FKMTkrazy will be on The Mahjong Meetup!

Tonight at 9:00 PM PST (4.5 hours from this posting) Crump and I will be on the podcast hosted by Pacific Mahjong League players Dasuke and Frenetic7, The Mahjong Meetup! Come watch!

FKMTkrazy Mahjong Tournament #2

UPDATE: DUE TO AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN MY LIFE ON FRIDAY THIS TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO FRIDAY THE 17th THROUGH SATURDAY THE 18th!! PLEASE ADJUST YOUR AVAILABILITY ACCORDINGLY! THE  DEADLINE FOR SIGNUPS WILL ALSO BE MOVED TO FRIDAY THE 10th!

So in light of our inability to release any chapters at the moment I decided now would be a good time to start the initial stages of our second mahjong tournament! And once again, the prize is a volume of a manga of your choice, translated by yours truly in a timely fashion! However, this time will be a bit different. As I do not have time to translate very many series at once, and considering that Mukoubuchi has already gone well past the 1 volume I promised to translate after last tournament, I will be willing to stop doing Mukoubuchi for a while to translate the manga you choose... IF you can beat me in the tournament!

However, as I kind of wanna keep doing Mukoubuchi, I don't want to just start from the bottom. If you want to win the prize, you'll have to earn the chance to take Mukoubuchi away from me for a while! The chance to win the aforementioned prize will only be given to the three that place the highest in the initial tournament bracket. Those three will then move on to the Championship Round, where they will play against me in a multiple-hanchan finale, where the winner gets the manga of their choice translated! And naturally, I'll be picking mukoubuchi if I win.

FKMTkrazy Mahjong Tournament Bracket!

Hi everyone! The FKMTkrazy mahjong tournament is now all planned and ready to go! You can view the full bracket here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1clDjrvjEvlBeSVT8RAxzAd2NE1CUz-yyRJi-yYe0xz4/edit?usp=sharing

The tournament will be held in this lobby: http://tenhou.net/0/?C54071867

If there are any adjustments that you want me to make or any mistakes that you catch, please let me know by Thursday so I can fix them and let everyone else know! If you didn't sign up in time for the tournament, we may need some people to fill in in case people don't show up on time. Details on this and other aspects of the tournament below the cut.

FKMTkrazy Mahjong Tournament

Yes, you read it right, FKMTkrazy will be holding its first-ever Mahjong tournament on Friday and Saturday, September 18th - 19th! I originally wanted to have it on the 25th-26th, but the NYC mahjong tournament is being held then and I don't want to have to compete with them. What will the prize be, you ask? The winner of the tournament will receive... the right to choose which manga I translate next!!! But fear not, this will not interfere with our current release schedule. We will still be doing Kaiji as planned each week. More information below the cut.

Mahjong Day Kraziness

Okay. I've noticed that the attendance rate for Mahjong Days has dropped down sharply in the past weeks. So, to hopefully remedy that situation slightly, here's some of the crazy stuff that goes on at Mahjong Day! Which will mostly consist of screenshots. Mahjong day is every Saturday at 23:00 or 00:00 GMT! Come and join us sometime!

First, we have an incredible 24-Han Yakuman from Noname, who has shown up to every Mahjong Day since it started:

Bear in mind, you only need 13 Han to make a counted Yakuman. So essentially, Noname got nearly two times what you need to make a Yakuman!! Talk about overkill! And it didn't help that all the new Dora were from his San Kan Tsu, which is rare enough by itself! Some day, I'll get a Yakuman myself and join the ranks of Noname and Kazuhiko in the Yakuman club. Great job!

Tenhou Instructions / Mahjong Day

Okay, I tried having a Mahjong day a while ago, but only Biggums showed up due to what I have concluded is bad communication on my part. Biggums was the only one looking at my twitter at the time, and I was a bit unclear on times in the like. I'm going to try again on Saturday for me, which should be a bit into Sunday for those with timezones of GMT+0 or greater, at 12:00 AM GMT. I'm not gonna change that this time around, to avoid people showing up an hour late (Sorry, Osamu.:( )


Also, I realize that some people may have gotten lost when they looked at Tenhou, so here's a step-by-step rundown of what all is needed. First, enter the following link into your URL: http://tenhou.net/0/?7447


You will come to a screen with two blue links in ">>" bullet points. Click the top one if you would like the game to open in a new window, or the bottom one if you would like to keep it in the current one.

Ignore the adverts and click on the blue "サーバに接続 " (Connect to Server) once it loads. Be careful not to click on the blue link next to the english word "L O A D I N G . . .", as it will refresh the page.

Once you have, you will come to a page which I will show you below the cut.

The Cyan text is my added explaination. The leftmost button is your ID registration; click it if you would like to register an ID with the name you have in the input box to the right. If so, you can keep track of your records and such on the main channel. But you don't need to for Mahjong day; simply put a name into the input bar and click your gender in the tab to its right. The top option is "Male", the bottom "Female". After that, you can choose to play with "Premium" settings or "Economy" (bottom and top in the tab, respectively). It doesn't matter, but I always play Premium as a personal preference, as it has voices and cooler sounds. Once done, press OK.

This screen has a bunch of stuff that we don't need for Mahjong day; you can see http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ if you're curious. The important thing is that the room we'll be playing in is Four-Player Open Tanyao, No Red Tiles, East Set Only, or the Second Row, First Column. We could also play in Three-Player Open Tanyao, Red Tiles, East Set if we only have 3 people playing. But I'm going to aim for 4.

Basically, click on the button next to the X:X (which will have numbers in place of the X once we get going) of the room we say we're playing in. If you're registered, you can talk in the chat window at the top left. But I should have a chat box that I'll link to on twitter going by the time we're all set up.

For the actual gameplay, check out http://arcturus.su/tenhou/gameplay.html, as he does a great job explaining it. Other than that, have fun, and please ask questions if you're at all confused!