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Online Mahjong
Here is a link [http://www.rabuko.me/bugmoney/] to an online tournament missing their last few signups. All the pertinent information can be found on the nicely-designed page, and any questions can be directed to Fuyutsukikaru on Twitter. [https://twitter.com/fuyutsukikaru] They may also accept signups for substitute/
World Riichi Championship
When I was asked to write about the WRC 2014 rules, I knew someone would be in for it. I don’t envy the people in charge of setting largely arbitrary rules. A lot of the time it’s a choice between A and B, each with their own pros
If you’re a follower of our humble blog, you’d know that the Osamuko community has a solid and active European contingent, who frequently get together on the EMA tournament circuit. Indeed we’ve collected a rather respectable array of tournament wins and rankings, that I’ve often thought
Mahjong League
Hi guys, this is a small report on the first week of the mahjong league. Over the course of our first week, we’ve logged over 100 unique IDs in games, and by the time I’ve finished writing this, over 200 matches will have been played in this week
We’ve been playing quite a bit of Touhou Online Battle [http://tim.cstj.net/mathieuauclair/tob/index.php] since it surfaced on /jp/. Ironically enough the link was originally posted in a thread about failed /jp/ projects. It caught on and the server logged about ~10000 matches in the
Hi guys, Tacos here, self-appointed editor of the blag. I had some free time recently so I’m doing some catching up, and I’d like to sort of talk about where we are right now, with regards to the blog and its content. If this sounds familiar, you can
Tournaments
The Slowpoke Express has just arrived bearing news – the 1st BakaBT Mahjong Tournament is a go. As the participants have just been sorted into groups, the tournament kicks off with a league format, probably with a cutoff into further rounds. We’re still rather unclear about the particulars. The tournament
rants
Yes, I know it’s been some time since I wrote something. Yes, I do have a decent excuse. Yes, I do know that no excuses will be accepted. We all have things we’d rather be doing than banging out a couple hundred words for the leisurely perusal of
Entertainment
Going to unhide all the Flavor of the Month posts, but still gonna tag the title just in case you only want to know about mahjongs and nothing else. I’ve been meaning to write about this awesome game for some time but kept putting it off, partly because I
interviews
This is a looooooooong overdue update. We decided to get an interview with Mr Jonas Alm, the CEO of MahjongLogic a several months back when it was the Next Big Thing and no one knew what exactly they would unleash upon us. To enjoy this article in its entirety please
This is pretty cool so I’m breaking radio silence to post it. Anonymous delivers again with a userscript to display a mahjong tile font using UTF-8 on /jp/ (or your site of choice, should you choose to enable it elsewhere). This should herald a golden age of in-depth mahjong
This will be a short rant because I am drunk and incoherent. Osamu edit this in the morning. It’s extremely often I read about discussions of various mahjong clients/software, and someone will come out of nowhere and say “but it doesn’t have ________!” As a normal player who
Tournaments
Congratulations to Lorizean and our own ron^5 who recently made the cut to represent Germany in the upcoming European Mahjong Championships! We were unable to find any reports of this tournament anywhere online, even though it’s been quite a few days since I was highlighted on IRC while
Entertainment
All of us have been playing quite a lot of Starcraft:Brood War recently for no reason. None of us actually played the game competitively (in any sense of the word) before – I recall reaching level 5-ish in the Terran campaign before giving up, back when I was twelve, and
Entertainment
While taking a break from feverishly constructing pon palaces and kan keeps, most of us play various strategy games. Osamu found a wordpress plugin that kind of does that blog-in-a-blog thing, so you can read while you read. To keep these posts from getting in the way of the normal
That was all you need to know to play, really. For further and more detailed information you can check out detailed rulebooks and stuff. The thing is, although we do love to play and don't mind sharing what we know, there's a huge gap in skill between us and real