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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.
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.
Scores are counted using sticks of 10,000 points, 5,000 points, 1,000 points and 100 points. A game often ends when all the points of a player are lost, which is a situation called hakoten, [nb 1] dobon, [nb 2] buttobi, [nb 3] etc. However, some settings allow the game to continue, even if a player's score dropped below zero.
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 ...
The 2nd World Mahjong Championship 2010 was held at the Nationaal Denksport Centrum 'Den Hommel' in Utrecht, Netherlands from August 27 to 29, in 2010. [1] [2]
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Masato Chiba, from Japan, won the first championship. On June 21, 2007, the 2nd European championship was held in Copenhagen, Denmark for 3 days. Martin Wedel Jacobsen from Denmark won the championship. [1] Team event was begun since this championship. In 2008, EMA began another European Mahjong Championship under Japanese Riichi rule.