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When you’re living on your knees, you rise up. In the 14th week of M-league 2022-23, players who were down got back on their feet and fought back. Whenever they got hit with a big hand, they would get one themselves. Whenever they were in 4th place, they were fighting even harder and getting bigContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 14: Rise Up”

The new year is a time when people make changes in their life, usually a small change that they can carry through the rest of the year. However, in the 13th week of M-League 2022-23, the first week of 2023, big wins and changes in the standings were dominating the new year. This week, weContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 13: New Year’s Revolution”

We’re just past the halfway point of the season and the fight for the top is getting hot! Today, we’ll look at the progress of each team and what they need to do going forward to succeed.

Through the holiday season, people are filled with hope. M-Leaguers are no exception. In the 12th week of M-League 2022-23, M-Leaguers took their chances and had hope that they would triumph. Players passed rons hoping that they would tsumo their winning tile. Players taking wins and hoping for uradora. Teams winning games and being hopefulContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 12: Hope”

There is always room for improvement, whether short-term or long-term. In the short-term, it is sometimes better to wait dama to try to improve your hand’s value. It is sometimes better to reject tenpai to improve your hand’s shape. In the long-term, a change in strategy could bring your team from the bottom and intoContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 11: Improvement”

Things can change drastically near the end. Near the end of a hand, players can have the opportunity to get to tenpai and win on haitei or houtei. Near the end of the game, a fortuitous win can put one into 1st place. Even a simple noten declaration at an exhaustive draw could have bigContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 10: Last Minute Opportunity”

Timing is very important in riichi mahjong. When you call riichi could be the difference between not winning and getting a haneman. How you discard a block could be the difference between dealing in and getting to tenpai. In the 9th week M-League 2022-23, players showed us what perfect timing looks like. An ippatsu tsumoContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 9: Timing”

Challenge, in all senses of the word, is prevalent in riichi mahjong. Players overcome difficult scenarios to come out on top. Players confront those who get in their path to win. Players going against the textbook and do plays that work out in the end. In the 8th week of M-League 2022-23, all of thatContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 8: Challenge”

No lead is insurmountable. No deficit is too big to overcome. When you think that a team is out of the running, they surprise everyone and make a comeback. In the 7th week of the M-League 2022-23 season, these comebacks and reversals were plentiful. Players that were 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 behind 1st place were ableContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 7: Reversal”

Records are usually few and far between. They come maybe once a season and then everything goes back to normal. But what if I told you that 7 different records were either tied or broken in a single game? In the 6th week of M-League 2022-23, that’s exactly what happened. In one game, M-League changedContinue reading “M-League 2022-23 Week 6: Records”