4th Light Doman Open — 来冬 の 麻雀

[0xReki]

It's time for another Light Doman Open! This is the eighth Doman Mahjong Tournament on Light, feel free to make an alt character on Light, or Chaos, to join. Since I need some image I can connect to this tournament, I dug out some bad pun: 来冬 の 麻雀, raito no maajan. 来冬 means next winter. You know where this is going: Riichi is coming.

As always, this is a player event: it is not affiliated with FFXIV, SquareEnix etc.



Schedule
Deadline for Registration: 2021-09-18

Games: 2022-09-23 to 2022-09-25

General Information
How to Register: fill out the Registration Form

Registered Players, Seating etc.: see the Tournament Spreadsheet, times are all UTC (a.k.a.Server Time)

Where: Final Fantasy XIV Online, Data Centre Light, preferably at the Mahjong Tables on Server Odin. Feel free to join the Mahjong of Light Discord

Format
6+ Hanchan (“Full Games”) Round-Robin'ish. As before, it depends on how many people attend.

Since I'm trying to accommodate players from all over the globe, the games don't have necessarily to be in one single block each day. My current plan is to have 2 games per player each day. Having more slots just helps a lot with not playing the same people each time.

All games will be played in Final Fantasy XIV Online as friendly matches “Full Game Four-player Mahjong (Kuitan Enabled)” on Data Centre Light. Don't be confused, what Doman Mahjong considers a “Full Game” is just a hanchan, it's not an iichan. After the game, since FFXIV doesn't have logs and spectator mode (yet! Yoshi-P, please add one for us!) the result should be screenshotted and sent to the organizer.

Rules
I want everyone to have a good time, so please show good sportsmanship. In case of bad conduct, I will take the liberty to disqualify any offending players. Should any problems arise, even during the tournament, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Rules are they are use in Doman Mahjong. If you're coming from other Riichi Mahjong, please look the 4th Light Doman Open homepage.

If a player is late by over ten minutes, they are replaced by a substitute player for the hanchan. Exception: they are stuck in a previous game.

Scoring

Players start on 25,000 points and return 25,000.
The resulting score gets divided by 1,000 and placement bonuses added.
Placement bonuses are +15/+5/-5/-15


On Missed Games and Substituted Players
Substitute players are scored normally and then not included in the ranking. The player missing the hanchan doesn't get any points and will have a 30 points penalty.

[JamieRose]

Figures. NA servers never do anything this cool. =(