Mahjong News
The big news in the mahjong community this week is the disqualification of Horiuchi from the judansen. In East 4, Horiuchi was tenpai with Chi: , he draws a 3s and sighs then he slams the 3s from his hand (karagiri). Setokuma then reaches tenpai and discards a 1s, Horiuchi went
Tournaments
Sunday, November 10th, 2013. Korean mahjong league tournament. My individual account of each hanchan. 半荘一 [南] First hand toimen riichi’d. I was 1 shanten yakuhai on nan. Also had three W tiles. I knew I wasn’t playing against akagi, so I played defense. Toimen was waiting for 14p,
rants
about keeping track of progress. Brief history. I didn’t really care about what happened from hanchan to hanchan. First or last place. I just wanted EXP. More EXP, more EXP, means more EXP. However, my past week’s hanchans at a jansou have made me realise, that I need
Tournaments
Here is my individual account of the pastry tournament. (Copenhagen Open) All eight hanchans. Real names have been omitted in order to protect the identities of those who raged, were just stupidly lucky or otherwise. 半荘一 [西] Toimen and kamicha were both annoying to each other. Toimen had a nervous
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
Hi, readers and web-lurking bots copypasting this post into sites other than osamuko.com right now. You may have noticed (or computed) my absence for the last couple of weeks. You know that old wives’ tale, “you should do things other than your main activity to become better at it?
Mahjong News
Today we talk about the league, detectives and Hagiwara Mahjong League WAML is still going fairly strong after 6 months, although the activity suffered a big drop in the previous season. To help restore the activity they’ve announced a new league. Details can be found here: http://mahjong-league.com/
tenhou
It’s back. http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ Still in development, but already very reliable and with more features. If you’d like to contribute a translation to your language, let me know. Thanks to everybody that helped me with this new version (and past versions). There’s a (currently
Mahjong Parlor
As this is a blog written in English, I think we can assume most people reading it probably don’t have access to mahjong parlors. Then again, this is a mahjong blog as well, so some people have. The point here is, is betting your money in a parlor a
Mahjong News
Following the success of the mahjong stream last week, the English niconico team are going to make an English room for all Marchao Master League. Like last week, the streams will have no English commentary however, I believe there have been some talks at Alban to create a stream with
Mahjong News
The English Niconico site have set up an English viewing room for the next Marchao Master League session at 7pm JST on Thursday. I think it’s just a place for westerners to comment and there won’t be anything special like English commentary but if it does well I’
Tournaments
I was going to do a picture by picture outline of Oxford. However, my phone battery died on me at about 9am. Oh well Too damn early! Waking up at 0430 just to catch the first tube train, in order to go to catch the coach from London Victoria coach