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My first (Chinese) Mahjong set
See, I was thinking of making one huge article, but then it may become my first tl;dr and I don’t want that. So I’ll break it up into 3 readable articles. Last week at the LMFC (London Mahjong Fight...
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My first real-life riichi mahjong game
In reply to my previous post (http://www.osamuko.com/london-needs-more-offline-mahjong-players/), Jason kindly posted and invited me to play with him and his friends in a hanchan or two. Friday night...
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Mahjong lessons in Central London
After buying my briefcase MJ set and playing riichi, I was pumped to teach newbies the skilled game of Mahjong on Saturday. Had a good handful of students this time. So silly of me to get there early...
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#osamuko Swedish Riichi Tournament Report Compilation
As announced a while ago, a couple of #osamuko IRC denizens gathered in the Nordic city of Linköping for the Swedish Open Riichi Mahjong Championship 2013, a small 16-players tournament in...
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Oxford MJ Tourney (aka Great Scholars) [Apr 6]
I was going to do a picture by picture outline of Oxford. However, my phone battery died on me at about 9am. Oh well. Too damn early! Waking up at 0430 just to catch the first tube train, in order to...
View ArticleMahjong on English Niconico
The English Niconico site have set up an English viewing room for the next Marchao Master League session at 7pm JST on Thursday. I think it’s just a place for westerners to comment and there won’t be...
View ArticleMarchao Master League Season 2 #15
Following the success of the mahjong stream last week, the English niconico team are going to make an English room for all Marchao Master League. Like last week, the streams will have no English...
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Overview of Mahjong Parlors and Why You Can’t Really Win
As this is a blog written in English, I think we can assume most people reading it probably don’t have access to mahjong parlors. Then again, this is a mahjong blog as well, so some people have. The...
View ArticleTenhou statistics database, aka. ranking.pl
It’s back. http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ Still in development, but already very reliable and with more features. If you’d like to contribute a translation to your language, let me know. Thanks to...
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Mahjong News #7 03/07/13
Today we talk about the league, detectives and Hagiwara Mahjong League WAML is still going fairly strong after 6 months, although the activity suffered a big drop in the previous season. To help...
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10 League of Legends videos that can help to make you a better tenhou player
Hi, readers and web-lurking bots copypasting this post into sites other than osamuko.com right now. You may have noticed (or computed) my absence for the last couple of weeks. You know that old wives’...
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Berries and Boss Fights in Bad Vöslau
If you’re a follower of our humble blog, you’d know that the Osamuko community has a solid and active European contingent, who frequently get together on the EMA tournament circuit. Indeed we’ve...
View ArticleOctober Pastry Open
Here is my individual account of the pastry tournament. (Copenhagen Open) All eight hanchans. Real names have been omitted in order to protect the identities of those who raged, were just stupidly...
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Maybe I was wrong…
about keeping track of progress. Brief history. I didn’t really care about what happened from hanchan to hanchan. First or last place. I just wanted EXP. More EXP, more EXP, means more EXP. However, my...
View ArticleNovember Kimchi Tournament
Sunday, November 10th, 2013. Korean mahjong league tournament. My individual account of each hanchan. 半荘一 [南] First hand toimen riichi’d. I was 1 shanten yakuhai on nan. Also had three W tiles. I knew...
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The Disqualification of Horiuchi
The big news in the mahjong community this week is the disqualification of Horiuchi from the judansen. In East 4, Horiuchi was tenpai with Chi: , he draws a 3s and sighs then he slams the 3s from his...
View ArticleYazphiers trip to Paris
Leaving home for mahjong tournament in Paris, some snowflakes, 40 minutes early. Bus arrive and leaves on time. Lucky as the bus to Arlanda was 2(!) hours late due to the weather, I mean fuck, I...
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Warsaw battles
Not even a week has passed and I find myself standing at Skavsta airport once again, this time accompanied with my roommate, Hiki, heading for some battles in Warsaw. A few hours early, as usual, Hiki...
View ArticleI told you not to go for Kokushi
We’ve all been there: you’re dealt a hand with a lot of yaochuu tiles — ones, nines, and characters — and you find yourself asking, “Do I go for the stupid thing?” Despite being one of the most common...
View ArticleHappy New Year @Napoleons Casino
Me, Osamu, Mikolan and Gemma from ReachMahjong.com came together to play a few hanchans at Napoleons casino in Leicester Square, London. They have free Chinese mahjong sets to use and table surfaces...
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