The Open European Mahjong Championship (OEMC) is the oldest European competition of Mahjong organized by European Mahjong Association (EMA) under Mahjong Competition Rules (MCR). Both men and women are eligible to contest this title, and the championship holds both the individual event and team event. It was established in 2005 and has since then taken place on two-yearly basis. As this championship is an open competition, any non-European players may participate.
History After a few months later of the first world championship was held in Tokyo, 2002, Martin Rep, a Dutch Mahjong Player, decided to establish European organizations for Mahjong.
On June 25, 2005, he promoted the first European Championship and also hold the General Assembly in Netherlands in Nijmegen, Netherlands. During this Assembly, EMA was established. Masato Chiba, from Japan, won the first championship.
On June 21, 2007, the 2nd European championship was held in Copenhagen, Denmark for 3 days. Martin Wedel Jacobsen from Denmark won the championship. Team event was begun since this championship. In 2008, EMA began another European Mahjong Championship under Japanese Riichi rule.
On July 11, 2011, Ildikó Hargitai became the first female mahjong player who won the European championship,OEMC 2011 Individual Results and "French Team no1" from France won the team division.OEMC 2011 Team Results
Champions Individual No.Winner2nd3rd1Masato Chiba ()Mai Hatsune () Yoshinori Katō ()2Martin Wedel Jacobsen ()Kōichi Oda ()Benjamin Boas ()3Kōji Idota ()Bo Lang () Luca Gavelli ()4Ildikó Hargitai ()Martin Faartoft () Leni Janssen ()5Yoshihiro Suzuki ()Michael Zahradnik ()Kazutoshi Miyake ()6Yoshihiro Suzuki ()Linghua Jiao ()Matthieu Pfeiffer ()
Team No.Winner2nd3rd 2The team competition was not held in the first event.Team results 2007 Team Tokyo Masato Chiba () Norse Winds Martin Wedel Jacobsen () France Bleu Jérôme Bonifas () Sugako Suzuki () Freddy Christiansen () Olivier Boivin () Yuri Tezuka () Brian Krog () Vivian Hetmaniuk () Yukari Kugimiya () Jeppe Stig Nielsen () Emma Guenel () 3TeamRankingOEMC2009 Japan JMSA Kyoto Kōji Idota () China 2 Jianming Fan () United NationsA European international team among Switzerland, Sweden, and United Kingdom Bo Lang () Shigeru Aono () Jianguo Liang () Hans Wikström () Kimito Kugimiya () Jun Gao () Chris Redmond () Kōichi Oda () Hongwu Zhou () Mei Hwa Felder () 4The “First” European Championship French Team no1 Antony Ea () Nine Gates Eveline Broers () Upper 4 Shi Hua Chen Kold () Christian Enault () Leni Janssen () Tina Christensen () Sebastien Roux () Chris Janssen () Martin Faartoft () Brigitte Sandarom () Claudio Porrati () Jesper Willemoes Hansen () 5EMC 2014 result JMF Kazutoshi Miyake () Knitted Team Chris Redmond () Team Sendai Yoshihiro Suzuki () Florine Leroy () Luc Humbert () Katsuyuki Onodera () Yaichirō Ōwaki () Gérard Hêche () Yasuhiro Chiba () Kenzō Tamakoshi () Mei Hwa Felder () Sugako Suzuki ()
Venues Date Edition Place Venue June 24–26, 2005 1st Open European Mahjong Championship Nijmegen, Netherlands ING-zaal, Concertgebouw de Vereeniging June 21–24, 2007 2nd Open European Mahjong Championship Copenhagen, Denmark Idrætsfabrikken July 1–5, 2009 3rd Open European Mahjong Championship Baden, Austria Hotel Schloss Weikersdorf July 6–11, 2011 4th Open European Mahjong Championship Venice, Italy NH Laguna Palace Mestre-Venice July 3–6, 2014 5th Open European Mahjong Championship Strasbourg, France Pavillon Joséphine, Parc de l'Orangerie May 25–29, 2017 6th Open European Mahjong Championship Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal Casino da Póvoa de Varzim
See also World Mahjong Championship(World competition under same rules) European Mahjong Association(EMA) European Riichi Championship (Another European Championship held by EMA)
References
External links OEMC 2011 Official Site OEMC 2009 Official Site OEMC 2007 Official Site European Mahjong Association EMA Official Competition rule