[sumo] Kyushu Basho Ticket Questions

[ozora ozora]

You can resell the tickets but only to two people you want to be very close 
to....the boxes fit 4 Japanese or 2 non-Japanese, they are pretty small.....


>From: "Joshua Maciel" <joshua.maciel at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
>To: "Sumo Mailing List" <sumo at webtrek.com>
>Subject: [sumo] Kyushu Basho Ticket Questions
>Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:50:27 +0900
>
>Ah, the joys of impulse buying...
>
>As some of you may know, online ticket sales for the Kyushu basho
>started on Saturday morning. I was just going to buy the C box seats
>for 2 people, as there are only two of us going, until I saw a masu A
>box (for 4) open on senshuuraku.
>
>I had to buy it. It'd be a crime not to.
>
>But the question that follows is whether it would also be a crime to
>resale two of the four tickets. The seats are absolutely tremendous
>(8th box back, right next to the hanamichi), and while I would
>normally just haul along two friends and suck up the extra cost for
>infecting someone with the sumo bug, I know very few people in Kyushu,
>or folks that will haul themselves down to Kyushu to watch sumo.
>
>So the bottom line is, will the sumo folks send enforcer rikishi to my
>house to do mandatory keiko for days if I put two of the four on an
>internet auction? Or is that accepted practice?
>
>- Joshua Maciel
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