Shirayuki Reid Signs Off Mahjong Soul Session After Three Straight Top-Two Finishes
Twice during the night he declared riichi and left for the bathroom, and both times the hand had won by the time he got back.
NEO-PORTE — Shirayuki Reid ended a stream of more than six and a half hours on Wednesday the way he had said he would, by reaching his goal of three straight top-two finishes in ranked Mahjong Soul.
He played the game’s Throne Room ranked tables, and the stream’s title set the stakes: a run of three straight finishes outside the top two would bring the night to an end. Partway through, after a stretch of poor results, he told viewers that the next miss would finish it. Earlier, he had said that three top-two finishes in a row would also be a fine place to stop.
“I’ve reached my goal of three straight top-two finishes, so I’ll be saying good night.” — Shirayuki Reid, closing the stream
About an hour in, a dealer’s baiman, one of the game’s largest hands, went against him and put a bad finish in reach. He said afterward that he had narrowly escaped last place, and chat marveled at how he steadied himself. Later he twice declared riichi, the call for a ready hand, and then left the table for the bathroom. The first time he handed the rest over to his in-game character, joking that he would supply mana from the bathroom, and came back to find the hand had won. The second time, as dealer, he was away when his hand was won by tsumo, a self-draw, on the first draw after the call. Chat cheered both hands as “toilet riichi.”
The late stretch brought a win at a table of top-ranked players that he called a summit match, which chat greeted as more than enough to wipe out his earlier losses. In one hand he reached about 63,000 points on a riichi-tsumo and, counting the riichi sticks on the table, called it “practically a triple baiman.” While he played, viewers urged him to be careful during an earthquake; he told them he was safe and thanked them.
By the end he said he had drawn last place four times yet was still ahead by roughly three and a half first-place finishes’ worth of points. He closed by telling viewers not to trust Maka, the AI he consults and had criticized through the night.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.