Mahjong in Korea

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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

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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.

 

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Tile History – The honours

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It’s time for the last tile history (more like Kanji history, right?) entry. We’ve the honours left: 三元牌 (Sangenpai), or the Dragons, and 風牌 (Kazehai), or the Winds. Important tiles, I’m sure you’ll agree with, but surprisingly hard to find solid information about. Also, I’ve been away for a couple of years, so excuse me if I’m not being my miserable self.

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One day at Mahjong School Joy (ニューロン麻雀スクール・ジョイ)

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This past December just before new years, I had the chance to visit Takunori Kajimoto at his mahjong school in Tokyo. The place wasn’t his, but he was going and working there once every week.  It was kinda far away from the center of Tokyo, about a 40 min. train ride towards Chiba, at a place called Funabashi (船橋).

I hadn’t seen Kajimoto for a long time and he is usually far away from Tokyo at the museum, so it was definitely worth my time going there. After struggling to find the address for maybe half an hour, I finally arrived right around 11 am and stayed there until around 10 pm when they closed.

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(真・雀鬼) Shin Janki Series Episode 11 – Onearm’s Rep Player

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Hi mahjongers all around the world. It’s Deniz from Turkey, the guy in charge of mahjong here. Luckily I can name myself that because our numbers here in Turkey don’t add up to much… Nice to be on board here on Osamuko. Glad to have joined in, I’m sure I will be able to entertain everyone with my first hand experiences around Japan over the course of last year. But that, I plan to do later. For now I got some better news. Continue reading →

Graz Open Riichi 2011

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Here I am again, with another real life tournament report! Also, fourth post on Osamuko in the past 7 days? Is the end of the world near? Well, this was my third riichi mahjong tournament, and the furthest too. It looks like the more tournaments I go to, the more distant the venue is. Anyway, after Baden, where our Slovakian team played pretty well, we decided to go to Graz – a nice town in the southern part of Austria.

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RIVAL場外戦　IN天鳳　春場所 – Now with Replays and Videos

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Sorry for the shitty unpolished post, have to publish it so I can get up in time for it.

Last time I posted about a championship on Tenhou I was asked to post things like this sooner so I’m posting this a day before the event! I’m talking about the “RIVAL jyougaisen IN tenhou harubasho”, you’ve probably seen the ad on tenhou. I’ll play if Harold Camping is wrong and I’ll dump the logs here or in a new post. I was thinking of streaming my games there but my microphone is broke would you guys want to watch them while listening to music and chatting in IRC (irc://irc.rizon.net/osamuko)?

TACOS UPDATE: The tournament starts 10AM GMT which is some hours away, and for those who can’t catch it live, despair not – the live stream will be recorded.

OSAMU UPDATE: http://www.justin.tv/osamuko currently eating breakfast so I’ll probably play in half an hour, 19:30 JST or 11:30 GMT, feel free to listen to tenhou’s cool championship bgm.

OSAMU UPDATE 2 I messed up and put a password on the stream, it’s gone now.

Information about the championship:
You need to have at least 3 days of premium to enter
4p
tonnansen
Kuitan Ari
Aka dora
Time: 5+10 seconds
Shuugi: 1 shuugi = 2000 points (no idea how these work in championships)
Kiriage Mangan ari
flip kan dora immediately
Tochuuryuukyoku nashi
Agari yame ari
Tenpai yame nashi
Sudden Death nashi

if sudden death is nashi then the game ends in the last round even… if everyone is below 30k

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A Little Introspection

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Hi guys, Tacos here, self-appointed editor of the blag. I had some free time recently so I’m doing some catching up, and I’d like to sort of talk about where we are right now, with regards to the blog and its content. If this sounds familiar, you can relax, we are not shutting down or downsizing.

When we started out, the whole enterprise was pretty much without direction, with a vague idea that it would be funny if Osamu became e-famous in internet-land. Once every few days weeks, we would just open up the page and bang out some random stuff on the off chance that people would find it interesting or funny. Perhaps we were lucky enough to fill a niche, maybe some people like what we do, but at the end of the day it’s nice to see that people visit our blog every day and read our rantings and ravings.

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