Online Mahjong BugMoney Mahjong Tournament Signups Here is a link 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
World Riichi Championship Super-Late WRC Editorial 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
Berries and Boss Fights in Bad Vöslau 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
Mahjong League Hey, You! 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
Touhou Online Battle We’ve been playing quite a bit of Touhou Online Battle since it surfaced on /jp/. Ironically enough the link was originally posted in a thread about failed /jp/ projects. It caught on
A Little Introspection 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
Tournaments BakaBT Mahjong Tournament Announced 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,
rants Dog Ate My Homework 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
Entertainment [FotM] Kongai - Mind-reading browser game 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
interviews Interview with CEO of MahjongLogic 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
/jp/ userscript for mahjong font 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
EZmodo 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
Tournaments Q for Quarified 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
Entertainment [FotM] Hyungjun Becomes a Progamer! 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
Entertainment FoTM - Strategy Games and other Stuff 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
Complete Beginners Guide to Online Mahjong - Part 3 - Playan 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
Complete Beginners Guide to Online Mahjong – Part 1.5 – Playing on Tenhou This is a quick and dirty guide to jumping into games on tenhou.net, currently the biggest Japanese mahjong site online. For further information on everything on tenhou I would refer you to
Complete Beginners Guide to Online Mahjong – Part 2 – How to Not Suck If you have never played online before or don't really know what to expect, I recommend skipping on to Part 3 and coming back later for the lecture. Now that we've gotten the
Complete Beginners Guide to Online Mahjong Table of Contents Part 1.5 Part 2 Part 3 (well, almost complete) This is the absolute entry-level page for anyone interested in playing Japanese Mahjong online on Tenhou and other sites. If
Entertainment 10 ADVANCED MAHJONG STRATEGIES FOR THE ADVANCED PLAYER Always attack, unless you should be defending. Always defend, unless you should be attacking. If you are an expert like me, you can even try attacking and defending at the same time. Only
Saki-themed Firefox Personas Osamu found these some time ago. Kind of distracting at first, but I’m used to them now. When I win a match I can look up and find approval in their eyes,
tenhou Bots? In my 7447? My attention was diverted to a mahjong thread the other day, and something among the posts caught my eye, a welcome change from the usual jaw-dropping, eye-bleeding, rage-inducing tenhou screenshots. There was a
Mahjong News whoa MahjongNews has just released an unofficial list of the best European riichi tournament players of 2009. For some reason, drob is in there. In spot #37. As the only Swede. If I’m
Statistics Statistics: The Value of a Lead After I started playing mahjong, I learned one thing very fast. It is great to be in the lead. It’s not just great. It is amazingly awesome. You are like a champion
Guides Stuff from around the internets I’ll come out and be a little honest here. When I started writing for Osamu’s blag I wanted to do something special, to make a difference. There is virtually zero English