Mahjong News
You might be aware of the leagues and tournaments we’re hosting, as well as what’s going on with mahjong internationally, but I I’m here to bring you the smaller updates that didn’t make the front page! Translated mahjong manga, subtitled mahjong dorama, Houou players, tenhou backgrounds
Tournaments
Welcome to all, I am proud to present to you the 1st North American Riichi Open that will be held in Montreal! Date: June 13 and 14, 2015. Time: 0900 to 1730, Saturday and Sunday. Location: Collège de Maisonneuve, room E-3313. Address: 3800, Sherbrooke Street East, Montréal (Québec) H1X 2A2
We’re conducting a survey for a comprehensive Mahjong Club Database as well as getting an idea of how many people would be interested in online Mahjong Leagues and Tournaments, complete with prizes for the winners of course. Be sure to fill it out~! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
As some of you who use Tenhou may have noticed, the ranking.pl (“Tenhou ranking tool”) service [http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/] is finally living up to its name. I have added estimation of player rank/pt according to the current information provided by Tenhou. By setting the correct date
Players
Last November, Simon proceeded to open a business: a jansou in Marseille, France. We had a chance to interview him back in November, and are releasing the content of the interview on osamuko.com. Our interview was conducted live on IRC in front of a digital audience: this implies that
rants
This article of mine was well-received on #osamuko this afternoon. As recommended by osamu, I’ll cross-post it here. :-) Why game rulesets for tournament play must be simple This post was inspired by a discussion during the EMA RCR rules revision (Japanese mahjong tournament rules). However, you don’t
Mahjong League
Quick reminders of what is going on, since the completion of the Bugmoney tournament. * Light Mahjong Club: Info via reddit [http://www.reddit.com/r/Mahjong/comments/2tbn30/1st_official_lmc_revival_meeting_test_week/] and IRC [https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/#lmc], Saturday January 24, 18:00
We want to wish you a happy new year. We’ve lots of ideas for blog posts in 2015, so hopefully at least 3 or 4 of them will materialize into an article once every few months. Stay tuned!
Tournaments
I (Simon) am very happy to have won the EMA 4-hanchan tournament at Edewecht, 2014-10-25. Edewecht is considered the German mahjong capital. Many proliferous tournament players from Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark were competing. Mahjongnews.com has the final rankings and a photo [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/tournaments/riichi-tournaments/
tenhou
[Event Name] Theories from the Demon of Tenhou [Description] Shibukawa Namba-pro (kyoukai) streams for Tenhou players [Date] 16/08/2014 20:00 – 22:00 Demonic gameplay & game analysis [Broadcast] http://ch.nicovideo.jp/ch2525293 [Sponsor] Tenhou -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event Name] Benikujaku Cup ~Let’s become at least a bit better
World Riichi Championship
The JPML Youtube channel [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqHDeUer8bgaqswSuFP7FxQ]has published a few videos from the WRC in Paris. These are recordings from what was streamed on nicovideo (in better quality). By the way, our Mahjong Wiki has some general info and statistics on the WRC and the results
World Riichi Championship
Hiroshi Yamai is the first world champion of riichi mahjong. Congrats,おめでとう, 恭喜, insertotherlanguageshere, to him! Because I bombed, there will be no report. End post. Is that good enough for you, Dasuke? No? I waited at CDG airport for Dasuke because I’m wasn’t sure if I’d