{"id":645,"date":"2017-08-20T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/index.php\/2017\/08\/20\/8th-uk-open-riichi-championship-2017\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:13:00","slug":"8th-uk-open-riichi-championship-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/20\/8th-uk-open-riichi-championship-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"8th UK Open Riichi Championship &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 \u2013 all the way from the Shetland Islands, 800 miles away from the Godalming venue, but still within the British Isles (just).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yihe was never far from the lead throughout the tournament, although the early running was also made by Denmark\u2019s Sebastian Lavall\u00e9e, along with home based players James Green and local players, Andy Mathew and partnered locals Nick Dyer and Paola Bungaro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of rounds 3&amp;4, James and Andy were overtaken in the lead by Martijn Gulmans from Netherlands, with Michael Donaghy and Ryo Fukaura also showing among the leaders for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in Round 6 that Yihe took first took the overall lead with a 70,000+ session at the expense of, among others early leader Martijn &#8211; a lead that he would never relinquish. A strong finish by Michael Donaghy, beginning the final round with dealer Baiman and dealer Haneman on the first two hands, propelled him up seven positions into second place, while Ryo and Jason swapped positions in the same round, finishing in third and fourth places respectively. The \u2018Better 2Day\u2019 prize was won by Martijn Klaar, moving up the rankings by thirteen places in the process to ninth spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 10 tables in play over 8 rounds, (80 Hanchan) some \u2018tournament titbits\u2019 may be of interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>846 hands were played in total<\/li><li>10.5 hands per hanchan was the average number of hands played<\/li><li>50 hanchan (62.5%) completed South 4<\/li><li>4 more games reached but did not complete South 4<\/li><li>15 hanchan finished in South 3<\/li><li>6 hanchan finished in South 2<\/li><li>3 hanchan failed to get beyond South 1<\/li><li>2 hanchan got stuck in East 4! (playing 9 and 11 hands, respectively)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Competitors recorded the playing time for 68 of the Hanchan which averaged out at 7.5 minutes per hand \u2013 that is the playing time including all shuffling, wall building, dealing, playing and scoring too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>14 (!) was the record number of hands played in one completed hanchan<\/li><li>45 minutes the fastest game to finish (8 hands)<\/li><li>13 hands in 76 minutes the fastest sustained rate of play<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the winners, of course, but also to all other competitors for a competition played in the excellent collaborative spirit of mutual encouragement that is the hallmark of Riichi mahjong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tournament Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Final Score<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Yihe Lu<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CHI\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chi.gif\"><\/td><td>179,100<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Michael Donaghy<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>129,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Ryo Fukaura<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>126,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td>Jason He<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>126,100<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Martijn Gulmans<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NED\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ned.gif\"><\/td><td>117,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>James Green<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>108,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>Philip Bielby<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>85,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>Andy Mathew<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>82,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td>Martijn Klaar<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NED\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ned.gif\"><\/td><td>76,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Tony Haley<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>71,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11<\/td><td>Tom Wood<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>60,900<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12<\/td><td>Yixuan Liu<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>30,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13<\/td><td>Max Bowsher<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>22,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14<\/td><td>Timur Hahn<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEU\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/deu.gif\"><\/td><td>22,100<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15<\/td><td>Paola Bungaro<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>21,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16<\/td><td>Shaun Drury<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>15,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17<\/td><td>John Duckworth<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>9,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18<\/td><td>Nick Dyer<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-4,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19<\/td><td>David Clarke<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-8,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20<\/td><td>Selina Steck<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SUI\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sui.gif\"><\/td><td>-10,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>21<\/td><td>Mike Short<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-14,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>22<\/td><td>Marco Bazzocchi<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ITA\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ita.gif\"><\/td><td>-29,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>23<\/td><td>Mark Haines<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-34,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>24<\/td><td>Sonia Yagi<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-35,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>25<\/td><td>Martin Lester<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-37,500<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>26<\/td><td>Daina Chiba<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-38,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>26<\/td><td>Ian Fraser<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-38,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>28<\/td><td>Norma Todd<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-44,900<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>29<\/td><td>Gemma Sakamoto<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-52,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30<\/td><td>Devina Steck<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SUI\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sui.gif\"><\/td><td>-57,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>31<\/td><td>Leonard Hardiman<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-62,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>32<\/td><td>David Stallan<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-77,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>33<\/td><td>Peter Langford<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-87,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>34<\/td><td>Nicole Haasbroek<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NED\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ned.gif\"><\/td><td>-88,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>35<\/td><td>Hong Li<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-92,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>36<\/td><td>Richard Langtry<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-97,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>37<\/td><td>Sebastien Lavallee<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEN\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/den.gif\"><\/td><td>-108,900<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>38<\/td><td>Birgitt Beckett<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-145,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>39<\/td><td>Jem Short<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-146,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>40<\/td><td>Vincent Chu<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td>-161,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Represented Countries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GB\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gb.gif\"><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NED\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ned.gif\"><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SWI\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sui.gif\"><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CHI\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chi.gif\"><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEU\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/deu.gif\"><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ITA\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ita.gif\"><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEN\" src=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/den.gif\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>31<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>1<\/td><td>1<\/td><td>1<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 all the way from the Shetland Islands, 800 miles&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/20\/8th-uk-open-riichi-championship-2017\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8th UK Open Riichi Championship &#8211; 2017<\/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":[22,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riichi","category-tournament-results","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}