A league for players who love the game.

Sparrow Scramble began the way most good things do: a few friends around a table on a Tuesday night, wishing the next match could be a little easier to schedule. Amy Krumm started the league out of Kalamazoo as a sibling project to Jade Sparrow — her studio practice — to give the local mahjong community a structured way to play, climb, and meet new partners across a season.

The format is a ladder. Nine weeks per season, four seasons a year, NMJL card. Players propose matches when they're free and join others when they're not. Scores submit at the end of each match, and two leaderboards run in parallel — one rewarding consistency, the other rewarding peak weeks.

The Scramble is open to any adult who plays the card. Beginner, intermediate, advanced — the skill level is self-selected, editable mid-season, and visible at the table so players can find matches that fit. There is no qualifying tournament. No invitation. The only prerequisite is showing up.

Why a ladder

Most local mahjong gathers are recurring sets — the same four, same night, same room. That's wonderful, and the Scramble isn't here to replace it. What a ladder adds is movement: new partners every match if you want them, a sense of where you stand across the city, and a reason to play with someone you've only met once.

The Jade Sparrow connection

Jade Sparrow is Amy's design and studio practice. The Scramble shares its visual language — the cream, the espresso, the typographic care — because it shares its sensibility. A boutique sense of welcome. Sophisticated play, without the in-group affect.

The two are formally separate. Sparrow Scramble is independently operated. But if you're here, you can almost certainly follow the link in the footer back to the parent studio.