<div dir="auto">Moti<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<div>Jeffrey Anderson</div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>For of all sad words of tongue or pen,</div><div>The saddest are these:</div><div>It might have been.</div><div>- John Greenleaf Whittier</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></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: Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 1:50 PM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Sumo Game- 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)">Less than three weeks to enter. I was hibernating. <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It's that time again. This is a formal invitation to play the "Guess the Banzuke" game!! 25 years, 154th basho. Please play. It's fun and healthy and leaves no trace. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">Game rules: Guess the Banzuke. Simple. You get two points for a bulls-eye and one point for just getting the rank right. You get no points for knowing everything. About anything.. 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, we will all cry together. 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 up to you to check if  your entry was accepted and did not go missing in the Internet void. No late entries will be expected or accepted. The entry process is very simple and fully automated so don't be put off by thinking this is technically complicated in any way. The game itself - very complicated indeed. </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 love : <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 incredible 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 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;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, February 19th, 2024<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 ("Grand <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(77,81,86)">Ménage à Trois</span>!!! </span>) -<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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