The European Mahjong Association (EMA) is an international organization for the interests of Mahjong in Europe. The main purposes are to certify competitions held by national organizations and to hold European championships.

History

The European Mahjong Association (EMA) was established at the general assembly during the first European Championship in Netherlands, June 2005. After this competition, EMA started holding European championships under international rules every 2 years, and started sanctioning Mahjong competitions which was held under international and Japanese rules. On June 21, 2008, EMA held the first European Riichi Championship 2008 in Hannover, Germany. Since this year, EMA started European championships under Japanese rules every 2 years. For this reason, EMA holds different types of European competitions alternately.

EMA instructed championships

* Open European Mahjong Championship (under International mahjong rule) *

European Riichi Championship The European Riichi Mahjong Championship (ERMC) is the European competition of Mahjong certified by European Mahjong Association (EMA) under Japanese rules.World Mahjong Organization

References

External links

European Mahjong Association
{{Mahjong Tournaments and Competitions Mahjong organizations