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Situation in Ukraine
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EMA Board decided on march 31st 2022 not to allow EMA certified tournaments in
Russia
and
Belarus
, due to the situation in Ukraine, for the time being.




In the same time, EMA will not grant ranking points to players representing Russian and Belarus for the time being.
Players representing Russia or Belarus can play in EMA tournaments, with the details above.
Players representing Russia or Belarus can play in EMA tournaments, with the details above.
COVID - UnFreeze on April 1st 2022
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EMA Board decided on march 31st 2022 to unfreeze tournaments certifications and tournaments ranking.
From now on, country members are free to aks for MERS certification following usual rule.
Certificat requests have to be transmitted by board member to the Board at least three mont before the tournaments.
A special hygiene ruling apply to certified tournaments.
COVID-FREEZE period
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Special COVID : EMA sets up a COVID-FREEZE period on the ranking Until a date yet to be defined.
COVID-FREEZE period begun on April 1st 2020. So, tournaments from April 1st 2018 contribute to the MERS.
Update on August 6th 2021 : Certification and ranking freeze is so maintained. We so will not grant any certification to any tournament. Countries who can organize tournaments are free to do so but will not receive any certification. Those tournaments will not earn any contribution to EMA ranking.
General assembly 2019
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GA 2019 in Villefranche sur Saône (France) on November 13, 2019
In this report you can read about some of the major developments over the past two years, since the GA of 2019.
WRC 2020 - Austria - postponed
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Dear Board, It is with great regret that I am writing to inform you that the World Riichi Championship 2020 has had to be postponed. This has not been an easy decision to come to and we are well aware that some players will have made arrangements, including travel and holiday time, to attend the event. By the time the pandemic was announced, we were already so close to the event that we did not want to act in haste. However, as the days went by, it became clear that not only would proceeding be difficult but also perhaps impossible.