April 2024 – Emerald Specter

Dohyo Download 0111: Akamidori

No Kaitetsu or Tamanosato as they travel on their extravagant yacht to glorious places like Malta, Venice, and Bermuda playing soccer/football on their full sized pitch. Yes, a yacht with a full sized pitch. In the meantime, Asabariki and Kamahiko take the lead on interviewing former Ozeki Akamidori about their career, their heya, Kumamidori’s future, and some stories of their times. Genbu and Chubanoumi do pass in and out a bit (Genbu isn’t 100% again, he’s old and that’s life) as Shitayama sits on and listens. It is a grand old time!

If you would like to be a part of Season 3 of the Champ/Chump series, please ping Genbu and let him know. We have done a live draft the previous two times but we are investigating trying a non-live draft for season 3, so if you wanted to play this is the time to get in on that. Let him know and we’ll see what we have got!

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome new players! Join us! You can find us by email at emeraldspecter.com@gmail.com and more can be found at EmeraldSpecter.com!

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Dohyo Download 0110: Jinx-kozuna

Guess the Banzuke talk! Kirigaya Oyakata interview talk! Kagayaki sucks! Genbu, Kaitetsu, Enkaga, Tamanosato, Kamahiko, Asabariki, and Kirigaya Oyakata (Kumamidori) gather together around the old podcast campfire to spin tales about Akamidori’s glory days, Enkaga trying to do the Guess the Banzuke (and gets ridiculed for it), Asabariki’s impending promotion to Yokozuna (to his surprise), the mysterious YDC of RTY, our final results from the Champ/Chump season 2, and a little bit of a change as Genbu is sitting in his living room instead of his podcast studio trying to let his wife sleep in (but she’s awake just as the show starts).

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Dohyo Download 0109: That’s a Bit of an Over-Promotion

When you start the show with two false starts, things don’t look so good… that turned out to be fine, though, as Genbu was joined by Enkaga, Tamanosato, Kamahiko, Asabariki, and late in the show Ex-Akamidori (Kirigaya Oyakata) to discuss the state of RTY’s current basho, the updated Champ/Chump standings, the RTY banzuke (including speculation on who’s going up, down, and winning each division or going into playoffs), Genbu and Tamanosato accept the Golden Poop Award for this basho, and then Kirigaya Oyakata takes us on a magical journey of storytelling with a short jaunt down Akamidori’s triumphs and tribulations before the time is up… but we’ll head down that path again next week!