World Mahjong Championship 2007. Emeishan, 5 November 2007. WMC Award Dinner

Lining up the team winners on the fourth and fifth best teams. I believe the young gentlemen are from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Stéphane giving Sugako Suzuki her fourth team prize.

Handshakes and congratulations between players from the third and second best teams.

The third best team: Iwasawa, Oda, Kugimiya, Idota.

The second best team was from Peking University: Li Wenlong, Zhang Bo, Gao Jun, Zhang Zhangfei.

Mr Jiang of the sponsor Triathlon Sports co and Mr. Hideo Okuma from the Mahjong Museum.

The winning team. From left Huang Shufu, Zhang Bingcheng, Jiao Linghua, Okuma-san from Mahjong Museum, Gao Quanze.

Dees was best European at 10th position. Congratulations!

Players ranking 4 to 16 lining up to receive their prizes.

Back row from left: Zhang Bingcheng (5), Mr. Jiang Xuanqi, president of WMO, Huang Shufu (9), Martin Rep, vice president of EMA, Désirée Heemskerk (10), Wang Tinghuang (11), Yoshinori Kato (13), Masato Chiba (15). Front row from left: Jiao Linghua (6), Kazutoshi Iwasawa (7), Gao Jun (8), Ni Haiting (4), Song Panjing (12), Yuri Tezuka (14), Zhang Bo (16).

Runner-up: Zhang Zhangfei and third place Minoru Imaeda.

The winner of the World Mahjong Championship: Li Li.

Gao Jun got the prize for highest round score. I forgot what the score was, but over 500 I believe.

I got the honour of presenting the prize to Gao Jun.

Laurent Mahé made Thirteen Orphans on selfdraw and made 303 points in one hand. This is the prize for highest score in one hand.

Laurent Mahé with the nice trophy. His rank was 17, just after the finalists. Well done!

Three players were awarded for 88 point hands. Laurent Mahé made Thirteen Orphans. Alexander Doppelhofer made Big Three Dragons, and so did Masakazu Yamazaki.

This team award was a fair play prize. It was given to the best European team: Team Rotterdam.

Tina and Henrik presenting Mr. Hideo Okuma from the Mahjong Museum with the OEMC 2007 dvd. Kind translation assistance from Mr. Yukio Mori.

Referee certificates to the Japanese delegation.

Referee cerificates to the European delegation.

Winner Li Li gets an extra prize: travel and participation in OEMC 2009 in Austria.

Referees and arbitrators.

The Chinese teams were busy doing ganbei rounds at the other tables. The award collection is impressive. No time to eat the delicacies.

Sune bought a bottle of the rice liquor and invited Li Li for a toast.

And good friend Emmanuel Tai Leung from Réunion.

Team Holy Alliance: Benjamin Boas, Juho Pakarinen, John O'Connor and Ryan Morris. Benjamin was third in the OEMC 2007 and John was second in the first world-class mahjong competion in Tokyo in 2002.

Andy Boda said some nice words of thanks on behalf of Europe.