Shibori on the pins seems more important than winning the hand to me here. North and west both seem to be going for honitsu. With that in mind, I would dump and hold onto all of my pins unless I'm convinced they're safe.

[2013/06/07/般南喰赤] A:KyuuAA(-23.0) B:Wray(+5.0) C:淡淡(-35.0) D:DaiSuShi(+53.0) http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013060714gm-0009-7447-6c5babca&tw=1 [2013/06/07/般南喰赤] A:KyuuAA(+48.0) B:Wray(+14.0) C:Triples(-22.0) D:淡淡(-40.0) http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013060715gm-0009-7447-79fd17d8&tw=1 [2013/06/07/般南喰赤] A:Tr...

I vote 5-bam , and I would go for a fast win. I feel like it's more likely that someone else will win with a big hand than that I'll be able to turn this into a big hand. Then again, I would feel pretty sad if I missed a chance at a mangan or something here... Edit: By the way, this is an East round...

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013060416gm-0001-0000-aed61b4a&tw=0 3rd place here. In the last hand, I was second, and I got a dora green-dra in my hand. I decided that I basically wasn't going to throw it unless someone else threw it first. Then, the guy across from me discarded it, kamicha drew one and...

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013052616gm-0003-0000-80786723&tw=3 Last game of the night for me. I went for Kokushi on the first hand, because the dealer called tiles and prevented me from being able to do the 9terms abortive (look at me, keeping it on topic). After that hand, the guy on my right (who s...

[2013/05/22/般南喰赤] A:けーじーmsms(-39.0) B:kukkulu(-25.0) C:Wray(+49.0) D:GND0927(+15.0) http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013052216gm-0009-0000-27ddd775&tw=2 Dug myself out of last place to wind up in first place. That was a lot of fun. Also, now I'm one win away from breaking into 1-dan. Which probably just me...

@Wavemotion: You have to go to the replays window in Tenhou, and then click on the third tab to the right. It'll show you the URLs you can use. More detailed guide here: http://arcturus.su/tenhou/replays.html Here's one of mine tonight, by the way: http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013051812gm-000f-0000-b8c...

If you want to do a mahjong-related song, you could check out Nantoka Nare from Akagi.

I was looking around, and I realized that on this new website I couldn't figure out how to get to those old articles that Jenn wrote about how to play Reach rules. I found them through Google, though -- whether it's a cached version or what, I don't know. Here's a link: http://www.reachmahjong.com/h...

It looks like Niconico is doing another one of those mahjong streams for people outside Japan to watch. There won't be English commentary this time, either, but I figure the more interest they see here the better. If I can, I'd like to get up and watch live. All depends whether I can manage to get o...

What night of the convention is it? The whole thing starts just after my finals week, so I might be able to work out a way to go.

I'd go with 9-dot . With two :east winds already on the field, it's a pretty safe tile for later, even if it is the dora (though there's always a chance someone gets tricky; I might not hold it for TOO long). But the thing is, the 9-dot isn't doing anything for you in this hand anyway, and if you lu...

Location: Cleveland, OH Occupation: College student Interests: reading, writing, mahjong (obviously), fencing Affiliations (club, mahjong-related online forum, league, ...): Nothing but Reachmahjong.com, I guess? Username on popular online MJ games: "Wray" on Tenhou and Toupaiou Play MJ since (year...