Players
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
Tournaments
(Featured photo and various parts of this post are from Mahjong Watch [http://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658%22%3Ehttp://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658] in October of 2016, after finally planning my first ever trip to Japan with Daniel Moreno [https://twitter.com/xDasukex/] of PML, I emailed Shingo Tsunoda, creator
World Riichi Championship
Day 3 - Thursday 5th I woke up rather early. Even though I went to bed at 3am, I woke up at 6am. Jet lag? I wasn't feeling tired though. While confirming where the breakfast was, I saw Toshiyuki Tomozoe-pro (Afro-pro) from Saikouisen in the shop next door
World Riichi Championship
The 2017 World Riichi Championship took place in Las Vegas last week and attracted 224 players, almost doubling the participant size from its predecessor, making it no doubt the largest Japanese mahjong tournament outside of Japan. Day 1 I arrived in Vegas on the 3rd of October and after attempting
Mahjong News
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’
Mahjong News
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
Mahjong News
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/
Mahjong News
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/
tenhou
The North American Riichi Mahjong Association is looking for players to field teams for the 2016 Interational Online Riichi Mahjong Competition. The nations of the United States and Canada are each looking to assemble teams for the November competition. The competition is hosted via Tenhou.net. So familiarity with Tenhou’
tenhou
The 23rd of July will the next instalment of tournaments by the osamuko discord be delivered and this time it’s an Open Pair Tournament. Where each game will be a battle between two teams in the form of a double elimination tournament for maximum excitement. As we expect participants
Tournaments
The Pacific Mahjong League (PML) hosts the first international PML Riichi Mahjong Open 2016 tournament in San Francisco, California. Join us for an intense weekend of riichi with the pros and compete for one of NARMA’s spots in the World Riichi Championship! Meet, greet and beat players from all
Online Mahjong
Hello there, next weekend will a few of us at osamuko discord arrange a team tournament because, well, yeah, way too few tournaments and leagues going on online right now. The format is 4 rounds of 4 games where the first three are an incomplete round robin and the final