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UPDATE:

Due to being busylazy, we haven't published the answers to the quiz until now. We apologize for the inconvenience to our dear readers. orz
You can find the answers to the quiz now at the end of this article.
Thanks to Ben for providing us with the answers!

As some of you probably know, the ECR (European Riichi Championship) Tournament, which my humble self attended to, was held for the second time after 2 years during the last weekend in Hannover, Germany.
Expect a more detailed write-up of my experiences and antics during those 3 days once I un-lazy a bit more.

On Friday evening, prior to the actual games on Saturday and Sunday, a 3 hour strategy workshop was being held, which is the actual focus of this post.

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Yes, I know it's been some time since I wrote something. Yes, I do have a decent excuse. Yes, I do know that no excuses will be accepted. We all have things we'd rather be doing than banging out a couple hundred words for the leisurely perusal of our readers, including a steadily-increasing contingent of Slovakians and Mexicans. Shoutout to them, as well as the dude on old-style Arpanet. Still, come the day when I can't summon up some walls of text for your reading pleasure, you can drag me off to the glue factory.

For some time I had been preparing a cute article entitled 'How to win an EMA tournament'. While not exactly critical in its opinions towards the current tournament formats, it does paint a rather bizarre picture of the things you'll need to do, to maximize your chances of accomplish aforesaid goal. Of course, the only way to alter the allure of this ideal but not-quite-conventional strategy is to move the goalposts, by overhauling some elements of the current tournament format.

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It is as follows:

Rules: East-only, Ari-Ari, Red, Fast (喰東アリ赤速)
Time: Saturday, 11 September 2010, 18:00:00 UTC - check your time here: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=9&year=2010&hour=18&min=0&sec=0
Tournament type: Knockout, 3-4 rounds (depending on participants)
Location: #mahjong@irc.rizon.net and Tenhou (random lobbies per game)

I would like as many people to play, provided they actually turn up. The registration is here: http://arcturus.su/ch/mj/kareha.pl/1281471095/

Further details to be announced soon, after we make a final decision on the format.

TACOS derail after the cut.

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Here are some brief summaries of recent happenings and random curiosities that are related to Mahjong but never got a FULL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT by the osamuko editors. Feel free to conduct your own, though! Or just enjoy the silly pictures.

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Now, I've seen many people write small articles here and there about where the best place to get a mahjong tile set is.

I originally planned to write this a long time ago but now is as good a time as ever. For one, if you do not have people to play with regularly, do not buy anything over 50$. It's wasted money, you won't derive any pleasure at all from the tiles. The first set you should buy is a "China Green" set. You can find these in any city with a Chinatown.

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We're still scheduled for tomorrow night. I will draw up the matchups later. Some might play other people again. but I have the day off to figure this out. If you were on in the earlier session last time, you're still on early, lates on late. If you can't make it or need the other time slot, let me know ASAP.

Matchups are done! Hasu, if you can read this, tell me you're alive...

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This blog might not have tons of updates, but that doesn't mean the editors aren't out keeping tabs on the Mahjong world. There are plenty of items that are of minor interest, but nobody feels the need to take the time to write an entire post about them. I thought I'd start collecting them so that you too can keep up with all the LATEST HAPPENINGS in Mahjong. Or maybe it'll just provide some brief amusement when you're bored and looking for a distraction.

* These items won't always be "news" as you might have known about them for a while now.

* These updates aren't guaranteed to be on a weekly basis.

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THIS SESSION : JULY 16 - DON'T FORGET.

The new seed has been established. Group C has one pair of players seeing each other again. Lists were generated pseudo-randomly as before. I also took into account the preferred session, the only people who have crossed over are people who said they were really OK with switching to either (me, eirei, and xKime... osamu and XshinjiX are at the same as last time). I also have to talk to Trantez if he wants in on a more regular basis or if I have to hire a stunt double from the crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, fellow league players!
I was thinking that it would be a good idea to give anyone who wanted to leave a little message about their experience or the hands that they had to e-mail me, so we can collect a digest, a kind of "Best of" series. We've had that one game end with Daisangen, a lot of the late games ending with bust scores, and we've had plenty of other moments full of emotion, decision-making, hardships, glorious victories and crushing defeats. Tell us about it! ex@white-fang.info