{"id":634,"date":"2018-08-25T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/index.php\/2018\/08\/25\/inaugural-uk-open-mcr-championship-2018\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:13:00","slug":"inaugural-uk-open-mcr-championship-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/08\/25\/inaugural-uk-open-mcr-championship-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural UK Open MCR Championship – 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a curtain raiser to this year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MCR is typically played with a more stringent discipline than in Riichi and this was evident in the way some of the inexperienced home players adapted to the rules, i.e., the hard way! Nevertheless, the tournament was played in good spirit and local understanding of this variant has increased enormously. It was interesting to see some Riichi players observing play during the latter stages of the tournament. Luc Humbert achieved the highest score available of 88 points for a single scoring feature when he collected big dragons in the first round. Sandra Berthommier won the prize for the highest score from a single deal with 120 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The large majority of the UK players were playing in their first MCR tournament. While there were therefore no great expectations of a home win, Andy Mathew, one of the MCR \u2018virgins\u2019 secured a creditable third place behind President of the European Mahjong Association, Luc Humbert, and the winner from Spain, Raul Rios Navarro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tournament Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/strong><\/td>Player<\/strong><\/td>Country<\/td>Final Score<\/strong><\/td>Final Points<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Ra\u00fal R\u00edos Navarro<\/td>\"ESP\"<\/td>410<\/td>12<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Luc Humbert<\/td>\"SUI\"<\/td>308<\/td>12<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Andy Mathew<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>367<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Bruno Manzo<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>304<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Peter Langford<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>218<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Anna Canova Putinier<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>157<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Joel Ratsimandresy<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>116<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Gemma Sakamoto<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>-25<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>John Duckworth<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>153<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>Tony Haley<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>79<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>Timur Hahn<\/td>\"DEU\"<\/td>133<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>Ildiko Hargitai<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>-11<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>Ian Fraser<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>-160<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/td>Annabel Di Domenico<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>-190<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>Jeanne Manzo<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>-83<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>
16<\/td>Norma Todd<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>-285<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>
17<\/td>John Todd<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>-491<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/td>Matthias Trinkl<\/td>\"AUT\"<\/td>-286<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/td>Sandra Berthommier<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>-307<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>Richard Langtry<\/td>\"GB\"<\/td>-437<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Represented Countries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"GB\"<\/td>\"FRA\"<\/td>\"ESP\"<\/td>\"SUI\"<\/td>\"DEU\"<\/td>\"AUT\"<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>6<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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As a curtain raiser to this year\u2019s 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<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[24,22,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcr","category-riichi","category-tournament-results","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}