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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,
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Here I am again, with another real life tournament report! Also, fourth post on Osamuko in the past 7 days? Is the end of the world near? Well, this was my third riichi mahjong tournament, and the furthest too. It looks like the more tournaments I go to, the more
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Hi there, here I am again with another tournament report. Sorry for the delay, I was out of country with no internet access (except for ridiculously expensive 3G roaming). As you might have noticed, the first riichi tournament of 2011 has already been held. It happened on the 12th of
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The Austrian Open Riichi Tournament is a riichi mahjong event that takes place in Vienna, Austria (doh). This year it was the third time the KASU club organised it with great success – it was the first time it filled up all 32 available seats. Me and my fellow mahjong players
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UPDATE: Due to being busylazy, we haven't published the answers to the quiz until now. We apologize for the inconvenience to our dear readers. orz You can find the answers to the quiz now at the end of this article. Thanks to Ben for providing us with the