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Since 2013, bps, author of the definitive (at the time) English Tenhou Documentation (http://arcturus.su/tenhou/) has hosted the Japanese Mahjong Wiki however, due to their life getting busier they were looking for someone to take over as webmaster so I volunteered and have now taken over. This handover
M League
Team1st Pick2nd Pick3rd PickKonami Mahjong Fight ClubHisato SasakiMari Takamiya Yuudai MaeharaShibuya ABEMASOoi TakaharuSho ShiratoriYoshiro Matsumoto*Sega Sammy PhoenixYuumi UotaniSeiichi KondoSayaka KayamoriEX FurinkazanAki Nikaidou Kazunori TakizawaKenji KatsumataTEAM RAIDENMasato HagiwaraNaoki SetokumaSaki KurosawaAkasaka DrivensKen SonodaJun MurakamiTarou Suzuki*U-NEXT PIRATESGo KobayashiKoushin Asakara (ASAPIN)Nobuhiro Ishibashi**ABEMAS, Drivens and PIRATES all picked Tarou as their
M League
CyberAgent, Inc, an internet service company, announced the creation of a new professional mahjong league, M League. M League aims to promote mahjong as a competitive sport, with the goal of including mahjong in the Olympics. Here’s what is known so far:
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Mister Mahjong, Takeo Kojima, passed away in May. I believe it was known for some time that Kojima’s health was failing. In September Mondo released a documentary about his life (Mister Mahjong: Takeo Kojima's Footprint) I met Kojima at the first World Riichi Championship. I don’t
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Japanese developer Fuzz released a new mahjong server in February called "Jong City" with support from pro leagues Real Mahjong Unit and Nihon Pro Mahjong. The server's key feature is webcam support and the ability to play top professionals from RMU and NPM as well as
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ASAPIN, the legendary player who reached Tenhou's summit twice, announced [https://saikouisen.com/news/%E6%9C%9D%E5%80%89%E5%BA%B7%E5%BF%83%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B-%E5%85%A5%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%
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Online mahjong game Tonpuusou announced it is turning off the servers in March after 21 years of service. Created by Katsu "mjman" Azuma, Tonpuusou made its splash on the mahjong world in December 1996. It quickly became popular and after 3 years had reached 500,000 active accounts.
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Yuudai Maehara 9 Dan held on to Japan Professional Mahjong League's highest title for the 2nd year. Yuudai has won the Hououisen four times (1995, 2008, 2016. 2017) and shares the record of winning the Hououisen the most times with the late Mitsuru Andou-pro.
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Today’s the day; it’s time for Good Player Club’s 7th Grand Champion Cup. We’ve mentioned last year’s iteration in this blog. Our long-time friend Benjamin Boas is participating as part of the mahjong-loving association Good Player’s Club, home to other famous players like Akagi’
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MondoTV have uploaded 2 videos with English commentary by mahjong researcher Benjamin Boas and mahjong author Ryan Morris. Benjamin’s contribrutions to the community should be fairly well known to everyone, and Ryan’s less so. Ryan Morris is the author of the excellent but sadly now defunct “Japanese Mahjong
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Photo from Ben and Deniz This year JPML collaborated with Tenhou and hosted a 6 month long Tenhoui vs Renmei pro tournament. The first season used a Tenhou based ruleset with 50/20/0/70 uma, red fives, agari yame and tenpai yame. Final Playoff ResultsRankNameTenhoui #Total1Totorisensei 19sai11204.42Naoki SetokumaN/
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Hi there, We saw a glitch occur on the ERMC website. We are publishing a table of the top 16 as we see them, with no claims on accuracy, quality, or perfection. 1[Mikhail LUGOVKIN](http://live.ermc2016.com/Home/PlayerAnalysis/594)137,5502 [Désirée HEEMSKERK](http://live.ermc2016.com/