Frédéric Petit.
Président du club MCR de Lyon - Vice-président FFMJ – membre du Board EMA.
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voici des informations importantes a lire
On behalf of the MIL Tournaments Commission, I announce here officially that the 2nd World Mahjong Mind Games (WMMG) finally comes to Chinese Taipei, from 17 to 25 November, 2018.
Though I released the initial news orally during the closing ceremony of 2018 Danish MCR Open in May, the working group appointed by MIL was unfortunately not able to obtain the final signed agreements with the local partners and sponsors in Suzhou by 25 May.
The China Majiang Federation has in the same time made the basic agreement with the Haikou partner to provide free hotels and foods during the initial WMMG dates by 5 June.
But due to the potential policy risk about the online cards & tiles games by the new Ministry of Culture and Tourism, our partners and potential sponsors both in Suzhou and Haikou finally decided to wait for the clear situation of coming policies, which means there will be no enough cash sponsorship from the online games companies.
MIL has so to delay the 2018 WMMG supposed in August and apologize for the inconvenience. All the players who has bought the air-tickets for August, are asked via your coordinators.
MIL will cover the losses for changing or cancelling fee of the air-tickets.
From 25 May, MIL started-up the emergent actions to reload the host application.
The Chinese Taipei Mahjong Association showed their interests to host the 2nd World Mahjong Mind Games as the substitute, and will cover all the sponsorship MIL required.
The Chinese Taipei Mahjong Association will also organize a selection trial of MCR individual event on 7&8 July, in Taipei.
After the negotiating and investigation for Chinese Taipei, the MIL Tournament Commission finally approved the host application on 15 June. Now I would like to announce the basic information of this big event as Mahjong Olympic here.
1. Event: the 2nd World Mahjong Mind Games (the 2018 WMMG)
2. Guidance Institution: International Mind Sports Association (IMSA)
3. Hosts:
Main-host: Mahjong International League (MIL)
Co-host: Chinese Taipei Mahjong Assoicaiton
4. Dates: 17 to 25 November, 2018 (Any micro-adjustment will be released before 15 July)
5. Host City: Taipei (The destination airport is TPE)
6. Venue (temporarily):
The HQ of Chinese Taipei Mahjong Association
the address: 558-1, Zhongfeng Road, Longtan District, Taoyuan City, Chinese Taipei (中国台北桃园市龙潭区中丰路558-1)
7. Event schedule:
1 team event for MCR (team duplicate);
3 individual events for MIL official international rules, including MCR(Mahjong Competition Rules), SBR (Sichuan Bloody Rules) and RCR (Riichi Competition Rules);
open for bidding for other exhibition events of more local rules
8. Qualifications: (All the selection trials and qualified players will be public soon)
MIL formal members can send at least 1 team for the team event;
For the 3 main individual events, all quotas are distributed to the selection trials organized by MIL and MIL members, and all the interested organizations can apply for the selection trials by
match@mahjong-mil.org;
Open registration for exhibition events
9. Registration fee: Free registration for all the qualified players
10. Potential benifits for the qualified players:
1) Cheaper hotels with contracts-price
2) Subsidy for the qualified players` air-tickets is under negotiating (no promise)
11. Detailed schedule, requirements and all activities will be posted when available before 15 July, 2018.
More comments and information, please don`t hesitate to contact
mil@mahjong-mil.orgThere will still be more selection trials and tournaments planning before November.
1) Event: Individual Selection trial for MCR - Taipei Station
Dates: 7 to 8 July, 2018
Location: Taipei City
2) Event: Team Selection for Chinese National Team (MCR)/ Individual
Dates: 9 to 12 August, 2018 (Preliminary); 8 to 9 September, 2018 (Final)
Location: Beijing or Hefei City, China
3) Event: Individual Selection trial for Riichi Rules - Beijing Station
Dates: 24 to 26 August, 2018
Location: Beijing
4) Event: Duplicate mahjong tournament for NMJL
Dates: 21 to 22 October, 2018
Location: Atlantic City, USA
At the last, I would like to state the goals of MIL again, that MIL will insist on
1) Promoting Mahjong not only cultural exchange but also skilled competition among different communities
2) Promoting Mahjong as a real mind sports all over the world, finally to the Olympic Games
3) Promoting Mahjong as a modern sport to bring more benifits to the players
4) Providing a world-wide platform for all partners to achieve WINs
Cheers for our efforts and wish Strong Play/ Doras always stay with you!
Wenlong Li
General Secretary of Mahjong International League