2022 World Riichi Championship
The 2022 World Riichi Championship is the third edition of the World Riichi Championship series. Originally branded as the 2020 World Riichi Championship, COVID-19 pandemic pressed organizers to delay the event twice. The mahjong group, Kasu, will be hosting the event in Vienna, Austria at the Intercontinental Hotel. The expected participant count will be 200 with regional quotas in discussion.
 WRC2022 logo | |
| Location | Vienna, Austria |
|---|---|
| Host | Kasu |
| Date | Aug 25 - 28, 2022 |
| Type | World championship |
| Player count | TBD players |
| Finalists | |
The original dates of August 26-30, 2020 was postponed to a later date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first postponement date was August 26-29, 2021. The pandemic continued throughout 2021 and into 2022. So the event is further postponed to a August 25-28, 2022.
Participant count by country
| Country | Alpha-3 | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | JPN | 33 |
| Argentina | ARG | 2 |
| Austria | AUT | 4 |
| Australia | AUS | 3 |
| Belgium | BEL | 4 |
| Brazil | BRA | 3 |
| Canada | CAN | 2 |
| Switzerland | SUI | 1 |
| Chile | CHL | 3 |
| Germany | DEU | 4 |
| Denmark | DEN | 5 |
| Spain | ESP | 1 |
| Finland | FIN | 5 |
| France | FRA | 6 |
| Great Britain | GBR | 5 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 2 |
| Hungary | HUN | 1 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 2 |
| Ireland | IRE | 1 |
| Iran | IRN | 1 |
| Italy | ITA | 3 |
| South Korea | KOR | 3 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 5 |
| Norway | NOR | 3 |
| Poland | POL | 6 |
| Portugal | PRT | 1 |
| Romania | ROM | 1 |
| Sweden | SWE | 3 |
| Singapore | SGP | 3 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 3 |
| Taiwan | TWN | 2 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 5 |
| United States | USA | 9 |
| Uruguay | URG | 1 |
| Independent | --- | 4 |
| Europe | EMA | 1 |
| World Riichi | WRC | 11 |
Participant list and results
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Aki Nikaido 「二階堂亜樹」 | JPN |
| Chifumi Yamawaki 「山脇千文美」 | JPN |
| Go Saito 「齋藤豪」 | JPN |
| Hiroe Sugawara 「菅原千瑛」 | JPN |
| Hiroshi Yamai 「山井弘」 | JPN |
| Jun Nishikawa 「西川淳」 | JPN |
| Kazuhiko Nishijima 「西島一彦」 | JPN |
| Keijun Nara 「奈良圭純」 | JPN |
| Kyosuke Hyuga 「日向杏介」 | JPN |
| Mami Teranishi 「寺西真美」 | JPN |
| Manabu Yamada 「山田学武」 | JPN |
| Masaharu Tomotake 「ともたけ雅晴」 | JPN |
| Masao Kuroki 「黒木真生」 | JPN |
| Mio 「美晤」 | JPN |
| Noriyuki Kiriyama 「桐山のりゆき」 | JPN |
| Ran Kono 「香野蘭」 | JPN |
| Rinka Hayakawa 「早川林香」 | JPN |
| Rumi Nikaido 「二階堂瑠美」 | JPN |
| Ryoei Hirano 「平野良栄」 | JPN |
| Satoshi Fujisaki 「藤崎智」 | JPN |
| Shibata Hiro 「HIRO柴田」 | JPN |
| Shigekazu Moriyama 「森山茂和」 | JPN |
| Takashi Furuhashi 「古橋崇志」 | JPN |
| Tatsuya Hiyoshi 「日吉辰哉」 | JPN |
| Tokuda Kenneth 「ケネス徳田」 | JPN |
| Tomohiro Honda 「本田朋広」 | JPN |
| Tomonori Koshino 「越野智紀」 | JPN |
| Yoshikazu Shibata 「柴田吉和」 | JPN |
| Yui Hirabayashi 「平林祐」 | JPN |
| Yukihiro Tsuchiya 「土屋幸弘」 | JPN |
| Yukiko Izumi 「和泉由希子」 | JPN |
| Yuko Itou 「伊藤優孝」 | JPN |
| Yurika Aoi 「蒼井ゆりか」 | JPN |
| Marcelo Mecozzi | ARG |
| Nicolás Pfleger | ARG |
| Birgitt Rupp | AUT |
| Dominik Hammerl | AUT |
| Manuel Tomisser | AUT |
| Michael Gürtl-Dusleag | AUT |
| Aaron Chee | AUS |
| Jaymond He | AUS |
| Jeremy Sea | AUS |
| Chris De Roock | BEL |
| Jos Dermout | BEL |
| Nathan Germeau | BEL |
| Tine Weckhuyzen | BEL |
| Allan Gabriel Marques Lima | BRA |
| Murilo de Oliveira Bordignon | BRA |
| Nathan de Sousa Malafaia | BRA |
| Grant Mahoney | CAN |
| Loïc Roberge | CAN |
| Frédéric Chassot | SUI |
| Cristian Abarza | CHL |
| César Tomás Roudergue Fuentes | CHL |
| Felipe Ignacio Rojas Vallejo | CHL |
| Axel Eschenburg | DEU |
| Daniel Gahler | DEU |
| Peter Beese | DEU |
| Timur Hahn | DEU |
| Henrik Leth | DEN |
| Jesper Nøhr | DEN |
| Lars Therkelsen | DEN |
| Morten Andersen | DEN |
| Sebastian Lavallée | DEN |
| Linxuan He | ESP |
| Janne Hannikainen | FIN |
| Jouni Kuitunen | FIN |
| Konsta Lensu | FIN |
| Tommi Ikonen | FIN |
| Vilhelmiina Viinikka | FIN |
| Cédric Aguerre | FRA |
| Isabelle Marsac | FRA |
| Joe-Calberson Huynh | FRA |
| Jérémie Pierard De Maujouy | FRA |
| Karolina Trepinska | FRA |
| Valentin Courtois | FRA |
| Chris Endicott | GBR |
| John Duckworth | GBR |
| Martin Lester | GBR |
| Michael Donaghy | GBR |
| Philip Bielby | GBR |
| Chan Teng Cheung | HKG |
| Stephen Sze Chun Leung | HKG |
| Zoltan Dinyesi | HUN |
| Daniel Alfred Widjaja | IDN |
| Yuk Fai Yeung | IDN |
| Simon Picard | IRE |
| Philip Abdollahi | IRN |
| Augusto Gherardi | ITA |
| Marco Montebelli | ITA |
| Miria Martelli | ITA |
| Heonwoo Lim | KOR |
| Hyojeong Shim | KOR |
| James Yu | KOR |
| Anneke Keyl | NLD |
| Ans Hoogland | NLD |
| Foppe Bakker | NLD |
| Martijn Gulmans | NLD |
| Robert Bodde | NLD |
| Jo Magnus Frostad | NOR |
| Konstantin Pakshaev | NOR |
| Vetle André Hoffmeyer Neumann | NOR |
| Mateusz Woźniak | POL |
| Nina Popławska | POL |
| Olga Igarashi | POL |
| Tatsuya Igarashi | POL |
| Tomasz Powęzka | POL |
| Łukasz Grzybowski | POL |
| Sergio Matos Lima | PRT |
| Michael van der Sluijs | ROM |
| Jasper Germeys | SWE |
| Niklas Johansson | SWE |
| Stefan Persson | SWE |
| Leon Lim Zhi Yang | SGP |
| Ooi Boon Wei | SGP |
| Tham Hin | SGP |
| Juraj Jerguš | SVK |
| Matej Labaš | SVK |
| Tomáš Široň | SVK |
| Che An Shih | TWN |
| Shao Ming Huang | TWN |
| Anna Zubenko | UKR |
| Kateryna Kondratenko | UKR |
| Mykhailo Nedokushev | UKR |
| Sveta Yaremenko | UKR |
| Vitaliy Balanyuk | UKR |
| Austin Tai | USA |
| Claire Pozniak | USA |
| Kinyan Lui | USA |
| Michael Mcleod | USA |
| Patrick Nguyen | USA |
| Pio Yoon | USA |
| Ryan Adams | USA |
| Steve Augustin | USA |
| Zachary Francks | USA |
| Luca Jose Ferrari Chittara | URG |
| Kirill Khromov | --- |
| Sergey Petrushchenko | --- |
| Valentin Vinogradov | --- |
| Yulia Loginova | --- |
| Lena Weinguny | EMA |
| Allon Scheyer | WRC |
| Anastasiia Veremenko | WRC |
| Daniel Moreno 「ダニエル」 | WRC |
| Garthe 「ガース」 | WRC |
| Gemma Sakamoto 「ジェマ」 | WRC |
| Jenn 「ジェン」 | WRC |
| Kevin Dinh | WRC |
| Norio Iga 「伊賀則夫」 | WRC |
| Russell Chan | WRC |
| Wei De Lou | WRC |
| Zeyu Sun | WRC |