[{"content":"We now have an updated About Us page, which includes all the details on our new governance structure.\nWe look forward to seeing more officer nominations and community engagement, especially with the success of the recent Victorian Riichi Mahjong Open, the upcoming Melbourne Challengers Cup, and of course our annual Australian Riichi Mahjong Open, this time in Adelaide. We hope to see you all there!\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2026-09-16-new-look/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe now have an updated \u003ca href=\"/about-us/\"\u003eAbout Us\u003c/a\u003e page, which includes all the details on our new governance structure.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe look forward to seeing more officer nominations and community engagement, especially with the\nsuccess of the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.vicriichi.org/mahjong-events/victorian-riichi-open-2026\"\u003eVictorian Riichi Mahjong Open\u003c/a\u003e,\nthe upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.vicriichi.org/melbourne-challengers-cup-2026\"\u003eMelbourne Challengers Cup\u003c/a\u003e,\nand of course our annual \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/armo2026\"\u003eAustralian Riichi Mahjong Open\u003c/a\u003e, this time in Adelaide.\nWe hope to see you all there!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A new look for ARMA"},{"content":"Continuing our look at previous WRC participants, we now chat to Jaymond from Sydney. Jay has a long history with ARMA and was once a driving force within ARMA pioneering connections to the international community. Jay currently holds the prestigious 8 Dan rank on Tenhou and has posted several top 8 finishes in past Australian Riichi Mahjong Opens as well as having previously won the teams section of the International Online Riichi Mahjong Championship in 2019.\nQ) What is your name? How did you get into mahjong and how long have you been playing mahjong?\nMy name is Jaymond He. I was eating lunch in Uni and saw the tile shuffle of the Mahjong club. I was quite curious about it and decided to join and learn the game and the rest, they say, is history. I’ve been playing for roughly 8 years now.\nQ) Could you explain your playstyle? What type of mahjong do you like to play?\nI would categorise myself as more of an aggressive player; generally trying to find tile kabes/early discards to try and inform a way to progress my hand forward. I try to look a lot of opponent’s discards to get a vibe as to where I’m at in a hand\nQ) What are your current goals for mahjong?\nI haven’t had as much of a chance to play Mahjong recently, and I know that there’s been a general rise in the use of Mahjong AI to help facilitate gameplay. I think my current goal is to touch base with the Mahjong AI meta and learn some more Mahjong from an angle I may have never considered!\nQ) Could you describe your previous experience at WRC 2022 Vienna? Has that experience changed the way you look at Mahjong?\nMy experience at WRC 2022 was absolutely exceptional! A few of the Australians shared a house with a few Americans and it was really amazing to connect with the international Mahjong community. I think the experience just showed me how much Riichi mahjong there is out there and how much potential there is to grow the game + passion there are between dedicated people.\nQ) Why are you trying to qualify for WRC and what would it mean to you if you did?\nI always want to be improving myself and testing my mettle against the best which naturally drew me to trying to qualify again for WRC. I think it would be amazing to connect with the Mahjong community and would mean absolutely the world to me if i could qualify again.\nAs of the writing of this article Jay holds a middle of the pack rank of 9/22 in the Aussie WRC Qualifier League. Despite how rusty he is, he appears to be making good ground and has the momentum going into this week’s competition. We look forward to seeing Jay come back to actively competing and his evolution as a player as he integrates AI into his gameplay.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2025-01-26-australian-hopefuls-interview-6-jaymond-he/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eContinuing our look at previous WRC participants, we now chat to Jaymond from Sydney. Jay has a long history with ARMA and was once a driving force within ARMA pioneering connections to the international community. Jay currently holds the prestigious 8 Dan rank on Tenhou and has posted several top 8 finishes in past Australian Riichi Mahjong Opens as well as having previously won the teams section of the International Online Riichi Mahjong Championship in 2019.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Australian Hopefuls Interview Series: Jaymond \"Jaycakes\" He"},{"content":"Chasing a dream is difficult. Often you don’t reach the top of the mountain on your first try. This week we chat to 2 players who have previously been to WRC and discuss their thoughts on trying to make it back to the base of that mountain to attempt another climb.\nAaron “Cheez” Chee is a long time member of ARMA. Having started riichi back in 2014, he’s been working hard ever since to polish his ability to tanki on chun. Since that fateful year Aaron has created quite the resume for himself including multiple well placed finishes in events including ARMA WRC League, ARMO, and AusRML.\nQ) What is your name? How did you get into mahjong and how long have you been playing?\nHi, I’m Aaron Chee, better known as Cheez in the Riichi Mahjong community. My introduction to Mahjong was through Singaporean Mahjong as I grew up watching and playing it with my family.\nAround 2014, my friend introduced me to Riichi Mahjong and I absolutely loved the game. I introduced the game to many others while running the Mahjong club at my university in 2015/16 before ranking on Tenhou in 2017 and Mahjong Soul when it came out in 2019.\nI have competed in multiple domestic and international tournaments and plan to continue doing so.\nQ) Could you explain your playstyle? What type of mahjong do you like to play?\nI used to play quite menzen, aiming for higher value hands, however that has changed more recently as I experiment with different ways to approach the game. This is something I wish to continue working on as I play and watch others play.\nIn casual games, you can find me forcing waits on chun.\nQ) What do you do apart from mahjong?\nVictorian WorkCover claims manager by day, gacha gamer by night. However, I do generally spend a lot of my time with Mahjong whether it be ranking, competing, running events or mentoring others.\nQ) What are your current goals for mahjong?\nMy general goal is to continue looking at improving with every game I play. Secondly, although I may be regarded by some as a relatively strong player, I don’t personally feel I have a result to show for it so I would like to win some events in 2025.\nQ) How do you study mahjong?\nUnlike others, I probably don’t put as much time into reading material or understanding statistics. Instead I learn by playing and replaying games as well as watching others. I feel like my decision-making is guided by recognising patterns of information I may have previously experienced. For those who have read/watched Saki, I would liken it to Someya Mako and how her playstyle is portrayed.\nQ) Could you describe your previous experience at WRC 2022 Vienna? Has that experience changed the way you look at mahjong?\nBeing able to meet a lot of the Japanese pros as well as some of the players from other countries I had only known of online was a great experience. The Mahjong however was quite regrettable, finishing 112th out of 152 especially after starting in the top ten after the first two hanchans.\nI wouldn’t say the experience changed the way I look at Mahjong but due to the lack of regular highly competitive Mahjong events, it has made me appreciate the Australian Riichi Mahjong Opens that have been held in the past two years.\nQ) Why are you trying to qualify for WRC and what would it mean to you if you did?\nI would love to represent Australia in one of the many few international competitions that are held and be able to show the strength of the Australian Riichi scene and hopefully make a deep run (and win?).\nAt the end of week 3 of the Aussie WRC Qualifier League, Aaron is currently placed 10th/22. With only 3 weeks to go Aaron has some work cutout for him but being a world class player he can more than make up the deficit in those remaining weeks. We are eagerly watching to see if Aaron will make it back to the base of that prestigious mountain and wish him all the best in this climb.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2025-01-21-australian-hopefuls-interview-5-aaron-chee/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eChasing a dream is difficult. Often you don’t reach the top of the mountain on your first try. This week we chat to 2 players who have previously been to WRC and discuss their thoughts on trying to make it back to the base of that mountain to attempt another climb.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAaron “Cheez” Chee is a long time member of ARMA. Having started riichi back in 2014, he’s been working hard ever since to polish his ability to tanki on chun. Since that fateful year Aaron has created quite the resume for himself including multiple well placed finishes in events including ARMA WRC League, ARMO, and AusRML.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Australian Hopefuls Interview Series: Aaron \"Cheez\" Chee"},{"content":"Continuing our journey across the country, we now look at a player based out of NSW. Australia’s first Wednesday night friendlies Meijin, Seungwoo, more commonly known as Ani.\nAni joined ARMA 2 years ago and has since entrenched himself as a member of the community. He can often be found playing in our Wednesday night friendlies, where he currently holds titles in all 4 rulesets.\nQ) What is your name? How did you get into mahjong and how long have you been playing?\nMy name is Seungwoo, my friends call me Justin and my internet friends call me Ani. I just happened to watch a Korean streamer called Dawn when he was playing Mahjong soul around 2 years ago, and I decided to pick it up on a whim.\nQ) Could you explain your playstyle? what type of mahjong do you like to play?\nThe type of mahjong that makes me happy is a rational playstyle with some yomi incorporated into it – but I also want to be able to swap depending on the situation.\nQ) In your short time playing mahjong you have posted a number of good results in ARMA events and event achieved Saint 2 peak on MJS Also you are the first person in the ARMA community to achieve the “meijin” title. What do you credit to your success?\nI wouldn’t say I had a lot of success, but I do think I just had the right mindset to be able to adapt to mahjong quickly; some good resources and teachers; and a little bit of luck in regards to my St2 climb. As for the friendlies title, I think I could’ve played better during those 4 months and I hope that the title will motivate more people to come join us on Wednesdays.\nQ) What are you current goals for mahjong?\nJust to steadily become a better player, and train my mental since I sometimes do get in over my head a bit. Milestones I would like to achieve are: Cl in Mjs, 8D+ in Tenhou, WRC qualification and IORMC qualification. Of course I would like to win those events as well.\nQ) Why are you trying to qualify for WRC and what would it mean to you if you did?\nI believe qualifications and tournaments are ways I can prove and measure how much I have improved over these two years. The WRC seat is a chance for me to learn to love mahjong more, have new experiences that will improve me as a player, and give me that chance to prove that I can be the best in the world.\nAt the end of week 2, Ani has had an unfortunate start in the Aussie WRC Qualifier League and is currently placed 21/22. Whilst he still has 4 weeks to make a push for 1st, he has a significant amount of work to do, but, being one of Australia’s highest ranked players, he certainly has the capability to do so. We look forward to seeing Ani work hard to show why he deserves a WRC seat.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2025-01-16-australian-hopefuls-interview-4-seungwoo-son/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eContinuing our journey across the country, we now look at a player based out of NSW. Australia’s first Wednesday night friendlies Meijin, Seungwoo, more commonly known as Ani.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAni joined ARMA 2 years ago and has since entrenched himself as a member of the community. He can often be found playing in our Wednesday night friendlies, where he currently holds titles in all 4 rulesets.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"seungwoo-1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/images/hopeful-interviews/seungwoo-1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQ) What is your name? How did you get into mahjong and how long have you been playing?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Australian Hopefuls Interview Series: Seungwoo (Justin) \"Ani\" Son"},{"content":"Continuing our series, we work our way across the various states, this time visiting South Australia where we have Daniel “warmestRain” Bell from Adelaide. Daniel has quite the history with ARMA and has recently posted some amazing results including a dominant victory at the inaugural Adelaide Open, and a respectable 6th place finish at the Australian Riichi Mahjong Open in 2024.\nQ: What is your name? How did you get into mahjong and how long have you been playing?\nHey, I’m Daniel Bell also known online as warmestRain and aesthete. By trade I am an orchardist, so mahjong is a little different from my day to day. I learnt mahjong from my brother in law back in high school, so that was a bit over 10 years ago, but I didn’t think of it as anything special at that time.\nI was into board games of all types so I picked the rules up quickly but without competition I didn’t even consider trying to improve. Since I’ve played online in 2020 I’ve slowly been gaining interest in the game, and gaining more momentum in the competitive scene.\nQ: Could you explain your playstyle? what type of mahjong do you like to play?\nMy playstyle has adapted a lot over the years. I would describe it initially as efficiency, then as statistical mahjong, but now I’m exploring something a bit more personal.\nWhat should I call this recent style? Observational instinct, maybe? What I most enjoy in a game of mahjong is the feeling of absolute focus and calm in my mind, allowing me to observe with clarity the whole state of the game. This feeling of mental focus, combined with not judging or fixating but instead just observing everything I can is really fun! But it’s also really draining so it’s hard to do it without the impetus of competition.\nQ: You’ve been playing mahjong for a while now, in 2024 alone your Australian Team League team placed top 4, you won the Adelaide Open and you placed top 8 in ARMO24. What do you credit to your success and how have you been preparing for events?\nBefore the Adelaide Open I was mostly trying to work on stamina, so playing a lot of games in a row was how I practiced. Now that has mostly improved but I am making some silly mistakes when I let my mind wander, so I am now preparing more on the mental side.\nI sometimes train by looking through replays of tenhoui games online. I play with hands closed and no grey or winning tiles, going through each discard until I find a point in the game where I believe someone’s hand reaches tempai. Then I recall each discard, whether it is tedashi or tsumogiri and what I think the shape of each player’s hands are. Then I keep on playing through and notice how the tenhoui player reacts. This is hard work but it is excellent for my working memory, and sometimes given enough time I surprise myself.\nBefore tournaments I am the guy with his eyes closed meditating or visualising in the corner of the room. Sometimes I visualise something as simple as placing down tiles from my hand while still having that feeling of total smoothness in my mind and also my body. I was so worried going into ARMO24 that I would chombo! So I was trying super hard to be aware of all of my movements.\nQ: What are you current goals for mahjong?\nI think that mahjong is more fun as a way to connect to myself when I take it more seriously, so I am really interested in competitions where I can face that sensation of my inner desires meeting the chaos of my mind, other people, and the real world; despite my skills and hard work ultimately I still need luck to win!\nThis intersection of both control and chance is always so interesting and unexpected, and I find out both good and bad things about myself. One day I hope to be able to bring other people into this focus so we can all communicate through the subtle signals and explore this game together. For now that is a long way off, I’m so distracted with my own mind when I play!\nQ: Why are you trying to qualify for WRC and what would it mean to you if you did?\nQualifying for WRC would give me the opportunity to take my mahjong much further and get more experience with in-person competition which is difficult to do in Adelaide.\nOn top of that, qualifying for WRC would be an open door that would encourage me to explore further what mahjong might mean for my life and my community. Sometimes I ask myself how much time do I want to spend on mahjong? Well, if I’m heading to an international world-class competition, probably… a lot? Otherwise? We’ll just see how it turns out.\nAs of the writing of this article, Daniel is currently ranked 10th/22 is the Aussie WRC Qualifier League. He has also qualified for the closed AusRML A-League qualifier for the upcoming Asian Pacific Riichi Championship. Daniel’s journey has been an interesting one to follow and we look forward to seeing Daniel come more into his own and continue to develop his unique style of mahjong.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2025-01-14-australian-hopefuls-interview-3-daniel-bell/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eContinuing our series, we work our way across the various states, this time visiting South Australia where we have Daniel “warmestRain” Bell from Adelaide. Daniel has quite the history with ARMA and has recently posted some amazing results including a dominant victory at the inaugural Adelaide Open, and a respectable 6th place finish at the Australian Riichi Mahjong Open in 2024.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"daniel-1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/images/hopeful-interviews/daniel-1.png\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQ: What is your name? How did you get into mahjong and how long have you been playing?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Australian Hopefuls Interview Series: Daniel \"warmestRain\" Bell"},{"content":"Next up in our interview series is a player based out of Melbourne Victoria. Charles or better known in the community as “Kataru” joined ARMA in early 2023 and has since become a well known and liked member of the community. He is commonly found to be participating in many community events ranging from weekly Wednesday night friendlies all the way to large scale national events such as the Australian Riichi Mahjong Open where in 2024 he placed an impressive 2nd place.\nQ: What is your name and how long have you been playing mahjong?\nMy name is Charles, I’ve been playing mahjong for just under 3 years now and have been playing IRL with VRMA for around a year and a half now.\nQ: What type of mahjong do you like to play? What is your play style?\nI’m very push orientated. I really enjoy using a mawashi focused playstyle to push for 1st place even at the risk of falling to 4th.\nQ: You had a very strong finish at ARMO2024, despite the unfortunate result how did you find the experience?\nI found ARMO24 a strange event overall in terms of what actually happened in my games. I kind of just got gifted top 8 because people my team league’s captain (who had 0 chance of top cut) killed someone’s chances.\nI had a very high stakes table 6 where all I could do was ensure a last place for the current 7th player and I made top cut with mediocre rentai (2nd,4th,3rd,2nd,1st,3rd if I remember correctly).\nI was looking forward to the double pro table in top 8 but that got shuffled unfortunately.\nAfter winning game 1 in the finals and landing a direct dealer mangan on Trevor, I got lazy game in game 2. I miscalculated his gyakuten situation thinking it was sanbaiman tsumo when it was actually baiman tsumo because I missed honba. But mistakes happen, we go next.\nQ : What are your current goals for mahjong?\nIn terms of where I want to be with mahjong; I just intend on showing up to events and doing my best. The Melbourne group had been preparing for ARMO24 for like 6+ months in advance where we had only been playing WRC rules and whilst for others just taking it casually as it is friendlies; I try to keep a running track of uma, not for performance sakes but just to keep in mind how bad a “not last” really is in a non-ranked setting and to re-affirm zentsu behaviour.\nWhat would it mean for you to qualify for WRC?\nQualifying for WRC would coincide with my plans to travel to Japan early 2025 and it would be nice to play more tryhard games. I intend on meeting some former colleagues from Japan and also attending comiket with a few friends from the Melbourne group.\nAs of the writing of this interview, Charles currently ranks 3rd in the Aussie WRC Qualifier League. He holds an extremely thin difference between himself and 2nd whilst leading 4th by a considerable amount. We look forward to see Charles continue to push his mahjong to the limit chasing the coveted WRC seat.\nInterested in what others have to say? Check out our last interview with West Australian player Shikin Sasaki here.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2025-01-09-australian-hopefuls-interview-2-charles-phan/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNext up in our interview series is a player based out of Melbourne Victoria. Charles or better known in the community as “Kataru” joined ARMA in early 2023 and has since become a well known and liked member of the community. He is commonly found to be participating in many community events ranging from weekly Wednesday night friendlies all the way to large scale national events such as the Australian Riichi Mahjong Open where in 2024 he placed an impressive 2nd place.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Australian Hopefuls Interview Series: Charles \"Kataru\" Phan"},{"content":"The WRC 2025 Tokyo Qualification season is well underway. The first Australian to qualify was Trevor Yau who won the Australian Riichi Mahjong Open just last month. With 1 of 3 seats claimed, Australians are still working hard to win their chance to fight on the world stage this coming July.\nIn this new interview series we will chat to some of the Australian hopefuls who are currently fighting for this highly sought after chance.\nShikin \u0026ldquo;Murasaki\u0026rdquo; Sasaki is a member of the West Australian Riichi Mahjong Association. She started playing mahjong 2 years ago just after WARMA was founded and has since competed in multiple national events including the Australian Team League, Australian Riichi Mahjong League, Rapid Fire Monthly and two Australian Riichi Mahjong Opens. She has posted highly respectable finishes including winning the ATL, and placing 3rd and 8th respectively in the RFM and at ARMO2024.\nQ: How long have you been playing mahjong and how did you learn to play?\nI learnt the basic rules of riichi mahjong through following the Saki manga, but I’ve only started to play seriously for a little under 2 years.\nQ: What type of mahjong do you like to play? How would you describe your playstyle?\nMy current playstyle, as my club president would describe it, is “High Variance Aggression”. A reflection of my straight forward personality. I like to zentsu a lot of hands if I can.\nQ: What do you do outside of mahjong?\nI work full time as an admin, I’m also a full time student. In my off time, I like to play video games or crochet. I’m very allergic to the outdoors.\nQ: In 2023 you had a disappointing finish at ARMO. In 2024 you finished very strong in 8th. What have you been doing to prepare for events?\nAs 2023 was the first year I started to take mahjong seriously, my goal for that year was to gauge my skills against the talents in Australia.\nAt that stage, my mahjong had not integrated any solid technical components. A large amount of the hanchans were essentially carried through a hope that my luck was strong enough.\nFirst and foremost I realised that I had to increase the amount of games that I played. I also consumed a large amount of pro mahjong content.\nThen, taking the lessons I learnt from 2023, I looked at improving my knowledge of mahjong from a technical point of view. I began learning fundamental skills but knew my personality would clash with fully digital playstyles, so I turned to professional players whose playstyles I really enjoyed and used them as a template. I used books such as Sawazaki Makoto’s “Overpowered Mahjong Experience Theory” and Kondo Seiichi’s “Mahjong – Using Theory and Instinct Together” as resources for my learning.\nOne other point I had taken away was the need to improve mental stability, endurance and resilience. I solved this personally through over exposure in sanma, but I’m not sure if this would work for others.\nQ: What are you current goals for mahjong?\nI want to learn scoring properly and be able to score quickly and accurately.\nI also want to increase my knowledge in fundamentals which should hopefully fix some bad habits I’ve developed.\nQ: What would it mean for you to qualify for WRC?\nFrom a mahjong fan perspective it would be a great chance to meet and engage with not only Japanese pros, but also other strong players from around the world.\nFrom a personal perspective, qualifying is the positive feedback for the effort which I have put into mahjong. While trivial, this positive feedback would serve as a push of confidence for my ADHD brain to keep developing my mahjong skills.\nAs of the end of week 1 of the Aussie WRC Qualifier League, Shikin is currently 18th/23 with a score of -53.9. While not the strongest start with another 20 hanchan still left, anything is possible especially with her “high variance aggression” playstyle. We look forward to seeing Shikin continue to work hard growing her mahjong.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2025-01-07-australian-hopefuls-interview-1-shikin-sasaki/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe WRC 2025 Tokyo Qualification season is well underway. The first Australian to qualify was Trevor Yau who won the Australian Riichi Mahjong Open just last month. With 1 of 3 seats claimed, Australians are still working hard to win their chance to fight on the world stage this coming July.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this new interview series we will chat to some of the Australian hopefuls who are currently fighting for this highly sought after chance.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Australian Hopefuls Interview Series: Shikin \"Murasaki\" Sasaki"},{"content":"The annual ARMA Team League fast approaches with a record 74 participants across a full roster of 16 teams. We are delighted to welcome back last year’s champions ‘Itchy Riichi Fingers’ who rejoin the league with an additional member!\nWe are also excited to welcome many new participants not only from across the country but also internationally from the UK and New Zealand.\nWith the action starting May 5th, join us at https://www.youtube.com/@ausriichi where we will be streaming the games every week.\nWhile it is too late to join the Team League its not too late to join our Discord!! Swing by Wednesday nights for our weekly club nights featuring rotating monthly rulesets. https://discord.gg/aqQ949zHx7\nIf competition is more your thing, join our monthly Rapid Fire Tournaments! For more information follow this link; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZkwGVC-vLfhz5RkV5o6dXH0wr6tEYoJ7lgslQ1QlrA/edit#gid=813095436\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2024-04-23-team-league/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe annual ARMA Team League fast approaches with a record 74 participants across a full roster of 16 teams. We are delighted to welcome back last year’s champions ‘Itchy Riichi Fingers’ who rejoin the league with an additional member!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are also excited to welcome many new participants not only from across the country but also internationally from the UK and New Zealand.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the action starting May 5th, join us at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ausriichi\"\u003ehttps://www.youtube.com/@ausriichi\u003c/a\u003e where we will be streaming the games every week.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Team League hits an all time high"},{"content":"Muller had a chat with Riichi Reporter recently –\nhttps://riichireporter.com/arma/\nFeel free to have a read to learn more about ARMA and this year’s Australia Riichi Mahjong Open in Melbourne!\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/news/2019-08-16-riichi-reporter/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMuller had a chat with Riichi Reporter recently –\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://riichireporter.com/arma/\"\u003ehttps://riichireporter.com/arma/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeel free to have a read to learn more about ARMA and this year’s Australia Riichi Mahjong Open in Melbourne!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Riichi Reporter"},{"content":"The Australian Riichi Mahjong Association (ARMA) is a not-for-profit association and Australia\u0026rsquo;s peak body for riichi mahjong.\nARMA was founded in 2014 by two guys in Sydney with an aspiration to one day see an organised process to select players to represent Australia at the World Riichi Championship (WRC) – the definitive international event featuring players from around the world, including top pros from Japan, the home of riichi mahjong.\nFrom these humble beginnings, ARMA has since grown by leaps and bounds, as players across the country have united together in a grassroots initiative to develop the community, promote the sport, and represent Australia on the world stage. Today, ARMA is the proud partner of choice for the sport’s international bodies, including the WRC organising committee.\nOur Vision To promote the sport of riichi mahjong in Australia To facilitate networking between players and clubs across Australia To provide training, education, and resources for the development and expansion of the national community To promote Australia’s interests and points of view in the global community To oversee the selection of players to represent Australia in international events ARMA does not condone gambling, and is dedicated to the kenkou maajan movement of healthy, wholesome mahjong.\nGovernance ARMA operates as a federation of independent state organisations, governed by a national Board. Each state organisation is represented on the Board and appoints its own representatives - up to two per state - with every state carrying a single, equal vote regardless of size. The Board sets the aims and direction of the organisation and holds ultimate authority over ARMA affairs.\nThe day-to-day running of the organisation is carried out by our Officers, who manage the legal, financial, and other administrative duties. Officers do not hold a vote, and their decisions and actions remain subject to the authority and oversight of the Board.\nOfficers serve a one-year term, and any ARMA member is eligible to stand. Members wishing to serve should self-nominate during November, and the Board confirms all Officers by December 7 each year.\nBoard Members NSW: Charles H \u0026ldquo;chewy\u0026rdquo;, Nanoka QLD: Jack C, Josh R \u0026ldquo;Rereyl\u0026rdquo; SA: Laura H \u0026ldquo;Havra\u0026rdquo;, Steven M \u0026ldquo;Yasa\u0026rdquo; VIC: Aaron C \u0026ldquo;Cheez\u0026rdquo;, Andrew T \u0026ldquo;JaffaOrange\u0026rdquo; WA: Shikin S \u0026ldquo;Murasaki\u0026rdquo; Officers Michael Z Ted D Tournament History Below is a list of select results achieved by Australian players in notable domestic and international tournaments.\nAustralian Riichi Mahjong Open 2019\nAustralian Riichi Mahjong Open 2023\nWorld Riichi Championship 2014\nQIU, Charles – 87th/119 SHERRY, Darryn – 104th/119 World Riichi Championship 2017\nTO, Anthony – 76th/224 LIN, Kevin – 177th/224 World Riichi Championship 2022\nDINH, Kevin – 54th/152 HE, Jaymond – 97th/152 SEA, Jeremy – 105th/152 CHEE, Aaron – 112th/152 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2016\nAustralia – 5th/17 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2018\nAustralia – 4th/21 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2019\nAustralia – 1st/19 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2020\nAustralia – 14th/19 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2021\nAustralia – 13th/19 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2022\nAustralia – 12th/24 International Online Riichi Mahjong Competition 2023\nAustralia – 15th/24 European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2019\nTO, Anthony – 8th/140 LIN, Kevin – 27th/140 Korean Riichi Mahjong Championship 2019\nTO, Anthony – 1st/28 ","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/about-us/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe Australian Riichi Mahjong Association (ARMA) is a not-for-profit association and Australia\u0026rsquo;s peak body for riichi mahjong.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARMA was founded in 2014 by two guys in Sydney with an aspiration to one day see an organised process to select players\nto represent Australia at the World Riichi Championship (WRC) – the definitive international event featuring players from\naround the world, including top pros from Japan, the home of riichi mahjong.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"About Us"},{"content":"Please contact us if you\u0026rsquo;d like to have your club added to the directory! Or, if there are no clubs in your location, please do join our Discord so you can stay connected and we can put you in touch with any other individuals near you!\nOnline ARMA club nights Time: Wednesdays, 7:30 PM\nRSVP not required. See Discord for details.\nNew South Wales Sydney CBD Location: DOUBLE KILL GAMES, Level 1/203 Thomas St, Haymarket NSW 2000\nTime: Thursdays, 2:00 PM\nRSVP via Discord\nVictoria Victorian Riichi Mahjong Association Website: vicriichi.org\nDiscord: discord\nMelbourne CBD Location: Marche Board Game Cafe, 63 A’Beckett St, Melbourne VIC 3000\nTime: Thursdays, 5:30 PM\nRSVP via Meetup.com\nBox Hill Location: Good Games Box Hill, g1/975 Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill VIC 3128\nTime: Saturdays, 1:00 PM\nRSVP via Meetup.com\nQueensland Southside Brisbane Location: Garden City Library, Level R4 Westfield Mount Gravatt, Upper Mount Gravatt QLD 4122\nTime: Tuesdays, 6:00 PM\nRSVP not required. See Facebook for details.\nSouth Australia Adelaide Location: Minor Works Building, 22 Stamford Ct, Adelaide SA 5000\nTime: Thursdays, 6:00 PM\nRSVP via Discord\nWestern Australia Cannington Location: Good Games Cannington, 21 Liege St, Cannington WA 6107\nTime: Saturdays, 12:00 PM\nRSVP not required. See Discord for details.\nMorley Location: Good Games Morley, 1/154 Russell St, Morley WA 6062\nTime: Thursdays, 6:30 PM\nRSVP not required. See Discord) for details.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/club-directory/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePlease contact us if you\u0026rsquo;d like to have your club added to the directory!\nOr, if there are no clubs in your location, please do join our Discord so you can stay connected and we can put you in\ntouch with any other individuals near you!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"online\"\u003eOnline\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"arma-club-nights\"\u003eARMA club nights\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime: Wednesdays, 7:30 PM\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRSVP not required. See \u003ca href=\"https://discord.gg/Qmch4rE4Ah\"\u003eDiscord\u003c/a\u003e for details.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"new-south-wales\"\u003eNew South Wales\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"sydney-cbd\"\u003eSydney CBD\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLocation: \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/4HtUceGbRgxtFsxY9\"\u003eDOUBLE KILL GAMES, Level 1/203 Thomas St, Haymarket NSW 2000\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Club Directory"},{"content":"We strongly recommend following this beginner’s guide written by Rosti from The Mahjong Guide. If you prefer video tutorials, we recommend Light Grunty’s series of videos on YouTube, and for those wishing to deepen their strategic mastery of the game, we highly recommend Daina Chiba’s free ebook, Riichi Book 1.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/learn-to-play/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe strongly recommend following \u003ca href=\"https://mahjong.guide/a-beginners-guide-to-riichi-mahjong/\"\u003ethis beginner’s guide\u003c/a\u003e\nwritten by Rosti from The Mahjong Guide. If you prefer video tutorials, we recommend Light Grunty’s series of\nvideos on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@LightGrunty\"\u003eYouTube\u003c/a\u003e, and for those wishing to deepen their strategic mastery of\nthe game, we highly recommend Daina Chiba’s free ebook, \u003ca href=\"https://dainachiba.github.io/RiichiBooks/\"\u003eRiichi Book 1\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Learn to Play"},{"content":"The qualification of Australian players for the 2028 World Riichi Championship will be conducted via a two-tier system consisting of a series of Open Qualifiers followed by the ARMA Invitational 2028.\nOpen Qualifiers will be held during the Open Qualification Period between the dates of January 1, 2026 and November 30, 2027.\nThe ARMA Invitational will be held some time in the period of December, 2027 to January, 2028. The Invitational will host 24 players: the top 20 players from the QP system will be invited, along with 4 players from the Australian Riichi Mahjong League (AusRML).\nInformation about the qualification system can be found here.\nAll players should register to be considered for qualification by completing the form found here.\nTournament Organisers should register tournaments that meet the requirements here.\nCurrent qualification standings can be found here.\n","permalink":"https://arma-071c50.gitlab.io/wrc2028/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe qualification of Australian players for the 2028 World Riichi Championship will be conducted via a two-tier system\nconsisting of a series of Open Qualifiers followed by the ARMA Invitational 2028.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen Qualifiers will be held during the Open Qualification Period between the dates of\n\u003cstrong\u003eJanuary 1, 2026 and November 30, 2027\u003c/strong\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ARMA Invitational will be held some time in the period of \u003cstrong\u003eDecember, 2027 to January, 2028\u003c/strong\u003e.\nThe Invitational will host 24 players: the top 20 players from the QP system will be invited, along with 4 players\nfrom the Australian Riichi Mahjong League (AusRML).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"WRC 2028"}]