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Pity reply.

I'd probably know if I went outside ever

>>9608942
Replied because I love you Alice!

>>9608917
In America the mahjong scene is pretty much the American abomination and that solitaire bullshit.

I should find a taco shop that allows people to use a table for games and see if my local animu meetup group is down for riichi mahjong.

>>9609772
there is uspml

>>9608917
Well it depends, The big Mahjong boom, in America, happened in the 1940's and the main option to play was actually the Chinese Standard. What killed it in America was the fact that so many people tried to change it into something the "Western Mindset" could handle and that lead to it's death (Before you Eurofriends start up this happened twice in Europe, once during the mild English boom in the late 1910's/early 1920's and again during the larger European boom in the 1940's). There was also a mild resurgence in the 1980's thanks to yuppies and the obsession with emulating the success of Asian business practices.

Along with a bunch of factors that means that, in general, the average American mahjong player is likely to be an older female and also likely to play either American Standard or Chinese Standard.

When it comes to Riichi Mahjong, you're more likely to get a hand going if you head to either a Japan-centric group (Like an anime club or an Otaku Culture group) or by heading to your local Chinatown.

The American Mahjong Association actually holds a bi-annual cruise and is more than willing to host tournaments or provide information on how to play and the basics of even setting up a tournament. They largely play American standard but usually you can find a few people willing to play variants so that's pretty fun. All the tournaments are either American standard or American standard with slight variations.

I wouldn't recommend them though because they're jerks who wouldn't let me update their website, seriously, when I asked it was straight from the 1990's then they got someone's kid to do a quick redesign and he still has the e-commerce logo up on the shop page. It's been nearly a year now, it's just disgusting.

so I hope I was helpful

>>9608917

>>9613095

>>9617294
That's a very ineffective bump

I was trying to find something at least useful in Toronto, Canada, but the only thing I've come across is a university club that doesn't even update their website %90 of the time.

Huh, both of my old IDs expired.

Maybe I should hunt for some cool expired name.

Are there any decent guides or tips on what to do / what not to do in riichi majong on the internet? By that I mean stuff beyond what hands you can use to win with.

>>9619361

http://justanotherjapanesemahjongblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.osamuko.com/

I'd recommend starting with tile efficiency.

>>9619408
Thanks a lot!