鳥星雨

鳥星雨

Full name	鳥星雨
Country	South Korea
Club	Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong

Part-time streamer. Former Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong admin.

Biography

鳥星雨 (ちょうせいう or とりせいう) is an amateur Riichi Mahjong player and streamer who currently resides in Seoul, South Korea. An alumnus of Northwestern University, he founded the Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong club in April 2018. Despite graduation, he continues to run the club's online events, held through the club Discord server.

鳥星雨 was first introduced to mahjong through 咲-Saki- in November 2017. He ordered his first set in February 2018, joined Chicago Area Mahjong in March, and founded NURM in April. During the summer of 2018, he played with Waseda University Mahjong Club in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Since moving to Seoul for work, he has played primarily at Sillim Mahjong Cafe, where he continues to play today. Online, 鳥星雨 plays primarily on Tenhou and Majsoul. He enjoys playing (and streaming) both ranked and unranked games. On mobile, he prefers playing on Tengokuhai.

In his spare time, 鳥星雨 loves watching and analyzing videos of his favorite professional players. Often, he finds himself spending significantly more time watching mahjong rather than playing it. Some of his favorite pros include 魚谷侑未 (Uotani Yuumi), 二階戸亜紀 (Nikaido Aki), and 茅森早香 (Kayamori Sayaka).

Outside of mahjong, 鳥星雨 is avid fan of the 東方Project series of games, and specifically arrangements of its music. He frequently flies to Japan for travel, and regularly attends Comiket and Reitaisai. He collects music CDs, in part to satisfy his necessity for lossless audio files. He speaks English, Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese in varying degrees of capability.

Yakuman Count

Date	Yakuman	Medium	Location	Value	Notes	Source
2018/07/03	Kokushi Musou 国士無双	Real Tiles	Waseda Mahjong Club 早稲田麻雀部	32000	Kokushi scored by houtei ron on a jigoku hatsu. With a haipai of 8 unique terminal/honor tiles, the initial attempt was for chanta, but gradually a yakuman became a possibility. Second place kamicha was hit for 32k.	[1]
2019/04/03	Kokushi Musou 国士無双	Netplay	Majsoul 雀魂麻将	32000	Kokushi scored on a jigoku 1m ron. Haipai consisted of 10 unique tiles, including every honor tile. Thus, kyushu kyuhai was declined and a yakuman was attempted from the beginning. Immediately after tenpai was achieved, shimocha dealt the final winning tile.	[2][3]
2019/05/21	Kokushi Musou 国士無双	Netplay	Tengokuhai 麻雀 天極牌	48000	Kokushi scored ron on the west tile. Haipai consisted of 11 kokushi tiles, 10 unique. Subsequent self-draws were incredibly lucky, often drawing the very last copy of the tiles needed for the yakuman. Tenpai was achieved in the first half of the second row. Immediately afterwards, toimen dealt the winning tile.	[4][5]