Meeting Minutes
Board Members In Attendance
Claire Pozniak
Jai Srivistav
Jenn Barr
Laura King
Nathanael Kozinski
Steve Augustin
Harrison Corp
Tamas Erdos
Bichen Wang
Working Group Updates
2028 WRC Qualification Cycle
Get your RFPs in to host the 2028 US ARA Invitational!
No Current responses
Tech
Implemented support for joining multiple clubs as well as pro organizations
Sign up!
Communications
Claire going to be out until late April
Harrison made a monthly newsletter, let him know what you think about it!
Piggybacking off the newsletter, planning to take another look at email system for ARA to add that in information circulation
US Rankings
Need a new head for this working group. Kathy will help out from now on, if interested message her!
Education
Etiquette Guideline in final stages
Professional Organizations
World Riichi Pros
Dave is in Japan finalizing the big m league event in June
Vegas June 26th-28th -> NY June 29th-30th, save the dates!
Date for 2025 WRL finals TBA!
WRL 2026 starts in April
Saikouisen
Pro Exam last weekend, the results are out
9 new pros all on the east coast!
ARML
Things are running smoothly for Winter 2026 season, signup before Spring 2026!
Rules and judging
Having a talk with OKC this weekend about open riichi
Couple of weird interactions with lower penalties and open riichi, making sure they are aware
Deliberate deal ins are part of the rules, so dealing in is legal with open riichi
Short form content about etiquette and rules will hopefully be started up soon
If you have any ideas for it, let Steve or Laura know!
Community engagement
If you’re looking at doing some content for Laura, let her know!
It would be a loose script on what to do; if you aren’t great at improv, your project is the wall building challenge!
Incorporation
On pause until May, if you’re interested in helping out you can reach out to Comms before then!
Open Discussion
Online Tournament Certification
Need a different set of standards for online tournaments
There hasn’t been much of a push for this since there isn’t a way for it to be worth points, will be visited in the future
Pro Taco Night
Rochester has a tradition of having a taco night for the new saikouisen pros, feel free to join them and host your own!
Event Announcements/Reminders
Check the Newsletter!
Closed Session
Discussed Riichi Rising Tournament post event
Certified several tournaments (be looking out for the announcements)
Adding a checkmark for the certification form that has applying events mark if they want to also be eligible for qualifying for ARABux