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| Castle Hotel Weikersdorf |
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Martin Hoffman (left) and Martin Mauthner of the Baden Mahjong Club.
Background: Ernest Glaser, of the same club. |
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The Open European Mahjong Championship 2009 will be a greater sportive challenge than the OEMC '07 in Copenhagen, and it will take place in an even more splendid location than the OEMC '05 (Nijmegen).
The first Open European Mahjong Championship in 2005 was an initiative of Dutch mahjong player Martin Rep. It was an unforgettable happening. But three other Martins are determined to make the Open European Mahjong Championship 2009 an greater success than its Dutch and Danish predecessors. Martin Scheichenbauer, Martin Hoffmann and Martin Mauthner want to make the OEMC 2009 a greater sportive challenge than the OEMC '07 in Copenhagen, in an even more beautiful location than the OEMC '05.
The OEMC 2005 took place in the beautiful concert hall ‘De Vereeniging’. For the OEMC 2009, the Martins of the Baden mahjong club (Martin Hoffmann and Martin Mauthner) are talking with the management of the beautiful ‘Schloßhotel’ (Castle Hotel) Weikersdorf in Baden.
The hotel is famous for its rose garden. The tournament will probably take place on July 2~4, 2009, and then there still will be plenty of roses, according to the Martins, so the mahjong players who come here from all over the world will be able to stroll through the rose-covered terraces of the park. The hotel has a covered inner garden with a surface of over 160 square meters - large enough to host some forty mahjong tables; ‘even more’, say the Martins.
Challenge
The Baden Martins take care of the location, whilst Martin Scheichenbauer, president of the Austrian Mahjong League (Österreichischer Mahjong Verband) is in charge of the competition part. In Nijmegen, seven sessions of ninety minutes took place; in Copenhagen, there were eight rounds of 120 minutes, but in Austria, the players will face an even heavier sportive challenge: nine rounds of 120 minutes, i.e. three on Thursday, four on Friday and two on Saturday.
In spite of all these promising plans, the subscription fee for the participants should not be higher than it was in Copenhagen: 170 euros. But then, the Martins are quite optimistic about the sponsoring options.
‘For those 170 euros, the players will get three days of mahjong, lunches and a state banquet’, promise the Martins. ‘And there will be more surprises. To early to tell about, though.’
 First newsletter of Baden 2009 (PDF document) >>
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