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鳥星雨
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==Mahjong Biography== | ==Mahjong Biography== | ||
鳥星雨 (Toriesu) is an amateur Riichi Mahjong player who first | 鳥星雨 (Toriesu) is an amateur Riichi Mahjong player who first got into the game of Riichi because of [http://saki.wikia.com/wiki/Ritz_Kobayashi Kobayashi Ritz's] [http://saki.wikia.com/wiki/Saki_(anime) Saki series], where his favorite character is [http://saki.wikia.com/wiki/Shindouji_Girls%27_High_School Shindouji]'s Captain, [http://saki.wikia.com/wiki/Himeko_Tsuruta Tsuruta Himeko]. As a result, 鳥星雨 founded [[Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong]] in April of 2018, bringing in new players like his close friend [[User:YuukiTheFlash|YuukiTheFlash]]. | ||
鳥星雨 goes by the same pseudonym [https://nodocchi.moe/tenhoulog/#name=%E9%B3%A5%E6%98%9F%E9%9B%A8 鳥星雨] on [[Tenhou.net| Tenhou]]. While he use to regularly play club mahjong with both [[Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong]] and [[Chicago Area Mahjong]], 鳥星雨 graduated from [https://www.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University] in Spring of 2018, and went abroad to study Japanese in a summer program at [https://www.waseda.jp/top/en Waseda University] in Tokyo, Japan. | 鳥星雨 goes by the same pseudonym [https://nodocchi.moe/tenhoulog/#name=%E9%B3%A5%E6%98%9F%E9%9B%A8 鳥星雨] on [[Tenhou.net| Tenhou]]. While he use to regularly play club mahjong with both [[Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong]] and [[Chicago Area Mahjong]], 鳥星雨 graduated from [https://www.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University] in Spring of 2018, and went abroad to study Japanese in a summer program at [https://www.waseda.jp/top/en Waseda University] in Tokyo, Japan. | ||
While at [https://www.waseda.jp/top/en Waseda], 鳥星雨 attended weekly meetings of [https://twitter.com/wasedakmc2014 Waseda's Mahjong Club], where he claims to have gotten a lot better at the game. After completing the summer program at Waseda, 鳥星雨 left Japan for his job in Seoul, Korea, where his only exposure to the game is through playing net mahjong on [[Tenhou.net| Tenhou]], oftentimes with his friends in the US. | While at [https://www.waseda.jp/top/en Waseda], 鳥星雨 attended weekly meetings of [https://twitter.com/wasedakmc2014 Waseda's Mahjong Club], where he claims to have gotten a lot better at the game. There, 鳥星雨 learned how to "steal Riichi sticks" by pushing after someone else [[riichi]]s and winning small hands. After completing the summer program at Waseda, 鳥星雨 left Japan for his job located in Seoul, Korea, where his only exposure to the game is through playing net mahjong on [[Tenhou.net| Tenhou]], oftentimes with his friends in the US. | ||