Think its a great cooperation between Mahjong Time and Mah Jongg Madness.
I enjoyed playing Mahjong Time in the past but I prefer the client at Mahjong Express, but will most likely give this a try again for the tournament. In the mean time I will be spending my time at Mahjong Express.
Mahjong Time Teams Up With Mah Jongg Madness
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- Created on Wednesday, 04 July 2012 08:02
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:00
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SAN DIEGNO, California - July 04, 2012 -- Mahjong Time today announced that it has teamed up with Mah Jongg Madness to provide online players with officially sanctioned Global Mahjong Tournament (GMT) Master Points® events. Mahjong Time’s Global Mahjong Tournaments are are four-hour-long events ranked in an official competitive environment using the Global Mahjong Tournament Ranking system (GMTR). With the official sanctioning of American Mahjong GMTs by Mah Jongg Master Points®, winners of these events receive one Master Point, which raises their rankings in the Master Points system.
The Mahjong Master Points® system was developed by Mah Jongg Madness, which has been conducting American-style Mahjong tournaments for over 26 years. Led by Mah Jongg Grandmaster and activist Gladys Grad. Mah Jongg Madness has had a longstanding reputation of prestige and close-knit community, which attracts hundreds upon hundreds of mahjong enthusiasts to its live tournaments.
Mahjong Time’s CEO Slava Novozhenya commented: “We are very excited to collaborate with Mah Jongg Madness in hosting officially sanctioned Master Points tournaments. The Master Points system has many official rules and regulations to ensure the legitimacy and fairness of its sanctioned events, all of which have been met by the American GMTs at Mahjong Time. We are proud to pioneer the bridging of live and online Mah Jongg by being the only online platform to offer an official online environment for Master Points players to advance their rankings.”
Mah Jongg Madness’ Gladys Grad added: “Evolving from small social gatherings in someone’s living room, to large tournament events where hundreds gather; then progressing to the technology that offers the ability to join in a game with someone from across the County.... now the Ranks and status that Master Points offers is the next important step in the online progress of the game.”
Master Points sanctioned Global Mah jongg Tournaments will be available at Mahjong Time on 07/28/2012.
Mah Jongg Madness
Over 26 years ago, Mah Jongg Madness (MJM) conducted its first National MJ tournament Cruise Tournament in cooperation with the National Mah Jongg League. Specializing in three-day tournaments, tradeshows, and week-long cruise tournaments, MJM has set the standard in professionally conducted MJ events.
Mahjong Time
Founded in 2004, San Diego-based Mahjong Time is a premier provider of online and mobile multiplayer mahjong software and complete turnkey solutions. The Mahjong Time in-browser, downloadable, Android, and iOS platforms provide eight different mahjong rule sets that appeal to the needs of discerning players worldwide. Offered features include advanced subscription, tournament play, and Web 2.0 capabilities which allow players greater connectivity, including the ability to establish friend networks and to create private game rooms.
(Press Release by Mahjong Time)
Comments (2)
1Thursday, 05 July 2012 16:33
Bobby J
2Saturday, 07 July 2012 13:56
Adrie van Geffen
I was not aware that Mahjong Express supported the NMJL-rules (American).
The chances of that happening are slim to none. At least slimmer than say, forcing non-alcoholic venues...
When DMJL was approached by Spielbank Hannover in 2011 about providing know-how and material for a Mah-Jongg tournament with money prizes the board discussed, if a cooperation seemed possible and worthwhile - the publicly available board minutes from March 2011 reflected on this (originally in German - inofficially translated [and commented] here): Apart from earnings for the association a cooperation promises a possible contact to the responsible regulatory authority [to gain higher legal certainty about DMJL's self-organised non-gambling tournaments] and obviously the development of contact to a potential sponsor, namely the Spielbank herself. The board decided unanimously that a cooperation was desirable.
To draw a line between the paid-for support of legal gambling and DMJL's very own activities, the board also decided (also unanimously), that DMJL would only act as a service provider for the said tournament, but would not want to benefit from publicity in the course of gambling activities, so that it would not be (even mistakenly) seen as an organiser of such. More over the board stressed the importance of an adequate distinction (in rules, exposition of differing procedures etc.) between events of gambling and mind sport.
There was not a minute of discussion within the board, before Uwe Pelzer terminated the cooperation with the Spielbank/RP5 - no information about his findings, no questions, no suggestions, he just acted on his own. So, Frauke, the board was neither unable nor unwilling to find an answer to the question, if this said (and before unanimously supported) cooperation should've been terminated - it was simply not asked.