来冬 の 麻雀 (raito no maajan) — 4th Light Doman Open

It's time for another Light Doman Open! This is the eighth Doman Mahjong Tournament on Light, feel free to make an alt character on Light, or Chaos, to join. This will be the first tournament after Final Fantasy XIV adds Data Centre Travel, let's see how well it works for us. And since I need some image I can connect to this tournament, I dug out some bad pun: 来冬 の 麻雀, raito no maajan. 来冬 means next winter. You know where this is going: Riichi is coming.

As always, this is a player event: it is not affiliated with FFXIV, SquareEnix etc.

Schedule

Deadline for Registration: 2022-09-18

Games: 2022-09-23 to 2022-09-25

Prizes

1. 1 Item or Item Set from the FFXIV Online Store of up to 35 EUR
2. 1 Item or Item Set from the FFXIV Online Store of up to 25 EUR
3. 1 Item or Item Set from the FFXIV Online Store of up to 15 EUR

Extra prize will be announce on the Discord Server. The spreadsheet includes space for private games. After the finalization of the timetable, feel free to challenge some players for a game to fill the time. There will be second ranking for those, which also include the scores for games someone subbed in.

Note: Prizes can't be received on any trial accounts.

Sponsors

• Gemma
• USPML
• Sirocco

A big thanks to the sponsors! If you want to sponsor, feel free to send it to my PayPal.

General Information

How to Register: registration closed

Registered Players, Seating etc.: see the Tournament Spreadsheet, times are all UTC (a. k. a. Server Time)

Where: Final Fantasy XIV Online, Data Centre Light, preferably at the Mahjong Tables on Server Odin. Feel free to join the Mahjong of Light Discord

Format

6+ Hanchan Round-Robin'ish. As before, it depends on how many people attend.

Since I'm trying to accommodate players from all over the globe, the games don't have necessarily to be in one single block each day. My current plan is to have 2 games per player each day. Having more slots just helps a lot with not playing the same people each time.

All games will be played in Final Fantasy XIV Online as friendly matches “Full Game Four-player Mahjong (Kuitan Enabled)” on Data Centre Light. Don't be confused, what Doman Mahjong considers a “Full Game” is just a hanchan, it's not an iichan. After the game, since FFXIV doesn't have logs and spectator mode (yet! Yoshi-P, please add one for us!) the result should be screenshotted and sent to the organizer.

Rules

I want everyone to have a good time, so please show good sportsmanship. In case of bad conduct, I will take the liberty to disqualify any offending players. Should any problems arise, even during the tournament, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Riichi Rules

Most of these are the result of playing in Final Fantasy XIV Online.

• three red fives (aka ari)
• players start on 25,000 points and return 25,000
• placement bonuses are +15/+5/-5/-15
• hanchan ends if a player falls below zero points (tobi)
• South 4 Round also ends when dealership doesn't pass (agariyame)
• open tanyao is allowed (kuitan ari)
• 13 han and above is a kazoe yakuman
• cumulative single yakuman
• double ron allowed, no head bump
• abortive draws for
  • 9 unique terminals/honours in starting hand (kyuushuu kyuuhai) ¹
  • same wind tile as the first 4 discards (suufonsu renda) ¹
  • 4 kan not from the same person (suukaikan) and ¹
  • triple ron (sancha hou) ¹
• no abortive draw for 4 riichi (suucha riichi)
• mangan at draw (nagashi mangan) possible ²

If a player is late by more than ten minutes, they are replaced by a substitute player for the hanchan.

On Missed Games and Substituted Players

Substitute players are scored normally and then not included in the ranking. The player missing the hanchan doesn't get any points and will have a 30 points penalty.

Final Fantasy XIV Online

All games are being played in Final Fantasy XIV Online. To play, a trial account is sufficient. You only need to unlock the Gold Saucer. Note, if you're not new to Mahjong, it's recommended to change the display from actual dora (setting: doman mahjong) to dora indicator (setting: traditional). If your character is not on world Odin on Datacenter Light, you can use the World Visit System or Data Center Travel System to be on Odin for the tournament. Your homeworld still has to be on an EU server, though.

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