Board Members In Attendance
David Bresnick
Harrison Corp
Nathanael Kozinski
Claire Hernandez
Jenn Barr
Jai Srivistav
Laura King
Tamas Erdos
Luke Morgan
Working Group Updates
Education
Tiles sent over to rules/judging and comms
Asking Jenn to help with the text and formatting for publishing.
Red 5 differences planned next
Tech
A bunch of new features have been added!
Quality Point scores updated but need DNF numbers and will have a reupload feature soon
Database is live with QP but slightly inaccurate so please hold while they get updated
2028 WRC Qualification Cycle
Discussions around NAO
May or may not have a seat associated with it
Multiple clubs could host it
Invitational is fairly similar to ERMC; we don’t seed in other countries’ players, but it is the pinnacle event
NAO also traditionally a 3 day tournament and the WRC seat helps it
Needs something to differentiate it from any other open
What is an incentive for a club to run an NAO?
It’s just another open
It’s just a rebranding of an existing open effectively
There are so many other tournaments.
Designed to grow the scene and to give the US a prestige tournament
Invitational basically has replaced what NAO used to be
Last Chance Qualifier to replace it?
Community engagement
Tag Laura in photos.
Basically a tournament every weekend at this point!
Send Laura the details so she can promote it, even 1-day tournaments like the Colorado one day.
Communications
WRC rankings up to date.
Vancouver to submit soon, as they have 2 weeks to submit as they just finished yesterday
Running into a couple of bugs regarding the spreadsheet and website not matching, so we’re getting there
Agenda and minutes, etc.
Need some assembly member updates
Rules and judging
Steve has no updates
Should we get an FAQ?
Here’s a guide on rulings in certain situations and why
Incorporation
No updates for now
Professional Organizations
Saikouisen
Shinjinousen (rookie tournament) happening
American League is happening
Pinfu Center is now open in NYC!
WRPM
WRL - rankings!!!
Based on your best consecutive 16 games
27/189 current participants that have 16 games
A lot of people have 12+ games just, need a few more games!
M League event was successful!
We had a signing ceremony between WRPM and JPML, NPM, Rengo, and RMU as a reciprocal partner agreement
They can choose to play in most closed events
Sending Amy to play in Japan
Expect your WRL ranking to have some impact on that selection
2027 WRL cycle in planning
Full pro title match (in planning)
JPML has a dispatch program
ARML
Corak 3x champion fo A1 (and taking a hiatus)
176 active players (219 including hiatus) over 38 states
500th player just got added, round of applause for ARML!!!
Election
1 more spot open; nominate yourself!
Next meeting, all nominees will get a chance to speak
Steve will be running this election as he’s officially on the board now.
IORMC
5 am eastern
If you are interested in participating, you must be a citizen or permanent resident of the US. You can use your legal name or a nickname
Qualification system
4 qualifiers, must play in 3 out of 4
There’s a tournament every weekend in August
Apologies to toronto open.
September dates are open
Noon start pacific (3pm eastern)
4 hours ish as it’s 4 hanchan
Standard tenhou rules.
In the past it used to start 8 am pt / 11 am est
Wanted to make it easier for the highest number of people to participate.
Previous years may have been citizen only, but this year, PR is okay.
Edwin has been compiling the entire history of previous IORMC
Your name could be on the roster for this year!
Event Announcements/Reminders
WROTL
Not too late to sign up!
A 1 year or 6 months ron2 account, check your spam folder
Marimo has been having a lot of fun on ron2
Open Discussion
Recertification is done
Arizona submitted the cert form, not recert, but for the most part everyone’s recert is done
Closed Session
Discussion about process to streamline putting clubs on the database map
Need to change or streamline email and approval process
Certified several tournaments
Discussed reaching out to a certified tournament about a potential issue that might occur to them
Discussion about if Thurs/Fri tournaments would be able to be eligible for certification
Next meeting August 17th