2022 M League season

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2022 M League season

M League logo
Host M League
Type Professional league
Team count 8 teams
Finalists
Champion Shibuya Abemas
Runner up Konami Mahjong Fight Club
Third Team Raiden
Fourth EX Furinkazan

The 2022 M League season is the 5th season to M.League.

Rosters

Team name Previous roster Drafted player(s) Released
Akasaka Drivens Ken Sonoda (Saikouisen)
Jun Murakami (Saikouisen)
Taro Suzuki (Saikouisen)
Kanako Maruyama (Saikouisen)
None None
EX Furinkazan Aki Nikaido (JPML)
Kenji Katsumata (JPML)
Takaya Matsugase (NPM)
Rumi Nikaido (JPML)
None None
KADOKAWA Sakura Knights Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML)
Sayaka Okada (JPML)
Shingo Hori (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai)
Nanba Shibukawa (Nihon Pro Mahjong) Makoto Sawazaki (JPML)
Konami Mahjong Fight Club Hisato Sasaki (JPML)
Mari Takamiya (JPML)
Arisa Date (JPML)
Kazunori Takizawa (JPML)
None None
Shibuya Abemas Takaharu Ooi (RMU)
Sho Shiratori (JPML)
Yoshihiro Matsumoto (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai)
Aiko Hinata (Saikouisen)
None None
SegaSammy Phoenix Yuumi Uotani (JPML)
Seiichi Kondo (Saikouisen)
Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen)
Rio Toujou (JPML)
None None
TEAM RAIDEN Masato Hagiwara (JPML)
Naoki Setokuma (JPML)
Saki Kurosawa (JPML)
Tomohiro Honda (JPML)
None None
U-NEXT Pirates Go Kobayashi (Mahjong Union)
Akina Mizuhara (Saikouisen)
Yu Suzuki (Saikouisen)
Kei Nakabayashi (Nihon Pro Mahjong)
Koushin Asakura (Saikouisen)
Nobuhiro Ishibashi (Saikouisen)

Team member rule

From this season onward, all teams are required to have four members each. All teams filled heir four member slots in the previous season, but they were not required to do so.

Released members

For failing to qualify into the final in the previous season, the U-NEXT Pirates were required to release at least one team member. Both Koushin Asakura and Nobuhiro Ishibashi were released. For KADOKAWA Sakura Knights, the status for Makoto Sawazaki is still in question due to his recent cancer treatment, which kept him out of the team final. A decision was made to release Sawazaki for health reasons.

Draft

The season's draft was held on July 10, 2022. Only two teams had roster slots open for new members. The draft went as follows[1]:

  1. Yu Suzuki (Saikouisen) to the U-Next Pirates
  2. Nanba Shibukawa (Nihon Pro Mahjong) to the Kadokawa Sakura Knights
  3. Kei Nakabayashi (Nihon Pro Mahjong) to the U-Next Pirates

Standings

Regular season

# Team Points Difference from next
1 Konami Mahjong Fight Club 592.2 -
2 EX Furinkazan 586.1 6.1
3 Shibuya Abemas 55.6 530.5
4 KADOKAWA Sakura Knights -41.5 97.1
5 TEAM RAIDEN -42.4 -0.9
6 U-NEXT Pirates -61.3 -18.9
7 Akasaka Drivens -514.3 -453
8 Sega Sammy Phoenix -574.4 -60.1

Semifinal

# Team Start Points End Points Difference from next
1 EX Furinkazan 293.1 290.4 -
2 Shibuya Abemas 27.8 266.6 23.8
3 Team Raiden -21.2 173.8 92.8
4 Konami Mahjong Fight Club 296.1 172.8 1.0
5 U-NEXT Pirates -30.6 16.9 155.9
6 KADOKAWA Sakura Knights -20.7 -376.0 531.9

Final

# Team Start Points Final Points Difference from next Prize
1 Shibuya Abemas 133.3 495.4 - ¥50 million
2 Konami Mahjong Fight Club 86.4 204.6 290.8 ¥20 million
3 Team Raiden 86.9 -97.8 302.4 ¥10 million
4 EX Furinkazan -150.4 145.2 52.6

Individual Awards

Top Score

  1. Arisa Date
  2. Tomohiro Honda
  3. Mizuhara Akina

Top Hanchan

  1. Saki Kurosawa
  2. Sayaka Kayamori
  3. Ken Sonada

Fourth place avoidance

  1. Kenji Katsumata
  2. Yu Suzuki
  3. Aiko Hinata

Yakuman

Overseas region lock

For a period of two months starting on October 13, overseas viewers were denied live viewing due to a region lock.[2] The league used copyrighted music, which prevented overseas broadcasting. In the interim, Abema provided VoD within a 24 hour period from a live cast for sections without the copyrighted music. Eventually, the situation was rectified; and live overseas broadcasting resumed on December 12.[3]

References

External links

2022 M League season in Japanese Wikipedia