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Yazphiers view on Swedish Open 2014
Unsure if I should write anything or not, but as nothing seemed to be under discussion, I decided to write my view on this tournament in similar fashion as my previous posts.
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Hot off the presses: Swedish Riichi Open 2014 results
The Swedish Open Riichi Mahjong Championship 2014 has concluded, with 36 participants from at least 4 countries. We have the results, and we also have some information regarding the two seats that Sweden has been allocated for the WRC2014 in Puteaux, France later in July. Paraphrasing Yazphier, Sweden has chosen
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arcturus.su downtime
This is a service announcement for those of you who use the Japanese mahjong wiki, ranking.pl, and other Arcturus services: The domain ARCTURUS.SU will be unavailable until around the end of March. In the mean time, please use the backup domain A.PQRS.SE [http://A.PQRS.SE]
English Mahjong Stream
I’m streaming some of my games in Tenhou’s tokujou tables regularly. I won’t really speak much unless people ask specific questions or I’m singing. This is the link so you can follow my twitch channel:http://www.twitch.tv/x_kime/ Let’s see how far
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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 lot of the time it’s a choice between A and B, each with their own pros
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Mahjong Census 2014
Hello and happy 2014 to you all. It’s Valentine’s Day, so I thought it would be a good idea to show our appreciation to the ones we care most about… YOU! …except, we are not entirely sure who is who out there. We know there are a number
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Upcoming World Riichi Championship Tournament
First off, a little introduction since not everyone is aware of what’s currently the hot topic in the western Mahjong hemisphere: The French Riichi Mahjong club TNT [http://tnt-rcr.com/home/] is organizing the first ever World Riichi Championship (WRC) in Paris between the 16th and 20th of July
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Unofficial LIVE WRC 2014 NA Qualifier Rankings
Just posting this to beat USPML/whoever at the rankings Stream link:http://www.twitch.tv/uspml Player1st game Tenhou ScoreQualifier Score2nd game Tenhou ScoreQualifier Score 3rd game Tenhou ScoreQualifier Score4th game Tenhou ScoreQualifier Score5th game Tenhou ScoreQualifier Score6th game Tenhou ScoreQualifier ScoreTenhou Total Qualifier TotalDrballon543414141414116343-28-1811888JoeyV-23-1352327252-22-12-52 -4259398656SakiTaco-18-8-15-55131-20-102525222535鳳雛ちゃん-23-13-43-33513152325131 -24-146
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Happy New Year @Napoleons Casino
Me, Osamu, Mikolan and Gemma from ReachMahjong.com came together to play a few hanchans at Napoleons casino in Leicester Square, London. They have free Chinese mahjong sets to use and table surfaces specific for the mahjong tiles. You don’t have to be a member, but they may ask
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I told you not to go for Kokushi
We’ve all been there: you’re dealt a hand with a lot of yaochuu tiles — ones, nines, and characters — and you find yourself asking, “Do I go for the stupid thing?” Despite being one of the most common yakuman, Kokushi Musou still boasts a wide arsenal of ways to
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Warsaw battles
Not even a week has passed and I find myself standing at Skavsta airport once again, this time accompanied with my roommate, Hiki, heading for some battles in Warsaw. A few hours early, as usual, Hiki complained about nothing to do, not my fault he didn’t bring anything. Personally
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Yazphiers trip to Paris
Leaving home for mahjong tournament in Paris, some snowflakes, 40 minutes early. Bus arrive and leaves on time. Lucky as the bus to Arlanda was 2(!) hours late due to the weather, I mean fuck, I wouldn’t even call this snow. Apparently a lot of trains were also canceled.