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The World Riichi Championship (WRC) is a worldwide competition of Japanese Mahjong (also known as riichi) held every 3 years since 2014. The competition is nominally open to people of all ages, men and women alike.
The European Mahjong Association (EMA) was established at the general assembly during the first European Championship in the Netherlands in June 2005. [2] After this competition, EMA started holding European championships under international rules every 2 years, and started sanctioning Mahjong competitions which was held under international and Japanese rules.
Japanese mahjong tiles, including red dora tiles as well as season tiles which are used in variants. Japanese mahjong is usually played with 136 tiles. [7] The tiles are mixed and then arranged into four walls that are each two stacked tiles high and 17 tiles wide. 26 of the stacks are used to build the players' starting hands, 7 stacks are used to form a dead wall, and the remaining 35 stacks ...
The World Mahjong Sports Games (WMSG, Chinese: 世界麻将运动会) is played to determine the World Champion in the table game Mahjong held by Mahjong International League (MIL). Both men and women are eligible to contest this title, and the championship holds both of Individual event and Team event.
The second world championship was held in Utrecht, Netherlands on 27–29 August 2010. The current world champion is Linghua Jiao from China and the national team championship was also won by China. [9] For the first time, Eupropean players and countries took second and third places in both the individual and the team championships.
The World Series Of Mahjong (Chinese: 世界麻将大赛) was a privately sponsored Mahjong tournament. Both men and women were eligible to contest this title, and the top finishers received prize money with the champion also receiving a necklace.
On October 23, 2002, the first world championship was held in Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan over three days, but this event was not counted as the first world championship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After the establishment of World Mahjong Organization (WMO) in 2006, the official first world championship was held in Chengdu, Sichuan , China on November 1 ...
Mahjong International League; Abbreviation: MIL: Formation: July 3, 2015 [1]: Type: non-profit organization: Legal status: Association: Purpose: formulating the competition systems and rules suitable for the whole world in an effort to promote mahjong into a standard, professional and sportified global mind sport.