After a relatively tame week last week, the 16th week of M-League 2020 gave us some crazy events. This week, we had an intentional haneman deal-in, back-to-back haneman, an unexpected haneman, a shortcut to haneman that turned into baiman and a hidden haneman (you could call it hane-mania!). We also had a big shift inContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 16: Back to Madness”
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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 13: Rare Events
After rare weekend matchups with a suuankou win and a new season record, the rare events continued in this 13th week of M-League 2020. This week, we saw a rare yaku, two rare calls from a player who rarely calls and a big dora collection. Also this week, we saw a high honba count, aContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 13: Rare Events”
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 2020 Week 1: A New Season Begins
Ah, the day that we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived! M-League 2020 has finally begun, filled with action and excitement! Let’s get right to it, shall we? Opening Ceremony As with every season, the first day started out with an opening ceremony. In reverse order of the 2019 season standings, each of the teamsContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 1: A New Season Begins”
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.