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MACK MELLER REACHES 2000 AT BATB A T 2 0 1 3First appearing on the tournament scene in November, 2010, when he wonDivision 3 at Ardsley at the age of 10, Mack Meller has been on an unprecedentedupward trajectory in the world of SCRABBLE. He won his division at the 2011Albany--his first multi-day tournament--at 10. He reached “expert” status of 1600+that June--at 11--then finished the year with his first Division 1 win at the Stamfordmulti-day in December, crossing into the 1800s. At 12 he had three Division 1wins, finishing the year as the Gibsonized Division 1 winner at the Albany NewYear’s Tournament--and bringing his rating to 1997.Seeded eighth in the prestigious 16-player Premier division at this year’s BAT, 13-year-old Mack finishedthird to end the tournament with a 2014 rating. Currently ranked eighth in the United States, Mack islooking forward to competing in his first Nationals this summer--and hopefully to playing Nigel Richards!The Saturday Newcomers Tournament attracted 12 players,including 4 first-time players. The winner was Ken Weiner,who beat the leader, Youth Player Aron Klopper, in the finalgame to finish 5-1 +451. Aron, who had beaten Ken in thefourth game, was second with a 5-1 +186 record. MarlaChoslovsky was third, 4-2 +239.Jason Keller ran this year’s BAT Roto, where players can beton “teams” of players to see whose team finishes with themost wins. The winner was Steve Pellinen, whose teamincluded himself and Stefan Rau, Will Anderson, Joe Edley,Daniel Blake, and Puneet Sharma, for a total of 71 out of 83possible wins.Stefan Rau, BAT Premier winner for thesecond straight year, with his wife, TerryKang Rau.Thanks to Sherrie, Judy, and Jason for a great 2013 BAT!Youth Players at BAT L-R): Evan McCarthy,Mack Meller, Nathaniel Sandalow-Ash, SamHeinrich, and Brad Robbins.Division winners!Robert Felt Award winner Mack Meller18
N . E . S C H O O L S C R A B B L E C H A M P I O N S H I P2013 New England School SCRABBLE® ChampionshipBy Cornelia Guest, Director; photographs by Tom DraperTwenty-six 3rd-8th graders from seven SCRABBLE programs in four different states came to theYerwood Center in Stamford, CT, on Saturday, April 20, to play in the 2013 New England SchoolSCRABBLE Championship. Players were allowed to select which division they wanted to enter:Championship, Intermediate, or Novice.Because there was an odd number of teams in the Novice Division, in each of the five games oneteam played one-on-one. That game counted as a bye win for the team competition, with individualresults tallied toward a "solo division" prize.Sheng Guo (NY) and Thomas Draper(NJ) were the 2013 New EnglandSchool SCRABBLE® Champions.Intermediate Division winners JordanDowd and Santi Alvarez from the SageSchool (MA).Novice Division winners Fiona FisherSleigh and Maura Murphy from theRidgefield (CT) Library.The Championship Division attracted four teams, with all but oneof the players heading to the National School SCRABBLEChampionship in Washington, D.C. May 3-4. Going into the finalgame, 8th grader DeeAnn Guo (Bedford Library, NY) & 6th graderEmma Baughman (Ridgefield Library, CT) were just a gamebehind the leaders, 7th grader Thomas Draper (MontgomeryMiddle School, NJ) & 6th grader Sheng Guo (Bedford NY Library),having lost to them by 2 points in Game 3. But Thomas andSheng had a huge spread. DeeAnn and Emma won the finalgame; however, their 11-point spread in the game wasn't enoughto pass Thomas and Sheng--this year's New England SchoolSCRABBLE Champions! Interestingly, Thomas and Sheng havedifferent teammates for Nationals; however, those partners weren'table to make it to the NESSC.The Intermediate Division, for players with NASPA ratings under700 or in 7th-12th grade, had an exciting finish as well, featuringtwo teams from Massachusetts. The Woburn Library team ofMichael Cerullo (8th) & Max Marshall (7th) headed into the finalwith a 1/2-point game lead over the Sage School team of SantiAlvarez (7th) & Jordan Dowd (8th). With just two tiles left in thebag, the teams called the director over: They had not realizedthere were any tiles in the bag, and they'd played several turns, sothey did not know which team should have drawn the tiles. Theyalso hadn't written down any of the words, so the director ruledthat each team would get one tile. Santi and Jordan were thenable to eke out a 7-point win to take the division.The Novice Division, for unrated players or players in 3rd-6thgrade, was dominated by 6th graders Fiona Fisher Sleigh & MauraMurphy from the Ridgefield (CT) Library. The girls won all five oftheir games, ending as the only undefeated team in thetournament. Second were two boys who had never playedtogether before: 6th grader Matthew Cerullo from the WoburnLibrary and 3rd grader Conor Fisher Sleigh from the RidgefieldLibrary, the youngest player at the event. 19
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