Offline event

World Riichi League: USA Series

After a great start in Europe, we’re coming to the United States with three events across the country in the new year – culminating in an online final event that will send one participant to the 2025 World Riichi Championship!

Presented By

In Collaboration With

Pacific Mahjong League

Event details

Event information
Schedule
Registered players
Results
Gallery

Date: March 1-2, 2025
Hosts
NYC – United States Professional Mahjong League
Chicago – Chicago Area Mahjong
SF – Pacific Mahjong League
NYC Location
Sparrow’s Nest Studio
36 W. 36th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Chicago Location
Hyatt Regency Schaumburg, Chicago
1800 E. Golf Road
Schaumburg, IL 60173
SF Location
Pacific Mahjong League
39352 Fremont Blvd
Fremont, CA 94538
Event Format
8 Hanchan (4 hanchan per day)
Scramble-style pairings
Player cap per location: 40
Ruleset: Current WRC-Rules (2022)
What we expect from our players
Well versed, competitive players with solid hands-on experience in real-life play, good knowledge of etiquette, point calculation and mahjong strategy. Players should be comfortable playing to their win conditions and building hands to hit specific point targets.
Participation fee: $50
Meals are not included at this event

New York
Chicago
San Francisco

Saturday, March 1
09:30 – 10:00	Registration/Announcements
10:00 – 11:30	Hanchan 1
11:30 – 13:00	Hanchan 2
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hanchan 3
16:00 – 17:30	Hanchan 4
17:30 – 22:00	FreePlay

Sunday March 2
09:30 – 10:00	Registration/Announcements
10:00 – 11:30	Hanchan 5
11:30 – 13:00	Hanchan 6
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00	Hanchan 7
16:00 – 17:30	Hanchan 8
17:30 – 18:00	Awards and closing ceremony

Saturday, March 1
08:00 – 08:50	Registration
08:50 – 09:00	Announcements
09:00 – 11:00	Hanchan 1
11:00 – 13:00	Hanchan 2
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	Hanchan 3
16:00 – 18:00	Hanchan 4

Sunday March 2
08:00 – 09:00	Registration/Announcements
09:00 – 11:00	Hanchan 5
11:00 – 13:00	Hanchan 6
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00	Hanchan 7
16:00 – 18:00	Hanchan 8
18:00 – 18:30	Awards and closing ceremony

Saturday, March 1
12:30 – 13:00	Registration/Announcements
13:00 – 14:30	Hanchan 1
14:30 – 16:00	Hanchan 2
16:00 – 17:30	Hanchan 3
17:30 – 19:00	Hanchan 4

Sunday March 2
12:30 – 13:00	Registration/Announcements
13:00 – 14:30	Hanchan 5
14:30 – 16:00	Hanchan 6
16:00 – 17:30	Hanchan 7
17:30 – 19:00	Hanchan 8
19:00 – 19:30	Awards and closing ceremony

New York
Chicago
San Francisco

#	Player Name	Player Status
1	Steven Augustin	Confirmed
2	Maxewll Suddendorf	Confirmed
3	Allon Scheyer	Confirmed
4	Jonathan Fang	Confirmed
5	Kristy Chang	Confirmed
6	Christopher Lowell	Confirmed
	Claire Pozniak	Withdrawn
	Andres Hernandez	Withdrawn
	Allen Zhang	Withdrawn
7	Dennis Sharkey	Confirmed
8	Mike Lee	Confirmed
9	Luis Miguel Vargas	Confirmed
10	Zijun Huang	Confirmed
11	Ricky Tan	Confirmed
12	James Eveland	Confirmed
13	Renee Nikolaeva	Confirmed
14	Will Song	Confirmed
15	Dustin Fries	Confirmed
16	William Maxwell Inman	Confirmed
17	Lucas LaPointe	Confirmed
18	Yishen Wu	Confirmed
19	Arthur McAnally	Confirmed
	Joshua Meier	Withdrawn
20	Max Wang	Confirmed
21	Nicholas Naimo	Confirmed
	Nikolas Twyford	Withdrawn
22	Christian Manaog	Confirmed
23	Erik Karhan	Confirmed
	Cheng Yu Lai	Withdrawn
24	Melissa Feng	Confirmed
25	Chris Diaz	Confirmed
	Leslie Caudill	Withdrawn
26	Quincy Huang	Confirmed
	Zihan Zhou	Withdrawn
27	Cory Dissinger	Confirmed
28	Victor Savard-Arseneault	Confirmed
29	Kate Li	Confirmed
30	Valentin Courtois	Confirmed
31	Sarah Allen	Confirmed
32	Sheng hao Dong	Confirmed
33	Harliy	Confirmed
34	David W Kim	Confirmed
35	Yicheng (Albert) Zhang	Confirmed
36	Gabriel Cashen	Confirmed
37	Amy Gu	Confirmed
38	Michael Horton	Confirmed
39	Lionel Liu	Confirmed
	Justin Fontano	Withdrawn
40	Rowen Darrell	Confirmed
41	Kevin Ng	Waitlist
42	Pio Yoon	Waitlist
43	Leon Jiang	Waitlist
44	Ruiqi Song	Waitlist

#	Player Name	Player Status
1	Michael Lenard	Confirmed
2	Brian Wen	Confirmed
3	Kaden Chou	Confirmed
4	Carter Powers	Confirmed
5	Mohan Richter-Addo	Confirmed
6	James Lindell	Confirmed
	Rob Cayea	Withdrawn
7	Eric Hong	Confirmed
8	Aaron Ebejer	Confirmed
9	Nathanael Kozinski	Confirmed
10	Caleb Gonzalez	Confirmed
11	William Peeler	Confirmed
12	Xuzhi Tang	Confirmed
13	Carlos Dylan Munoz	Confirmed
14	Darren James David	Confirmed
15	Alex Ding	Confirmed
16	Tatsuya Asano	Confirmed
	Leonardo Salinas	Withdrawn
17	Ashley Cameron	Confirmed
18	Ryan Adams	Confirmed
19	Andrew Sasinowski	Confirmed
20	Mark Tam	Confirmed
21	Brendan Spence	Confirmed
	Calvin Chu	Withdrawn
	Ryan Jacobs	Withdrawn
22	Scott Sun	Confirmed
23	Hisashi Takahashi	Confirmed
24	Michael McLeod	Confirmed
25	Eli Peecher	Confirmed
26	Damien Taylor	Confirmed
	Antonio Antolin	Withdrawn
27	Calvin C	Registered
28	Justin Gillespie	Confirmed
29	Edward Zeng	Confirmed
30	Jonathen LeRoy	Registered
31	Zac Leak	Registered
32	Tianshen He	Confirmed
33	Kaori Asano	Confirmed
34	Ryota Shimizu	Confirmed
35	Cody Nguyen	Confirmed
36	Edwin Ocampo	Registered
37	Ray Tan	Registered
38	Tingkai Zhang	Registered

#	Player Name	Player Status
1	Edwin Dizon	Confirmed
2	Johnathan Shen	Confirmed
3	Jeff Tran	Confirmed
4	Skye Chen	Confirmed
	Donald Kai	Withdrawn
	Stanley Deng	Withdrawn
5	Wen-Chien Wang	Confirmed
	Dylan Zhang	Withdrawn
6	William Huie	Confirmed
	Adriel Ordonez	Withdrawn
7	Jimmy Wang	Confirmed
8	Jai Srivastav	Confirmed
	Khang Huynh	Withdrawn
9	Fangming Cao	Confirmed
10	Alex Wang	Registered
11	Oliver Nguyen	Confirmed
12	Hawnlay Swen	Confirmed
13	Kevin Zhu	Confirmed
14	Rachel Halperin	Confirmed
15	Isabella Yung	Confirmed
	Zach Francks	Withdrawn
16	Ross Campo	Confirmed
17	Zijun Mo	Confirmed
18	Steven Ong	Confirmed
19	Luna Yi	Confirmed
20	Wyatt Zhou	Confirmed
21	Dai Yang	Registered
22	Garrett Chen	Confirmed
	Edward Koshimoto	Withdrawn
23	Staffan Hellman	Confirmed
24	Evan Minsk	Confirmed
25	Xiyuan Yu	Confirmed
26	Noel Hui	Registered
	Maya Way	Withdrawn
27	Zemin Mi	Confirmed
28	Emily Tian	Confirmed
29	Simon Huang	Confirmed
30	Peng Li	Confirmed

Last Updated: 2/16/2025 – 2:02AM EST

New York
Chicago
San Francisco

#	Player Name	Final Score
1	William Maxwell Inman	112.5
2	Dennis Sharkey	101
3	Quincy Huang	86
4	Kristy Chang	85.9
5	Sheng hao Dong	77.3
6	Yishen Wu	59.2
7	Steven Augustin	57.3
8	Gabriel Cashen	56.7
9	David W Kim	52.3
10	Amy Gu	51.2
11	Lucas LaPointe	49
12	Christian Manaog	48.3
13	Valentin Courtois	47.8
14	Jonathan Fang	34.1
15	Yicheng (Albert) Zhang	27.4
16	Will Song	23.1
17	Victor Savard-Arseneault	20.1
18	Max Wang	17.8
19	Arthur McAnally	11
20	Zijun Huang	8.4
21	Lionel Liu	8.1
22	Sarah Allen	5.2
23	Maxwell Suddendorf	2.7
24	Ricky Tan	-1.5
25	Christopher Lowell	-7.8
26	James Eveland	-42.2
27	Allon Scheyer	-44.8
28	Erik Karhan	-44.9
29	Mike Lee	-45.4
30	Renee Nikolaeva	-52.6
31	Sophie (Sub)	-57.7
32	Luis Miguel Vargas	-67.1
33	Melissa Feng	-67.8
34	Chris Diaz	-74.8
35	Dustin Fries	-83.7
36	Michael Horton	-97.7
37	Harliy	-103.3
38	Nicholas Naimo	-106
39	Rowen Darrell	-110.2
40	Cory Dissinger	-213.3

#	Player Name	Final Score
1	Brian Wen	135.5
2	Aaron Ebejer	120.9
3	Hisashi Takahashi	104.3
4	Edward Zeng	87.3
5	Tianshen He	82.7
6	Xuzhi Tang	79.5
7	Tatsuya Asano	57.1
8	Kaden Chou	54.5
9	Quanjun (Scott) Sun	46.1
10	Ray Tan	45.6
11	Carlos Dylan Munoz	45.3
12	Eric Hong	28.1
13	Nathanael Kozinski	26.4
14	Ryan Adams	8.9
15	Mohan Richter-Addo	7.2
16	Caleb Gonzalez	6.4
17	Justin Gillespie	5.9
18	James Lindell	1.4
19	Michael McLeod	-5.8
20	William Peeler	-9.6
21	Michael Lenard	-19
22	Andrew Sasinowski	-19.2
23	Mark Tam	-29.5
24	Alex Ding	-32.8
25	Ryota Shimizu	-50.1
26	Christian Stout	-50.9
27	Brendan Spence	-51.4
28	Damien Taylor	-55.1
29	Kaori Asano	-61.5
30	Carter Powers	-73
31	Darren James David	-91.9
32	Takahiro Sakurai	-98
33	Cody Nguyen	-108.7
34	SUB1	-118.2
35	Eli Peecher	-132.9
36	Ashley Cameron	-160.5

#	Player Name	Final Score
1	Wen-Chien Wang	94.5
2	Xiyuan Yu	88.3
3	Emily Tian	80.6
4	Garrett Chen	62.4
5	Kevin Zhu	54.6
6	Simon Huang	52.5
7	Rachel Halperin	51.8
8	Fangming Cao	51.2
9	Zemin Mi	40.1
10	Zijun Mo	36.4
11	Staffan Hellman	-3.5
12	Oliver Nguyen	-6.9
13	Luna Yi	-10.8
14	Jimmy Wang	-11.9
15	Wyatt Zhou	-18.3
16	Johnathan Shen	-22
17	Jai Srivastav	-25.8
18	Alex Wang	-26
19	Skye Chen	-33.4
20	Dai Yang	-42.2
21	Evan Minsk	-56.8
22	Jeff Tran	-67.2
23	Ross Campo	-79.2
24	Isabella Yung	-80.1
25	William Huie	-81.9
26	Edwin Dizon	-105.1
27	Hawnlay Swen	-129.5
28	Peng Li	-164.2

Last Updated: 3/7/2025 – 2:02AM EST

Pictures and memories coming soon!

FAQ

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If there are any further questions, please do not hesitate and send us a mail

There are no explicit requirements for players who would like to participate in this event. However, we do expect participants to have a full understanding of the WRC ruleset and a solid amount of in-person play experience. This event is meant to cultivate a serious competitive environment and to that end we would ask players to participate with that in mind. We are particularly interested in players who would like to participate in the WRC Pro program and have their results from this event carry over to future participation in that program.

While in the future there may be events that are exclusive to the WRC Pro organization, this event is open to any player who wishes to participate in a competitive environment. We definitely hope that participants join the WRC Pro family, attending this event does not obligate players to join the organization and the WRC seat award will be available to any participant that successfully wins the event.

All participants will have their results stored for optional future use. If a player does choose to join the WRC Pro program in the future, these “banked” results can be immediately used for progress!

By default, the use of mobile phones, smart watches etc. is not allowed during games. This has several reasons: insurance problems, time loss, noise and most important: we want our players to not lose touch with manual counting and handling point sticks. While apps provide a great possibility to keep track of points at any given moment, we are convinced that good players are able to count and keep track of points by themselves.