Saturday, November 28, 2009

Ratings Changes from Lexington 11/21 Tourney

NASPA now has the results of our one-day tournament on Saturday, November 21, posted with official ratings changes. Here is a link to that results page.

These are the ratings changes --

(Format: Finish -- Player Name -- Old Rating -- New Rating -- Change)

DIVISION 1

1 -- Marc Broering -- 1739 -- 1763 -- plus 24 -- NEW PEAK
2 -- Kelly McKenzie -- 1694 -- 1704 -- plus 10
3 -- Will Scott -- 1310 -- 1302 -- minus 8
4 -- Robert Kearn -- 1289 -- 1264 -- minus 25

DIVISION 2

1 -- David Meredith -- 949 -- 1016 -- plus 67
2 -- Thomas Webb -- 1004 -- 1018 -- plus 14 -- NEW PEAK
3 -- Lois Greene -- 1154 -- 1141 -- minus 13
4 -- Chris Sitler -- 836 -- 851 -- plus 15 -- NEW PEAK
5 -- Andrew Wade -- 1019 -- 981 -- minus 38
6 -- Brad Wade -- 865 -- 843 -- minus 22

DIVISION 3

1 -- Margaret Pozgay -- 801 -- 856 -- plus 55
2 -- Elizabeth Davis -- 783 -- 850 -- plus 67 -- NEW PEAK
3 -- Susanna Webb -- 500 -- 550 -- plus 50 -- NEW PEAK
4 -- Betty King -- 650 -- 603 -- minus 47
5 -- Janet Scheeline -- unrated -- 500 -- (initial rating)
6 -- Cheryl Coovert -- 503 -- 465 -- minus 38

Although the tourney itself is not yet reported on cross-tables.com, it appears that individual player statistics there have already been adjusted to reflect our tourney results. Players whose lines above are shown in RED have new personal ratings' peaks on cross-tables.com .

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Good luck to Kentuckian Brian Bowman at WSC 2009!

The 2009 World Scrabble Championship is being played at Johor Bahru, Malaysia, from November 26 to 29, and one of the players there is BRIAN BOWMAN from Villa Hills, Kentucky, who has played at our club and in Lexington tournaments. We wish him all the best there!

Unlike club and tournament play here under the rules of the North American Scrabble Players Association, the WSC uses Harper/Collins (SOWPODS) instead of OWL2 + the LL, and the penalty for an unsuccessful challenge is a five-point penalty for each incorrectly challenged word, not loss of a turn.

There are competitors from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, England, France, Ghana, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Oman, Pakistan, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinadad and Tobago, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Wales, and Zambia.

And, one of them is our friend from northern Kentucky. Good luck to Brian!


ADDED COMMENT (11/28/2009):

The 2009 World Scrabble Championship website has live coverage of its games. John Chew, NASPA Co-President and developer of tsh tournament management software, is providing this and doing the commentary.

Brian finished the next-to-the-last day of the tournament at 14-10, +441. He is currently in 23th place out of 108 players. The top ten finishers will receive prizes totalling $30,500.

Here is a link to Brian's tournament results page.

Monday, November 23, 2009

November 21 Tournament Results

We were pleased to have sixteen players with us for our single-day, seven-round tourney on Saturday, November 21. Eight of the players were from our club area; five were Kentuckians from outside our club area; two were from Ohio; and one was from Indiana.

Here are the results:

Data format is Finish -- Seed -- Name, Rating, W/L, Spread (Prize)

DIVISION 1

1 -- 1 -- Marc Broering, 1739, 6-1, +299 ($80)
2 -- 2 -- Kelly McKenzie, 1694, 5-2, +807 ($40)
3 -- 3 -- Will Scott, 1310, 2-5, -231
4 -- 4 -- Robert Kearn, 1289, 1-6, -785

DIVISION 2

1 -- 4 -- David Meredith, 949, 6-1, +534 ($80)
2 -- 3 -- Thomas Webb, 1004, 4-3, +386 ($40)
3 -- 1 -- Lois Greene, 1154, 4-3, -166
4 -- 6 -- Chris Sitler, 836, 3-4, +17
5 -- 2 -- Andrew Wade, 1019, 2-5, -290
6 -- 5 -- Brad Wade, 865, 2-5, -481

DIVISION 3

1 -- 1-- Margaret Pozgay, 801, 6-1, +695 ($80)
2 -- 2 -- Elizabeth Davis, 783, 6-1, +279 ($40)
3 -- 5 -- Susanna Webb, 500, 4-3, -109
4 -- 3 -- Betty King, 650, 2-5, -137
5 -- 6 -- Janet Scheeline, unrated, 2-5, -494
6 -- 4 -- Cheryl Coovert, 503, 1-6, -234

Tourney high play prize of $20 went to Rob Kearn for QUILTER / CENTAL for 108 points.

Congratulations to our club member Janny on successfully completing her first tournament.

Thanks to all who participated for making the day go so smoothly and without any glitches. There were very few and only minor questions for the directors, and result slips were submitted promptly and with a minimal number of points to be resolved.

Joetta Wilkinson and John Spangler
Club No. 637 Directors

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Darn right, John, since you are the busiest tournament player in the bunch!

I had a blog on Live Journal briefly, hopefully I will get some time to look over how to run this thing. I was going to put up an UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT post but you already took care of that, thanks!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

New blog team leader takes over this club blog.

I want to thank Cheryl Coovert, our club webmaster, for kindly volunteering to take over this club blog and wish her well in her new role here.

Just now I have reactivated the blog (I had closed it down temporarily), granted her full administrator rights, and revoked my own ... so this blog is now hers to do with as she likes.

My personal blog is also shut down and will stay that way and be wiped out as soon as I store whatever entries there that I may want to save.

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. :-)

You can still find me on Facebook, and I will post from time to time here (as I will soon do about the Asheville tournment this past weekend)

John Spangler

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Intarwebz stuph

I just renewed the club domain and webhosting for 2 years. They made it WAY too difficult, I was *very* tempted to move the domain to another host!