Originally, the league created was a temporary replacement of the players’ rating system. Since many players are enjoying the league more and the rating system is on indefinite hiatus, we will continue the league as a permanent plan.

Although we promote competitive play in Riichi Mahjong, we also try to cater as many kind of Riichi players as possible. Not many of us dream about travelling to oversea to compete due to work/school or financial constraint but the challenging/competitive environment serve to make playing Riichi Mahjong more fun and meaningful. Therefore the direction from now on is to expose Riichi players to many kinds of rules set as well as tournament format. Players are encouraged to be flexible and adapt accordingly. Some rules are never adopted due to being unpractical for club session or no longer popular in Japan or extremely outdated rule in reality (eg. sakinin-barai for 4kantsu) Various tournament formats are taken with reference from leagues/tournaments used in Japan and Europe.

2017 will consist of 3 leagues and 3 tournaments!

Each league will consist of around 12-14 session (depending on the sessions available)

(Random note: If 3 months of a year is refer to as quarter, tertile refers to 4 months in the context of a year)

Since we didn’t plan anything for 31st December, we will start our new league for 2017 on 31st December

SMCRM League Summary

Period	League Rules	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Chombo Penalty	No. of Sessions
1st Tertile	Adjusted Tenhou Rules	5	1	-1	-4	In-game -4k to each player & -3 LP	12
2nd Tertile	WRC	4	2	-2	-4	In-game -4k to each player & -3 LP	14
3rd Tertile	Adjusted Tenhou Rules	5	2	0	-6	In-game -4k to each player & -2 LP	Remaining

SMCRM Tournaments Summary

Period	Tournament Rules	Tournament Score
11 or 12 Feb	Jansou	1st place emphasis
Early Aug	World Riichi Championship	Equal emphasis
Dec	Adjusted Tenhou Rules	Last place avoidance

You realise that there is a change to Chombo Penalty. Details and rationale to be explained in another post. Likewise for Adjusted Tenhou Rules.

Other Tournaments

Period	Tournament	Venue
4-8 Oct	2nd World Riichi Championship 2017	Las Vegas
Jun~Aug	International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition Selection Trial	Tenhou
5 Nov	International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition (Team)	Tenhou
19 Nov	International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition (Top 16)	Tenhou

Prizes 

League Champion – $40 Gift Voucher

Overall League Champion – TBA

Tournament Champion – Trophy/TBA

Overall Tournament Champion – TBA

League Consolation Prize Scrapped

Based on feedback about the last league consolation prize being unpractical and complicated and “not right”, we will crap that idea. I totally agree with these feedback after experiencing it. Instead, we will reward players who participated the last 2 sessions of the league with 1 LP (for next league).

Hope everyone will look forward to this year and make your plans accordingly!

Merry Christmas!

Feng