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.

Tournament Structure

The tournament will once again be single-elimination. It will be held Friday, June 10th, through Saturday, June 11th, which will mostly be Saturday and Sunday for those not living in the Americas. When you enter the tournament, you will pay 50 points from the mahjong night standings as your entry fee. This 50 points will be pooled together with everyone else's and awarded proportionally based on place. If you do not have 50 points, you may go into negative numbers.

If we don't have a power of 2 number of entrants, we will have to "seed" people or start them ahead of others. What this means in this structure is that there will probably be a preliminary round in which the last-place player is eliminated and the other 3 move on. The players who get "seeded", or are able to skip this preliminary round, will be decided based on their placement in the previous tournament, and then by their total points on the "Mahjong Night Standings" page. In other words, those who placed higher or have more points will have priority to be seeded. Apart from the prelims, I'll try to make the top 2 advance in each round, though last time I had to make the semi-finals first-place-only, so that might happen again. There will be no 3-player games.

So the main tournament will work just like the previous one. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place players from the main tournament may then advance to the Championship Round, where they will play me for the all-important prize of a manga volume! Here are the prizes for the main tournament:

• 1st: 400 points + 50% of total entry fees + ticket to Championship Round
• 2nd: 300 points + 30% of total entry fees + ticket to Championship Round
• 3rd: 200 points + 11% of total entry fees + ticket to Championship Round
• 4th: 100 points + 5% of total entry fees
• 5th-8th: 50 points + 1% each of total entry fees
• 9th-12th: 30 points
• 13th-16th: 20 points
• 17th-32nd: 10 points
• 33rd+: nothing

I know it's a weird system but this way we can have actual prizes for the runners-up and a grand showdown finale which I think will be pretty cool. Also I want to rig it as much as possible in my favor. Hey, it's my tournament!

Tournament Rules

Main Tournament

The tournament will be held in a custom lobby that allows for these custom rules:

• Open Tanyao allowed
• No red tiles
• Multiple Rons are decided by head-bump
• Rounded-up (Kiriage) mangan
• 4-player riichi is not a draw
• Kan Dora flipped immediately

For the Semi-Finals and Finals you will be allowed to have 2 or 3 hanchans if you so wish. If so, the points awarded per hanchan will matter. For that, the points follow this formula:

(End Points/1000)-30+UMA+OKA

For each place, the uma and oka are:

• 1st: UMA: +30, OKA +20
• 2nd: UMA: +10, OKA 0
• 3rd: UMA: -10, OKA 0
• 4th: UMA: -30, OKA 0

Championship Round

First of all, if you place in the top 3 and you do not want to pick a manga for me to translate, please tell me and I will give your ticket to the next highest placing player. If you have not decided on a manga by the time the championship round rolls around I will pass your ticket on to someone who has decided on a manga. You already earned the glory in the main tournament, so let someone who cares about manga play me!

Anyway, the championship round will be at least 3 hanchans, maybe more if people want them. The custom rules, Uma and Oka from the main tournament will still apply, but in addition, we will be adding a 5-point "Binta", a system used in Mukoubuchi! In short, people at or above 25000 (floating) will earn extra points while those below 25000 (sinking) will lose extra points. This is how it will work specifically:

If only 1st place is floating:

• 1st: +30
• 2nd: +0
• 3rd: -10
• 4th: -20

If 1st and 2nd are floating:

• 1st: +25
• 2nd: +15
• 3rd: -15
• 4th: -25

If 1st-3rd are all floating:

• 1st: +20
• 2nd: +10
• 3rd: +0
• 4th: -30

If everyone is floating (EXTREMELY UNLIKELY):

• 1st: +15
• 2nd: +5
• 3rd: -5
• 4th: -15

So even if you're in first, if you can sink everyone else you'll get even more points! And if you're last, make sure you're not the only one sinking! It should add an extra layer of strategy to the final round!

Prize Information

Now for the exciting part! If you can beat me in the Championship Round, you will be able to choose a volume of manga for me to translate. I will be obligated to put out at least 1 chapter of this manga every two weeks until the volume is complete. There is no guarantee that it will be cleaned or typeset, but I can promise that I will translate anything you throw at me, with the following rules:

• Any FKMT or Mahjong manga is an automatic pass, but you may not choose something we are already translating (Kaiji, Akagi, HERO, Kurosawa, Tetsuya, Naki no Ryuu or Mukoubuchi)
• If the volume in question does not have chapter distinctions, I will be allowed to decide where to define "chapters" as beginning and ending.
• If the manga is not a FKMT or Mahjong manga, I will not be releasing it under FKMTkrazy or Mahjongkrazy.
• I reserve the right to ask you to change your choice for the following reasons:
• The manga is licensed
• There are no existing raws for the manga
• It is not in Japanese
• The requested content has existing and adequate translations
• I will NOT decline a manga because I don't like it or it isn't my genre of choice. So yes, Shoujo manga are fine. sigh.

UPDATE: You may also choose novels, games, or any other form of written media, or a movie with Japanese subtitles included, so long as it does not conflict with any of the above criteria

Application

Please fill out the following and post it in the comments section below to apply for the tournament. You must have a Tenhou ID. To register one, follow this procedure taken from arcturus.su's Tenhou documentation:

To register an ID, click the Register ID option on the Login window. In the textbox, type in an alias which will be associated with that ID (permanently - you can't change it). It can't be an already registered alias and it can be up to 8 glyphs wide (that is, latin, greek, kana, kanji, or any other Unicode glyph). Press OK and a confirmation window will pop up with your ID asking if you are sure you want to register it. The left button confirms while the right cancels. The following window will have a textbox with a ID########-######## format string in it. Copy that into a text file or remember it for future use. Plug that string into the alias box of the login screen whenever you want to play with that ID. Tenhou will automatically keep ranks and records for the ID.

Preferred Username: _________

Tenhou ID (the name you registered with, not the login ID): _________

Time Zone: _________
Times Available, Friday (sat for non-americans): ________
Times Available, Saturday (sun for non-americans): _______

Manga of choice: ________

I hope to have a fun and exciting tournament, and may the best man win!