The 2019 tournament season gets underway with an inaugural event – Riichi Twickenham on 13/14 April to be held at the excellent facilities of the Richmond Bridge Club. Entry via the tournament website will shortly be available. Looking further ahead, the UK Riichi Open will take place on 27/28 July. We have once again secured the Guildford RFC premises in Godalming for… Read More »2019 Tournament News
The first North London mahjong tournament was held in Cheshunt on 3rd and 4th November. Masterminded by Michael Donaghy, and with the assistance of some willing helpers, the tournament was a great success and attracted 36 players from 7 countries and all parts of the UK (including the Shetlands!). The location was the Lee Valley… Read More »The North London Riichi Open
Evidence of the growing strength of the UK’s riichi playing community was on clear display in Valencia over the weekend of 15/16 September where Nick Dyer took second place over the classic eight round event. Nick occupied a ‘podium’ spot throughout most of the tournament and was only pipped in the last two rounds by… Read More »‘Mr & Mrs’ success in Spain’s inaugural Riichi Open
This year’s tournament attracted the largest and most widespread support in the history of the event with four dozen domestically based players and twenty from overseas taking part. It was particularly pleasing to note that there were more British players alone than have played in any previous event.as well as the largest representation to date… Read More »9th UK Open Riichi Championship – 2018
As a curtain raiser to this year’s UK Open Riichi tournament, the first ever MCR rules tournament in the United Kingdom was held on 3rd August, attracting not only the small number of local enthusiasts, but also a significant group of overseas visitors from six different countries. MCR is typically played with a more stringent… Read More »Inaugural UK Open MCR Championship – 2018
It is pleasing to note that the UK playing community and tournament programme is growing year by year, and that many more of our number have been participating with some considerable success in the European tournament programme. We have also seen the first evidence of participation by our members in MCR events, and we are… Read More »2018 Tournament News
The eighth UK Riichi Open attracted forty competitors, including players from Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy and even China (although the winner, Yihe Lu, is in practice, presently studying at Warwick University). In fact, one of the longest distance travellers to the tournament was Brigit Berkitt – all the way from the Shetland Islands, 800 miles… Read More »8th UK Open Riichi Championship – 2017
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 website is now open for registration for the eighth UK Riichi Open which will take place in Godalming, Surrey on August 12th – 13th. Following the successes of last year’s UK Open tournament in Cambridge, and the successful staging of the European event we hope that more of our home grown riichi players will be… Read More »8th UK Riichi Open 2017
An almost exclusively home based, yet most pleasing 32 competitors participated in the first UK tournament of the year in Oxford, a one day, five round competition organised by Martin and Cressida Lester, setting the scene for a successful year of tournament activity. The event was won by Chris Endicott, with tournament debutant Russel Chan… Read More »Great Scholars Riichi Mahjong Tournament – March 2017