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”
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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 18: Jostling for Position
Points are being exchanged. Teams are fighting for positions. Nasty plays are being made. Pain and suffering is in store for all teams. Everyone in putting in hard work and effort to get to where they want to be. In this 18th week of M-League, all the teams know that the playoffs are coming upContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 18: Jostling for Position”
M-League 2020 Week 17: Full of Surprises
The playoffs are fast approaching. Teams are working hard to get their spot in the playoffs. With this desperacy, players are making some unexpected and often exciting plays. In the 17th week of M-League, a week full of surprises. On multiple occassions, we had players moving placements at the very last second. We had aContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 17: Full of Surprises”
M-League 2020 Week 16: Back to Madness
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”
M-League 2020 Week 15: Back to Basics
Riichi? Check. Tanyao? Check. Pinfu? Check. Yakuhai? Check. Honitsu? Check. In this 15th week of M-League, the playoff hunt continues. But instead of the fancy “Kan twice to give yourself 9 dora” or “Rinshan Suuankou” or “Dama Pinfu Ryanpeikou“, we went back to the basics. We saw hands geared toward those five basic yaku. WithContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 15: Back to Basics”
M-League 2020 Weekend Special
Welcome to 2021 and welcome to more games of M-League! For the first games of the year, we had two special days of weekend games! And boy, it did not disappoint! During the weekend special, we had a highly-profitable kan and a very costly kan. We had greedy players, gutsy players and grumpy players. WeContinue reading “M-League 2020 Weekend Special”
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 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 5: On Repeat
Quick! How much is a 3 han 30 fu hand with 9 honba worth? In this 5th week of the M-League 2020 season, we had streaks and repeats. We had the second-highest honba count in M-League history and players making the most of their dealer turns. These streaks also helped and hindered their teams inContinue reading “M-League 2020 Week 5: On Repeat”
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