My Last Address to the 2023 Chicago Area Riichi Tournament
Now that the event is over, we go forward from here with another tournament as a memory. Some of us have a collection of tournament participation in the past, while some have this one as their first one. Either way, it was certainly a collective experience. Hopefully, plenty of us have found moments, where we can think and/or say: "I like how things are right now." This thought first appeared at 2022 Riichi Nomi; in turn, I naturally gained the ability to produce puns. Likewise I was getting plenty of such thoughts this past weekend. To those who could not attend, future events are around the corner. Unlike anime conventions with their "post-con depression", everyone should walk away from this tournament feeling good. Even if your mahjong results were not as you hoped they were, you can be happy for being there feeling the "synergy" or as I had been corrected: "the flow". As mahjong players, that feeling of "flow" feeds off of e