Trust me it's not as hard as you think. I got so overwhelmed doing Yakuza Kiwami but I got all of the requirements within 3-5 hours of play split into 2 days and it ended up being extremely fun when you know how to play
@@DeathfromUav If you're on Yakuza Kiwami 1 you don't need to beat hard table you need to fet rank 1. But trust me it took me 1 week to finish all chinese games & Mahjong. You need to really get used to whats best to discard and follow and remember some repeating things thay the AI does then its easy game just matter of time
I learned to play Mahjong from my mother and it is a shame she passed away. She was a cut throat player and she rarely lost, having played at least 3x/week.
@@BlazerT48 same here Yakuza 0 damn that full straight completion point but damn if I didn't end up getting into it... Mahjong is actually pretty damn cool
That moment when the world champion says "更重要的是运气". There you have it. He's polite enough to say he doesn't think he's got the skills, but he's being realistic.
@Aidan Yeah but in poker there's betting, through which you can kinda read deep into your opponent to see what he's got, and even win a lost hand if you pull a bluff. In mahjong if you don't play well and you don't get good tiles, you're dead, no matter what you do. A poker champion would never say that luck is what's most important. So no, it's not like poker.
@@donna-lg5cp lol but I wanted to believe!!! Even if she is just translating, she’s still damn good at her job! Translating that fast and smooth is no small feat
This is well filmed and with excellent commentary. Interestingly, very few discards were picked up. This is the first tournament game I've watched, I expected it to be much much faster but this almost felt like chess or at least poker.
It’s the final if they pick up discards it will show their hand and lose their concealed points and disqualify them from other hands and also give their opponent the opportunity to figure out what they have in their hand. Not a good idea to steal at this level unless they actively think they are blocking someone’s tile they estimate they need. It was a good game though
Don't need to know anything about this game. Us Chinese play it just to gamble. And the rules are insanely complex. Some people may say its easy to play, but if you want to win money, you need to learn all the money winning tiles combination and also how to win in high level plays.
@@kennyljs Its not TOO complicated, its just that there are so many variations depending on the region. I learned to play Mahjong in Shanghai and then tried it one time in Beijing and it was totally different.
@@kennyljs It's not complex. All you want to do is get consecutive numbers or three-of-a-kinds (or four-of-a-kinds). Better combos get better points. I summed it up in two sentences.
Imo I think this showed up for me because I've been looking stuff up for Yakuza Kiwami. One of the minigames has several checklists for simple mahjong.
Here's a basic rundown from what I learned playing mahjong. You get 13 tiles at the beginning of play. There are two ways to win - by having all doubles or by having 4 triples and one double. If you look at their tiles you can see they're kind of 'numbered'. They also look different. Some are like spots like dominos, some are up and down lines. These represent the type and number - think of cards with numbers and suits. So to win, you need all doubles, that means two of the same tile, or 4 triples of the same suit and one double - this would be like having cards A 2 3 diamonds, J Q K spades, 2 3 4 clubs, 5 6 7 clubs, and a pair of whatever, let's just say 7 7 hearts. You can win by picking up the 14th tile to complete your set which you see the players taking turns or by taking it from another player. Imaging in cards you needed the king of hearts to complete a royal flush and someone throws it away, you can take it to win the game. Each player takes turn picking up a tile and discarding a tile. You need to be careful because certain tiles will become hotter as the game goes along - meaning a higher chance someone needs it to win. If you discard it, they will take it and win with it. There are a few other rules involved that come naturally with play. For example, if you have two of the same tile and someone throws that same tile away, you can 'peng' it which means you lay down your two tiles, add their tile to those three, and discard another. This is why you may see players having sets of tiles that seem to get smaller. There's also 'gang' which is when you have three of a tile in your hand and someone throws the 4th (there are only 4 of every tile) you can take it, add it to your three, but instead of discarding another tile you pick one up from the back (sometimes rules use a dice to determine which tile you pick up). Some locations have varying rules. In some places for example, if you have 1 and 3 and someone throws down 2, you can 'chi' which means "eat" the tile. It's the same principle as 'peng', just instead of adding a third of the same tile, you're taking a tile that sits between your numbers. This may sound confusing but once you play a few times it becomes insanely easy and really fun. Word of warning though - do NOT play for money. The issue with this game is it's an insane form of gambling which is different to most gambling games I know. You don't pay to play, or pay a particular number that you choose like in poker where you only play/win with the chips you put in, but instead Mahjong has 'combos'. These combos lead to the loser having to pay out more. To give you an example, there's a tile combo called dragon which is when you have 1 - 9 of the same suit. There's one called Hong Qi piao piao or Red Flag, which is when you have the 4 'zhong' symbols and the 4 square symbols. There are other crazy combos that will absolutely have your wallet empty. The other reason this form of gambling is dangerous is because it is very easy to cheat or have 2 or 3 people 'gang up' on one player to take their money. Imagine in poker you were playing against 5 friends all determined to take your money and they intentionally fold good hands or find ways to move chips around to each other. All in all, it's a very entertaining game and everyone should play it.
Seriously there are better places to read up on how to play, and the many regional variants: Hong Kong, Chinese, Japanese (richi), Singaporean, and Western (American) to name a few. The origins of the game are legendary, and depending on whose version you ascribe to, itʻs no wonder players gamble to make it interesting.
There's a superstition about the 13 terminals. It's considered the "least lucky" hand because you can't do anything with the hand. It's said that people who win that hand will be cursed with bad luck for the rest of their lives. So, I suppose that's one more reason why it takes guts to play it.
I'm only used to riichi (Japanese) mahjong but I'm curious about other rulesets. It's surprising to see Suzuki Tarou playing in the finals! He's a very strong riichi player, but I didn't know he also played Chinese mahjong.
@@lastburning It is actually NOT Zung Jung as you know. The ruleset is called MCR (Mahjong Competition Rules) as three of the main rules of competition mahjong in the world. And the other two is Riichi and Bloody.😃
Not surprising since Richi is a Japan-ized version of Mandarin Chinese mahjong. During the Chinese Communist regime, mahjong was considered "subversive" so it was driven underground. Eventually the government reversed its stance, and standardized rules which are the Mahjong Competition Rules used these days.
I leaned how to play at a young age from my dad. He never arranged his tiles. I asked him why and he said that in parlors, people sometimes cheat by having people sit behind and giving signals, so,that’s just how I learned to play. I got so used to looking at it that way. I do put tiles on the end for the ones that I need to win.
Akagi took place a couple of years after WW2, so maybe back then the chips were smaller but also easier to cheat with. Looks like the game went through plenty of evolutions, but I wonder if there are still smaller Mahjong chips somewhere?
@@thewanderingwriter4448 chips? Do you mean tiles? Hong Kong mahjong still uses small tiles and I'm not sure about other variants but my local variant comes in varying sizes to choose from. There are tilesets that are even smaller than the standard size (mini tiles lol)
@@yopin7026 Right! Tiles! Sorry about calling them chips. On the subject of tile size, which do you prefer - big or small? And has there been anyone caught cheating with small tiles these days?
Japanese tiles are smaller than Chinese tiles and the rules are slightly different. Well, no matter the version you're playing, you probably won't pay either blood unless you're named Akagi or Washizu 😂
"The last hand of the grand final was played at the fast pace and it's over wow we want more...", I'm calling the cops, she had murdered all the punctuations.
Filipino style mahjong is way more exciting - a variety of side bets, you get major points for 7 pairs, “escalera”, “bisaklat “, last card bunot, extra points for jai-alai (5 wins), etc. You should try it sometime.
If you have to compare Mahjong to Poker here's the rundown. 1. They both require luck, (i.e. luck of the draws whether it's hole cards, tiles gathered, community cards etc. 2. They both are played for the long game if you want to play pro 3. Mind game is a bit different. Whilst you read people on the table in both games. A. Poker you, have size betting and value bets, bluffs etc. How much is won is dependent on how much value is in the pot. B. Mahjong, early, mid and late game tile formation. Knowing what tiles are discarded or face up made hands are the key. You have to read if the opponent is close to winning or not. Also how much is won depends on what tile combination they win on.
I can feel the frustration of the commentator when the 3 Red dragons were thrown XD I felt frustrated too. But she is amazingly fast at analyzing the board and each player's hand and what they're attempting to do and whether something was a good or a bad move (b/c she sees all the tiles).
@Xavian Stormfang This looks very very similar to Japanese Mahjong though? Riichi seems to have more rules; the Riichi where you can call it if you have one tile left that you need, the Dora tile, and the Winds having importance. But otherwise the part about making sets, stealing tiles, and so on, seems the same.
How does youtube would ever recommend this game to me? Well, my late father used to play it when i was young and sometimes threw them badly picked tiles. What a sore loser! Miss u pops 🥴🎲🀄
great game and commentary. Only way it would be better is if some scoring was displayed periodically to help the viewer remember who has what score. (Speaking as a beginner)
I look up how to play Mahjong for Yakuza 0, and suddenly I have a video on a championship in my recommendations. Not complaining, I just think it's funny.
You don't yell out the silly ass Kan and Pong and chows. You yell out the names of your winning hand. Fancy ones like Thirteen Orphans. Nine Gates of Heavens. But let's face it, those are never ever going to happen against a good player. You will probably end up yelling Prevailing Wind. Blossoming Flower.
@@Damento12 I didn't say it's riichi. Read again. Edit: I mean you "mistaken" it as canton mj. That means you had absolutely zero clue of what's actually going on in the video. So, no offence.
"I must speak as quickly as possible during my commentary of the game and try to fit as many words in to a sentence as humanly possible without taking a breath whilst describing the action for the audience as failure to speak long sentences quickly without taking a breath will bring dishonour and humiliation to my ancestors and living family and most of all bring the game of mahjong into disrepute. one must therefore always fit as many words and speak as quickly as humanly possible without taking a breath before the next sentence at all times for the glory of china. Failing that I will become an international interpretor for politicians because I have the perfect tone of voice for it"
@@Ejohrik commentating an event is nvr from a script. To say she's reading off a script is to infer that all the tiles are premeditated, the players were in on the premeditated moves, as were the results
@@viajaycay It is not live commentary. It is even a very brief summary of the full game. So yes, the tiles, the moves and the results were known beforehand.
18:46 why did Suzuki discard the 4 sou, couldn't he have gone for pinfu, tanyao (mentanpin) instead. I reckon, it would be a few tiles less efficient because of the 122m to get to 234m or if not 222m tanyao (no pinfu), wouldn't the hand value be way better in this scenario. He doesn't have a good chance for a chanta either with that discard, so I'm confused.
@@choyou3932 Zung Jung has very similar yaku actually. If you want to get a lot of points in Zung Jung you need to get a big pattern like Honitsu, Toitoi, Sanshoku, Ittsuu or Chanta. Small patterns like "Concealed Hand", "All Sequences" or Tanyao don't give you a lot of points unlike in Riichi.
Anyone know the difference in rule set between World Series Mahjong and Riichi Mahjong? The only thing I noticed was that the Chi call can be across the table, and you can get all sequences (pinfu) even without it being a closed hand.
Remember that "Win" and "Chi" are two different calls - if your hand is "ready", you can call the tile you're waiting from ANYONE for any missing meld. For more on the exact ruleset, look up Zung Jung Mahjong - though you'll find it tries to be, as the name translates to, the "middle way" that bridges many countries' rulesets. 🙂
That's Riichi Mahjong... You have to make 4 sequence or triplet + pair to win the game, but of course is not that easy cause you need to have a pattern called Yaku. When I watch that episode I was laughing and feel embarrassed at the same time with his Yaku😂😂😂
This is like watching a complicated game I’ve never seen played before being played and I’m completely lost and don’t want to go back to university to take the requisite math classes to play
its so nice of them to discard the tiles in front of them, when i play with my friends, they just all discard it in a messy pile at the centre, making it hard to track who discarded what.
Sinki Hui World-Series rules bear a strong resemblance to Japanese rules, and the idea of arranging discarded tiles in a straight line is one of them. Tossing unwanted tiles into one big messy pile in the centre of the desk may be fine in recreational settings but doesn't work in a high-stakes professional tournament.
It's a wonky variation of the Asian Pacific version played here. There's a league which dictates new winnable hands each year, the flowers and seasons are used, and there are 8 "Joker" tiles which can be played in pungs & kongs.
Don't know anything about Mahjong -- basically learned it from this video lol. Very interesting; hope I get opportunities to play this a lot in Japan. I imagine learning rulesets beyond ZJ is very complex though.
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This final is some of the most beautiful Mahjong I've ever seen played. Also, the only Mahjong I've ever seen played.
@@TKFTGuillotine
each region has their own version of mahjong. i believe that game uses the japanese version of mahjong.
i generally play hk version
siekensou77 Nah, it isn’t the japanese version because the japanese version would be more complex. For example, like a dora indicator.
lmao
“The next time I see a WNBA game, it’ll be the first time I see a WNBA game!” -Norm
The algorithm didn't bring me here, I was actively searching for intense Mahjong games.
same and i just wanted to win lol
Yes youtube, I am interested in the 2015 Mahjong Grand Final
After learning and playing mahjong with my family, I can finally understand what’s going on! I feel so powerful!!!
You are like a mythical god or creature!
I just learned over this past weekend. I feel like I'm ready for a world championship match 😊
RUclips algorithm
2016: no
2017: nope
2018: wait
2019: not yet
2020, in the middle of a pandemic at 2 am: NOW NOW NOW PUT IT IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS!!
Yup
Yeah u cute
🤗
i love you! 😉😘
I literally searched for it and I'm not even Chinese
If only these players can help finish my completion list in Yakuza 0.
Trust me it's not as hard as you think. I got so overwhelmed doing Yakuza Kiwami but I got all of the requirements within 3-5 hours of play split into 2 days and it ended up being extremely fun when you know how to play
@@heiwajima4965 im sitting on 10 hours and still cant beat the fucking hard table
@@DeathfromUav If you're on Yakuza Kiwami 1 you don't need to beat hard table you need to fet rank 1. But trust me it took me 1 week to finish all chinese games & Mahjong. You need to really get used to whats best to discard and follow and remember some repeating things thay the AI does then its easy game just matter of time
Yakuza player here. 👌
Mhajonq. Game
This is exactly what I want to watch at 2:00 in the morning. Thanks youtube for recommending me this!
I love the fact this commentator makes little personnal comments on them x')
28:45 "Suzuki keeps the red dragon SOMEHOW, it's just his style.."
I learned to play Mahjong from my mother and it is a shame she passed away. She was a cut throat player and she rarely lost, having played at least 3x/week.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure she was an amazing player!
may she rest in peace 🙏🕊
may she rest in peace.
Well... RUclips algorythm brought me here just because I was learning mahjong and guides for the Yakuza mahjong minigame...
same... the goddamn mahjong is my nightmare
@@BlazerT48 same here Yakuza 0 damn that full straight completion point but damn if I didn't end up getting into it... Mahjong is actually pretty damn cool
Yup, seems hopeless
yup. it was yakuza kiwami for me. riichi ippatsu and rank 1 dragon driver
This variant is called Zung Jung btw! If you're looking for the mahjong in Yakuza, look for Riichi.
That moment when the world champion says "更重要的是运气". There you have it. He's polite enough to say he doesn't think he's got the skills, but he's being realistic.
@Aidan Yeah but in poker there's betting, through which you can kinda read deep into your opponent to see what he's got, and even win a lost hand if you pull a bluff. In mahjong if you don't play well and you don't get good tiles, you're dead, no matter what you do. A poker champion would never say that luck is what's most important. So no, it's not like poker.
@@amodelchucrutdisagree. There is also bluff and defence in mahjong. What players say about the game is more because of the culture difference here.
commentator is f**king amazing
I thought she was translating with how fast she was speaking but actually she’s just fantastic
Would love to see how she reacted to one of the really rare hands being achieved
@@ScrewedTimeLord Actually, she IS translating. The original commentator spoke Cantonese. :)
@@donna-lg5cp lol but I wanted to believe!!! Even if she is just translating, she’s still damn good at her job! Translating that fast and smooth is no small feat
She is also an auctioneer
This is well filmed and with excellent commentary.
Interestingly, very few discards were picked up. This is the first tournament game I've watched, I expected it to be much much faster but this almost felt like chess or at least poker.
It’s the final if they pick up discards it will show their hand and lose their concealed points and disqualify them from other hands and also give their opponent the opportunity to figure out what they have in their hand.
Not a good idea to steal at this level unless they actively think they are blocking someone’s tile they estimate they need.
It was a good game though
I have no idea what's going on. This was on my recommended list, go home RUclips, you're drunk.
Don't need to know anything about this game. Us Chinese play it just to gamble. And the rules are insanely complex. Some people may say its easy to play, but if you want to win money, you need to learn all the money winning tiles combination and also how to win in high level plays.
@@kennyljs Richii mahjong (the Japanese variant) is the trickiest of all with all different sorts of rules and variations.
@@kennyljs Its not TOO complicated, its just that there are so many variations depending on the region. I learned to play Mahjong in Shanghai and then tried it one time in Beijing and it was totally different.
@@kennyljs It's not complex. All you want to do is get consecutive numbers or three-of-a-kinds (or four-of-a-kinds). Better combos get better points. I summed it up in two sentences.
Imo I think this showed up for me because I've been looking stuff up for Yakuza Kiwami. One of the minigames has several checklists for simple mahjong.
I feel like my grandma can beat all these players
Same
User name checks out
Same🤣
Honestly i have no idea how mahjong works but it's still satisfying to watch
The mahjong table is the best invention in the past 50 years.
Here's a basic rundown from what I learned playing mahjong.
You get 13 tiles at the beginning of play.
There are two ways to win - by having all doubles or by having 4 triples and one double. If you look at their tiles you can see they're kind of 'numbered'. They also look different. Some are like spots like dominos, some are up and down lines. These represent the type and number - think of cards with numbers and suits. So to win, you need all doubles, that means two of the same tile, or 4 triples of the same suit and one double - this would be like having cards A 2 3 diamonds, J Q K spades, 2 3 4 clubs, 5 6 7 clubs, and a pair of whatever, let's just say 7 7 hearts.
You can win by picking up the 14th tile to complete your set which you see the players taking turns or by taking it from another player. Imaging in cards you needed the king of hearts to complete a royal flush and someone throws it away, you can take it to win the game.
Each player takes turn picking up a tile and discarding a tile. You need to be careful because certain tiles will become hotter as the game goes along - meaning a higher chance someone needs it to win. If you discard it, they will take it and win with it.
There are a few other rules involved that come naturally with play. For example, if you have two of the same tile and someone throws that same tile away, you can 'peng' it which means you lay down your two tiles, add their tile to those three, and discard another. This is why you may see players having sets of tiles that seem to get smaller. There's also 'gang' which is when you have three of a tile in your hand and someone throws the 4th (there are only 4 of every tile) you can take it, add it to your three, but instead of discarding another tile you pick one up from the back (sometimes rules use a dice to determine which tile you pick up).
Some locations have varying rules. In some places for example, if you have 1 and 3 and someone throws down 2, you can 'chi' which means "eat" the tile. It's the same principle as 'peng', just instead of adding a third of the same tile, you're taking a tile that sits between your numbers.
This may sound confusing but once you play a few times it becomes insanely easy and really fun. Word of warning though - do NOT play for money. The issue with this game is it's an insane form of gambling which is different to most gambling games I know. You don't pay to play, or pay a particular number that you choose like in poker where you only play/win with the chips you put in, but instead Mahjong has 'combos'. These combos lead to the loser having to pay out more. To give you an example, there's a tile combo called dragon which is when you have 1 - 9 of the same suit. There's one called Hong Qi piao piao or Red Flag, which is when you have the 4 'zhong' symbols and the 4 square symbols. There are other crazy combos that will absolutely have your wallet empty. The other reason this form of gambling is dangerous is because it is very easy to cheat or have 2 or 3 people 'gang up' on one player to take their money. Imagine in poker you were playing against 5 friends all determined to take your money and they intentionally fold good hands or find ways to move chips around to each other.
All in all, it's a very entertaining game and everyone should play it.
Thank you very much
Damn that was an amazing comparison and explanation, especially for those who are more familiar with poker or card games. Thank you 🙏🏼
Seriously there are better places to read up on how to play, and the many regional variants: Hong Kong, Chinese, Japanese (richi), Singaporean, and Western (American) to name a few. The origins of the game are legendary, and depending on whose version you ascribe to, itʻs no wonder players gamble to make it interesting.
THANK YOU! 😊✌️💚
Too long didnt read
I’m trying to learn Mahjong and it is a fascinating game. I love the tactics involved
This video was one of my recommended videos for some reason......and thank GOD it was!!!!
I have no idea what is going on here, but I can't stop watching. Why was this in my recommended videos?
The genius who descended into darkness brought me here
Me too
NANTOKA NAREEEEE
Pon! Kan! Chi! Furiten tsumo!
Ishikawa san
Akagi
i dunno why im watching this at 2 am when i have tons of homework and a quiz in 6 hours
It's okay just quit school and become a Mahjong Pro.
Procrastination
AKAGI BROUGHT ME HERE
best anime
me too haha
No glass tiles
No buy
same
Lol for real fam.
When you watch at the RUclips algorithm, the RUclips algorithm watchs it back.
That girl know what she's saying 👏
Like rapid fire she is shooting out them facts.
yep talk to fast like a dj
She made a table top game sound so exciting.
I keep needing to translate what she's saying to the Chinese terms i'm used to.
She has bad diction tho
@@chorizoman5615 try speaking chinese we'll see how your diction is
What a madman, playing 13 terminals in grand finals
well he had many tiles to make 13 terminals, too many to discard already so might as well
There’s nothing else he could do with that starting hand. That was worth a shot.
Was he going for the Thirteen Orphans? If so, that would put a huge hurt in the opposing players' scores.
@@mynintendogamingfeed5208 exactly, just in chinese mahjong terminology it's just thirteen terminals, not kokushi musou like in riichi mahjonh
There's a superstition about the 13 terminals. It's considered the "least lucky" hand because you can't do anything with the hand. It's said that people who win that hand will be cursed with bad luck for the rest of their lives. So, I suppose that's one more reason why it takes guts to play it.
I'm only used to riichi (Japanese) mahjong but I'm curious about other rulesets. It's surprising to see Suzuki Tarou playing in the finals! He's a very strong riichi player, but I didn't know he also played Chinese mahjong.
This ruleset is called Zung Jung if you want to look it up.
@@lastburning It is actually NOT Zung Jung as you know. The ruleset is called MCR (Mahjong Competition Rules) as three of the main rules of competition mahjong in the world. And the other two is Riichi and Bloody.😃
Not surprising since Richi is a Japan-ized version of Mandarin Chinese mahjong. During the Chinese Communist regime, mahjong was considered "subversive" so it was driven underground. Eventually the government reversed its stance, and standardized rules which are the Mahjong Competition Rules used these days.
Mahjong is becoming increasingly popular in the world
Visiting here after completing the Mahjong Completion Requirements for Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2.
Same :p
I keep re-watching this to learn. The narrator is beginning to haunt me.
Im the kind of person who doesnt know ANYTHING about mahjong and still randomly watches 1 hour of it :D
Santtu Jormala 😂😂😂😂true
Lol same. I’m trying to learn but don’t have enough understanding to get their tactics
It's like Gin Rummy, but with tiles instead.
Yo that commentator was vicious after that first round lmaooo
My dad and uncles play this game during family gatherings. Never cared to learn how to play when I was a kid but now it seems interesting.
I leaned how to play at a young age from my dad. He never arranged his tiles. I asked him why and he said that in parlors, people sometimes cheat by having people sit behind and giving signals, so,that’s just how I learned to play. I got so used to looking at it that way. I do put tiles on the end for the ones that I need to win.
15 minutes in and my heartrate increases by 20 beats per minute
It's quite different from that of Akagi.
The tiles are big, their designs are kind of simple, and nobody bets his blood.
Tiles are big to prevent cheating. But I think that the designs are more elaborate imo
Akagi took place a couple of years after WW2, so maybe back then the chips were smaller but also easier to cheat with. Looks like the game went through plenty of evolutions, but I wonder if there are still smaller Mahjong chips somewhere?
@@thewanderingwriter4448 chips? Do you mean tiles? Hong Kong mahjong still uses small tiles and I'm not sure about other variants but my local variant comes in varying sizes to choose from. There are tilesets that are even smaller than the standard size (mini tiles lol)
@@yopin7026 Right! Tiles! Sorry about calling them chips. On the subject of tile size, which do you prefer - big or small? And has there been anyone caught cheating with small tiles these days?
Japanese tiles are smaller than Chinese tiles and the rules are slightly different. Well, no matter the version you're playing, you probably won't pay either blood unless you're named Akagi or Washizu 😂
I'd be totally lost without the commentator since they all order their hands differently, they play faster than i can see what they have!
"The last hand of the grand final was played at the fast pace and it's over wow we want more...", I'm calling the cops, she had murdered all the punctuations.
Those tiles look tasty.
Kuli24 chowder
Thought I was the only one
XD same
It would be easy to just make Tofu Mahjong pieces, lmao.
Funny you said that. A friend of mine made rice desserts that look like mahjong tiles just because he thought mahjong tiles look sweet.
0:45 slap
I watched 1 video of Kiryu playing Mahjong in Yakuza Kiwami, and the algorithm shows me this...
The announcer was excellent.
i wonder if it was done live
Stellar comments and play by play, much better than any non-pro hold'em commentators with their random talk. Great job.
the commentary obviously was not live,also not her own commentary,she was just reading someone elses commentary and was still SO bad at it.
@Rusty I hear Ben stein is up to be her replacement soon :)
@Rusty Well duh brain dead idiot. What's the Announcer supposed to do else?
Filipino style mahjong is way more exciting - a variety of side bets, you get major points for 7 pairs, “escalera”, “bisaklat “, last card bunot, extra points for jai-alai (5 wins), etc. You should try it sometime.
Wait, I can’t be the only one who did know there was a World Series of Mahjong?
I thought it was just a computer game
I just starded to learn mahjong and this pops up
i have absolutely no idea what i'm watching, but i bet it's great
Am I the only one for searching "mahjong tournament"?
Got stoned, went to play some Yakuza, somehow ended up here 3 hours later....
If you have to compare Mahjong to Poker here's the rundown.
1. They both require luck, (i.e. luck of the draws whether it's hole cards, tiles gathered, community cards etc.
2. They both are played for the long game if you want to play pro
3. Mind game is a bit different. Whilst you read people on the table in both games.
A. Poker you, have size betting and value bets, bluffs etc. How much is won is dependent on how much value is in the pot.
B. Mahjong, early, mid and late game tile formation. Knowing what tiles are discarded or face up made hands are the key. You have to read if the opponent is close to winning or not. Also how much is won depends on what tile combination they win on.
Japanese people be like
“you forgot to flip the Dora indicator”
Kiryu, Yagami, Tanimura and Majima playing
I can feel the frustration of the commentator when the 3 Red dragons were thrown XD I felt frustrated too. But she is amazingly fast at analyzing the board and each player's hand and what they're attempting to do and whether something was a good or a bad move (b/c she sees all the tiles).
the commentator might be added after during the editing. Really impressive commentating nonetheless.
Commentator is likely reading a script
Championships like this exist???? SIGN ME UP
We need some instant replays for the fast pace action.
I want to play mahjong just so that I can slap a tile on the table and shout "tsumo" like Kiryu-san. 😁
@Xavian Stormfang when they shout something and slam a tile on the table it means I won.
@Xavian Stormfang This looks very very similar to Japanese Mahjong though? Riichi seems to have more rules; the Riichi where you can call it if you have one tile left that you need, the Dora tile, and the Winds having importance. But otherwise the part about making sets, stealing tiles, and so on, seems the same.
Yakuza 0 brought me here
-鷹船長-Spirit of the hawk Same dude
Who?
Yakuza Kiwami 2 brought me here
If not already done, I would like more of these. Even the lower ranking events.
How does youtube would ever recommend this game to me? Well, my late father used to play it when i was young and sometimes threw them badly picked tiles. What a sore loser! Miss u pops 🥴🎲🀄
39:55 "Players may have slippery hands from sweating."
Lol this gave such a laugh
Lol hwat a sweat!
great game and commentary. Only way it would be better is if some scoring was displayed periodically to help the viewer remember who has what score. (Speaking as a beginner)
I look up how to play Mahjong for Yakuza 0, and suddenly I have a video on a championship in my recommendations. Not complaining, I just think it's funny.
For the qualifier they have to beat the Yakuza 0 mahjong completions in two minutes.
Everyone knows that’s hell to do
What is that?
@@cajaha Yakuza 0 is a videogame. It has mahjong in it as a minigame
Kenneth Shiro i was just waiting for someone to shout riichi and the flute starts to play
I was just happily watching my hoof trimming videos and somehow the algorithm has sent me here. Time for me to learn I guess!
Been livig in Macau for a decade and I never heard of this Tournament my wife Father is addicted to Mahjong and teached me how to play 😂
视频中的细节之处处理得太巧妙了,博主的创意和功力了得!欢迎来海燕论坛交流!
The real winner is our commentator lady. EPIC.
I have no idea whats happening, but it looks awesome
Played in Yakuza game and now I'm actually interested and have fun playing outside of Yakuza game
2:28 Taiwan mentioned 🥳🥳🥳 Chery on top: China mentioned right after 🗣🗣🔥
When he pulled that third 🀄:
😂😂😂
🀄🀄🀄
😂😂😂
hurts like hell man. Pairs of honors feel bad enough to discard, a triplet is something else
Listening to her it seems like the commentator could beat all of them easily. Big brain energy.
KAAAAAN!!!! PONNNN!!!!! ROONNN!!!!! RICCCHHIII!!!!! (slams tiles of mahjong everywhere!
Carlorozy Clemente That's Japanese Richii Mahjong, this is the HK version... Lemme guess, you've recently watched Saki
haha lol! I literally never cared with the terms. Watched akagi actually :]
Carlorozy Clemente Akagiiii who descended into darkness, who'd later become known as the Mahjong Legend❤
You don't yell out the silly ass Kan and Pong and chows.
You yell out the names of your winning hand.
Fancy ones like Thirteen Orphans. Nine Gates of Heavens.
But let's face it, those are never ever going to happen against a good player.
You will probably end up yelling Prevailing Wind. Blossoming Flower.
Every time you yell out a winning hand check your opponents' faces as more and more fans start stacking on top of each other.
Why nobody is screaming RON!
Is because there is no term in the rule set used
Because it's HK mahjong, so Ron isn't a thing.
@@Damento12 It's not. They're playing riichi hands without riichi and dora.
@@derpingdead Then it's not richi lol. But I was mistaken in calling it HK www.mahjongtime.com/Mahjong-WSOM-Scoring-2.html
@@Damento12 I didn't say it's riichi. Read again.
Edit: I mean you "mistaken" it as canton mj. That means you had absolutely zero clue of what's actually going on in the video. So, no offence.
I am amazed that the casters care so much about the game
1:33 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿.𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 คือ เว็บไซต์รีวิวตัวแทนรับพนันที่มีชื่อเสียงมากๆ คุณควรลองดูก่อนทำการตัดสินใจ
"I must speak as quickly as possible during my commentary of the game and try to fit as many words in to a sentence as humanly possible without taking a breath whilst describing the action for the audience as failure to speak long sentences quickly without taking a breath will bring dishonour and humiliation to my ancestors and living family and most of all bring the game of mahjong into disrepute. one must therefore always fit as many words and speak as quickly as humanly possible without taking a breath before the next sentence at all times for the glory of china. Failing that I will become an international interpretor for politicians because I have the perfect tone of voice for it"
She's reading from a script, trying to match what's happening though the script is too wordy.
@@Ejohrik commentating an event is nvr from a script. To say she's reading off a script is to infer that all the tiles are premeditated, the players were in on the premeditated moves, as were the results
@@viajaycay It is not live commentary. It is even a very brief summary of the full game. So yes, the tiles, the moves and the results were known beforehand.
Just what I needed in my recommendations during a pandemic
Where are the thunders and the flowers and the massiv thunderstorm and the TSUMO RINSHAN KAIHO!!!!! in flames?
Tsumo-nya!
Riichi!
Ippatsu!
Pinfu!
Dora!
Dora-go!
Ura-dora!
99999 points, enjoy being in novice forever.
Who now loves mahjong because of Yakuza?
Me
麻雀
I went to mahjong classes to learn it in full because of Yakuza😅 100% worth it
thanks youtube, dont understand any mayong but i loved it allready
thank you final fantasy 14 for teaching me how to play this interesting game
Same, I’ve been hitting the tables tryna learn
18:46 why did Suzuki discard the 4 sou, couldn't he have gone for pinfu, tanyao (mentanpin) instead. I reckon, it would be a few tiles less efficient because of the 122m to get to 234m or if not 222m tanyao (no pinfu), wouldn't the hand value be way better in this scenario. He doesn't have a good chance for a chanta either with that discard, so I'm confused.
maybe ZJ has different yakus lol
@@choyou3932 Zung Jung has very similar yaku actually. If you want to get a lot of points in Zung Jung you need to get a big pattern like Honitsu, Toitoi, Sanshoku, Ittsuu or Chanta. Small patterns like "Concealed Hand", "All Sequences" or Tanyao don't give you a lot of points unlike in Riichi.
Damn I was rooting for that guy's 13 unique wonders!
十三腰!
Had he achieved it, a huge hurt would drop on the opposing players' scores.
Mahjong really isn't that hard to learn. It's mostly about building trio's. Finding your strategy to win would be the difficult part.
Anyone know the difference in rule set between World Series Mahjong and Riichi Mahjong? The only thing I noticed was that the Chi call can be across the table, and you can get all sequences (pinfu) even without it being a closed hand.
Remember that "Win" and "Chi" are two different calls - if your hand is "ready", you can call the tile you're waiting from ANYONE for any missing meld. For more on the exact ruleset, look up Zung Jung Mahjong - though you'll find it tries to be, as the name translates to, the "middle way" that bridges many countries' rulesets. 🙂
Richi is more structured, as they play toward achieving specific "melds" (yaku)
Chess pieces are cool but Mahjong tiles have this heavenly look about them.
thanks to yakuza series, I can understand this video a little bit about what is going on...
That half a million prize pool looks less impressive when you convert it
15:48 how come that the open hand with just tanyao and pinfu could be winning? What are the rules here?
I come here after "Kamisama ni hatta" episode 4
I still didn't understand this game rule
That's Riichi Mahjong... You have to make 4 sequence or triplet + pair to win the game, but of course is not that easy cause you need to have a pattern called Yaku. When I watch that episode I was laughing and feel embarrassed at the same time with his Yaku😂😂😂
"We now return to the 4th hand of the 4th round of the 4th world series"
What an unlucky sentence
Triple death
This is like watching a complicated game I’ve never seen played before being played and I’m completely lost and don’t want to go back to university to take the requisite math classes to play
how do you play this game !
its so nice of them to discard the tiles in front of them, when i play with my friends, they just all discard it in a messy pile at the centre, making it hard to track who discarded what.
Maybe it's a rule of the tournament to referee better? We play like the messy pile in the center too with friends.
That's the rule. You will get penalty for taking a tile that you just discarded at previous turn.
Sinki Hui
World-Series rules bear a strong resemblance to Japanese rules, and the idea of arranging discarded tiles in a straight line is one of them. Tossing unwanted tiles into one big messy pile in the centre of the desk may be fine in recreational settings but doesn't work in a high-stakes professional tournament.
I just started learning American mahjong, I find this so exciting!
Yolo Rodriguez you need help
Austin Ferrell you wanna help me?
whats American mahjong
It's a wonky variation of the Asian Pacific version played here. There's a league which dictates new winnable hands each year, the flowers and seasons are used, and there are 8 "Joker" tiles which can be played in pungs & kongs.
This tournament's system is really close to Japanese or Taiwanese. Give a try this one
In the Philippines, we call the "dot" tiles "balls". So not "one dot", it'd be "one ball" there :)
Bamboo = stick
I'm used to the Japanese pronunciations where they are called pins, so it'd be 'one pin'.
@@jeffreyjohnmartinez4341 Yup!
no idea how they play it i just know the game on pc with just matching them
Don't know anything about Mahjong -- basically learned it from this video lol. Very interesting; hope I get opportunities to play this a lot in Japan. I imagine learning rulesets beyond ZJ is very complex though.
Zung Jung is the best ruleset in light of modern game design. Too bad it's not very popular...
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON