Welcome!

The Montréal Riichi Club is proud to announce the Montréal Riichi Open! This tournament will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 1-2, 2024!

The entry fee for the 9th Montréal Riichi Open is $100 CAD. To register, please use this form.

You can join the discussion on this tournament at this Discord server.

Collège Ahuntsic
9055, rue St-Hubert
Montréal, Québec
H2M 1Y8
Café Qu’on Sert (The Student Café, on the left when entering)

How to Get There

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.

Finding the room

The Student Café (Café Qu’on Sert) is directly on the left when entering the building at the 9055 St-Hubert entrance. You can locate the room using this schema.

Sanitary rules

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.

Lodging

You will have to take care of your own lodging. We recommend using your favourite homestay network for the weekend.

Note that the participant list is restricted to 56 participants this year. If you don’t make it into the first 56, you will join the waitlist.

The following people have registered for the 9th Montréal Riichi Open :

#	Name	City / Club	Confirmed
1	Alessandro Chiari	Montreal	Yes
2	Amy Situ	Ottawa	Yes
3	Andre Carneiro	New York	Yes
4	Antoine Dufour-Blain	Montreal	Yes
5	Cassandra McClure	Somerville, MA, USA	Yes
6	Cédéric Paré	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield	Yes
7	Claudel Bilodeau	Laval	Yes
8	Collin Wang	Montreal	Yes
9	Dennis Kwok	Toronto	Yes
10	Elijah Salcedo	Montreal	Yes
11	Eric Zhang	Toronto	Yes
12	Estey Gerstner	Canandaigua	Yes
13	Harry Hua	Toronto	Yes
14	Jason Li	Montreal	Yes
15	Jason Qin	New York	Yes
16	Jeremy Lyn	Mississauga	Yes
17	John Lee	Montreal	Yes
18	Jonghwan Kim	Montreal	Yes
19	Justin Fontano	Southington CT	Yes
20	Kevin Ng	New York	Yes
21	Lenny Bobinski	West Simsbury, CT	Yes
22	Loïc Roberge	Montreal	Yes
23	Lorenzo Desrosiers	Montreal	Yes
24	Lynette Dang	Toronto	Yes
25	Marc-Laurent Frenette	Longueuil	Yes
26	Michael McLeod	Toronto	Yes
27	Ryan Shim	Montreal	Yes
28	Sean Huguenard	Somerville, MA, USA	Yes
29	Sébastien Bouchard	Laval	Yes
30	Sylvie Brunelle	Québec City	Yes
31	Toshihiro Sakurai	Ottawa	Yes

Your staff team for this tournament will be :
Alexandre Boily
Grant Mahoney
Hugues Mottes
Loïc Roberge (before the tournament)
Pak-kei Wong
Patrick Marcil
Philippe Ouellet
Philippe Paquin
Shan Kuang

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
8th Montréal Riichi Open
9th Montréal Riichi Open

Results for the 2nd Montréal Riichi Open are not available.

Structure

1. Rulings for the Riichi Montréal Open 2024 will be aligned with the WRC. Please consult this link for the WRC rules.
2. There will be five (5) games held on Saturday June 1, two (2) in the morning and three (3) in the afternoon. Exact schedule during the day is still subject to further change by the Club.
3. There will be three (3) games held on Sunday June 2, one (1) in the morning and two (2) in the afternoon. Exact schedule during the day is still subject to further change by the Club.
4. The last two (2) games on Sunday June 2 are final games. Trophies or medals will be given to the eight (8) finalists. Please note that there is no semi-final, the final will be played over two hanchans.
5. We expect good will and fair sportsmanship from all attendees, be they players or staff. Once a game is finished, we ask players to give their final scores in a timely fashion, and respect those that are still playing by leaving the room quietly.
6. Note that we will use the “optional lower” penalty rulings whenever possible as prescribed by the optional rules (see https://www.worldriichi.org/s/WRC-Optional-Rules-2022.pdf).

Schedule

Here is the current tentative schedule.
Saturday
8:00am Start of day 1 / Check-in
8:45am Announcements / Opening words
9:00am 1st hanchan
10:45am 2nd hanchan
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm 3rd hanchan
3:45pm 4th hanchan
5:30pm 5th hanchan
7:00pm End of day 1

Sunday
8:30am Start of day 2 / Check-in
9:30am 6th hanchan
11:30am Lunch
1:00pm 7th hanchan (finals 1)
2:45pm 8th hanchan (finals 2)
4:15pm Closing ceremony
We should have finished by 4:45pm.

Amenities

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.

Prizes

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.

Rankings

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.

How do I get there?

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.

What will we eat? (I’m allergic!)

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.

I haven’t totally paid my subscription. Are there any issues?

You must have paid all subscription fees before May 28th at 11:59pm. We do not accept payments at the door.

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.

I have a friend / family / other without subscription. Can they be a spectator?

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.

Where do I sit?

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.

What to do in case of cheating?

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.

What do I do when a game is done?

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.

If my score drops below zero, do I stop playing?

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.

Montréal is nice this time of year. Can I visit?

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.

Pourquoi le site est-il unilingue anglophone?

Malheureusement, on n’a pas encore trouvé comment intégrer des traductions dans WordPress. C’est du travail supplémentaire qui a toujours été repoussé de notre côté. Nous avons choisi de donner la priorité au texte anglophone, car nous avons plus de visiteurs unilingues anglophones sur le site que de visiteurs unilingues francophones. Ne vous inquiétez pas, les règles du tournoi seront données dans les deux langues (français/anglais) sur demande durant le tournoi.

To subscribe to the tournament, or for any enquiries, comments, questions and precisions, please fill in the form below.

SUBSCRIPTION MUST BE MADE BEFORE MAY 25 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:
$100 CAD.

You can use either the contact form that will be provided later on or the one below, both are valid for registration.

You can contact us on Facebook or Discord!