TLW 111 - Nomads Results

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highly rated up to 2002 since when his ill health has prevented him from competing much. He is well known for his huge vocabulary. Christian is a newcomer to the Scrabble scene. He has only been playing tournaments for a couple of years but his recent performance in the British Matchplay Scrabble Championship and his above exploits confirm his promise. He is 32 from Nottingham and works as a Civil Servant in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Final will be held at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London W1 on Sunday November 5. It will be the best of 5 games, starting at around 10.00 a.m. and finishing around 5.00 p.m. if it goes the distance. The games will also be broadcast live on the Internet at www.poslfit.com. We expect to have several stalls at the event including a simultaneous game where a highly rated player will take on members of the public and displays of licensed Scrabble merchandise as well as a close circuit broadcast of the Final with expert commentary from top player Allan Simmons. Morecambe HB Sept 15th - 18th 14 rounds : each division was a double round-robin. 4 extra rated games were played - Joyce Watson beat Carol Mouncey ; Anne Atherton beat Grace Peel Norma Howarth beat Helen Nelson ; Kath Williams beat Nora Bown. These games are not included in the wins column. Morecambe 1 Alison Sadler 11 1031 Peter Thomas 8 57 Frank Forster 7.5 198 Morecambe 2 Peter Ashurst 10 652 Nola Marrow 10 290 Rose Spencer 9 129 Durham ‘Grand’ 16th - 17th September Report from Mike Willis Morecambe 3 Kathy Suddick 10 455 Barbara Lukey 10 -9 Peter Lindeck 9 600 Morecambe 4 Jean Stevens 10 345 Paula Docherty 10 329 Ruby Flood 8 160 4 Jake Jacobs and Christian Brown Jake Jacobs and Christian Brown Morecambe 5 Hazel Parsons 11 440 Hazel Brannan 10 580 Edna Lindeck 8 41 Morecambe 6 Anne Atherton 12 1159 Kath Williams 11 689 Joyce Watson 9 729 At about 1130 on the Saturday I got a worrying series of calls about stationary traffic on the M1 Northbound as a result of a serious accident blocking all carriageways. Since several Scrabblers were coming from the London direction I hoped it would not turn into an epic (I had to endure a four hour wait on the A12 last year, not a whole lot of fun with fed-up children on board!). As it turned out, all the callers managed to arrive on time - there were only two latecomers whose clocks had to be started . As it happened both players recorded wins. It was a very easy event to TD, what problems there were were minor and resolved with good humour. There were some latecomers at the start of some rounds, again this did not cause any hold-up as their clocks were started in accordance with the rules and without disrupting the players around. Pamela Brown recorded a 212 spread win in the lowest division (G) against the then leader, Margaret Emmott. Margaret then went on to record the biggest spread of the tournament of 294 against her next opponent including the word TOADISH.Most imaginative non-word: SNOGGLED* (whatever it means it sounds rather interesting) Longest word challenged: NOVERINTS Word best describing Mr Holden: STEWIEST Highest word score in A: 194 for UnHOOKED (Stewart H) Highest word score in G: 149 for BANDINGS (Ann Partridge) Most words challenged at once: 4 FOPS/BADE/POH/SHEITAN Most played non-word: UGLI* Most surprising non-word: UNTIMED* Best faux-ami: FREMD (Scots for ‘enemy’) Most amusing incident: The younger brother of the Computer Operator missed out his player reference on the scoresheet. Thanks due to all the runners (Jenny and Kate Edwards, Damola Awowade and Mike Smith), Graeme for his unsung behind-the-scenes efforts, Pete Edwards and Shin for adjudicating and controlling the three outlying Round-Robin rooms and to the ABSP for advertising and supporting the event. We had a good number of sponsors this year, the main one being the Holiday Inn who generously provided vouchers for the following year’s event. Durham Open Division A Mikki Nicholson 10 469 Stewart Holden 9 418 Fidelis Olotu 9 412 Ratings prizes: (B) Paul Richards 8.5 +159 (C) Kate Surtees 7 -65 Norwich Durham Round Robin B Iain Harley 10 462 Stewart Houten 10 263 Margaret Pritchett 9.5 690 Durham Round Robin C Sylvia Swaney 10.5 786 Lorna Rapley 9 285 Margaret Burdon 8.5 375 5 Durham Round Robin D Helga Farrow 10.5 Sue Thompson 10 Christine Tudge 8.5 17th September Report from Carol Smith The third Norwich tournament took place on Sunday 17th September and being the third you would think I would have everything just right. Well I didn’t, I forgot to take one of the most important lists – telephone numbers of players. Everyone had arrived in good time except for one local player from Norwich. We were ready to start playing and I was unable to contact her because I didn’t have her number with me and she’s ex-directory. (When I got home after the tournament I telephoned June and she was in bed recovering from flu.) After this slight hiccup we started play ten minutes late and I’m pleased to say the rest of the day went well under the very capable directorship of Dave French.
Thanks again to Dave French for all his help and for being such an excellent TD, members of Norwich Scrabble Club for providing the lovely cakes for afternoon tea, Sheila for making the teas and James (aged 9) for being such an excellent runner. Special thanks to my husband, Mike, I don’t think I could do it without his help. NSCT Final 23rd September18 games NSCT Team Results 1 Edinburgh 13.5 504 2 Nomads 12 1330 3 Cleveland 11 85 4 Cambridge 9.5 98 5 Ashton 7 9 6 Trav Hillbillies 7 -615 7 Newport (IOW) 3 -1411 NSCT Individual Results Edinburgh S Gillham 5 A Byrne 5 W Warwick 3.5 Nomads R Byers 4 A Phillpots 4 J Robinson 4 Cleveland C Beevers 5 P Johnson 4 Cambridge P Bassett 4 Ashton P Robertshaw 3 Trav Hillbillies J Phillips 3 Newport (IOW) H Parker 2 Congratulations to Edinburgh who become the first Scottish team to win the NSCT Championship Nottingham Newbies 30th September Norwich A Bob Violett 6 532 Nuala O’Rourke 5 319 John Ashmore 4 399 Ratings prize Gerard Fox 4 351 Norwich B Rosalind Wilson 6 351 Angela Burke 5 97 Paul Cartman 4 272 Ratings prize Dorothy Kemlicz 4 246 The ABSP New Player Event was a venture into the unknown, allowing only unrated or provisionally-rated players to come along for a day and play a five-game event in standard tournament conditions, but with extra help and guidance available from the start. I booked a small, cheap room on the basis that we would only need 12 players or so in order to recoup costs and so any potential losses for the ABSP would be minimal. One week after putting the details out we didn’t have any entries and I started to fear a flop, but then six arrived in three days and they kept coming in steadily after that and at 24 entries I feared the event would be over-subscribed. A straw poll on the day indicated that over 30 of the 46 players had found out the details via the welcome message on ISC placed by Herve Bohbot (admin), for which I am extremely grateful. Two more people told me they had read about it in Allan Simmon’s column in the Telegraph, while Geoff Cooper arranged a large party from Doncaster and other uk-scrabble readers seemed to have helped with word-of- 6 6 mouth informing. By the time we finally closed entries I already knew that barring major disasters on the day we would be thinking about hosting a second event next year. I arrived at the centre on Saturday morning by 8.15am and it wasn’t long before Olakunle Ajayi arrived and graciously helped out by handing out the welcome packs containing one past copy of TLW, one past Onwords, one scorebook, a list of twos and threes and various other useful items. Jared Robinson arrived with two laptops and a printer and did a superb job on the computer all day, managing most of the challenges (with help from Steve Balment and Marlene Skinner adjudicating by OSWI) and printing positions/pairings without any difficulty. 46 players were in place by the designated start time, we didn’t need our reserve player, my introductory speech had gone well, many questions about prodecure had been answered to everyone’s satisfaction, the mood was convivial and by 10.15am we were ready for the off. During the first game there were the expected number of queries on aspects of the clock or how exactly to handle exchanging tiles, etc. At the end everyone handed in their scoresheets with player numbers and spreads all perfectly correct. The challenges ranged from the expect plethora of two-letter words (mostly invalid) up to impressive offerings such as CAUTERY, TOUZLES and DEXTEROUS (a wonderful nine-letter play from Eddie Frelford scoring 104). Having lectured the players fairly strictly over the importance of checking every unknown word played against them there were mercifully few phonies left on the board during the first game; only one of the teachers from a nearby school let the side down by refusing to challenge her opponent’s moves and thus letting him get away with at least two phonies. Lunch was ably provided by the Centre’s catering team. The rest of the games played out well with the number of questions decreasing each round. Olakunle Ajayi and Paul Walford had a great battle to decide the winner, the final spread +40 after two bonuses from each player and a tight endgame. We gave spot prizes of Scrabylon DVD to Ronan Webb, who had travelled over from near Dublin, for the highest-scoring word on the day (BURGEONS for 158 the only nine-timer) and to Felicity Rees for final spread closest to zero (-1 to be precise). I grilled people on the way out, asking whether we’d be likely to see them again at another event; the majority gave a genuine “Yes!” and I’ve spoken to several people on ISC since who are already talking about which event they will be playing next. I’m delighted to be able to describe the event as a huge success; of course the real proof of the pudding will be to check the player list in six months time and see how many people have become regular players. I have no doubt that as they venture into their first ‘open’ tournament, the Scrabble community will make them very welcome. If anyone is reading this and thinking they would like to host a New Player Event in their own part of the country, I will readily assist in providing playing equipment and suchlike. It would be good if not all of these events happened in Nottingham! Nottingham Newbies Olakunle Ajayi 5 397 (hand-painted ABSP board) Gillian Simpson 5 214 (round board) Dave Dunford 4 628 (Pocket SamTimer clock) Paul Walford 4 435 (Protiles & silk tile bag) 7
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