Welcome!
The Montréal Riichi Club is proud to announce the Montréal Riichi Open! This tournament will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11, 2023! To register for the tournament, please fill this form.
The early bird entry price for this edition will be $60. Starting on May 1, the price will raise to $70.
This year’s edition is sponsored by Centre Dentaire Hudon! If you live in Montmagny, check them out!
Collège Ahuntsic
9055, rue St-Hubert
Montréal, Québec
H2M 1Y8
Salon du personnel room (C1.140, just before the stairs, in front of the security office)
Take the Montréal Métro and get off at Crémazie Station (Orange Line). Take due north on Lajeunesse St, then east on Émile-Journault St. The venue will be there. Alternatively, you can use the 40 highway to get there. The venue has a lot of parking places, but it’s also possible to park on nearby streets. Note that we will be playing close to the entrance at 9055 St-Hubert, therefore it’s a lot better to enter there than at the 9155 entrance.
Masks will not be mandatory during the tournament, but you can wear them if you’d like to. Vaccination is not mandatory, but strongly suggested.
You will have to take care of your own lodging. We recommend using your favourite homestay network for the weekend.
Here is the current tentative schedule.
Saturday
9:00am Start of day 1 / Check-in
9:45am Announcements / Opening words
10:00am 1st hanchan
11:45am 2nd hanchan
1:30pm Lunch
3:00pm 3rd hanchan
4:45pm 4th hanchan
6:30pm End of day 1
Sunday
9:00am Start of day 2 / Check-in
9:30am 5th hanchan
11:15am 6th hanchan
1:00pm Lunch
2:30pm 7th hanchan (finals 1)
4:15pm 8th hanchan (finals 2)
6:00pm Closing ceremony
We should have finished by 6:30pm.
Lunch, snacks, coffee and tea on both days of the tournament are offered free of charge by the Club! All players are invited to participate and engage with other attendees during lunchtime.
Trophies and medals will be awarded to the top performers.
These prizes will not exceed a total value of CAD 100, as per laws set by the Government of Quebec and the Régie des alcools, des courses, et des jeux du Québec.
The rankings will be posted online to the riichiout tournament page when they will be available. We will also try to provide updates to the page after each hanchan.
Note that the participant list is restricted to 48 participants this year. If you don’t make it into the first 48, you will join the waitlist.
The following people have registered for the 8th Montréal Riichi Open :
| # | Name | Country | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrien A | Canada | No |
| 2 | Alex W | United States | Yes |
| 3 | Alexandre Boily | Canada | No |
| 4 | Alexis G | Canada | Yes |
| 5 | Alice C | Canada | Yes |
| 6 | Allen Zhang | United States | Yes |
| 7 | Amy Gu | United States | Yes |
| 8 | Anne Rinfret | Canada | Yes |
| 9 | Arya J | United States | Yes |
| 10 | Bichen Wang | United States | Yes |
| 11 | Cassandra McClure | United States | No |
| 12 | Chami Tanaka | Canada | Yes |
| 13 | Claudel Bilodeau | Canada | Yes |
| 14 | Edward K | United States | Yes |
| 15 | Estey G | United States | Yes |
| 16 | Jai Srivastav | United States | Yes |
| 17 | Jason L | Canada | Yes |
| 18 | Jeff T | United States | Yes |
| 19 | Jiasheng Zhang | Canada | No |
| 20 | Julien Bouchard | Canada | Yes |
| 21 | Kevin Ng | United States | Yes |
| 22 | Konstantin P | Norway | Yes |
| 23 | Leo Zhang | Canada | Yes |
| 24 | Lorenzo Desrosiers | Canada | No |
| 25 | Marc-Laurent Frenette | Canada | Yes |
| 26 | Max Suddendorf | United States | Yes |
| 27 | Melissa Feng | United States | Yes |
| 28 | Melvin P | United States | Yes |
| 29 | Michael H | United States | Yes |
| 30 | Michael McLeod | Canada | Yes |
| 31 | Miguel C | Canada | Yes |
| 32 | Nancy Gao | United States | Yes |
| 33 | Philippe O | Canada | Yes |
| 34 | Sean H | United States | Yes |
| 35 | Sebastien B | Canada | Yes |
| 36 | Steve Augustin | United States | Yes |
| 37 | Sylvie B | Canada | Yes |
| 38 | Ty Kennedy | United States | Yes |
| 39 | Victor S | Canada | Yes |
| 40 | William S | United States | Yes |
| 41 | Yufang H | Canada | Yes |
Your staff team for this tournament will be :
Alexandre Boily
Anne Rinfret
Grant M
Loïc Roberge
Pak-Kei W
Philippe O
Philippe Paquin
Shan K
Refreshing the list is not automatic so it might take a while before your name appears.
Results for previous tournaments are available here :
NARO 1 (1st Montréal Riichi Open)
3rd Montréal Riichi Open
4th Montréal Riichi Open
5th Montréal Riichi Open
6th Montréal Riichi Open (Online Edition/Édition en ligne)
Online Fall Montréal Riichi Tournament
7th Montréal Riichi Open
Results for the 2nd Montréal Riichi Open are not available.
Please check venue informations. That page has everything you need to know on how to subscribe to the tournament, how to get there, get schedules, etc.
Lunchtime is managed by the Club Riichi de Montréal. Lunches and snacks are included in the subscription price. Snacks (sandwiches, cookies, chips) and drinks (water, soda pops, iced tea) are unlimited free of charge during the tournament. WARNING! IF YOU ARE SUBJECT TO ANY KIND OF ALLERGIES, ADVISE US DURING THE SUBSCRIPTION PROCESS! We will take care, up to our abilities, of any requirements you may have regarding lunches and foodstuff. You are expected to carry your own emergency products (eg. “Epipen”), and have it on yourself, from the beginning up until the end of the tournament. Club Riichi de Montréal rescinds itself from any responsibility regarding omission, loss, or theft, or any similar circumstances of the aforementioned products.
Note that if you’d like to bring your own food instead, there are microwave ovens on-premise if you wish to use them. If you’re in that case, please contact the organizers ahead of the tournament. We can offer you a small discount for that.
Please note that the payment form has not been created yet. If you didn’t receive any information regarding that at this point, it is normal. It will be sent to all people who registered in the next few weeks.
You must have paid all subscription fees before June 10. If you haven’t paid everything, but can do so before the first game, you can do so at the door. We accept late payments one (1) hour before the first game. Please note that this kind of transaction is cash only (no credit, no debit, no online payment, no cheques). All payments will be done with at least two (2) staff members as witness.
If you can’t pay all fees, the Club Riichi de Montréal will refuse your subscription. In case of partial payment, Club Riichi de Montréal will reimburse you by the amount you already paid. This does not cover any accomodation or transportation fees.
Complete refunds are only made in the following cases: a late registrant is not able to participate due to numbers, or a player who has been approved to withdraw by tournament staff.
Should a player not be able to participate and know in advance, their registration fees can be transferred to a replacement player before the end of the registration period (June 10).
Sadly, no one besides staff, umpires and subscribed players can be in the tournament location during the event. This is to avoid cheating and distract players. Furthermore, this year, we need to juggle with sanitary rules, so the fewer we are, the better.
Staff committee will have planned seating for all players, for all games, before the tournament. Before the first game, you will need to present yourself at the reception table. This will let you get your official tournament badge. Please do not lose it, as it has a number that will identify you during the game.
If you have founded suspicions that a player is cheating, raise your hand and ask for an umpire immediately, even if it happens in the middle of a game. Official staff will resolve any conflict.
WARNING! If, for any reason or another, you make any false accusation regarding cheating, official staff owns the right of expulsing you from the current game up to and until tournament’s end. You will lose your ranking and cumulated points. You will not be allowed to communicate with any other player. You will not be reimbursed subscription fees.
Each player has a right to respect and silence during the tournament. In order to help them remain concentrated, please remain seated and talk in a low voice when announcing your points to the umpire. When tallying is done, get up and get out of the tournament room. Only then you can debate who had the most bestest hand in the last game.
No. A game ends after last oya in the south round loses, or time is up. A special negative twenty thousand (20’000) point stick is available for exchanging with another player. When tallying, umpires will note the absence of this stick and deduce the correct amount from your final points.
It is your responsibility to plan for anything concerning accomodation, food, tickets, transportation, etc. The Club Riichi de Montréal is not responsible for any issue you may encounter during your trip outside of the tournament hours.
But! Please send us any enquiry about interesting sights or events and good places to attend to. Montréal is a nice city, and it will be our pleasure to let you discover it to its fullest.
You need to be registered before May 1 to qualify for the early bird special (or specifically any time before and including April 30, 2023, at 11:59:59 PM EDT). If you pay during May but have registered before May, you still qualify for the early bird special. However, if you registered during the month of May or June, you will need to pay full price.
In the case where you registered to the tournament, were put on the waitlist and have your place confirmed for the tournament after May 1st, your registration date will still determine whether you qualify for early bird (eg, if you sign up on April 30 and are confirmed for participating on June 1, you have to pay $60, not $70.)
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To subscribe to the tournament, or for any enquiries, comments, questions and precisions, please fill in the form below.
SUBSCRIPTION MUST BE MADE BEFORE JUNE 9 AT THE LATEST! Subscription closes a few days before the tournament takes place. Simply filling this form with your name and email is enough to subscribe. Please note that by subscribing, you agree to have your name appearing in the participant list. If you would prefer your last name not to be displayed in full, please tell us in the comments box below. (We will list names as John Doe by default, but we can shorten it to John D.)
The fee to enter the tournament is as follows:
$60 CAD before May 1, otherwise it’s $70 CAD.
You can use either this contact form : https://forms.gle/DUpogK7sHC8m545m8 or the one below, both are valid for pre-registration.
Riichi Montréal 2023 