M-League Watch

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.

Bubble tea establishments are scrambling to meet demand as M-League fans try to get the winning edge.

This craze comes after Matsugase Takaya, a member of the EX Furinkazan, won his game after preparing a dish made from salmon roe, known in Japanese as ikura (いくら).

A few days later, Takamiya Mari of the Konami Mahjong Fight Club had a meal with Matsugase’s ikura and won her game.

After this overwhelming evidence, fans were scrambling to get a hold of some salmon roe to have some good luck themselves.

For a premium price, they are mixing the salmon roe with another guaranteed winning ingredient: M-League water.

“It’s expensive and tastes like wet fish eggs, but it’s guaranteed to give me good luck,” one fan said. Another customer said, “It sure beats studying.”

Critics of the fad call it a marketing ploy and a useless pursuit. “When everyone’s super, no one will be…”

The future of the Akasaka Drivens remains unclear while an interview with Sonoda Ken keeps him occupied indefinitely.

With the Akasaka Drivens being forced to changed their roster after failing to make the finals two seasons in a row, M-League Watch tried to get an interview with on of their members. We were able to get Sonoda Ken, the team’s captain and first round pick, to give one for us.

When we started, he gave us a lot of insightful information about the teams and the challenges they faced. But as the interview continued and hit the one hour point, it was clear that Sonoda wasn’t going to stop talking.

As we reached the one week point, our other writers went to the team’s coach, Koshiyama Go, to ask what is going to happen. As he spoke, we found a glimpse of what could be Sonoda’s master plan.

We’ve tried waving to him, putting up signs, nothing is working. If he doesn’t stop soon, we won’t be able to choose which player will be replaced.

Koshiyama Go

This isn’t the first time Sonoda’s interview has gone long. On November 17, 2022, Sonoda’s interview went on so long that they had to put up a sign to tell him to hurry up. On January 30, 2023, his interview lasted a record 6 minutes, 48 seconds.

It is current day 10 of the interview. If anyone is reading this, please send help.

Angry crowds have taken to the streets to fight against headbump.

Headbump, known as atamahane in Japanese, is a mahjong rule that states that when multiple people call ron on the same tile, only the next player in turn order gets the win.

According to studies, headbump causes lost wages (known in the mahjong world as “points”) and emotional damage to players who experience it.

One such player to experience headbump is Nakabayashi Kei of the U-Next Pirates, whose Kokushi Musou was lost after Murakami Jun called ron on the 9m that he was waiting on.

Why would Murakami kill Thirteen Orphans!?!

Nakabayashi Kei

Fans of Takizawa Kazunori from Konami Mahjong Fight Club (the player who discarded the 9m) are planning counter-protests. It is expected that they head out to bump heads with those who hate headbump.