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It was another week of training Sonoda in 1on1 (only 36 mins due to a screw up) with a level 6 coach and again no pops. That must be 6-7 weeks of 1on1 he has had without a pop in JS, IS or HA. Capped. Firmly. Forever. I am very sad about this. All the salary calculators say he is right at the bottom of superstar but I guess that is just bad luck for me. Even if he is a NT player I just can't justify banging my head against a brick wall like this any more when I have Kawaida, Konoe, Umari, Kawagichi, Kyubei and the Shinkansen all needing training and hopefully not capped.

Which BB training site? I use buzzer-manager...

I would have the same conclusion as you. No pop after 6 weeks of 1:1 is definately capped. Although my calculation also says he should still have a little bit of space.

I have used 3 different capping calculations and they all say he shouldn't be capped but 1 more pop in IS or ID and he could be. Considering unknown sublevels that means he is just unlucky and capped at the utter bottom of superstar potential. Really annoying.

Thanks everyone for your opinions.

Those stats from the bbtraining website are very interesting, I always thought IS trained a lot faster than that, at somewhere like half the speed of driving, not 1/5. So if you were unlucky after 10 weeks of 1on1F you could have 2 DR pops 2 HA pops and no JS or IS. That is a lot worse than I expected. I have read that as you approach the cap training slows down before you hit the wall, so maybe if he was training at half speed he may still be making progress if all those skills were at very low sublevels.

Great win over Macau leaves us in 4th spot in our pool. I think that means we move on to the next stage. Great news for our NT and a bit of a contrast from last season. Naturally I credit the coach with much of this improvement. Well done!

We really rely on Yusuke Furusawa, without him I don't think we could have done half as well.

Japan NT Advances on Easy Victory Over Macau

With a comfortable 30 point victory over lightweight Macau, the Japanese National Team finishes round 1 with a 4-2 record and advances to Round 2. The competition will get much tougher this next round and yet we still push for greater success. We have already achieved our original goal for the season so now we set knew goals. For round 2 we will set a basic goal of 2 wins with a stretch goal of getting to at least 3rd place which would secure a spot in the World Championships Repechage, also know as second chance qualifier.

Let's take a look at our second round competition:
4/9 - #79 Prathet Thai
4/16 - #54 New Zealand
4/23 - #23 Taiwan
4/30 - #9 Iran
5/7 - #34 Australia

Don't be fooled by some of the lower rankings. Any team that has advanced will be tough competition for us. Also, we will need to get some key players back. The last few weeks our starting SG has been unable to play for us due to low game shape. Looks like his team has finished its cup runs and he should start recovering this week. Also, both Fuji and Kouzuki have been out with injuries. If we can get these guys back to top form quick then it will help our chances.

I still have 3 empty roster spots on the team. Whenever U21 is done maybe I can call up a couple of the young guys. I know there are some great prospects on the way and it would be grood to get an early look at them and reward their owners for their efforts. I will look to Wolph to make suggestions on the best options for call up.