2-12-4 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan TEL:03-3502-6650 FAX:03-3581-2456 [Back] [Next] Japan-China Friendship Tournament in Sendai Sendai has a lot of international students from China. The Friendship Tournament started 8 years ago to develop friendly ties with Chinese students. It’s a two-day event with two different tournaments each day: a team match with 4-2-1-0 table score by selected Chinese and Japanese players from all over Japan on the first day, and an individual match with raw scores on the second day. Anyone can join the second day. The second-day tournament is characterized by a warm, friendly atmosphere with peals of laughter due to charming mistakes. The 9th tournament was held on August 29 and 30, 2009 at Mahjong-gakkou in Sendai. Winning team of the first-day tournament, Team Miyakodori (from left): Taku Kashiwagi, Koji Idota, Kimito Kugimiya and Yukari Kugimiya awarded a prize by Kazuhisa Aoki, head of Tohoku Branch Individual winner of the first-day tournament: Katsuyuki Onodera who has also achieved 4th consecutive victories in Tuesday League Japanese winner of the second-day tournament: Masahiko Ikeda Chinese winner of the second-day tournament: Xu Bin Chang Chen Min Cup in Sapporo The 6th Chang Chen Min Cup was held on May 23rd and 24th at Yume Dojo in Sapporo, Hokkaido with the participation of 32 players not only from Sapporo but also from Tokyo, Sendai and Kansai. It’s the only pair match among JMSA tournaments featuring two offbeat awards unique to pair match; smallest (and biggest) difference award to the pair with the smallest (and biggest) difference in each individual's total mini points, excluding top 3 pairs. Many non-Hokkaido residing players look forward to the event to use the opportunity to enjoy beautiful Sapporo and surrounding areas in their best season. Pair match by table point and individual match by mini point May 23rd 2 sessions Players’ party at a typical mutton barbecue restaurant May 24th 3 sessions (5th session in order of the results up to the 4th session) Pair Ranking Name Total Indiv. Ranking 1 Sachiko Maeda (前田幸子) 17 +592 1 Shoko Yoshida (吉田祥子) 8 -33 18 2 Katsuyuki Onodera (小野寺克之) 9 +135 12 Yoshihiro Suzuki (鈴木芳洋) 15 +450 2 3 Jun Sasaki (佐々木隼) 12 +347 3 Kyoji Sugawara (菅原享司) 10 +17 15 Smallest difference award went to Shigeru Aono and Kazuhiro Tsutsumi with only 9-point difference, and biggest difference award to Kimito and Yukari Kugimiya with 490-point difference. Exciting games at Yume Dojo 　 Winning pair: Sachiko Maeda, also individual winner (left) and Shoko Yoshida (right), both from Sapporo, with Kosho Tsuchida, ex Hokkaido branch head Ginza Cup monthly tournament annual final (Atsugi Branch) Annual final was held on December 20 to put an end to the 11-month long competition. The reason why it’s not 12-month but 11-month is, there was a fire breakout at a bar next door and all the players had to evacuate in the middle of the tournament in January 2008. That was the first time for everyone to have to worry about one’s safety playing mahjong. 4 qualified players played 4 games (raw scores + uma; +60, +20, -20, -60). All 4 players had a chance to win at the end of the third game. In the last game, Kimito Kugimiya extended his lead by light hands taking advantage of the situation where other three players would not go out unless with a big hand or a self pick to turn the game around. Atsugi Ginza Cup annual final 　 Player Self Pick Win on discard Feed Total Score 1 Kimito Kugimiya （釘宮公人） 6 11 8 +219 2 Katsuyuki Onodera（小野寺克之） 3 12 11 +37 3 Hideaki Kubota （窪田秀章） 4 12 21 -94 4 Yukari Kugimiya （釘宮百香里） 2 13 8 -162 Kimito Kugimiya (釘宮公人), winner of 2008 Atsugi Ginza Cup receives a trophy from Sugako Suzuki (鈴木寿佳子), leader of Atsugi Branch 　 [Back] [Next] Copyright (C) 2008-2009. JMSA. All Rights Reserved.