We are pleased to announce that, following the success of previous tournaments in Richmond, Devina Steck has kindly organised a further event for Saturday, November 9th, and Sunday, November 10th, 2024. Registration is open for this tournament, and details can be found here.
This Championship takes place in Valencia from 5-8th December 2024. Because of the UK Riichi community’s successes over recent years and the growing popularity of Riichi in the UK, we have been allocated 10 places in this major tournament. The UKMA has responsibility for nominating the UK’s representatives. We have sought interest from those UK… Read More »European Riichi Championship 2024
James Green is organizing a one-day Riichi tournament, the Peak District Green Dragons Tournament, with the support of the UKMA. It will be held on Saturday, 28 September, in the lovely town of Bakewell, Derbyshire. All the details, including the registration form, are on the tournament webpage here: https://jankenron.co.uk/
We are pleased to announce the first ever Welsh Riichi Championship to be held on Saturday, 15th and Sunday 16th October in Cardiff. Aptly named the Welsh Red Dragon Tournament, we expect to witness many dragons – of all colours! Registration is now open at https://jankenron.co.uk/. It would be great to see as many of… Read More »Welsh Red Dragon Tournament
The third online tournament sponsored by the Mahjongtime platform took place over the weekend of 14th/15th January 2023. Once again, a healthy cohort of international players joined the UK entrants to compete for the trophies and sponsored cash prizes generously donated by Mahjongtime.com Irina Spelincova, won four and took two second places from the eight… Read More »The Third UK Online Riichi Online Tournament
I am pleased to tell you that there is an opportunity to play a Riichi tournament F2F in the UK on 18th-19th March 2023. The tournament is being run by the Twickenham Mahjong Club. There are limited places available, so get in early for an EMA-approved event at the prestigious Richmond Bridge Club. See the… Read More »Riichi Mahjong Tournament
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
After a 2 year break we are pleased to announce that registration for the 11th UK Open Riichi Mahjong Championship, and the 3rd UK Open MCR Tournament is now open. Both tournaments will take place at a new venue in Godalming, Surrey. The MCR Tournament is on Friday 22nd July; the Riichi Championship on Saturday 23rd – Sunday 24th July 2022. Full… Read More »11th UK Open Riichi Mahjong Championship & the 3rd UK Open MCR Tournament 2022
We are very pleased to announce following last year’s successful event that we have arranged a second UKMA online tournament to be held on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th December. This tournament will be hosted on the Mahjong Time platform which is popular among many European players. It is open to allcomers. There will be attractive prizes for… Read More »The Second UK Online Riichi Tournament
The 1st UK Online Tournament was held over the weekend of 12th and 13th December 2020 on the Mahjong Time platform. We had 88 players at the outset with the vast majority keeping to the agreement to play all 8 rounds; we received very good support and prizes from the Mahjong Time administrators, and the… Read More »1st UK Online Riichi Tournament – 2020