Zensekai no Heiwa no Taikai in April 2026

全世界の平和の大会へようこそ!
Welcome to Zensekai no Heiwa no Taikai!

Table of Contents

• Registration
• Venue
• Format and Timetable

Introduction

To make this tournament as comfortable and pleasant as possible, please take your time and read through the etiquette page. We would be honoured if you would live by it together with us.

Registration

This two day tournament, MERS 2+, will take place from 2026-04-25 to 2025-04-26. The number of participants is currently limited to 60. Up to 3 extra tables can be added if the number of people on the waiting list are divisible by 4. Registration is open until three weeks before the tournament, i. e. 2026-04-04. The registration fee is 60€ (55€ for DMJL members) and should be transferred three weeks before the tournament, i. e. 2025-04-04, to the following account:

When using a voucher, please state it in the message!

Please note, for cancellations after 2026-04-04, the fee can not be refunded: food order cannot be changed after that.

Registration Form

Venue

The venue is easily reachable by public transport. You can use the trams of the lines 3 and 13 to the stop Maria-Himmelfahrt-Straße.

Note: In Cologne, tram and subway are the same system. You sometimes even need to leave the tube to go on a tram, which becomes a subway again.

Recommendations for public transport, subject to change. These will be updated the week before the tournament.

From the main station, line 16 or 18 towards Bonn till Neumarkt and change to line 3 towards Thielenbruch until Maria-Himmelfahrt-Straße.

You can also take trains S6, S11, RB48, RE1, RE5 or RE7 to Cologne Mühlheim Station, and take line 13 towards Thielenbruch until Maria-Himmelfahrt-Straße.

Tournament Details: Format and Timetable etc.

This tournament has 9 hanchan with 90 minutes each and will be played according to EMA Riichi Competition Rules from December 2025.

The tournament matchings are done according to an adaption of the Dutch System (a subtype of Swiss System):

The first 5 Hanchan (= all of day 1) all players are placed in the same group. This phase would behave just as a limited round-robin.

After that, the next 2 Hanchan, players placed in groups and are seeded according to their current position after the previous hanchan: e. g. 1st, 5th, 9th and 13th play at the table 1. 2nd, 6th, 10th and 14th at table 2. Please note the details will be dependent on the number of total participants. There will be no cutoffs.

The final 2 Hanchan players are seeded according to their position with groups of 4: i. e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th play at table 1 etc.

The score will not be halved when advancing phases.

Referees: Manuel Schlich (Head Referee, non-playing), TBA
EMA Observer: TBA

Friday Evening

Day 1 (Saturday)

Day 2 (Sunday)

Seating & Live Scores

In an effort to save paper, Seatings and Live Scores can been seen on the World Riichi-Mahjong app (freeware on Apple and Google stores, no registration necessary). Live Scores page will not be available until the first hanchan has been processed.

Participants

last updated on 2026-01-01 15:44 UTC.

Players from a total of 3 countries have signed up: 🇧🇪 BEL, 🇩🇪 DEU, 🇵🇱 POL