Meeting Agenda
Board Members In Attendance
Steve Augustin
David Bresnick
Harrison Corp
Tamas Erdos
Laura King
Nathanael Kozinski
Luke Morgan
Claire Pozniak
Jai Srivistav
Bichen Wang
Working Group Updates
2028 WRC Qualification Cycle
No responses currently for invitational hosting
There are several difficulties for this, including trying to price out an event two years in advance and committing to a venue that far down the line as well
Comms to circulate form for hosting trying to increase candidates by May meeting
Choosing the host can be later, e.g. Jan 2027
Tech
Pro Organizations now represented in the DB
Saikouisen has 9
WRPM only 3, make sure to sign up!
If people are asking where to play in person, point them to the website! (Props to Tamas!)
Are there any plans to unify the two halves of the website (webpage and DB)? If you go to one of them, it can be confusing to get to the other/what information can be found on what part
Pull requests are open. Please provide some feedback to streamline the user experience!
Confusing for certified tournaments that aren’t on website and/or DB yet
Check the discord! It should have been announced in the event announcements for ARAbux to count.
Action items: Accurate calendar, and getting this new tournament submission process streamlined
Communications
Oklahoma and Virginia Beach reportings completed!
Proposed Assembly recertification process:
Assembly members will fill out a form once a year checking several things
Does your club exist, have 12 people, etc.
Jai to run form
Discussion on what to do about assembly members who aren’t voting
Discussed idea of having minimum participation for voting
Discussed possibly emailing club to say that assembly member has been inactive
ARA wants it to be easier to have clubs be represented
Harrison missed the Newsletter for February, hopefully one out this month since DC will be done!
US Rankings
On hiatus, still looking for a new Working Group head!
Education
Player code of conduct done and ready for ratification
If your club uses a nonstandard set (not Amos, ymi, or taobao), send pictures to Luke for reference please!
Professional Organizations
World Riichi Pros
WRL schedule is basically full!
April is PML, Sparrows Nest, and NTML
May Vegas and Online majors
June minor Cincinnati NTML
July Major Philly, minors Vegas & Seattle
August DC minor, NTML major
Sept sparrow nest major, Seattle minor
Mleague events tickets starting Friday!
Details coming in the next 24 hours
Saikouisen
Ryuousen tournament registration is open! (deadline May 1st) and the event is two weeks after that
June 6th and 7th pro exam (registration deadline May 5th)
ARML
Season went pretty well but still some growing pains with scheduling
Not that far behind on games
Next season starts on April 6th!
Rules and judging
Lower penalties updates still pending
The Working Group will have guidance soon around this
Community engagement
Gonna make some content soon!
Differences between ladder and sks/wrc rulesets/environments
Incorporation
On pause until May, if you’re interested in helping out you can reach out to Comms before then!
Open Discussion
N/A
Event Announcements/Reminders
DC Open this weekend!!!
PML Invitational and Team Tournament approaching soon!
Closed Session
Ratified and discussed several tournaments
Discussed swiss scramble specifics with DCO TO and Head Judge
Player code of conduct sent for review
Post OKC Open Riichi Discussion
Problem occurred where players could potentially manually try to deal in to a furiten wait, baiting player to chombo if they especially have a more complicated wait shape
Discussion around this topic, with potential problems and solutions
Next Meeting April 27th!