<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- have fun!</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 gmail_quote_container"><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: Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM<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;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It's that time of the year again. Time to play a fantasy sumo game. It's called  GTB, or "Guess the Banzuke". .</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This is a formal invitation to play the "Guess the Banzuke" game. 27 years, 165 bashos or so. Please play. It's<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> a </span>free for all, for now.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">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 thinking Oonosato isn't "good" enough. 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 earliest entry wins. If still tied, the player who has owned a Kotoshouhou tegata/towel for at least a year, wins.. It's up to you to check if you are on the list of entries. 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;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For rules, standings and curly chips:<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><a href="http://www.dichne.com/Guess.htm" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(61,101,148);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">http://www.dichne.com/Guess.htm</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For the nift<span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span>y 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" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(61,101,148);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntry.aspx</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For Chiyotasuke's incredible helper:<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> <a href="https://gtbhelper.vercel.app/" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(61,101,148);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">https://gtbhelper.vercel.app</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For the "new" archives:<a href="http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/gtbarchive.aspx" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(61,101,148);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/gtbarchive.aspx</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">See if you are on the entry list:<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><a href="http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntryList.aspx" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(61,101,148);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">http://sumodb.sumogames.de/gtb/GTBEntryList.aspx</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Deadline: Monday, August 25th, 2025  at 18:00 GMT ("Give Moti Tip") - <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">PLEASE NOTE-THIS IS ONE WEEK BEFORE THE OFFICIAL BANZUKE ANNOUNCEMENT!!</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Special thanks to showrunners Andoreasu, Wizard Doitsuyama for everything else, and to rollercoasters.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">***MESSAGE: Please note that as you probably found out by now, the confirmation e-mail thing is not working, so I suggest a screen capture for now for those of you who wish to save their guesses.</span></span></p>

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