Comments on: Beginners Guide and News(!?)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:29:13 +0000

>But we´ve already met once…

Hey, drob, who’s your girlfriend?

By: Bunta

Bunta — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:21:02 +0000

I really guess that reading this doesnt help you playing an EMA tournament!!!

But chances arent that bad, about 25%. You play 7 tables with 3 opponents each = 21 and there are only 80 players. Maybe your groin kick will help…

But we´ve already met once…

By: drob

drob — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:16:24 +0000

that’s okay, I’ll just kick you in the groin before the match.

Or it could be that playing in EMA is so utterly different that it won’t make much difference whether you’ve read it or not. Besides, chances of us ending up at the same table are pretty small.

By: Bunta

Bunta — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:04:47 +0000

“(Maybe I should hold off on publishing this until after the European championship?) TACOS: I doubt they’ll be reading this guide.” (Beginners Guide 3 Part, Drob)

I will be there too, and I´m reading this…

By: umai

umai — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:18:21 +0000

The “General Laws of Mahjong” page is helpful in making judgements on technicalities. Here’s what it says:

“9. If a DRAWN ROUND occurs, the 1,000 paid points remain on the table and anyone who has declared RIICHI must show their hand.”

Like Eric said it’s mainly to prevent people from declaring fake riichis to force a ryuukyoku. Tenhou enforces this as well:

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2009011602gm-00c1-0000-15054c68

(turn hand tile display OFF from the Player menu)

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:04:53 +0000

Four riichi calls and four Kans (if they’re spread among multiple players. If one person has it, it is a Yakuman.) Are abortive draws in and of themselves.
In the case of four riichi calls, the hands must be shown to avoid penalty, but need not be shown in the case of four Kans.
Err, I think so, someone back me up on this?

By: anon

anon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:13:26 +0000

Looked through the rules page and couldn’t find the answer to this. If all four players call riichi and the round ends in a draw, are the hands revealed afterwards? The same question could also apply to four kans.

By: xKime

xKime — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:04:49 +0000

Been there, seen that. How Not To Suck guide = win.

By: drob

drob — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:02:49 +0000

whoa TACOS.

By: TACOS

TACOS — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:57:26 +0000

I see what you mean, but chances of that are extremely slim. It took osamu almost 24 hours to write this news post. We have some unpublished articles that date back 6 months. And in the near future I will have to stop doing whatever I am doing and make myself do another couple hundred words on tile efficiency and how to form yaku and when to call tiles, part 2 is so bad right now. I don’t even want to visualize writing that stuff.

Realistically speaking you could consider copying it wholesale and sanitizing it yourself, although if I recall correctly it’s pretty socially acceptable, albeit casually written. Perhaps I am deluding myself, but I would like to imagine it is our casual writing style that sets us apart as more human and personal and bloggish. Extra personality means more swearing than substance. But on the other hand the personal connection level is a tad higher. This is the key.

What this all really means, though, is that you should just buy them Jenn’s book.