Now that I have your attention, there’s no sex. Anywhere near this post. Anyway, xkime again here. I figured I’d leave a breakdown of the “new” stats page of tenhou in here with their translation. Even better, right? … Anyway…
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1st Worldwide Amateur Mahjong League Cup
I’ve been busy grinding on the closed beta of Sword Girls and I’m posting this a lot later than I had planned. Sorry!
Anyway, as I said in the last news post, on December 17th we will be hosting a tournament on Tenhou to promote the new league several Osamuko.com staff members have created To satisfy all time zones the tournament is 8 hours long, so there will probably be times when no one is queuing, if this happens just come to the IRC channel (#osamuko@irc.rizon.net) and ask for players!
[Tournament Name] 第1回 地球麻雀リーグ杯
[Date] 2011/12/17 9pm-5am GMT
[Prize] 1-3 Guaranteed place in the league and, maybe, free Tenhou premium for 1st*.
[Rules] Standard Tenhou ruleset, kuitan ari, aka ari.
[Ranking] Players are ranked according to their best score from 3 consecutive games. For example, if a player had -23 +45 +53 +35 -45, his score would be +133
[Requirements] Only requirement is a tenhou ID.
[URL] http://tenhou.net/0/?C25144842
*Tsunoda gives out tickets for Tenhou premium to championships which meet his requirements. We’re not sure if we’ll be able to qualify for this.
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We haven’t had a news post in a while have we? Some of this news will certainly be old news because I’m just adding stuff until it is an acceptable amount (200 words!)
More strategy! Honors
Becoming 6th dan in tenhou boosted my confident to teach basic strategy quite a bit. Not as much as it would if I could enter houou tables, but still quite a bit. Today will not be one of “xkime’s translations” but rather “an article actually completely wrote by xkime.” Enjoy.
Phoenix Tournament Hannover 2011 report
Hello there, Riichi mahjong fans from over the world! It has been over a week since another EMA tournament was held. Me, my Slovak mahjong mates and two other #osamuko residents – s25k and ron5 – took part in it. The latter two guys had it easy, since they are from Germany, and the tournament was held in Hannover. But the six of us had to take a nice 9 hour trip from Bratislava. But what wouldn’t one do for the chance to play mahjong with other real life people.
We arrived on Friday evening, after a nice drive through the Czech republic and half of Germany. We met our host, s25k, on a parking lot of a local Lidl store in his hometown, ~60km from Hannover. We did have his house in the GPS, but somehow we still managed to get lost. We had pizza for dinner and played a few practice hanchan in his room, filled with animu posters, figures and vinyl records. I already sensed something is not right with my play – I won both hanchan at s25k’s homemade table. This wasn’t good – from my experience, usually when someone plays well the day before a tournament, they won’t fair well on it. But I didn’t let something like this silly superstition get the better of me. I can do this, right? Right??
fso’s live adventures: A visit to the local mahjong group, Lirma
After Senechal discovered – in denmark – that there’s a newly founded group of people playing where I live, I decided to pay them a visit. So far I’ve been there four times total and upon that discovery, osamu promptly gaped at me to write about it. So I did. Continue reading
Tournament Experience Report: Oranda Saikou 2011 in Utrecht – Partie #1
Good evening everyone, this is s25k speaking!
It’s been ages since the tournament and I’m finally going to give you some of my impressions of this weekend.
The Oranda Saikou in Utrecht (17.-18.9.2011) was probably one of the tournament highlights in Riichi-Europe this year: 2 days, 9 rounds, 68 Participants from 10 different countries – and 4 #osamuko users.
The venue: the "NDC Den Hommel"
Experience in Japan
Osamuko members seem to be prone to going to Japan. Deniz, ronronronronron, and now me. As some of you know, I went to Japan to play some mahjong. I’m in Amagasaki-shi right now, in Kansai. I have never been here before, but I always enjoyed playing some mahjong online or with friends, and I was pretty confident about my playstyle.
Osaka is pretty close, so I decided to stop at Marchao jansou in Umeda, a free parlor (this means, uh, betting). They very kindly explained the rules of the store to me, and made me feel really welcome. I’d recommend going there to anyone who has a good grasp of Japanese and rules and manners of mahjong. This is important. So, how did playing in Japan go?
Mahjong in Korea
Mahjong isn’t really a popular game in Korea. Actually it’s not popular at all. People recognize the game when they hear it, or when they see the tiles, but it is very hard to find a person who actually plays unless they are Chinese or Japanese. I went to Seoul for a month this past July, and during my stay I tried to find out more about the riichi scene in Korea.
I heard that there were three places where you can play in Seoul, but I could only visit one of these which was a parlor called Jabajan (じゃばじゃん). It is a parlor, but unlike Japan you cannot play for money. In Korea gambling is forbidden in places where Korean citizens are allowed, and most of the customers at Jabajan were Koreans so there was no gambling going on. Continue reading
Touhou Online Battle
We’ve been playing quite a bit of Touhou Online Battle since it surfaced on /jp/. Ironically enough the link was originally posted in a thread about failed /jp/ projects. It caught on and the server logged about ~10000 matches in the few days before the reset. The game server just wiped today and everyone’s busy grinding their little girls to cross bullets on the fields of justice.
