Mahjong Life and Living

For the most part,  MLeague provided me some "sport" viewing.  I've been a general fan of sports, namely the NFL, the World Cup, and the Olympics.  However, I have developed a disdain for television.  With MLeague viewing free this year via Abema's site , it's been a pleasure watching the games live.  I could watch the games on demand within a week after each game day.  However, sport viewing dictates live viewing; or else it feels pointless.  The element of the unknown outcome makes sport viewing a special kind of entertainment. Who's my choice team?  I side with the U-Next Pirates primarily because of ASAPIN .  As a Tenhou.net player, he can still be generally viewed as "one of us".  Eventually, I learned that all four members play quite a bit of Tenhou. As far as riichi mahjong itself is concerned, MLeague is one of the best developments over the past couple years.  The league provides a nexus for the different professional ...

The following is an overview post written in my Facebook, that I posted a year ago. I took the liberty of copy-pasting here: By now, the end of this year's World Riichi Competition had passed a few days ago. Since then, I had stayed over at my sister's residence just to get a feel of living in this town (again). The past five days were reserved for some quality family time. In general, it was some good downtime after a large event, where I had a tremendous amount of fun and enjoyment. By this point, I presume everyone else had made their way home. Tomorrow, I make my return home; and as soon as I arrive, I plan to make my way home to my mahjong club. Given any large event, we have multiple people from multiple directions, and they are all mutually unique from one another. Yet, general commonality brings such people together due to a shared common interest. To be more specific, we are a bunch of very crazy people willing to spend some extra money just to play this...

The  2019 Los Angeles Saikouisen Pro Tournament was on Labor Day weekend (Aug 31-Sep 1).  For me, it was four days of automatic table play with LAPOM's tables.  With the event in the past, I can look back on this tournament, just like all the others.  As always, there had been some interesting moments.  Due to the recency of this tournament, I have this event split into five articles, counting this one. I initially had a general policy to not attend any mahjong tournament for 2019, unless it was a convenient road trip.  After a deep talk with family on my Vegas trip earlier this year, I could not justify my attendance, that involved flights.  It was a matter of expense.  I did check Chicago to Los Angeles flights and prices were reasonable.  So, attendance came to within reason.  In the end, I became compelled to go via Facebook private message.  Eventually, I became convinced to attend; so I did. With that said, this is my gen...