A petition to ban the west wind has gained support across the mahjong world.
The petition states that the west, which sounds like the word for death, should be abolished from mahjong.
One of the petition’s biggest supporters is Uchikawa Kotaro, who dealt into a suuankou tanki waiting on a west.
Nothing ever good has happened with the west. It sits in your hand as a tile worth nothing and when you do discard it, you end up dealing in! We don’t even play the west round! If the west was banned, I would have at least 32,000 more points.
Uchikawa Kotaro
Those against the ban state that important yaku like shousuushii and daisuushii can no longer be won and player wind order would be disrupted.
We tried to phone Kurosawa Saki for comment, but we did not receive an answer. According to our sources, she doesn’t like calls.
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