International Mahjong [Play Session]

Join us for an exciting and challenging game of International Mahjong Competition Rules (MCR)! MCR is a beautiful, cerebral, and deeply strategic game. It is the most difficult game in the club's lineup and is not beginner-friendly. However, everyone is welcome, and ambitious new players may appreciate the challenge! If you’d prefer a more beginner-friendly introduction to Mahjong, check out our Mahjong Night event! Experienced Mahjong players who would like to learn this style are encouraged to sign up for the class an hour before the play session!

This event is for MCR only. Other mahjong styles are not permitted at this event.

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Check out our website to learn the basics of playing Mahjong! We also have helpful cheat sheets you can use as quick table references, available here! The full documentation for MCR's rules is available on our website.

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## San Diego Mahjong Club Attendance Policy

### Purpose

This Attendance Policy establishes the rules and expectations for attendance and adjudicates who will be seated at tables when demand exceeds capacity.

### Policy

San Diego Mahjong Club is a fast growing club with a high number of members. In order to maintain good relations with the businesses and organizations that provide a space for the club to play Mahjong, and in recognition of the fact that tables are not an infinite resource, San Diego Mahjong Club adops this hierarchy to determine who will be seated at tables to play games:

1. RSVPs to the event
2. Waitlisted people for the event
3. Walk-ins to the event

RSVPing for an event guarantees the attendee a seat at a table. It is acceptable for people waitlisted for the event to show up, and walk-ins are also acceptable. However, waitlisters and walk-ins are not guaranteed a seat at any table at the event and may only be seated if a seat becomes available. In the event that a player is seated at a table and another player higher up in the attendance hierarchy shows up to the event while the lower player is at the table, the lower player will be allowed to finish their round and will be removed from the table and the conclusion of that round to make room for the higher player.

Tables at San Diego Mahjong Club events are scarce; there are often not enough tables to seat everybody who would like to play. For this reason, if a member RSVPs to an event it is important that they update their RSVP as soon as they become aware of changes to their schedule. People from the waitlist are automatically moved into an RSVP position when someone un-RSVPs from an event. Therefore, when someone RSVPs and no-shows, it takes a seat from someone else. For that reason, if someone habitually RSVPs to an event and no-shows, they will be penalized for the behavior. Habitual no-showers will automatically be moved to the bottom of the waitlist and walk-ins will take priority over them in table seating.

This Attendance Policy is in place to ensure a fair and predictable mechanism to determine who gets to play at San Diego Mahjong Club events when demand exceed capacity.