The World Riichi Championship takes place this year from 1st to 6th July in Tokyo. The UK has been allocated only three places this year. The UKMA has considered the merits of the players we originally selected for the recent European Championship in Valencia and added those whose most recent performances have been particularly strong.… Read More »WRC 2025
The third edition of the World Riichi Championships took place in Vienna, in August 2022. There were 152 hopefuls from a record 34 countries. The event had been postponed from 2020 and 2021 due to the global health pandemic. Final numbers were a little lower than planned following the exclusion of Russian/Belarussian players due to… Read More »World Riichi Championships 2022
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… Read More »2nd World Riichi Championship – Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
The 2nd World Riichi Championship 2017 takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada October 4th to 8th. The UK has been allocated 5 seats. Here again, applications are invited from UK players wishing to be considered for these places by contacting UKMA.