Tournaments
Edit 18/08: UKMA have uploaded the rankings to their website ( http://www.ukmahjong.co.uk/results.html), however there seems to be a few errors in their table. Differences from the table below and the ‘official’ table: Paola Bungaro: 109900 -> 110600 Nick Dyer: 89800 -> 57900 Junichi Tanaka:
tenhou
Inspired by Shogi’s ‘Denousen’, a niconico sponsored AI vs professional tournament, Tsunoda has posted [http://blog.tenhou.net/article/121538373.html] on Tenhou’s blog a few months ago that he wanted to hold similar tournaments. While bots were previously banned from Tenhou, with permission from Tsunoda, programmers may
Mahjong News
Tohai Season 1 [https://www.viki.com/tv/25711c-tohai-i] xkime previously subbed episode 1 of the live action adaptation of Shinasaka’s Tohai manga, since then he has moved on to subbing it on Rakuten’s (free) streaming service viki and has just finished subbing the final episode of season
Tournaments
Hello there! Running a tournament for the first time is really a special experience. While I have been busy with stuff, I did want to get the first article out as soon as possible. MONTREAL (QC), CANADA — 12 competitors took part in the first open* mahjong tournament using riichi rules.
Mahjong News
Great news on both continents! (Shameless plug) In North America, the first North American Riichi Open [http://riichi.ca/site/?page_id=70] is taking place in Montreal, Qc. (Canada). Registrations are still ongoing, contact tournoi2015@riichi.ca for more information :) (/Shameless plug) In Europe, the professional player and president
Mahjong News
About GPC Good Players Club is run by Katayama Masayuki and Baba Hirokazu and organizes public leagues and tournaments throughout Japan. Anyone who is a ‘productive member of society’, not a Jangoro (basically a hardcore mahjong gambler) and agree with their charter: 1: Good Players appreciate their opponents. 2. Good
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
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
Tournaments
For those interested in who will be paying who, the staff at osamuko.com would like to both explain how and who will play who, given the drawing mechanism and who got what number. Essentially, players were divided into 4 groups. Players may not play against other players from the
Online Mahjong
Here is a link [http://www.rabuko.me/bugmoney/] to an online tournament missing their last few signups. All the pertinent information can be found on the nicely-designed page, and any questions can be directed to Fuyutsukikaru on Twitter. [https://twitter.com/fuyutsukikaru] They may also accept signups for substitute/
Tournaments
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
Mahjong League
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
Mahjong News
The big news in the mahjong community this week is the disqualification of Horiuchi from the judansen. In East 4, Horiuchi was tenpai with Chi: , he draws a 3s and sighs then he slams the 3s from his hand (karagiri). Setokuma then reaches tenpai and discards a 1s, Horiuchi went
Mahjong News
Today we talk about the league, detectives and Hagiwara Mahjong League WAML is still going fairly strong after 6 months, although the activity suffered a big drop in the previous season. To help restore the activity they’ve announced a new league. Details can be found here: http://mahjong-league.com/
Mahjong News
Following the success of the mahjong stream last week, the English niconico team are going to make an English room for all Marchao Master League. Like last week, the streams will have no English commentary however, I believe there have been some talks at Alban to create a stream with