Mahjong
- Frequent devotees there believe the game is losing popularity and have taken efforts to revive it
- In addition, Japanese video arcades have introduced Mahjong arcade machines that can be connected to others over the Internet.
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In 2005 the first Open European Mahjong Championship was held in the Mahjong Netherlands, with 108 players |
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| The engagement was won by Masato Chiba from Japan |
| The second European championship, in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007, with 136 players, was won by Danish player Martin Wedel Jacobsen |
| First Virtual Reality European Mahjong Championship was held on MahjongTime server in 2007 with 64 players and the winner was Juliani Leo from USA and the best European Sportsman was Gerda van Oorschot from Netherlands |
| The consequent European Championship will be held in Austria, 2009. |