Shirayuki Reid’s Mahjong Soul Stream Ends After a Third Straight Finish Outside the Top Two

NEO-PORTE — Shirayuki Reid of Neo-Porte (0th Generation) ended a Friday-night Mahjong Soul (雀魂) stream after failing to place first or second in the final game. The stream’s title set the condition: a third straight finish outside the top two would force it to end. Before the last game began, she said that missing again would finish the broadcast, and she lost it.

She played at the game’s Throne Room (王座の間) tables and opened by saying she had managed only about four rounds the night before because she was so sleepy, so this session was an extension. About half an hour in, a hand came together for her and chat answered with “Nice top!” and “A brilliant comeback win.”

“The only time to quit is when your discards start to waver. When they haven’t, all you can do is keep playing.” — Shirayuki Reid, on playing through a run of bad finishes

The middle of the stream was a long fight with her luck. She said her winning hands kept going unfinished while opponents took big pots, and she explained her own rule for tilt: bad finishes and anger are fine, but she stops playing only when her discards start to waver. Later, a riichi that picked up three ura-dora brought up the game’s cut-in animation, which she had said she wanted to see and chat had called for. Chat wrote “A riichi-only hand with three ura-dora is wild.”

Around the two-and-a-half-hour mark, one opponent’s run of wins left her puzzled. She wondered aloud whether it was collusion or simply weak play, concluded she could not tell, and said all she could do was move on. Chat joked that the player might have been drunk, and she said she would assume anyone odd she met from now on was drunk, which she called easier on the mind. After a stretch of venting she said she felt better and switched back to the game.

In the last game she said the third straight miss was in front of her and that she needed a top-two finish to keep going. She lost, and the stream closed there. Chat sent off the stream with the Reid emotes and the line “Three straight slow losses.”