After reviewing the volunteer applications submitted to us, we're pleased to announce some additions.

We are very happy to announce that we have accepted three new members onto the ARA board:

Steve Augustin
Claire Pozniak
Max Suddendorf

All are very qualified members of the community, and I believe I can speak for both myself and all the existing board members when I say that we are looking forward to working with them and continuing to help grow Riichi mahjong in the US.

We'll also be establishing two working groups for specific projects over the coming year:

A technical working group based around player registration and tracking of WRC Qualification Points
An outreach working group for work on communications, public awareness and general Riichi promotion

If you're interested in contributing to either of these groups, please reach out to the ARA board and we can put you in contact.

It's been great to see so much support from the community and we're excited to have new members on the board and a set of projects to move forward with. The full list of applications will be released to the public shortly.