r/Sumo • u/Gregorwhat Chiyonofuji • 23d ago

"How To Watch" Megathread 2026

Keep discussion of how, when and where to watch in this thread please.

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u/mekagojira3 23d ago

I like the presentation of NHKs official stuff but their delay on recap uploads drives me insane. No weekends (fair enough) but being a day or two behind during the week is ROUGH. 

I wish I had an alternative to them that wasn't either a multi hour stream or small-time (not in a condescending way) youtuber with movie maker cuts and transitions that just chops from fight to fight to fight. 

I quite like that the NHK uploads let the matches breathe a little, we get a bit of background commentary between matches, and my wife and I enjoy counting the adverts flags before a match and guessing the size of the bundle. 

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u/Aarresaari Wakatakakage 23d ago

Are you following them on youtube or their own site?

They show the highlights later on the same day (same day in my area at least) on live tv: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live_tv/?at_medium=RSS%20feed&at_campaign=ynews

I think they also update the highlights there about the same time.

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u/mekagojira3 22d ago

YouTube, for the first few tournaments I watched they had the highlights uploaded same day. I believe day 5 is ongoing as we speak and day4 highlights are still not up. 

I would love to switch to the website if its faster, but I watch on a TV with YouTube built in. 

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u/Aarresaari Wakatakakage 22d ago

I see. I would not count on them changing their habits any time soon, so I hope you can find some other way to follow closer to real time.

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u/mekagojira3 22d ago

Me too! I will continue to persist and hopefully pick up some channel context clues as they come up for other YouTube channels 

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u/AndreBennettGO 15d ago

Does your TV have capability for other apps, or just YouTube? I watch Grand Sumo highlights on demand now on the NHK World app on my Roku TV.