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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 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 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.
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 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. The tournament system competition took place over a few days.
The WMO was established in 2006 in Beijing. Guangyuan Yu was chosen as the first president and Xuanqi Jiang was chosen as the Secretary General.. At the congress on 2 November 2007 in the Foguang Hall of the Hongzhushan Hotel, Sichuan, China, it was decided that the world championship is to be held every two years and that Chinese, English and Japanese are the official languages of the WMO.
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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