2023 M.Tournament

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The 2023 M.Tournament is an individual bracket style tournament. This is the first edition of the off-season tournament hosted by M.League. In the initial brackets, a mixture of M.League team members and other professional participants compete in an elimination bracket. In all, the stages of the brackets have 48 participants. Players play 2 hanchan on their tables and the top 2 from each table proceed into the next stage. In addition, the team members of the 2022-23 season champions, Shibuya Abemas, await in the quarterfinal brackets.

Players

M.League members

M.League Team Members
Akasaka Drivens Ken Sonoda (Saikouisen)

Jun Murakami (Saikouisen) Taro Suzuki (Saikouisen) Kanako Maruyama (Saikouisen)

EX Furinkazan Aki Nikaido (JPML)

Kenji Katsumata (JPML) Takaya Matsugase (RMU) Rumi Nikaido (JPML)

KADOKAWA Sakura Knights Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML)

Sayaka Okada (JPML) Shingo Hori (NPM) Nanba Shibukawa (NPM)

Konami Mahjong Fight Club Hisato Sasaki (JPML)

Mari Takamiya (JPML) Arisa Date (JPML) Kazunori Takizawa (JPML)

SegaSammy Phoenix Yuumi Uotani (JPML)

Seiichi Kondo (Saikouisen) Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen) Rio Tojyo (JPML)

Shibuya Abemas Takaharu Ooi (RMU)

Sho Shiratori (JPML) Yoshihiro Matsumoto (NPM) Aiko Hinata (Saikouisen)

TEAM RAIDEN Masato Hagiwara (JPML)

Naoki Setokuma (JPML) Saki Kurosawa (JPML) Tomohiro Honda (JPML)

U-NEXT Pirates Go Kobayashi (MU)

Akina Mizuhara (Saikouisen) Yu Suzuki (Saikouisen) Kei Nakabayashi (NPM)

Other professionals

Player Organization Titles
Akira Wakutsu JPML Former SegaSammy Phoenix
Genta Takeuchi Saikouisen 47th Saikoui
Takaki Asai NPM 21st Mahjong King
Shibata Hiro JPML 39th Hououi
Takashi Kouno RMU 5th, 12th, 13th Reishoui
Saki Shirogane JPML 17th Cherry Blossom Cup Title Holder
Hiroshi Daigo Saikouisen 45th Saikoui
Tooru Yajima NPM 19th Mahjong King
Kenjiro Fujishima JPML 2018 First Half WRC League Champion
Yoshiki Ishii JPML King's Cup Title Holder
Masashi Sakamoto Saikouisen Advent of the Four Gods Title Holder
Keijun Nara JPML 3rd WRC Champion
Hisaharu Kondo JPML
Shotaro Seki Saikouisen
Takehiro Ishidate JPML 12th WRC League Champion
Tomomi Mizusaki NPM 21st Mahjong Queen
Yusuke Asai Saikouisen
Takanori Abe RMU 19th, 20th, 21st Hououi
Chifumi Yamawaki JPML
Yukio Oshida MU 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 20th MU Title Holder

Brackets

1st round

Table Advanced players Eliminated players
A Shibata Hiro

Ken Sonoda

Kotaro Uchikawa

Tomomi Mizusaki

B Yukio Oshida

Takaya Matsugase

Akira Wakutsu

Mari Takamiya

C Kazunori Takizawa

Kanako Maruyama

Tooru Yajima

Yuumi Uotani

D Tomohiro Honda

Sayaka Okada

Takanori Abe

Shotaro Seki

E Chifumi Yamawaki

Seiichi Kondo

Shingo Hori

Naoki Setokuma

F Akina Mizuhara

Hiroshi Daigo

Keijun Nara

Kenji Katsumata

G Takashi Kouno

Nanba Shibukawa

Saki Kurosawa

Sayaka Kayamori

H Masato Hagiwara

Masashi Sakamoto

Hisato Sasaki

Hisaharu Kondo

I Yusuke Asai

Saki Shirogane

Taro Suzuki

Aki Nikaido

J Takaki Asai

Rio Tojyo

Yoshiki Ishii

Yu Suzuki

K Genta Takeuchi

Kenjiro Fujishima

Arisa Date

Go Kobayashi

L Takehiro Ishidate

Rumi Nikaido

Jun Murakami

Kei Nakabayashi

2nd round

Table Advanced players Eliminated players
A Masashi Sakamoto

Chifumi Yamawaki

Takashi Kouno

Hiroshi Daigo

B Nanba Shibukawa

Masato Hagiwara

Akina Mizuhara

Seiichi Kondo

C Rumi Nikaido

Yusuke Asai

Genta Takeuchi

Rio Tojyo

D Takehiro Ishidate

Takaki Asai

Saki Shirogane

Kenjiro Fujishima

E Takaya Matsugase

Kazunori Takizawa

Shibata Hiro

Sayaka Okada

F Tomohiro Honda

Ken Sonoda

Yukio Oshida

Kanako Maruyama

Quarterfinals

Table Advanced players Eliminated players
A Yusuke Asai

Takehiro Ishidate

Aiko Hinata

Takaya Matsugase

B Takaharu Ooi

Rumi Nikaido

Takaki Asai

Masato Hagiwara

C Kazunori Takizawa

Yoshihiro Matsumoto

Chifumi Yamawaki

Ken Sonoda

D Masashi Sakamoto

Nanba Shibukawa

Sho Shiratori

Tomohiro Honda

Semifinals

Table Advanced players Eliminated players
A Rumi Nikaido

Nanba Shibukawa

Yusuke Asai

Kazunori Takizawa

B Takehiro Ishidate

Masashi Sakamoto

Takaharu Ooi

Yoshihiro Matsumoto

Finals

Winner: Nanba Shibukawa

2nd place: Rumi Nikaido

3rd place: Takehiro Ishidate

4th place: Masashi Sakamoto

 
2023 M.Tournament bracket

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