Mah Jongg Tournament

After lunch we headed out to a Mah Jongg Tournament to benefit the American Cancer Society, held at Colony Cottage Recreation Center.  Our friend, Joy, had told us about this event and she was there also.  The event was in memory of a gal, Mary Beth, who died from breast cancer and was run by her friends.

In previous years,  Mary Beth used to run a similar event.

Sitting Area at Colony Cottage

Invitation to the Event

Terry's envelope

 

 

 

The instructions were for each person to bring their mah jongg card and, if they had one, to bring a pusher.  The recreation center had mah jongg sets.  There were 21 tables of 4 each.  When we arrived we were each given an envelope with our name.  It told us what position we would play.  Terry's envelope said Seat D (mine said Seat C).  We both started out at table 17.  After 4 games of mah jongg, we each moved to the table designated in round 2.  Terry moved to Table 15, I moved to table 19.  We played another round of 4 games and then moved to the next table for the last round of 4 games.  The person sitting at Seat A was the score keeper.

 

We each also got a raffle ticket (they had a raffle prize for each person).

 

You could also buy 50/50 tickets (the winner was our friend Joy's friend and she won $140).

 

They also had tickets you could buy to try to win special baskets, wine, etc.  You put your tickets into the bucket in front of the basket or item you hoped to win.

 

They had snacks and beverages and asked for a donation to offset the cost of the snacks and beverages.

 

Each round of four games was 55 minutes.  That is playing fairly quickly.  It was for intermediate and better players!

 

The rules were in each person's envelope.  Basically you got the value of the hand if you got mah jongg, 10 bonus points if you picked your own mah jongg.  20 points for a jokeless hand (unless it was a singles or pairs hand).

 

Penalties for player who discarded the winning tile. Minus 10 points if winning player had no or one exposure.  Two exposures was minus 20 points to the person who discarded the mah jongg tile.  Minus 25 points for the player who discarded the mah jongg tile if there were 3 exposures.

 

For a wall game all players got 10 points.  If a player's hand had been declared dead during the game, that person got no points.

 

If the 4th game in the round was not completed when the horn sounded, all players got 0 points.

 

There was a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize - all monetary prizes.  WE DID NOT WIN ANY OF THESE.

 

We came home and had our leftover salad, from yesterday's lunch at Too Jays, and are now reading.

 

Below is a photo of the type of palm tree that Terry likes that she had tried to explain to our friend Fran.  If you notice, it looks like a pineapple.

 



 

 

BTW:  For those of you who know our friend, Janet, who had open heart surgery this week, you'll be happy to know that she is doing very well.  We've talked with her for the past two days and she'll be leaving the hospital for rehab soon!  We told her today that she would not have liked the tournament as they played too fast.