Europe may host 1st WC Riichi. MaybeAMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, January, 27th - There is a chance that a first world championship riichi mahjong will be held the years to come. And this might very well take place somewhere in Europe. This is stated in a report, written for the Dutch mahjong association. Picture: The Second European Mahjong Championship, Hanover, Germany, 2010. Read more…
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| Written by Martin Rep |
| Thursday, 07 January 2010 06:29 |
COPENHAGEN - The European Mahjong Association EMA has re-established the official ranking for online tournaments. This 'MORSE' (Mahjong Online Ranking System Europe) was discontinued last year, when EMA cancelled the cooperation with Mahjong Time, the organizer of online tournaments. Exclusively for its readers, MahjongNews from now on presents the World MORSE Ranking, as a spin-off of the formal EMA Ranking. The new MORSE no longer is dependent from Mahjong Time. EMA can acknowledge any online tournament to be used for the official ranking.According to EMA president Robert Rijnders, the decision has been taken since the discontinuation of the cooperation with MahjongTime has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the MORSE. However, for the near future, no new online tournaments are to be expected. On the EMA ranking, only European players are implied. MahjongNews has decided to publish a ranking in which all players will be implied who participated in the MORSE tournaments. As a result of this, the Mahjong News ranking contains the names of 127 players, while the EMA Ranking list 97 European players. Both the EMA Ranking as the Mahjong News Ranking is calculated by Adrie van Geffen (his website). The new World MORSE ranking |
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