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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 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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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・・・
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WRC current ranking after day 1 / リーチ麻雀世界選手権予選1日目のランキング
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WRC seeding for the preliminary round... (tables and stuff)
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
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WRC Prep Post
It’s almost here, the first World Riichi Championship. This is a short bloggy post as a prelude to the WRC, maybe there will actually be a report, unlike some other big european championship that took place last year. I wasn’t skilled enough to qualify to represent my country,
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【速報】 パリのリーチ麻雀世界選手権大会の情報入ってきました
いよいよ来週はパリに初めてのリーチ麻雀世界選手権大会が開催します。 今までの情報は薄かったけど、今日の中日スポーツ新聞 [http://www.chunichi.co.jp/chuspo/]にこちらの特集がありました。 ちょっと遅いですけど遂に日本にも話題になるかな。 その上にニコニコ動画でイベントの生放送 [http://ch.nicovideo.jp/jpml]があります。 osamuko.comに所属する56人の選手、アメリカ・カナダ・イギリス・ スウェーデン・フランスから出身が参戦します。 お楽しみに! 更新 そしてルールの日本語訳がこちら [http://t.co/kLsApiYtA2] > リーチ麻雀世界選手権 <> ルールの邦訳です。日本で麻雀打ってる人たちにとってあまりに当たり前であろう部分はすっ飛ばしたり略したりしています。 http://t.co/kLsApiYtA2 — 若原隆宏 (@VetPress) July 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/VetPress/statuses/