World of Warcraft Mahjong Set

AMSTERDAM, May, 16th - Chinese internet company and World of Warcraft regional publisher NetEase has made a limited edition ‘World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria’-themed mahjong set.

Each set costs 1,288 renminbi (USD209) and includes a fully playable mahjong game, complete with tiles, table mats featuring WoW game maps, dividers and chips, all in a thematic wooden carrying case. The board’s decals are designed to look like artwork straight out of World of Warcraft, with a color palette reminiscent of that used for structures and environments in Mists of Pandaria.
Only 1000 of these mahjong sets will be made available worldwide, although the set only appears to be sold through the Chinese-based company. Pre-orders are being taken right now. More pictures are shown on the NetEase website (link below).

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‘Briesje’ wins alternative for German Online Open; new MORSE Unofficial Ranking

Details: Created on Monday, 09 November 2009 10:00; Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:00; Written by Adrie van Geffen; Hits: 3099

The cancellation of the GMO2009 tournament was such a disappointment for Janco Onnink that he decided to do it himself. Twenty participants registered. Janco mailed who was to sit on which table during the tournament and who was to be leader. The leader of each table had to create the table and allow players to sit and play. Afterwards the scores (print screen and paste) were to be mailed to Janco. At the start one player was substituted by Yenia who played the full tournament. It was quite remarkable that all rounds were played at the right time. Sadly two players decided not to turn up in the sixth round. One player could be replaced by Dragontwo (Chris Scheffler) but the other had to be substituted by Jerry (the computerplayer of Mahjong Time). Tarabarsky (Mark Chizhenok) helped out Janco by processing the scores and put the results on his website.

The excitement and the tension was the same as in other tournaments. And why shouldn’t it be? Playing six time 1.5 hours of mahjong always is. After the first three rounds Dzumshud (Vit Sav) was in the lead with a full score of 12 points. But on Sunday he was not as strong. Starting the sixth round Briesje (Dimphy van Grinsven, NL) was in the lead and by winning her last table she kept her first place with 18 points. Second was a3geffen (Adrie van Geffen, NL) with 16 points and third Rostved66 (Frank Rostved, DK) with 15 points.

The features on Mahjong Time that make it possible to ‘do it yourself’ are not found on any other server. By my knowledge this was the first time that players organised an online tournament and pulled it off. With some effort all kinds of tournaments could be held. Club against club, country against country, guild against guild, or just an open tournament as Janco did. It just takes someone who says: I will start it.

Pos.	Name	MJT Name	MP	TP
1	Dimphy van Grinsven	Briesje	377	18
2	Adrie van Geffen	a3geffen	325	16
3	Frank Rostved	Rostved66	212	15
4	Julia Deerfield	Greenlady3	36	15
5	Yulia Kamaeva - Heliangelus	dzumshud	327	13
6	Alla Danilevskaya	outline	104	12
7	Els Lamers	Ladyfinger	120	11
8	Janco Onnink	Janco	3	11
9	Ton Rijnders	Thorgal	-14	11
10	Sandra van de Berkt	berkt	-62	11
11	Annamaria	PengWin	-101	10
12	Hanneke Morel	dertienwezen	-146	10
13	Annabelle Di Domenico	MANNABEL99	136	9
14	Vitaly Novikov	ComboRus	51	9
15	Conny Scheffler	Dragonone	-227	8
16	Evgeniya Netrebina	Yenia	-285	8
17	Ans Hoogland	panda41	-224	7
18	Nefel Tarivivi	Enel	-196	6
19	Chris Scheffler	playgmes/Dragon2	-208	5
20	Corinne Di Domenico	batcoco	-228	5