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Photos from World Riichi Championship 2014
A collection of photos from the first World Riichi Championship that took place in Paris on July 16th 2014.
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Profile: Masaharu Tomotake
Organization: Japan Professional Mahjong League Birthplace: Chiba Year born: 1958 Rank: 8 dan Years Pro: 23 Nickname(s): ? Favouite yaku: Sanshoku Doujun, Honitsu Titles: * 24th Hououi (2004) * 2nd World Riichi Championship (2017) International Tournament Results: * 1st World Riichi Championship 2014 (6/120) * 2nd World Riichi Championship 2017 (1/224) Ron2
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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
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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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Profile: Hiroshi Yamai
Hiroshi Yamai made history in 2014 by winning the first WRC. Will he be able to defend his title in 2017?
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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,
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WRC results excluding finals
Edit: The first hanchan of the final has been uploaded here: Edit: As far as the finals go, Hiroshi Yamai from Renmei won it in the end. Noriyuki Kiriyama from Kyoukai got 4th at the final table, behind Nishijima and Nishikawa from Renmei. )
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WRC ranking before semifinal / リーチ麻雀世界選手権準決勝が決めた
外国の方は一人が残ります。前半戦 と後半戦の卓組み合わせはこうです：
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WRC current ranking after the prelims / リーチ麻雀世界選手権予選結果のランキング
３２位以上の選手が進みます。 残念ながらosamuko.comのチームは全滅だ・・・