‘What does EMA gain by ending MJT partnership?’
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- Created on Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:11
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:00
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SAN DIEGO - What does EMA gain by ending up the cooperation with MahjongTime in MORSE tournaments? Slava Novozhenya, president of MahjongTime, still does not understand.
Last week, the European Mahjong Association broke off the cooperation with MahjongTime in organizing online mahjong tournaments, because this internet mahjong server had cancelled the German Online Open Championship, which was scheduled for November 7~8. Earlier, talks between the Dutch Mahjong Association and MahjongTime about MJT sponsoring the World Mahjong Championship were suspended.
But Mr. Novozhenya does not see any link between the two: the sponsor contract, and the cooperation in MORSE (the Mahjong Online Ranking System Europe).
So now he asks the visitors of MahjongNews to give their opinions. "MahjongNews readers could lead EMA to make right decisions", he says.
His question to the visitors of MahjongNews is:
"What does EMA gain by ending our partnership agreement before its expiration date? Is this decision fair for EMA players, who lost MORSE tournaments?"
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If EMA have something to gain, it's make MJT react and communicate with them.
It would be better if they react by friendly speach, and not try to turn players against EMA. Giving arguments in favor of MJT will be great too, but they didn't seem to find any.
Pointing out there is no alternative servers for now* is not a argument to justify a partnership.
*I mean in English and with Chinese Official rules.
IMO, kuitan nashi will be the most problematic point for a world championship.
To shorten my point, kuitan-nashi Mahjong is like Formula 1 racing with 3 tires. It's probably a great learning exercise (good) that they turned into the only form of testing (bad). If that was the only problem, most people could live with that. The bigger problem for EMA Mahjong is their tolerance for a type of call that would be considered cheating anywhere else: tolerating the pick-and-switch for the same tile. (chi 78+9, throw nine; pon 11+1, throw one)
For a WC-Riichi event to succeed, that last point needs to be addressed once and for all. As for the rest of the rules, it will most likely be a take it or leave it scenario. There's nothing we can do about it.
But i appreciate the current changes cuz they minimize the luck factor a bit.