Osamuko's Mahjong Blog

Congratulations to Lorizean and our own ron^5 who recently made the cut to represent Germany in the upcoming European Mahjong Championships! We were unable to find any reports of this tournament anywhere online, even though it's been quite a few days since I was highlighted on IRC while asleep. I wonder if I will be hunted down by the European mahjong mafia for posting this.

Jokes aside, I don't think either of them really expected to make it through. We knew that two national tournaments would determine their eligibility to attend the Euros. It was only after most of them decided to skip the first one due to various obligations, that they found out actually they would need to play in both to get a realistic shot.

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All of us have been playing quite a lot of Starcraft:Brood War recently for no reason. None of us actually played the game competitively (in any sense of the word) before - I recall reaching level 5-ish in the Terran campaign before giving up, back when I was twelve, and TRA is probably halfway through it now. Needless to say we are awfully awful.

Funny thing is, only because of the internet can we couple expert-level analysis and theorycraft from progamers and various internet pundits with our own abysmal mechanical control and execution. The result is a horrific comedy of errors that frequently makes me want to tear my hair out. And eat it.

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Tsuno has implemented several new features to the Windows Tenhou Client.

Show wall

Various tile colours (In wall view mode. blue = dora indicator, green = tiles you will draw and         orange = dangerous tiles)

You can view only view the walls from games that were played after 8am on 03/02

I've played on a lot of mahjong clients and the only other client I've seen with the ability to look at the wall in replays was Marujan but that client just isn't worth the enormous price it costs to actually play there.

I just noticed Tsuno has added some shuugi test play games but they seem to be windows client only at the moment.

While taking a break from feverishly constructing pon palaces and kan keeps, most of us  play various strategy games.  Osamu found a wordpress plugin that kind of does that blog-in-a-blog thing, so you can read while you read. To keep these posts from getting in the way of the normal content, you can only see them through this link.