The registration is open until October 11, 2025. Please fill out the registration form below. Note that registrations will only be considered as "Confirmed" after we receive your payment.

After October 11, 2025, registration is only possible when a four-player table is formed and if there are available seats. Otherwise, the newly-registered players will be put on the waiting list.

Please pay the entry fee by October 11, 2025. Participants who fail to pay the registration fee by this date will be moved to the end of the players' waiting list. 

Complete refunds can still be provided until October 17, 2025. After October 17, 2025, no refunds can be issued and food choices cannot be changed anymore.

70€ (65€ for DMJL members)

Lunch, snacks, water, coffee and tea are included in the registration fee.

We accept payments via IBAN transfer and Paypal. Payment details and other practical information will be included in the registration confirmation email.

This tournament consists of 9 hanchans which will be played according to the EMA competition rules from April 2016. 

In Hanchans 6 and 7, players placed in groups and are seeded according to their current position after the previous hanchan: e. g. 1st, 5th, 9th and 13th play at the table 1. 2nd, 6th, 10th and 14th at table 2. Please note the details will be dependent on the number of total participants. There will be no cutoffs.

For the final two Hanchans, players are seeded according to their position with groups of 4: i. e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th play at table 1 etc.

We will use the Pantheon system to record and track the game results. Instructions to the system can be found here. We thank the Berlin Mahjong Club for the technical support.

Participant limit: 80

Referees: Miłosz Meller, TBD

EMA Observer: TBD

November 7, 2025 (Friday)

19:00 – 22:00  Social play at the tournament venue

November 8, 2025 (Saturday)

08:30 – 09:00  Registration

09:00 – 09:15  Opening and welcome remarks

09:15 – 10:45 1st Hanchan

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30  2nd Hanchan

12:30 – 13:30   Lunch

13:30 – 15:00  3rd Hanchan

15:00 – 15:15    Break

15:15 – 16:45    4th Hanchan

16:45 – 17:00  Break

17:00 – 18:30  5th Hanchan

November 9, 2025 (Sunday)

09:00 – 10:30  6th Hanchan

10:30 – 10:45  Break

10:45 – 12:15  7th Hanchan

12:15 – 13:15  Lunch

13:15 – 14:45  8th  Hanchan

14:45 – 15:00  Break

15:00 – 16:30  9th Hanchan

16:30 – 17:00 Break

17:00 – 17:30  Closing and awarding ceremony

Hamburg can easily be reached with different modes of transportation.

Many airlines fly to the Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt, which is connected via the subway S1 to the Hamburg city centre.

Trains from different countries regularly stop at the Hamburg central station, which is conveniently located at the city centre.

The German highways A1 and A7 both pass through Hamburg, which makes travelling by car very convenient.

Hamburg is also one of the hubs for different bus networks like FlixBus.

Horner Freiheit – Das Stadtteilhaus can be reached via U2, the red metro line, in the direction of Billstedt / Mümmelmannsberg. Alight at the station Horner Rennbahn, take the exit to Bauerberg and you can see the tournament venue as soon as you come out of the metro station.

The nearest hotel to the tournament venue is the NH Hotel Hamburg Horner Rennbahn, which is about 11 minutes away by foot.  The Hamburger Jugendherberge Horner Rennbahn is also nearby, about 15 minutes away by foot. There are also other hotels in different price categories one metro-station before the tournament venue, the station Rauhes Haus. You can find the a&o Hostel Hamburg Hammer Kirche there, the Best Western Hotel Hamburg International, as well as the Hotel Volksschule.

We recommend using the Hamburg public transportation app, the HVV, to buy tickets if you want to use the local transportation like the metro, the underground trains, buses, and some ferries. The ticket prices in the app are 7% cheaper compared to the prices in the ticket shops and ticket machines. Please be aware that you need a valid ticket when you enter the boarding areas for the local public transportation and it is not possible to buy tickets from the ticket-controllers and drivers when you have already boarded the vehicle. Click here for more information regarding the ticket prices and the Hamburg local transportation network.