KC's Got All Crabs!

Since that lazy fool, Scud, hasn't managed to write an update yet (even though he said he would) it looks like I'll have to do it. And here was me thinking that I could take a back seat for this blog. Oh well...

We had another late-night Mahjong game at the library again last night. But, due to a combination of reasons, it turned out to be one of the most 'ghetto' games of Mahjong we've ever had. First of all, KC turned up an hour late for the game. Then we found out that Scud had forgotten to bring his points chips, and that I'd not remembered to pack mine. In the end we had to use a pen and paper to do the scoring, and one of the spare dice to keep track of dealer repeat rounds. This was on top of all the added stress I had about finances, Taurinensis's concerns about the Hanover trip, Scud's mislaid sauce packet for his Pot-Super-Noodle-in-a-Pot thing, and KC's obsession with his beloved Facebook.

Despite all the set-backs, we managed to get a half-decent game going eventually. I clawed my way up into first place with a reach, half-flush, two-Dora hand around the end of the East round. However, a short while later I managed to totally screw myself over. Big time! It was getting to the end of South third (I think), and no one had managed to make a winning hand. It got to the last tile and KC revealed his hand to show us an almost completed Kokushi Musou. All he needed was a Green Dragon tile to complete it. He drew the last tile from the wall which turned out to be a North Wind. Overjoyed, I immediately called Pon on the North Wind to put myself into Tenpai on the last draw of the game. Then I had a moment of pure insanity and decided to discard the Green Dragon tile that was in my hand, instead of the perfectly safe East Wind tile.

As a result, not only did I lose 16,000 for KC's Yakuman, I also lost another 4,000 for Taurinensis's Mangan. Had we been playing by the Japanese scoring system instead of the stupid German tournament system, I'd have been bankrupted by that stupid mistake. It didn't matter that much in the end since I ended up in last place. I don't think I'll ever live it down though. What kind of moron plays into an OPEN Kokushi Musou that's in Tenpai?!