The 2nd World Championship of Riichi mahjong will be held from 4-8 October, 2017 in Las Vegas. https://worldriichi.org/ There are four places available for UK players and the following players have been selected:
Michael Donaghy, Martin Lester, Christopher Rowe and Yixuan Liu, current holder of the UK Open title.
In addition, based on his performance as the best placed European player in the first World Championship in Paris in 2014, John Duckworth will also be competing by right.
We wish all our competitors well, but can any of them match or even improve on John Duckworth’s semi finalist position in 2015 when he was the only European player remaining with seven Japanese pro players?