European Mahjong Association
The European Mahjong Association (EMA) is an organization whose purpose is "to encourage, disseminate and coordinate the playing of mahjong in Europe". Its membership currently consists only of national Mahjong organizations located in Europe, each nation being treated equally during procedural votes. Players are technically members of their national organizations and not directly of the EMA. The EMA does coordinate pan-european initiatives such as a coordinated registration and player database and the ranking system for members of the various national organizations. While a best effort is made to try to disseminate and coordinate the release of multilingual documentation, the default language is English. The current president of the EMA is Tina Christensen.
Membership
The EMA was created in 2005 with 7 original members. At present, there are 19 members:
- [01] Austria: Österreichischer Mahjong Verband (2005)
- [03] Denmark: Mahjong Danmark (2005)
- [04] France: Féderation Française de Mah-Jong (2005)
- [05] Germany: Deutsche Mah-Jongg Liga (DMJL) e.V. (2005)
- [06] Hungary: Magyar Mah-jong Szövetség (2005)
- [07] Italy: Federazione Italiana Mah Jong (2005)
- [08] Netherlands: Nederlandse Mahjong Bond (2005)
- [02] Belgium: Belgian Mahjong Association (2009)
- [09] Sweden: Svenska Mahjongförbundet (2009)
- [10] Spain: Federación Española de mahjong (2009)
- [12] Portugal: União de Mahjong de Portugal (2009)
- [14] Finland: Suomen Mahjong-liitto (2009)
- [15] Russia: Russian Mahjong Federation (2009)
- [17] Slovakia: Slovenský Mahjongový Zväz (2009)
- [11] United Kingdom: United Kingdom Mahjong Association (2011)
- [19] Poland: Polska Liga Mahjonga (2011)
- [16] Switzerland: Association Suisse de Mah-Jong - Associazione Svizzera di Mah-Jong - Schweizerischer Mah-Jong Verein (ASM-SMV) (2013)
- [21] Ukraine: Ukrainian Mahjong Federation (2013)
- [22] Czech Republic: Česká asociace mahjongu (ČAMJ) (2013)
Member number 13 has not been designated due to usual superstition surrounding the number, as well as numbers 18 and 20 for some unknown reason.
Future Membership
At this time, it is unknown if new member organizations will be welcomed into the EMA for the next General Assembly.
Participation
As of July 2014, there are 306 active players (players with 2 or more Riichi tournaments played within the last 3 years)
| Code | Country | Players |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Austria | 22 |
| 02 | Belgium | 1 |
| 03 | Denmark | 23 |
| 04 | France | 51 |
| 05 | Germany | 23 |
| 06 | Hungary | 0 |
| 07 | Italy | 1 |
| 08 | Netherlands | 44 |
| 09 | Sweden | 11 |
| 10 | Spain | 0 |
| 11 | Great Britain | 20 |
| 12 | Portugal | 1 |
| 14 | Finland | 3 |
| 15 | Russia | 59 |
| 16 | Switzerland | 0 |
| 17 | Slovakia | 9 |
| 19 | Poland | 28 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 2 |
| 22 | Czech Republic | 3 |