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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.
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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.
This championship is not certified as the official first worldwide championship in mahjong because it had been held before the World Mahjong Organization was formed in 2006. Although it was offered to China at first and was going to be held in Ningbo , which is known as the origin of mahjong , the location was moved to Japan because a large ...
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 ...
World Championship Domino Tournament [5] Individuals 1976 Chris Authement 2019 2020 One year Domino World Championship [6] Individuals 1995 Torsten Fornefeld 2023 2024 One year Mahjong: Mahjong: World Mahjong Championship: Individuals 2002 Zhou Yong 2019 2021 Two years Riichi mahjong: World Riichi Championship: Individuals 2014 Keijun Nara 2022 ...
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.
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 ...