WARMA Winter Tournament Report

The embers are still smoldering but the event is long over, WARMA's first ever seasonal tournament has come to a close.

16 players braved the cold to face each other down from across the green mat. The event consisted of a 5 hanchan preliminary phase to earn their place in the finals where they fight over another 2 hanchan before finally being crowned the winter champion.

After 5 hanchan the top 4 emerged from the fires of battle. Pictured below from the left; Jaxon Dunning (3rd 96.7), Byron Li (2nd 102.3), Shikin Sasaki (1st 137.8), Murray Wachtel (4th 80.2).

Results at the end of Hanchan 5

Presentation of a bound copy of Riichi Book 1 to Jason Li (2nd to last place)

Finals Hanchans

After a nail biting hanchan, Byron soars off to a solid lead of 61.8 points whilst Jaxon and Shikin fought over 2nd and 3rd place and Murray taking a bit -45 point fourth .

Miracles do however happen! We saw not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 5 repeats as Murray clawed back from the brink fighting for every single possible point, chasing down Byron and reversing the tables taking a massive 71.7 point first place finish and also forcing Byron to take a -71 point fourth place.

And with that, the WARMA Winter Tournament came to an end. The final results were;

Jaxon Dunning 4th place (-20.2)

Byron Li 3rd place (-9.2)

Shikin Sasaki 2nd place (2.7)

Murray Wachtel Champion 26.7

The West Australian Riichi Mahjong Association would like to thank everyone for their participation in our first ever seasonal tournament and your continued support. We hope that everyone enjoyed their time at the event no matter the result and will strive to continue their mahjong endeavors. Please look forward to the next event.

In the mean time, if you couldn't make the tournament, or are interested in riichi mahjong, why not check out one of our weekly social meets?