -<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">PLEASE NOTE-THIS IS ONE WEEK BEFORE THE OFFICIAL BANZUKE ANNOUNCEMENT!!</span></em></u></p>

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