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.

2022 World Riichi Championship

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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 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

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