Bring your strategy, bring your focus, and get ready to compete in Montahj Social’s Fire Horse Fall Open — a flighted American Mahjong tournament for all levels.
This is different from other tournament formats you may have seen before. We have thoughtfully designed a fair tournament structure with simplified scoring that uses NMJL hand values but does not let lucky self-draws, slow tables, or unusually high-value hands decide the whole tournament.
Our tournament format balances three important factors to identify the strongest players.
Skill: repeated table performance is rewarded.
Luck: a single big hand matters, but it can't overwhelm multiple rounds of consistency.
Pace: everybody gets the same scoring opportunities per round rather than fast tables generating extra points.
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A Flight, the "Gallup" Flight
Players at this level should be able to:
B Flight, the "Trot" Flight
Players at this level should be able to:
Montahj Social will contact you to determine your flight placement.
We will be using a modified Swiss format. In Swiss format tournaments, players face opponents in subsequent rounds with similar win-loss records or scores, rather than random groupings or single-elimination. Everyone is guaranteed to play in all rounds against similarly performing players, which keeps the tournament competitive at every level.
Everyone will play three (3) rounds, each round is 55 minutes. In each round, players will be assigned to a table in groups of four. Each table will play a maximum of four (4) games in each round. Four games per round is a limit, not a requirement.
In Round 1, players are seeded or randomly assigned to a table.
After the end of each round, players will be grouped with other players who have similar scores.
At the end of the third round, the top four players in each flight will face off in a championship match. Spectators are encouraged to grab food and drinks and watch the top players compete for the championship title.
Record Performance Points at the end of each Game.
Performance Points = NMJL Value + bonus points - penalty points
Each player adds up their total Performance Points for the Round. Standing points are awarded based on the highest to lowest total Performance Points for the Round.
If Performance Points are tied at the end of a Round, the tie will be broken as follows:
most cumulative Performance Points → most cumulative Mahjongs → highest-value winning hand → highest total value of all winning hands before bonuses → high dice roll
Players move to the next Round and accumulate more Performance Points and Standing Points.
After three rounds, the top four players will face off in a final Championship – winner takes all.
Scores reset for the Championship, but prior scores will be used to break a tie.
The winner is the player at the Championship table with the most Performance Points. If Performance Points are tied, the tie will be broken as follows:
Most cumulative Standing Points → Strength of Schedule (SOS) → most cumulative Performance Points → most cumulative Mahjongs → highest-value winning hand → highest total value of all winning hands before bonuses → win percentage → head-to-head winner → high dice roll
Strength of Schedule (SOS) is the sum of the cumulative Standing Points of every opponent a player has faced.
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Questions? Email info@montahj.com