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History of Japanese Mahjong

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 believe we

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International Mahjong Battle @ RTD

(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

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2017 World Riichi Championship Las Vegas - Report Part 2 - Tournament

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 to the

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2017 World Riichi Championship Las Vegas - Report Part 1 - Prologue

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

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Good Players Club 7th Grand Champion Cup

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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Professional Mahjong Commentary on Mondo in English!

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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Totori-sensei 19 years old wins the first season of Tenhoui vs Renmei

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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Tentative Top 16 results from ERMC2016.

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/

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IORMC Qualifiers (USA / Canada)

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’

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Osamuko OTP Tournament

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

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PML Riichi Mahjong Open 2016

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

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Osamuko Invitational

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

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Upcoming tournaments

Rochester is right around the corner, we’ll have our usual reporting team present this March 12-13. If you’re there, ask for the Osamuko team :) After that, there will be a tournament run once again in the beautiful city of Montreal, QC (CAN). A classic 2-day weekend tournament this

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A Step Forward (Mahjong Japan Series)

This month, the Japan Professional Mahjong League debuted a new tournament, the Mahjong Japan Series. This series gathers 12 players who have either won a major title in 2014, voted by the public during a live stream or were recommended by JPML. The 12 players are: Fujita Susumu (Saikyosen) Masayoshi

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2015 UK Riichi Mahjong Open Results (Day 2 Final Results)

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:

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Results of the 1st North American Riichi Open, in Montreal [CA]

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.

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NA/EU Super Weekend: June 13/14 - Mahjong Study Session in Paris by Moriyama + First North American Riichi Open Reminder

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

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Benjamin Boas Leads in First Session of Good Players Club Tokyo Chomeijin

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

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English Online Mahjong Events

PML Mugboney Mug After 4 long months the PML Mugboney Mug Team tournament finally ended, the winner was Team ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ (Pronounced ‘keiyaku’). The tournament had 20 3 player teams, and was sponsored by the Pacific Mahjong League [http://www.pacificml.com/] and wixoss.org. This was the 2nd tournament

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[Montreal (QC), Canada] 1st North American Riichi Open

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

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Edewecht 2014 tournament report, possible EMA rule changes

I (Simon) am very happy to have won the EMA 4-hanchan tournament at Edewecht, 2014-10-25. Edewecht is considered the German mahjong capital. Many proliferous tournament players from Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark were competing. Mahjongnews.com has the final rankings and a photo [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/tournaments/riichi-tournaments/

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Tenhou Event List for August

[Event Name] Theories from the Demon of Tenhou [Description] Shibukawa Namba-pro (kyoukai) streams for Tenhou players [Date] 16/08/2014 20:00 – 22:00 Demonic gameplay & game analysis [Broadcast] http://ch.nicovideo.jp/ch2525293 [Sponsor] Tenhou -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event Name] Benikujaku Cup ~Let’s become at least a bit better than

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WRC Videos / 第１回リーチ麻雀世界選手権準の動画

The JPML Youtube channel [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqHDeUer8bgaqswSuFP7FxQ]has published a few videos from the WRC in Paris. These are recordings from what was streamed on nicovideo (in better quality). By the way, our Mahjong Wiki has some general info and statistics on the WRC and the results

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Osamu's WRC 2014 report

Hiroshi Yamai is the first world champion of riichi mahjong. Congrats,おめでとう, 恭喜, insertotherlanguageshere, to him! Because I bombed, there will be no report. End post. Is that good enough for you, Dasuke? No? I waited at CDG airport for Dasuke because I’m wasn’t sure if I’d

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Osamuko.com Observer Report (WRC2014)

There has been a bit of a tradition in Europe to have someone write a report on what they observed in Mahjong tournaments in order to give an indication of what worked, what didn’t, and what needs to be improved in future tournaments. Here’s our Osamuko.com version,