{"id":1013,"date":"2025-08-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:05:49","slug":"uk-riichi-open-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/uk-riichi-open-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Riichi Open XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Onwards and upwards! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The biggest field ever assembled for the UK Riichi Open met on 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\/3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0August to contest the fourteenth iteration of the event.\u00a0 With 72 players competing, it was also the largest field for any UK event, just pipping the Solihull event played in the Spring.\u00a0\u00a0 The record won\u2019t last long, though \u2013 it seems likely that Bristol\u2019s first tournament in October will attract a full house of 80 players to set another new benchmark!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As luck would have it, the final hanchan pitted two of the leading contenders, Tom Pearson and Chris Endicott, together at table 15.\u00a0\u00a0 This confrontation created the opportunity for others to come through the pack to snatch the top prize.\u00a0\u00a0However, none would prove close enough to do so, and Philip Bielby retained his third place overall by earning a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place finish at his final table 1.\u00a0\u00a0In the battle for top spot, Tom Peason extended his narrow lead to take the title of UK Open champion, to add to his recent accomplishments of being the top performing UK player in both the most recent European and World riichi events.\u00a0 Quite a roll!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onwards and upwards! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The biggest field ever assembled for the UK Riichi Open met on 2nd\/3rd\u00a0August to contest the fourteenth iteration of the event.\u00a0 With 72 players competing, it was also the largest field for any UK event, just pipping the Solihull event played in the Spring.\u00a0\u00a0 The record won\u2019t last long, though \u2013 it&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/uk-riichi-open-xiv\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK Riichi Open XIV<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riichi","category-tournament-results","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}