TLW66 - Nomads Results

The AGM will take place at 8pm In Hugh Stewart Hall, Nottingham University, on Sunday 29"August 1999. Members wishing to submit motions should do so to the Secretary, GarethWilliams, IS Melbourne Road, Uantshen, Cardiff, CF14 5NH, by 17* July 1999. The Committeewill be proffering a motion on the adoption of a new word list, but the exact wording is not yetknown.Members who are unable to attend the meeting may submit proxy votes through the Chairman.Details of that will be given in the August newsletter.MIND SPORTS OLVMPIHD NEWSHot off the press ... latest news on the Mind Sports Olympiad. As TLW was going to press therewere rumours that there would be OSW and SOWPODS divisions this year.We are delighted to announce that the venue for the 3rd Mind Sports Olympiad will be theConference Centre at Olympia, one of London's premier exhibition and conference sites.The dates, as announced at the end of last year's event, are August 21st-29th. By extending theevent to nine days we have made it possible to accommodate more players and toorganise more tournaments.We plan to have events for most games throughout the Olympiad. Typically, for each game,there will be some tournaments on the first weekend, then some 5-day events on the middleMonday-Friday (August 23-27) and finally some more tournaments on the final weekend. Butevery game will have its own requirements and at this stage we are still flexible in ourtournament planning. For example, we are organising a very strong chess tournament with 9rounds, extending throughout the Olympiad, in which players will be able to obtain normstowards international titles. This tournament is in addition to the quickplay and 5-minute chesstournaments which we have held in the past.This year there will be a substantial prize fund. We will be dramatically upgrading our web siteover the next few months. We are also opening a Ml time central London officeon May 14th.Further details will follow during May. In the meantime will all organisers please contact me withsuggestions as to how they would like to see the tournaments for their particulargamefs) to be scheduled.NSC FILLINGUP FRSTAt the time of going to press the available places for this year's National Scrabble Championshipsare beginning to run out (contrary to reports that they have run out already!). If you've thoughtof entering this once-in-a-lifeOme event (okay, once a year event) then please get in touch withPC as soon as possible. Contact details are on the back page.CENTENRRV QUIZBLOWOUTWe were overwhelmed with the response for the teaser on the back page of the last issue.(Okay, so no-one got it!) As every good Scrabbter kno, 23 April 1889 is the 100* anniversary ofthe birth of Alfred Mosher Butts.