World Riichi Championship
So, many of us were wondering what’s the beef regarding the current pace of player registration for the World Riichi Championship 2014, in Puteaux, France. The event was slated for mid-July, and the official deadline on the site was set for May 1. However, each country’s has been
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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
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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
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As announced a while ago [http://www.osamuko.com/upcoming-tournament-in-sweden/] , a couple of #osamuko IRC denizens gathered in the Nordic city of Linköping for the Swedish Open Riichi Mahjong Championship 2013, a small 16-players tournament in mid-February. And it turned out to be quite a successful weekend for some of
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In reply to my previous post ( http://www.osamuko.comhttps://osamuko.comhttps://osamuko.com/london-needs-more-offline-mahjong-players/ [/london-needs-more-offline-mahjong-players/]), Jason kindly posted and invited me to play with him and his friends in a hanchan or two. Friday night now and it’s approaching rush hour. People are sneezing on me and touching
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Want to witness the genuine and ultimate osamuko Mahjong experience with sweaty tiles, smoky air and fingers in grave danger? Or alternatively (wannabe) little girls with mahjong superpowers? Yes, you sure do, right? Right?! (Yes drob, I’m looking at you specifically.) Then hurry up and sign up for the
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So I had a chatette with Osamu and he gave me permission to write this article. Seeing as I’m new to the blog, I should care to introduce myself. Ting. London Ting. Shaken. Stirred. Doesn’t matter really. Like the majority of you, I have a keen interest in
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今日は日本に住んでる雀士のためにこの文章を日本語で書いてあげたいと思います。最後はくだらなくて浅い事だけど、後でもっと大変な問題も出てくるので、最後まで読んでください。 Top 10 Problems 2005年、ヨーロッパの「ＥＭＡ」（ヨーロッパ麻雀アソシエーション）と言う組合が活動を開始しました。基本的に大会やイベント作りなどはこの組合の目的です。その大会に参加したプレーヤーの成績も全部ＥＭＡのサイトで見ることが出来ます。ある意味、長期のリーグみたいなもんです。これ自体はすごいと思うのだが、採用されてるルールに色んな問題が発生いたします。 その１．2005年に戻りましょう、ルール作り上げた時です。最近まで、役表には**「一翻役」（など）の代わりに「一役」**が書いてありました。同様に、三色は「二役」清一色は「６役」でした。何年も「それはミスじゃない」と言い続けて修正はされてなかったが、これが多くのプレーヤーに迷惑をかけた翻訳のミスだったので去年はやっと修正されたのです。だが、修正されたのはルールブックの一部だけなので、まだこの曖昧な「１役」の用語が別のところで未だ使われてます
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Next week a few members will be attending the UK Open Riichi Tournament in Guildford and, because some of us (just me) are not used to playing in real life we’re going to create a TRAINING CAMP a day before the tournament. We haven’t found (or even looked)
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The small city of Baden, close to Vienna in Austria, is a well known venue for mahjong tournaments for quite some time now. And again, for the fourth time, it was the place of a riichi tournament. Since it’s so close to our home town, our Slovak team of
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Hello there, Riichi mahjong fans from over the world! It has been over a week since another EMA tournament was held. Me, my Slovak mahjong mates and two other #osamuko residents – s25k and ron5 – took part in it. The latter two guys had it easy, since they are from Germany,