Instant Ramen Taikai 2022

It’s time for the first chicken-flavored riichi tournament in Kraków! The tournament will be held on 3rd April 2022 in Boardowa Cafe and will use modified EMA rules. Additionally, the tournament will be included in the Upper-Silesian Mahjong Association ranking.

Below you will find all the tournament details and the link to the registration form. We accept new participants until 20th March, but we’d like to accept sign-ups as fast as possible in order to be able to estimate the number of participants.

Every registered participant gets a cup of instant ramen for DIY preparation + multi-use chopsticks for eating the ramen. ❤️

About

• Date: 3rd April 2022 (Sunday)
• Place: Boardowa Cafe, Topolowa 52, 31-506 Kraków
• Rules: modified EMA 2016; uma +15/+5/-5/-15; no oka
• Hanchans: 4
• Judges: Michał Herda (will not play)
• Substitute players: TBA
• Fee: 45 PLN (30 PLN for use at the Boardowa bar)
• Participant limit: 24
• Scoring: Mahjong Tracker

Rules

The ruleset is EMA 2016 with the following modifications:

Bird of Honor

1s is counted as one of souzu or an active honor depending on what gives a greater score. This means the following:

• A pair of 1s can give 2 fu for an active honor pair (it blocks pinfu this way);
• 1s is neither a dragon nor a wind, so it cannot replace any in shousangen/daisangen lub shousuushii/daisuushii;
• A koutsu or kantsu from 1s can count as fanpai kura (see below).

Additional yaku: fanpai kura (蔵)

• Koutsu or kantsu from 1s treated as honors.
• Valid for winning via tsumo or ron.
• Worth 1 han.

Additional yaku: kinkei dokuritsu (金鶏独立)

• Four melded groups + single wait (hadaka tanki) on 1s.
• Valid for winning via tsumo or ron.
• Always worth 5 han (mangan), does not combine with other yaku (but combines with dora).

Yakitori

• Penalty for not winning a single hand during the whole hanchan.
• Worth -10000 points, counted before uma.

Examples

The hand above is a honitsu in manzu + fanpai kura.

This hand does not use the bird of honor rule, because then it would count only as honitsu + kura; instead, this hand is a “standard” chinitsu in souzu.

This hand is yakuman tsuuiisou.

If we count the 1s as pair as a honor pair, we get 2 fu. It is better to instead count it as a pair of normal tiles, which gets us pinfu.

This is just a kinkei dokuritsu, worth a mangan - we ignore the white dragon.

If we count kinkei dokuritsu, then this hand is only a mangan. We should instead count it as chinitsu toitoi, worth a haneman.

Agenda

Participant list

Registration

Here!