User:KyuuAA

KyuuAA

Full name	Kyuu
Country	USA
Club	Chicago Area Mahjong Captain
ID	epi*i+1

Kyuu bowing to ASAPIN at the 2019 LA SPM tournament.

KyuuAA is an amateur Japanese mahjong player since November 2009. He currently resides in the Chicagoland area as part of the Chicago Area Mahjong club. Since March 2016, he has also been serving as part of NARMA's executive board.

In Tenhou.net, he uses the "female voice", because it is pleasing to hear during the game. Nevertheless, Kyuu is definitely a male player.

Tournament play

Date(s)	Event	Venue	Medium	Ruleset	Placement / Total
Jan 2015	WRML S2	Tenhou.net	Online	WRML	3 / 8
Mar 2015	WRML S3	Tenhou.net	Online	WRML	8 / 12
Jun 13-14, 2015	NARO 1	Montreal, CAN	Manual	NARO	7 / 12
Sep 26-27, 2015	NYC Open	New York City	Manual	WRC 2015	24 / 40
July 2, 2016	2016 Osamuko Invitational	Tenhou.net	Online	Modified	16 / 16
Sep 10-11, 2016	PML Open	San Francisco	Auto table	WRC 2015	38 / 52
May 20, 2017	ACEN 2017	Rosemont, IL	Manual	Tenhou.net rules	26 / 28
Oct 5-9, 2017	WRC 2017	Las Vegas	Manual	WRC 2015	198 / 224
Summer, 2018	USA IORMC Qualifiers	Tenhou.net	Online	IORMC	6 / 26
Oct 13-14, 2018	NAOpen 2018	New York City	Manual	WRC 2015	30 / 76
Feb 23, 2019	Riichi Tournament Round 2: Ann Arbor vs. Columbus	Ann Arbor, MI	Manual	WRC 2015	1 / 24
April 13, 2019	NURM 2019 Spring Open	Evanston, IL	Manual	NURM	5 / 17
June 4-7, 2019	Catfood Bowl S0 Tournament	Majsoul	Online	Majsoul	16 / 20
Aug 31-Sep 1, 2019	2019 LA SPM	Gardena, CA	Auto table	Saikouisen	8 / 40
April 18, 2020	UCROT 2020	Online	Majsoul	Custom	3 / 112
May 10, 2020	2020 Spring Tournament	Online	Tenhou.net	Tenhou	11 / 108

Tenhou.net aliases

• 4-player statistics only.

Name	Games	First game	Last game	Rank Avg	Best	Worst	Status	Source
KyuuA4	149	11-02-2009	12-16-2009	2.88	+103	-61	Retired	[1]
キュウＡ４	8	11-03-2009	11-04-2009	3.00	+60	-43	Retired	[2]
Kyuu44	65	12-17-2009	05-13-2010	2.71	+111	-57	Retired	[3]
Kyuu24	133	05-09-2010	01-30-2011	2.93	+79	-87	Retired	[4]
Kyuu77	46	03-13-2011	07-29-2012	2.59	+125	-64	Retired	[5]
ICKyuu	89	05-20-2013	04-05-2016	2.61	80	-69	Retired	[6]
KyuuBB	35	04-12-2013	02-18-2016	2.01	+77	-34	Retired	[7]
KyuuCC	247	09-21-2017	06-29-2018	2.36	+104	-61	Retired	[8][9]
Kyuu47 7447 only		10-21-2011 05-10-2019	10-21-2011 12-18-2019	2.31	+61	-56	Retired	[10]
KyuuE4 Tonpuu		11-25-2018					Active	[11]
Pyong		05-16-2019					Active	[12]
KyuuAA	24	01-31-2011	12-30-2011	2.50	+60	-51	Active	[13]
	643	01-02-2012	12-25-2012	2.45	+99	-79		[14]
	769	01-02-2013	12-29-2013	2.49	+108	-61		[15]
	1050	01-03-2014	12-31-2014	2.41	+106	-74		[16]
	771	01-05-2015	12-31-2015	2.42	+100	-67		[17]
	1093	01-03-2016	12-30-2016	2.47	+101	-66		[18]
	932	01-06-2017	12-30-2017	2.53	+106	-69		[19]
	1043	01-03-2018	12-26-2018	2.48	+99	-78		[20]
	544	01-05-2019	12-26-2019	2.57	+89	-78		[21]
								[22]

Ladder by year

Name	Games	First game	Last game	Rank Avg	Best	Worst	Status	Source
KyuuCC	50	09-21-2017	12-31-2017	2.46	+79	-60	Retired	[23]
	196	01-08-2018	06-29-2018	2.33	+104	-61		[24]
KyuuAA	Cumulative			2.50	+106	-79	Active	[25]
	170	07-06-2012	12-15-2012	2.47	+74	-79		[26]
	225	01-11-2013	12-29-2013	2.58	+79	-61		[27]
	633	01-03-2014	12-31-2014	2.54	+106	-74		[28]
	566	01-05-2015	12-31-2015	2.42	+100	-67		[29]
	705	01-03-2016	12-30-2016	2.50	+101	-62		[30]
	701	01-06-2017	12-28-2017	2.56	+106	-69		[31]
	663	01-03-2018	11-25-2018	2.52	+83	-63		[32]
	440	01-08-2019	12-26-2019	2.57	+89	-65		[33]
								[34]

Ladder by lobby

Last update: 01-06-2020

Name	Games	First game	Last game	Rank Avg	Best	Worst	Lobby	Source
KyuuAA	2092	02-23-2012		2.38	+108	-69	7447	[35]
	172	05-09-2018	02-06-2019	2.40	+99	-73	7863	[36]
	399	01-31-2011	12-17-2019	2.47	+79	-79	一般	[37]
	1713	12-08-2012		2.48	+106	-74	上級	[38]
	2207	03-14-2016		2.56	+106	-69	特上	[39]
KyuuCC	54	09-21-2017	01-30-2018	2.41	+92	-60	一般	[40]
	83	01-13-2018	02-27-2018	2.21	+71	-61	上級	[41]
	109	03-02-2018	06-29-2018	2.44	+104	-58	特上	[42]

Milestones

The following are ranks attained via the KyuuAA account. Only promotions are noted.

9級 07-09-2012 8級 07-10-2012 7級 07-10-2012 6級 07-11-2012 5級 07-13-2012 4級 07-14-2012 3級 07-18-2012

2級 08-06-2012 1級 08-28-2012 初段 09-01-2012 二段 11-30-2012 二段 06-08-2013 二段 07-27-2013 三段 02-17-2014

三段 10-03-2014 三段 10-26-2014 四段 05-09-2015 五段 04-12-2016 五段 06-19-2016 五段 10-16-2016 四段 05-09-2017

五段 04-06-2018 五段 09-22-2018 四段 04-21-2020

Tengokuhai alias

Name	Games	Rank Avg	Status	Source
KyuuAA	36	2.47	Active

Majsoul alias

Last update: 01-07-2020

Name	Server	Games	Rank Avg	Rank	Status	Source
KyuuAA	CN	Data lost
KyuuCC	CN	51	2.27	Adept 2	Retired
KyuuAA	EN Ranked	372	2.30	Master 2	Active
	EN Friendly	257	2.48

Janhime alias

Name	Games	Rank Avg	Status	Source
KyuuAA

Yakuman count

Last updated: 12-11-2019

Tenhou.net	Majsoul	Sega MJ	Real tiles	Other	Total	Oya
44	4	1	6	0	55	12

KMU	DSG	SUA	SSS	DSS	TSU	RYU	CHR	CHU	SUK	TEN	CHH	Mult
12	10	17	4	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Tenhou.net

#	Date	Yakuman	Room	Oya	Notes	Source
1	07-21-2010	Suuankou	一般	No	The only time yakuman was scored, only to finish in fourth.	[43]
2	08-22-2010	Daisangen	一般	No	Shousangen tenpai declined and later proceeded to draw 2 haku in a row.	[44]
3	02-22-2012	Shousuushii, Tsuuiisou	一般	Yes	Initial honitsu push converted into double yakuman.	[45]
4	06-16-2012	Kazoe	一般	No	Unknowingly and luckily tsumo'd this one.	[46]
5	07-08-2012	Kokushi	7447	No	Fast kokushi, tenpai by 6-7 discards.	[47]
6	10-31-2012	Suuankou	7447	Yes	Retailatory yakuman, as I had played into a Chinrotou one game prior. Also, furiten.	[48]
7	11-03-2012	Shousuushi	7447	No	Started hand with one of each wind, with initial intent to build honitsu.	[49]
8	11-08-2012	Kazoe	7447	No	Suuankou tenpai	[50]
9	01-06-2013	Suuankou	7447	No	Rejected calling ankan out of fear. After examining the wall, the rinshanpai was an agaripai.	[51]
10	01-17-2013	Kazoe	7447	Yes	Dealt hatsu ankan, held kan call until tenpai. Only hand won in the game.	[52]
11	06-19-2013	Shousuushi	上級	Yes	Broke cheap tenpai to convert hand to yakuman.	[53]
12	09-20-2013	Kokushi	上級	No	Began with 7 elements for orasu, and had to go for it while being last.	[54]
13	02-25-2014	Shousuushi	上級	Yes	Obvious opening hand for the yakuman.	[55]
14	03-09-2014	Kazoe	上級	No	Defense against two riichi's, both likely to be manzu waits.	[56]
15	04-14-2014	Suuankou tanki	7447	No	Simple collection of those ankous.	[57]
16	10-08-2014	Tsuuiisou	上級	No	Declined tenpai for toitoi + honitsu. 800th ranked game.	[58]
17	11-13-2014	Kokushi	上級	No	Snapped a horrible six 4th place losing streak. Very despair motivated.	[59]
18	04-30-2015	Kokushi 13	上級	No	Rising Sun!	[60]
19	05-05-2015	Daisangen	上級	No	Initially intended to go honroutou, honitsu. Daisangen chance apparent when the haku paired up.	[61]
20	07-11-2015	Kokushi	上級	No	Obvious chase for kokushi with 10-starting.	[62]
21	11-07-2015	Suuankou	上級	Yes	Game went into West. Was willing to call for toitoi to win the game, but scored yakuman instead.	[63]
22	12-08-2015	Kokushi	上級	Yes	Kokushi 1-shanten haipai.	[64]
23	02-19-2016	Suuankou	上級	No	My only hand won in the game. Declined shanpon tenpai for iipeikou nomi.	[65]
24	02-26-2016	Kokushi	上級	No	Kokushi with 10-starting. Initial 3-sou discard helped shift the tile draw into favor.	[66]
25	03-20-2016	Kokushi	7447	Yes	Kyuushuu kyuuhai declined, and chased kokushi anyways. Scored on the last haku.	[67]
26	06-14-2016	Suuankou	特上	Yes	First tokujou yakuman. Also, suuankou tenpai vs suuankou tenpai.	[68]
27	08-03-2016	Suuankou	特上	Yes	Had a potential suuankou tanki two hands prior.	[69]
28	10-27-2016	Chuuren poutou	特上	Yes	Chase for honitsu ended with chuuren poutou.	[70]
29	12-16-2016	Suuankou	特上	No	1-shanten after two turns, and ippatsu if riichi was called.	[71]
30	01-06-2017	Daisangen	特上	No	Push for toitoi honitsu, ended up as daisangen in a battle against toimen's potential haneman toitoi.	[72]
31	01-21-2017	Daisangen	7447	No	Broke shousangen tenpai to set up for daisangen, after acquiring 3 dragon pairs.	[73]
32	05-07-2017	Daisangen	C8827	No	Early dragon pairs lead to daisangen.	[74]
33	07-14-2017	Suuankou	特上	No	1-shanten after 4 draws.	[75]
34	09-21-2017	Suuankou	特上	No	2-shanten after 3 draws, 1-shanten after 4-draws, tenpai after 5-draws. Win on the 6th draw.	[76]
35	09-26-2017	Suuankou	特上	No	Tenpai on the 4th turn.	[77]
36	01-25-2018	Daisangen	上級	No	Declined yakuhai 2 tenpai, and opted for at least shousangen with hatsu dora.	[78]
37	02-24-2018	Suuankou	7447	No	Shanpon for double nan and dora.	[79]
38	04-06-2018	Suuankou	特上	Yes	A pair of ryantan patterns developed for suuankou upgrade.	[80]
39	05-04-2018	Daisuushii	特上	No	Initial decision for shousuushii and apparent after one wind pon and three wind pairs.	[81]
40	05-16-2018	Shousuushii, Tsuuiisou	7863	No	Began with three honor pairs. Completed on jigoku.	[82]
41	03-08-2019	Ryuuiisou	上級	No	First one scored in tonpussen.	[83]
42	03-21-2019	Daisangen	上級	No	Direct setup for daisangen.	[84]
43	12-11-2019	Kokushi	上級	No	10-starter	[85]
44	05-13-2020	Chuuren poutou	特上	No	Declined tenpai and discarded shuntsu including dora for a chance	[86]

Majsoul

#	Date	Yakuman	Room	Oya	Notes	Source
1	06-06-2019	Daisangen	Friendly	No	Nine honor tiles by second draw	[87]
2	07-01-2019	Kokushi	Jade	No	Declined 9h9h due to five honor tiles	[88]
3	07-05-2019	Suuankou	Jade	No	Two ankou by 3rd turn. Missed ippatsu on entotsu. Shabo tsumo a couple turns later.	[89]
4	11-17-2019	Kokushi	Friendly	No	Nine start while in 4th, first scored while on a stream.	[90]

Sega Net Mahjong

Date	Yakuman	Room	Oya	Notes	Source
04-10-2016	Daisangen	段位認定戦	No	Closed daisangen, which could've been coupled with suuankou.	[91]

Real tiles

Date	Yakuman	Location	Notes	Source
03-28-2012	Ryuuiisou	CAM	Tsumo:	[92]
07-24-2014	Shousuushi	CAM	Tsumo:	[93]
05-17-2015	Kokushi	Anime Central	Ron:
09-26-2015	Suuankou	New York Open Freeplay	Tsumo:	[94]
08-01-2018	Suuankou	NU Club Play	Tsumo:
09-28-2019	Daisangen	CAM	Tsumo:	[95]

Sanbaiman count

As of December 24, 2018, Kyuu has scored 12 sanbaiman online. An additional one is scored using real tiles.

Tenhou.net

Date	Main yaku	Room	Han	Oya	Notes	Source
12-22-2009	Chinitsu	一般	12	No	Realized 8 years later.	[96]
09-03-2012	Chinitsu Chiitoitsu	一般	12	No	Response hand to the previous one.	[97]
10-18-2012	Sanshoku	一般	11	Yes	Kan assisted.	[98]
06-16-2013	Riichi Ippatsu Tsumo	上級	12	No	Riichi after kan, like the 01-17-2013 Kazoe.	[99]
10-19-2013	Pinfu	7447	11	Yes	Kan assisted.	[100]
06-02-2014	Honitsu	7447	12	No	Fast honitsu, with yakuhai dora.	[101]
09-03-2015	Pinfu	上級	12	No	Kan assisted.	[102]
11-30-2015	Shousangen	上級	11	Yes	Daisangen tenpai, on yasume tsumo. No dora.	[103]
01-12-2018	Chinitsu	一般	12	Yes	Chinitsu, tenpai for suuankou.	[104]
02-21-2018	Mentanpin Iipeikou	特上	11	No	Called riichi against two riichi, after dama a couple of turns.	[105]
04-24-2018	Sanankou	7447	11	Yes	Kan riichi	[106]
12-24-2018	Chinitsu	一般	11	Yes	Delay riichi up to the 2nd kan	[107]
09-04-2019	Chinitsu	特上	11	No	Inadvertently called riichi, not seeing the wait.	[108]

Real tiles

Date	Main yaku	Loc.	Han	Notes	Source
05-14-2014	Toitoi	Club play	12	Double ton, toitoi, dora 8. By ron. Ended game as the initial dealer.
09-26-2018	Honitsu	NU Club Play	11	Riichi, ippatsu, tsumo, honitsu, iipeikou, chanta, double ton. Miscounted as baiman, retroactively marked as sanbai.

End score of 100 or greater

These scores were acquired via Tenhou.net lobbies using Tenhou's uma 20/10 rate. Under Tenhou.net rules, this is achievable with raw scores of 89,500 or more.

Date	Room	Score	Notes	Source
02-22-2012	一般	+125	Double yakuman.	[109]
05-08-2010	一般	+111	Multiple renchan on both dealer opportunities.	[110]
10-28-2013	7447	+108	All other players finishing with 3000 points or less.	[111]
02-25-2014	上級	+106	Won the last four consecutive hands, finishing with dealer shousuushi.	[112]
05-31-2017	特上	+106	East 2 domination.	[113]
05-10-2018	特上	+104	Won 8 out of 10 hands. Toimen oyamangan allowed the game to resume.	[114]
11-19-2009	一般	+103	No game link.	[115]
08-03-2016	特上	+101	Missed potential suuankou in one hand, scored one in another.	[116]
12-08-2015	上級	+100	Dealer kokushi while in the lead.	[117]

Other highlighted games

These are some sample games played by Kyuu, where some unusual non-yakuman occurences are involved.

Tenhou.net

• The "Bill Clinton" game

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2012090616gm-0009-0000-ef78f6ce&tw=1&ts=6

This game was played after watching Bill Clinton's 2012 DNC speech.

• Four riichi, followed by "renhou"

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013041010gm-0009-7447-199d05f9&tw=1&ts=8

• Junchan + Chinitsu

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013080614gm-0089-0000-x339040987b74&tw=1&ts=7

• Lost chance for Suuankou + Shousuushi

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2012102815gm-0009-0000-e3ad7ffe&tw=1&ts=3

• Win with exactly 30,000

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2012120416gm-0009-0000-20a78337&tw=3&ts=8

• 2nd and 4th separated by 200 pts, which leaves 3rd right in the middle

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013092514gm-0089-0000-xb34e5352dc7e&tw=3&ts=13

• Blown ryuuiisou

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2015012507gm-0009-7447-af613d7b&tw=1&ts=6

• My own sanchahou

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013030311gm-0009-7447-93eb0b9e&tw=2

• Chuuren tenpai #1

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013102709gm-0009-7447-dce693b1&tw=0&ts=11

• First tokujou game

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016031416gm-0029-0000-bb00deb0&tw=3

• Riichi ippatsu haitei

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013062617gm-0089-0000-xa37799b6321c&tw=3&ts=4

• Chankan denies Rinshan Kaihou

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016073116gm-0029-0000-47f43c94&tw=2&ts=8

• One of the stupidest games, that I've ever played

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2012021619gm-0009-0000-f3dcd1c2&tw=0

• Failed +100 attempt

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016090420gm-0029-0000-d439fa9b&tw=2

• Death by yakuman

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2012032214gm-0009-0000-cc8c2c61&tw=3&ts=12

• One of my dumbest riichi's ever

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2014092217gm-0089-0000-3fd71626&tw=3&ts=8

• My own "renhou"

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017030814gm-0029-0000-38b54133&tw=1&ts=8

• Riichi ippatsu haitei again

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2018011616gm-0029-0000-3ef2b95b&tw=1&ts=1

• Win by 100 against two players

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2018042516gm-0029-0000-8463a14f&tw=0

• Silly honba 10 game

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2018042915gm-0009-1290-97113058&tw=0

• Double kan rinshan

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2018051409gm-0029-0000-62fe6cf4&tw=2&ts=1

• Game against resident tokujou 10-dan (るーしあ)

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016080421gm-0029-0000-a369ec1f&tw=3

• Game against three 6-dan, each scoring haneman tsumo in the East round

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016080113gm-0029-0000-147bd5e0&tw=2

• Comeback from 0

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2018072510gm-0009-7863-96f643d8&tw=1

• Dropping into well disguised kokushi

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2015022810gm-0009-7447-1eb09da1&tw=1&ts-10

• First game on Tenhou in the Reiwa era

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2019050313gm-0029-0000-85360b71&tw=1

• Tokujou game vs three 7dans

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2019060708gm-0029-0000-15d18a22&tw=2

Majsoul

• First game

http://majsoul.union-game.com/0/?paipu=da395567-98c6-428a-b364-7b36dae7e0e8_24708

• First hanchan

http://majsoul.union-game.com/0/?paipu=e7a86cca-dc52-434c-b1f3-0d6c933fc4bb_24708

Videos

• http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm26675346

Washizu table design

Lists

• Riichi achievement list - a list of very odd, but possible, scenarios in the game
• Potluck rules - crazy rules to spice up the game
• Mahjong memes - memes from this game

Sandbox page

This is where I do various test edits. User:KyuuAA/sandbox

Ranking table

User:KyuuAA/Ranking

NARMA related

User:KyuuAA/Tournament

Speedrun

User:KyuuAA/Speedrun

External links

Profile elsewhere

• 利用者:KyuuA4

KyuuAA in Japanese Wikipedia

• Wikipedia

My profile in regular Wikipedia.

• MahjongClick

Mahjong Click data

• Lichess

My profile on Lichess

• Mahjong Life and Living

My old abandoned blog to be dedicated for mahjong.

Social media

• Twitter
• Sarahah

Interesting stuff

• Tsuno's archive

Misc

• Drop it

Drop it, like it's hot!