On June 10, 2022, the U-Next Pirates announced that they will be renewing the contracts for Kobayashi Go and Mizuhara Akina, but will not be renewing the contracts for Asakura Koushin and Ishibashi Nobuhiro for the M-League 2022-23 Season. Starting in the 2020-21 Season, a new rule was set in place stating that a teamContinue reading “Asakura Koushin, Ishibashi Nobuhiro Dropped by U-Next Pirates”
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EX Furinkazan Issues Challenge to Konami Mahjong Fight Club
On the eve of their next battle, EX Furinkazan, via their Twitter account, issued a challenge to Konami Mahjong Fight Club. Roughly translated it reads:“By chance,yesterday, in the waiting roomwhile considering our strategy suddenly,we thought,everyone is expecting Rumi and Aki! So we askedtheir thoughts and they wereraring to go Will webe able to havea headContinue reading “EX Furinkazan Issues Challenge to Konami Mahjong Fight Club”
M-League 2020 Week 22: The Final Stretch
This is it. The last week of the regular season. Four games for each team and then it’s over. For two teams, these four games will be the last games they will play this season. There were surprises around every corner and fans at the edge of their seats. We had fans heartbroken and cursingContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 22: The Final Stretch”
M-League 2020 Week 20: The End Is In Sight
It’s the end of the month. Midway through next month, the regular season is over. For some teams, it will be the start of the playoffs. For others, it will be the last game they play this season. In the 20th week of M-League 2020, we had a lot of movement in the standings. WeContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 20: The End Is In Sight”
M-League 2020 Week 19: Sasaki Hisato, Demon King
13. 36,000. 100,400. 94,000. 114.0. 169.2. 460.6. All these numbers represent one man: Sasaki Hisato. In the 19th week of M-league, Maou (魔王, also known as the “Demon King” or “Devil”) made one of the greatest spectacles of M-League history. In one game, he made records, broke score barriers and sent two players into theContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 19: Sasaki Hisato, Demon King”
M-League 2020 Week 14: Believing What You Don’t See
Do you ever get the feeling that something is just not right? Do you ever feel like even though you cannot see it, that you should be careful? In this 14th week of M-League, we had an invisible threat make its way into the league, an unseen hand that was avoided and a confident discardContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 14: Believing What You Don’t See”
M-League 2020 Week 9: High-Scoring Affairs
In the 9th week of M-League 2020, there were a lot of high-scoring hands and games. There were two dealer baimans this week and six games with the 1st place player ending with over 45,000 points, four of those games with the top player over 50,000. Two of those games now hold the 1st andContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 9: High-Scoring Affairs”
M-League 2020 Week 8: Maintaining Momentum
In the 8th week of M-League, momentum was maintained by multiple members from M-League. Some teams took a tumble and kept tumbling, while others rose and kept rising. Third-place tile throwers triumph to in taking the top-spot. Sideways slings succeeded and reds were raked in. Well, I can’t give it all away (or keep theContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 8: Maintaining Momentum”
M-League 2020 Week 6: There Was an Attempt
In this 6th week of M-League 2020, we had many attempts, some of them successful and others were unsuccessful. We had a successful dealer baiman hand, a player overcoming the odds against three riichi players, and the first successful all-female table since the game on October 22, 2018, back when only four teams had femaleContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 6: There Was an Attempt”
M-League 2019 Re:mind
Over the next two months, AbemaTV will be featuring a series called M-League 2019 Re:mind. This series will consist of 29 episodes that are an hour long, with each episode featuring a different player. The video will go through the highlights of the season for each player.
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