Duration: 5 months
Start date: 18th February 2023
End date: 22nd July 2023
Number of session: minimum 20
Number of games in each session: at least 3 games (players need to sit through the whole session. No substitution allowed)
Venue: Woodlands
Day: Saturday mainly, with some occasional Thursdays
Time: to be announced when the session is posted, usually at night. No time limit.
Ruleset: WRC (https://sgriichimahjong.com/rules/)

Participation

(1) Participation is open to Sgriichi members only. No participation fee. Please sign up at https://sgriichimahjong.com/ to join the telegram SgRiichi Games group to participate in the polls to register for the league sessions.
(2) Participants can come for any number of sessions. Participants need not participate in every session.
(3) There is no minimum number of sessions required.
(4) Participants can only participate 3 consecutive session maximum. Thereafter, a session has to pass before participating again.
(5) Upcoming session detail will be posted every Tuesday, at 12.30pm. If the session will be done on a Thursday, it will be announced before Tuesday, 12.30pm
(6) Registration for the session will be first-come-first-serve, based on the order of names in the poll for the session. The organiser (YC) will be playing all the games, hence each session can host 3 participants.
(7) Withdrawal has to be at least 24h before the session (eg to withdraw from a saturday 6pm game, withdraw by friday 5.59pm). Please announce your withdrawal

Rankings

(1) Ranking is based on BEST 8 CONSECUTIVE GAMES
(2) Top 3 participants will receive prizes (see below, section D)
(3) Minimum 9 players need to be on the ranking board for prizes to be awarded
(4) Organiser (YC only) will not be in the ranking, but he will be playing every session.
(5) Only players who achieved minimum 8 games will have their score and ranking posted. This ranking will be shown and updated every week when a new session date is announced.
(6) List of scores achieved by all participants in every game will be updated every week and posted together with the posting of upcoming game sessions.

Ruleset & Score Recording

(1) All scores will be recorded by YC
(2) Chonbo penalty follows WRC rule (-30 from end score to offending player, no mangan payment to all players)
(3) At the end of each game, scores will be tallied using RAW score (not akako score). It is the participants’ responsibility to account for their own score sticks.

• if the score in akako is the same as the actual score, the game will be sent normally.
• if the score in akako differs from the actual score, akako scoring will be scraped for the game, and the final score will be keyed instead.
  At the end of the game when the score is sent, players can appeal their score within that night. It is taken that the score submitted is agreed upon when no appeal is made.

Prizes

1st place: $120
2nd place: $80
3rd place: $50
(Prize will be pro-rated to 25% if the number of participants in ranking is 8 and below. So do still participate to reach your 8 games. :D)

Behaviour

(1) Players should come slightly earlier for the game, but not late.
(2) Talking should be kept minimum during game, and limited to essential communication (eg score declaration, correction of score of other player’s winning hand, reminder to keep honba sticks, aircon too cold etc).
(3) Phones use should be kept to minimum during game (eg check time = OK, messaging = NOT OK and etc, unless emergency)
(4) Other basic tournament etiquette applies (no throwing of sticks, no touching of opponent’s sticks [eg helping them take riichi stick back after their win] etc), except when passing leftover riichi sticks from previous rounds by oya only.
Refer to sgriichi website on etiquette, level 3: https://sgriichimahjong.com/etiquette/
(5) Feel free to drink water during the game, but food is NOT ALLOWED during the game (including sweets). There will be a break between games for washroom, late dinner, etc.
(6) It is optional for winner to announce yaku when winning, but compulsory to announce hand score (base score, followed by actual score, eg 400/700, 500/800). Hence it is advisable for players to know common scores (1-4 han, 20-60 fu).
(7) As the game is played on an auto table, only the oya should operate the table to signal the start of their hand, that is, pressing the button to shuffle the tiles, followed by rolling of dice (not the other way round). In addition, honba sticks should be used. The honba function by the table will NOT be used.

Miscellaneous

(1) Please bring up any issues with ruling/discrepancies/problems to YC, as YC is the only organiser and host for the entire league.
(2) The following penalty to situations will be enforced:

• Late: -1P for every minute late.
• withdrawal to participation in less than 24h, and before 2359, one day before game: -5p
  •withdrawal during game day/no-show
  •• with substitute player found/provided: -40p
  •• without substitute player: -70p
  •• repeat offense: disqualification
  (Note1: penalty will be recorded in the first game of that game day. Hence it is possible for a game to have “5” players, and will be counted as a game in your best consecutive 8 games

Note2: Reasons can be provided for withdrawal and no penalty given, if the reason can be justified (hospitalisation, death etc)

Taking into account the COVID-19 situation, we will still be having our annual Online Riichi Tournament earlier.

Tournament Period

June ~ Aug 2021 (Depending on the number of players’ and their availability)

Eligibility

This tournament is open to all Singapore players. Please ensure that you have already filled in the form at https://sgriichimahjong.com/join-sgriichi/

To ensure a minimum skill level of our participants and make things fairer for everyone, we will need you to describe your riichi experience during registration. It is preferred if you have a combination of both online and offline experience playing riichi.

Format

There will be 10 han-chans played on Tenhou. Every han-chan is scheduled based on players’ availability so this is NOT a 1-day tournament. The exact format including eliminations will be released after the list of registrants is confirmed and will be informed via WhatsApp group. All games are played on weekday nights or weekends depending on players’ availability.

Players’ required commitment is to play 1 or 2 han-chans per day about 2 to 3 times a week. Special arrangements can be made for players who have commitments that last a week etc BUT tell us BEFOREHAND.

Note that point penalties will be given if you are late for / completely forget your scheduled games.

Rules

Basically, Tenhou rules will be used except for the following changes:

• Aka nashi
• NO Buttobi (bankruptcy)
• NO Mid-Game Draws
• Atama Hane = NO double/triple ron
• NO Agari Yame = last dealer must ren-chan if he wins/tenpai
• NO Sudden Death = han-chan will stop at S4 even if all players below 30k

The playing speed will be 5 + 10 seconds.

Rewards

• Top 4 players will represent Singapore for International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2020 (IORMC). 5^th and 6^th place will be substitute players.
• There will be some tangible prize. The prize will be announced after all players’ participation have been confirmed.

Registration

The registration starts on 16 May (Sunday) 12pm and ends on 23 May 11:59pm. It will be first register 1st serve. Allow us for some working time to confirm your registration. We will accept players in a group of 4 but will confirm receipt of your registration nonetheless.

All fields are required. Please note that you will be added to a telegram group conversation when registration has been finalised.

Lance

Those who have registered and pay, please join us at a telegram group at https://t.me/joinchat/A5_X3VWvvd_nhJPvdtUHhw

We will explore and navigate the new platform together some time on Friday night.

Feng

The World Riichi Competition (WRC) Committee has organised an online tournament on ron2 mahjong platform. Ron2 is frequent by many professional players in Japan. It is usually a premium account but with this sign up, you get 90days of membership!

Players from all over the world will be participating in this although you are likely to play with asians and europeans due to timezone difference. The top 4 will get a qualifying slot for WRC 2021 (postponed of 2020).

So if any of you win, more of us will be going to WRC 2021!

It will be held over the course of 2 + 2 days, 22nd and 23rd August, Finals on 29th + 30th August.

Registration fee is around S$35 (20 Euro).

For the other details, you can check out on their website at https://worldriichi.org/about-fest

If you wish to join, just register on your own and pay accordingly to the instruction stated there. I’ve no idea what is the registration deadline. I only know whatever that is written on the website.

Good luck!

Please also note that there is no re-selection of players for WRC 2021 unless the selected players for WRC 2020 drop out. This treatment is to be consistent for any future postponement of any tournament that require selection trial. Otherwise, I would have define the length of postponement that warrants a re-selection should any future tournament postpone again. Defining the length can be problematic due to many uncertainties that may arise in organising the selection.

Feng

Good news! Despite the COVID-19 situation, we will still be having our annual Online Riichi Tournament in preparation for IORMC 2020.

Tournament Period

July ~August (Depending on the number of players’ and their availability)

Eligibility

This tournament is open to all Singapore players. Please register on the SMC website or join us on Facebook at Singapore Japanese (Reach) Mahjong Group.

To ensure a minimum skill level of our participants and make things fairer for everyone, we will need you to describe your riichi experience during registration. It is preferred if you have a combination of both online and offline experience playing riichi.

Format

There will be 10 han-chans played on Tenhou. Every han-chan is scheduled based on players’ availability so this is NOT a 1-day tournament. The exact format including eliminations will be released after the list of registrants is confirmed and will be informed via WhatsApp group. All games are played on weekday nights or weekends depending on players’ availability.

Players’ required commitment is to play 1 or 2 han-chans per day about 2 to 3 times a week. Special arrangements can be made for players who are going overseas etc BUT tell us BEFOREHAND.

Note that point penalties will be given if you are late for / completely forget your scheduled games.

Rules

Basically, Tenhou rules will be used except for the following changes:

• Aka nashi
• NO Buttobi (bankruptcy)
• NO Mid-Game Draws
• Atama Hane = NO double/triple ron
• NO Agari Yame = last dealer must ren-chan if he wins/tenpai
• NO Sudden Death = han-chan will stop at S4 even if all players below 30k

The playing speed will be 5 + 10 seconds.

Rewards

• Top 4 players will represent Singapore for International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2020 (IORMC). 5^th and 6^th place will be substitute players.
• There will be some tangible prize for this time round. The prize will be announced after all players’ participation have been confirmed.

Registration

The registration starts on 7 June (Sunday) 12pm and ends on 21 June 11:59pm. It will be first register 1st serve. Allow us for some working time to confirm your registration. We will accept players in a group of 4 but will confirm receipt of your registration nonetheless.

All fields are required. Please note that you will be added to a Whatsapp group conversation when registration has been finalised.

Lance

Dear all,

The COVID-19 situation appears to be stable and we will resuming our sessions on 7 March 2020. Please take note of the necessary screening measures that will be put in place:

1. Do not register or attend sessions if you are feeling unwell, especially if you show respiratory symptoms such as cough or runny nose. Please let the organisers know ASAP if you’re unwell on the day of the session.

2. Take part in the mandatory health screening at Nee Soon South CC, at the screening counter outside the office.

• Register with personal and contact details;
• Be screened for temperature (not above 38.0°C) and for respiratory symptoms;
• Be issued a sticker to indicate passing of screening,

Only individuals who have been issued the sticker will be allowed into the playing venue. Players without such stickers should be turned away. Persons who do not pass the screening (e.g., temperature is higher than 38.0°C) will be asked to go home.

Please do your part and understand that this is for the good of everyone in the community. Please do not force yourself to come if you are not feeling well. There will always be other opportunities to play mahjong!

Registration for the upcoming session on 7 March 2020 begins tomorrow.

From 26th to 30th August, WRC 2020 will be held in Vienna.

I’ll have to send in our players name soon and Singapore is given a quota of 3 slots to fill. Last year, I’ve asked for interested participants and I’ve gotten 4 who can definitely and interested to participate. They are Martin, Elijah, Yong Chuan and Feng.

I will be re-confirming with everybody’s participation and also taking this chance to do a last call for other players who might be interested to join. As there are limited slots, I will only give priority to players who have been playing riichi regularly in either our club or I-sports. Following that, I will check with players who are also fine with not going. If there are still more than 3 players then we will do a selection.

Please inform me that you are interested and able to join WRC 2020 by end of 17 Feb, Monday.

Feng

Due to DORSCON Orange being declared in Singapore, the commencement of sessions will be pushed back until March. The next session will be tentatively on 7 March 2020. You may start registering for the session on 1 March 2020.