2018 M.League season

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2018 M.League season

M League logo
Host M League
Type Professional league
Team count 7 teams
Finalists
Champion Akasaka Drivens
Runner up EX Furinkazan
Third Shibuya Abemas
Fourth Konami Mahjong Fight Club

This is the inaugural season to the M League. The season began on October 1, 2018, and the last regular season session was on February 12, 2019. The final series began on March 2, 2019 and the championship was decided on March 31, 2019. Akasaka Drivens became the first champion.

Teams

Team name Company sponsor Draft results
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Akasaka Drivens Hakuhodo DY media partners Ken Sonoda (Saikouisen) Jun Murakami (Saikouisen) Taro Suzuki (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai)
EX Furinkazan TV Asahi Aki Nikaido (JPML) Kazunori Takizawa (JPML) Kenji Katsumata (JPML)
Konami Mahjong Fight Club KONAMI Hisato Sasaki (JPML) Mari Takamiya (JPML) Yudai Maehara (JPML)
Shibuya Abemas CyberAgent Takaharu Ooi (RMU) Sho Shiratori (JPML) Yoshihiro Matsumoto (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai)
SegaSammy Phoenix SegaSammy Yuumi Uotani (JPML) Seiichi Kondo (Saikouisen) Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen)
TEAM RAIDEN Dentsu Masato Hagiwara (JPML) Naoki Setokuma (JPML) Saki Kurosawa (JPML)
U-NEXT Pirates U-Next Go Kobayashi (Mahjong Union) Koushin Asakura (Saikouisen) Nobuhiro Ishibashi (Saikouisen)

Draft

The inaugural draft was held on August 7 at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa in Tokyo. All players were drafted as normal in round order. Taro Suzuki was drafted by three teams: Akasaka Drivens, Shibuya ABEMAS, and U-NEXT Pirates. By lottery, Akasaka Drivens gained the right to draft Taro Suzuki. Shibuya ABEMAS and U-NEXT Pirates then drafted Yoshihiro Matsumoto and Nobuhiro Ishibashi respectively.

Format

The regular season consists of 140 hanchan, with 80 hanchan played for each team. With seven teams, the top 4 of the regular season continue into a 24 hanchan final.

Results

Regular season

# Team Points Difference from next
1 EX Furinkazan 281.7 -
2 Shibuya Abemas 184.6 97.1
3 Konami Mahjong Fight Club 39.2 145.4
4 Akasaka Drivens -8.7 47.9
5 U-NEXT Pirates -99.2 90.5
6 SegaSammy Phoenix -170.1 70.9
7 TEAM RAIDEN -227.5 57.4

Final four

Place Team Points Difference from next Prize
1 Akasaka Drivens 594.5 - ¥50 million
2 EX Furinkazan 83 511.5 ¥20 million
3 Shibuya Abemas -147 230.0 ¥10 million
4 Konami Mahjong Fight Club -282 135.0

Individual awards

Top score

Top hanchan

Fourth place avoidance

Yakuman

External links

2018 M.League season in Japanese Wikipedia