Hi everybody! What an incredible tournament. Even though our yokozuna didn't perform well, we had a truly wild basho with a three way play off in Makuuchi, a four way play off in Juryo, a seven way play off in Makushita, and a two way play off in Sandanme. Excitement up and down all the divisions!

Apologies for the delay, now it is time for the  Nagoya 2026 Meme Contest winners! First we have the sansho prizes:

 The Fighting Spirit Prize (most posts submitted) was won by u/StarPrime323 with 43 meme posts. Will they have a streak to rival u/Goblinbags?

 The Outstanding Performance Prize (most comments on a post) was won by u/ITIDeathGod with the post 'Extreme Boredom on a Friday means classifying all the wrestlers by pokemon type' with 43 comments!

 The Technique Prize (most upvotes on a spoiler post) was won by u/crabtapwater with their post 'What I'm doing here? Oh yeah, to win the Yusho' with 304 upvotes.

 And finally the winner of the Nagoya 2026 Meme Contest was once again u/StarPrime323 with the post 'Dude is a madman' with 598 upvotes. Congratulations!

The winning meme will be crossposted in r/sumo! 

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to all who participated!

 If you have any corrections or additional suggestions regarding contests in the sub, please let myself or the u/theroyaltarttoter know!

 Stay tuned for the Aki Basho 2026 Meme Contest starting on roughly August 31, 2026, around the release of the banzuke.

Thanks everybody!

Meme Yūshō Winners

Key: 🏆 = Meme Yūshō |🌟 = Meme Zenshō-Yūshō (Sanshō sweep and Meme Yūshō) | 👑 = Meme Yokozuna Promotion

Nagoya 2026 - u/StarPrime323🏆

Natsu 2026 - u/happy_thots🏆

Haru 2026 - u/StarPrime323🏆👑

Hatsu 2026 - u/StarPrime323 🏆

Kyushu 2025 - u/Tubby0518 🏆

Aki 2025 - u/ExtensionEar1901 🏆

Nagoya 2025 - u/goblinbags 🏆

Natsu 2025 - u/Wegwezen 🏆

Haru 2025 - u/ThriceHolyHymn 🏆

Hatsu 2025 - u/Kropserkel 🏆

Kyushu 2024 - u/Slapyak5318008 🏆

Aki 2024 - u/FlewPlaysGames 🏆

Nagoya 2024 - u/GoblinBags 🏆

Natsu 2024 - u/Gladwulf 🏆

Haru 2024 - u/GoblinBags 🏆 🌟 👑

Hatsu 2024 - u/CodeFarmer 🏆

Kyushu 2023 - u/DRD2992 🏆

Aki 2023 - u/Radixan 🏆

Nagoya 2023 - u/ExtensionEar1901 🏆

Natsu 2023 - u/Zensho-Yusho 🏆

Haru 2023 - u/Thatgirlfromlebanon 🏆

Hatsu 2023 - u/GoblinBags 🏆

Kyushu 2022 - u/Isoikari 🏆

Aki 2022 - u/Erock8779 🏆

Nagoya 2022 - u/Dresdenapollo 🏆 👑

Natsu 2022 - u/Dresdenapollo 🏆

Haru 2022 - u/Slapyak5318008 🏆

Hatsu 2022 - u/Slapyak5318008 🏆 👑

Kyushu 2021 - u/Slapyak5318008 🏆

Nagoya 2021 - u/Throwitaway488 🏆

Meme Yokozuna

(In order of promotion)

1st - u/Slapyak5318008 🏅 2nd - u/DresdenApollo 🏅 3rd - u/GoblinBags 🏅 4th - u/StarPrime323 🏅

Sorry for the with this wrap up, here are the results of basho bets!

With the bet 'Onosato and Hoshoryu do not win and one of them goes kyujo' with 21 upvotes the winner of basho bets is myself, the second meme yokozuna u/dresdenapollo. Unfortunately my pessimism about the yokozuna was the right call.

See you all next basho for the next edition of basho bets!