Finally, here are the June 13 club results. I forgot to record everyone's results at club, so I had to reconstruct them, and not everyone kept their sheets. I got most of the important data, though.

Five people attended. We played in the main dining room at Perkins, because the A/C wasn't working there, so the paying customers were in the auxiliary dining room. Also, they couldn't lower the volume of the music in the main dining room. Not ideal conditions, but hey, they let us play there without a fee.

Results:

Victoria: 3-0, +140
Andy: 2-1, +???
Will: 2-1, +60
Betty: 1-2, -44
Andrea: 0-4, -??? (she had a two-point loss to Betty)

The play of the day was in game one against me (Will). On my third turn, I played PHOTO at J5 (5J? horizontally) for 41 points, leaving the obvious S-hook in the triple lane, but hey, it was 41 points. Victoria then made a more difficult, less obvious play: LARYNX, down from the triple, hooking the N to PHOTO and with the Y on the double-letter score. 71 points. Her next three plays were for 36, 44 and 41, and she controlled the game. Well done!

Will

Responses about Attending Club on Sunday, June 13

Last updated June 12, 2010, at 10:52 p.m.

Club members are asked to indicate whether or not they plan on being at our club session on Sunday, June 13, by either e-mailing John at JMSinKY@aol.com or by leaving a response as a comment to this blog entry.

Here are the responses so far:

2 will be able to attend: Betty, Victoria

5 will not be able to attend: Cheryl, Eric, John, Margaret, Steve

1 is unsure about attending: Andrea (50-50 chance)

Last Sunday (June 6) six members played at the club session -- Betty, Jan H., Janny S., Madeline, Steve, and Victoria.

Also, if you have not yet indicated your likely attendance or nonattendance at our local club tournament on Sunday, June 27, please include a response about that, too, in your e-mail, or go to the blog entry about that event and leave a comment there. Eight people so far are planning on being there for that LCT -- that would mean two divisions and more prizewinners! :-)

Thanks!

John

Responses about Attending Club on Sunday, June 6

Last Updated June 6, 2010, at 9:08 a.m.

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Club members are asked to indicate whether or not they plan on being at our club session on Sunday, June 6 by either e-mailing John at JMSinKY@aol.com or by leaving a response as a comment to this blog entry.

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4 will be able to attend: Betty, Jan H., Steve, Victoria

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5 will not be able to attend: Andrea, Cheryl, Eric, John, Margaret

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Also, if you have not yet indicated your likely attendance or nonattendance at our local club tournament on Sunday, June 27, please include a response about that, too, in your e-mail, or go to the blog entry about that event and leave a comment there. Eight people so far are planning on being there for that LCT -- that would mean two divisions and more prizewinners! :-)

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Thanks!

WGPO Ratings for LSC LCT on May 23

Brian Galebach, the Ratings Committee chair of the Word Game Players' Organization has posted on that organization's listserv the WGPO's ratings for our local club tournament held on May 23, 2010. Here are those ratings --

(Format: Finish -- Seed -- Name -- OldR -- Wins, Spread -- PerfR -- NewR)

1 -- 1 -- Bush, Steve -- 1461 -- 4.0, +496 -- 1134 -- 1450
2 -- 2 -- Wade, Andrew -- 1019 -- 4.0, +408 -- 1298 -- 1031
3 -- 3 -- King, Betty -- 666 -- 3.0, +71 -- 968 -- 695
4 -- 6 -- Bledsoe, Victoria -- 000 -- 2.0, -215 -- 642 -- 642
5 -- 5 -- Carman, Andrea -- 000 -- 1.0, -270 -- 500 -- 500
6 -- 4 -- Hatton, Janice -- 503 -- 1.0, -490 -- 322 -- 489

Unlike NASPA, the results for WGPO-approved local club tournaments are rated for that organization at full value, not at one-third value.

Cross-Tables.com now has new player pages up for Victoria Bledsoe and Andrea Carman. That site has elected only to carry tournament information and to show results and ratings data for NASPA-sanctioned tournaments. WGPO will be posting its tournament calendar and the results and ratings for its approved tournament on the WGPO website.

There were seven of us at club yesterday, Sunday, May 30, and three rounds were played. Here are the results --

Steve, 2-0, +250
Andy, 2-0, +64
Eric, 2-1, -131
Margaret, 1-1, +139
Will, 1-2, -20
Jan H., 1-2, -97
Janny S., 0-3, -205

Our next club session will be Sunday, June 6. Hope to see you then.

Results from May 23 Local Club Tournament

Our first local club tournament in 2010 went really well. Six members played, and the writer of this post directed. He compliments all participants on their adherence to the rules; it was a real pleasure to direct the tourney.

Here are the results and the prize winners:

Format: Name, Win-Loss, Spread -- Old NASPA rating, New NASPA rating, Prize (if any)

---Steve Bush, 4-1, +496 -- 1461, 1457 (first place, $15)
---Andrew Wade, 4-1, +408 -- 1019, 1023 (second place, $12)
---Betty King, 3-2, +71 -- 666, 675 (third place, $10)
---Victoria Bledsoe, 2-3, -215 -- none, 642
---Andrea Carman, 1-4, -270 -- none, 500
---Janice Hatton, 1-4, -490 -- 503, 498

Jan Hatton won High Play (excluding prize finishers) for $8 for playing WINTERS for 81 points.

This was the first tournament for Victoria Bledsoe and Andrea Carman. Congratulations, ladies!

Our tournament is the first local club tournament to be rated by the Word Game Players' Organization (WGPO), and this is also the first tournament to be dually rated by both the North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) and the WGPO. The NASPA cross-table report for our tourney may be found at http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/2010/lxt/05/030.shtml . Information on the WGPO ratings will be added to this post when that information becomes available.

Director! tournament management software was used at this tournament. This was the first time that I have used this program in running a tourney, and I could not have been more pleased. The program is easily learned and has an excellent tutorial and detailed, readily understandable help material. Director! uses a familiar drop-down menu graphical user interface; there is no extensive list of commands to learn. Hats off to Marc Levesque for authoring this fine software program and making it available to Scrabble tournament directors free of charge!

Special thanks to our club's apprentice director Steve Bush, for helping out at the tourney and for developing the wall chart printout used at the tourney and putting together a pre-tourney help document for first-time tourney players. As the final part of his apprenticeship, Steve will be the primary director for our next local club tournament.

Club members are asked to respond by e-mail to me at JMSinKY@aol.com or by blog entry comment about whether or not they would be interested in having another local club tournament on Sunday, June 27. Here is a link to the blog entry reporting the responses to holding an LCT on that date.

John Spangler, Director
Lexington Scrabble Club