The Game of Saki and Akagi: Mondo Women's Mahjong Championship Vol.2

MONDO TV brings you the first ever English-language broadcast of a Japanese professional mahjong television program. Four of the best players in Japan battle it out to see who will become the 10th Mondo Women’s Champion. If you’re a fan of mahjong competitions, have heard of the game through popular comics like Saki or Akagi, or have played online, this is your chance to see how top pros compete in a real-life setting.

The competitors are:
Yumi Uotani (魚谷)
Rumi Nikaido (瑠美)
Saki Kurosawa (黒沢)
Izumi Suzusaki (涼崎)

Those new to Japanese “Riichi” Mahjong can find a copy of the rules here:

English colorcaster commentary is by Ryan Morris and Benjamin Boas.

-Ryan Morris
First American to make contact with the Japanese pro mahjong scene, and boy, did it cost him. After gaining their trust through consecutive early losses, he made it all back through mahjong journalism, including a long-running column in Kindai Mahjong. Biggest feat: two-time consecutive champion of the yearly GPC All-star League founded by Masayuki Katayama.

-Benjamin Boas
Benjamin Boas has been involved in international riichi mahjong championships for over a decade both as a player and a judge. He is a researcher at Keio University in Japan.

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Vol 1. (First Half)

World Riichi Championship 2017

[tinachristensen]

Mahjong is a great spectator sport. The English commentary is much appreciated!

[robinwoaye]

Thank you so much for the game and commentary !It's great that we finally have access to Mondo mahjong content in English !!!Greetings from a french riichi amateur !

[experimilk]

really really appreciate this commentary. a good blend of entertaining and enlightening. hope for more MONDOTV in english down the line!

[Luke-pcbr]

Loving that South 2 talk about experience and efficiency, such great commentary!

[Sonickid]

This was awesome moar English language mahjong commentary ESPN needs to license this from MONDO for TV broadcast in America we need an explosion of Riichi mahjong in America. The USPML introduced me to this world last year and I wanna see it grow.

[PhilipWing]

Mondo needs to make more of these videos with Ryan Morris and Ben Boas. At least for the bigger games like this one! Awesome commentary!

[isokosan]

Almost everyone who started playing riichi in my circle wanted to watch these games but gave up because of the language barrier. Now we can direct non Japanese speakers here for entertainment & learning. All they had was anime which was not a realistic reflection of mahjong so this is great new content. Loved the way you introduced concepts as you go its very helpful for the audience.

[DialatedFiltration]

Would love more english commentary for mahjong in the future! Thank you very much for providing the service!

[PeterVC]

Although I've gotten quite used to watching Mahjong in Japanese, it's great to have English commentary, good job! Would love to see more of this!
Myself, I've only ever played it as a video game, never on a real table. But I'm still not so good at calculating my score, so I'm a bit afraid trying out a real janso, I'd rather want to try it in a more relaxed atmosphere ^_^ But I love playing and watching it :)
I have my own mahjong set, but no one to play it with, but when I heard that practice tip about just setting up the tiles and play all four players by yourself sounds like an interesting idea.

[warlockzach]

Thank you for this, would really really love more English commentaries :-)

[msolec]

1.9 point win, very close! Yes, I would love to see more of this type of commentary. This game is beautiful. :)

[snowf]

Mahjong is a beautiful game ! Thank you for this !

[dgu]

we really need more English commentaries!

[broterto]

Great game and great commentary! Please do more!

[ChasingForever]

Really enjoyed the English commentary. So used to watching commentary in Japanese, this was a wonderful change. Thank you!

[albreo]

I'm not sure what I'm more jealous about, japanese people having great food and restaurants on lively streets or the ability to play games like majong in parlors.

The biggest theory for that I've heard was that Japan has more train stations which makes shops on walkways and such more appealing.
Here in Germany we've at least got some really good japanese restaurants with most of the popular food, but I have yet to see a Mahjong place of some sort.
There are only some Mahjong clubs outside of my city. :s

[golli]

Great commentary, hope to see much more from you guys! that mistake in declaring riichi was surprising to see in this level of play.

[circiter]

Whatever happened to these? This was so educational and engrossing! Are there any plans to restart these broadcasts with English commentary?

[elhugo]

Great commentary! would like to see more :)

[munichriichioutlaws]

I would love to see a commentary like this on the Riichi World Championship in October '17. Does anyone know, if there are plans for this?