The UKMA hosted the 4th running of this event at The Maltings in Farnham, Surrey over the 3 days of 7th – 9th October 2016. Farnham proved to be a very hospital and popular location with the visitors, and The Maltings proved itself to be an excellent venue for this major event. The UKMA benefitted from the… Read More »The Mahjong News European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2016
We are proud to have organised the biggest Riichi tournament staged in Europe to date, with no less than 21 countries providing 128 entrants. The Mayor of Farnham provided a welcoming reception for distinguished visitors from overseas, and kindly agreed to open the tournament officially. The leading places were taken by players from Russia, Netherlands,… Read More »European Riichi Championship 2016
Cambridge in July proved to be an excellent venue for the 7th UK Open tournament which was organised by Phillip Bielby of the Cambridge Riichi Mahjong Club, one of the UK’s most successful players and Cambridge graduate. St. Andrews Hall Chesterton was a fine location for the two day tournament, Cambridge itself provided many good… Read More »7th UK Open Riichi Tournament – 2016
Plans are moving ahead for the staging of this prestigious tournament. There has been heavy demand both from home and abroad for the limited number of places available. The following have been selected as UK representatives: Philip Bielby, Paola Bungaro, Daina Chiba, Michael Donaghy, Shaun Drury, Ian Fraser, Peter Langford, Martin Lester and Gemma Sakamoto.… Read More »European Riichi Championship 2016
This year’s UK Open Riichi Tournament (it is the seventh one) will be held in Cambridge on 30/31st July. As usual it will be a MERS2 rated event, recognised by the European Mahjong Association as part of its programme of events. Registration is now open here
We are delighted to announce that the UK has been awarded the right to stage the 2016 European Riichi Mahjong Championship. It will be held from 7-9 October, 2016, in Farnham at the Farnham Maltings Arts Centre and feature top players from all over Europe. Visit the championship website for full details.
The 8th certified Polish Riichi tournament held in Warsaw, 21-22 November 2015 produced a British winner. From 2nd place with one hanchan to play Michael Donaghy racked up 103,000 points in the final round to win by a staggering 109,400 points. The second British entrant John Duckworth finished 6th after an indifferent 2nd day to… Read More »UK success in Warsaw
The 6th UK Open tournament was won by co-organiser and UKMA chairman, Peter Langford. He had shared the top two positions with Phillip Bielby, UK’s top ranked player, for several rounds, until their direct clash in Round 7, won by Peter with Phillip in second place. A narrow final round win for the new leader… Read More »6th UK Open Riichi Tournament – 2015
After the opening Riichi tournaments of 2015 the UK has moved a further position up the ranking list into third place behind Russia and Denmark, and narrowly (but pleasingly) ahead of Austria, courtesy of some excellent performances by UK players. In the Graz Open, the UK duo of Martin Lester and Philip Bielby finished 7th… Read More »Further UK Riichi Success
The European Mahjong Association maintains a ranking list of players of both MCR and Riichi, based on their performances in major tournaments. Just like the world golf and tennis rankings this ranking list is fluid as older results fall away to be replaced by more recent ones. Despite being a relative newcomer to the European… Read More »UK Moves Up the Rankings