The Crossword Game Players (CGP) group on Yahoo has a post from the tournament directors of this past weekend's Myrtle Beach tournament, reporting that our own Will Scott, won Division 2 there in the main event tourney, with 11 wins and 3 losses, and a spread of +526, for a prize of $400! Great going, Will. We look forward to hearing the details of your win.
NSA's tournament results for Myrtle Beach show Will's new rating as 1300, up from 1227 pre-tourney, a new peak for him and breaking 1300 for the first time!
[April 1, 2009 addition:] And here is the Cross-Tables.com page for the results of Will's division at Myrtle Beach.
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Congratulations Will! I was just about to post this this morning after I Checked CGP but John it seems beat me too it. The Lexington Club is moving up!
That's great news Will. Congratulations!
Thanks for all the good wishes. I had a blast! I'll post a tourney log late this week. The high point - besides winning the division - was playing the top seed, Marcia Wade, twice. I beat her by three the first time, and in the King of the Hill final game, I bagged her and won by 64. Marcia was extremely gracious and is one of my new favorite opponents.
My low point was throwing away a win with a boneheaded move in Game 10 against the No. 2 seed, Matt Hopkins. It was a mistake that John Spangler, Mr. Latin, would never have made. Late in the game, holding both remaining esses and enough of a lead to win, knowing that Matt's final rack wasn't going to help him, I stuck an ES onto VOX for 24 points. Matt nearly jumped out of his chair: "Challenge!" Realizing my mistake immediatelty, I simply picked up my tiles and gave him the extra turn he needed to pull out a win. Note to self: The plural of VOX is VOCES. Darn Latin words!
Based on the NSA ratings calculator, the difference between going 12-2 against that field as opposed to 11-3 was 40 (!) rating points. Ouch. Still, my new rating is 1300, just enough to qualify for Division 3 at Nationals. Woohoo!
Wow! Thats' awesome will. So many wins....
Well, knowing a little Latin never hurts -- over half of English vocabulary is derived from it. But you can't always rely on Latin plurals in Scrabble. A Latinist would assume that LEXES and REXES wouldn't work since the Latin plurals for LEX and REX are LEGES and REGES, but LEXES and REXES work, too, for Scrabble -- LEXES is the plural of LEXIS (the vocabulary of a language, a group, or a subject field) and REXES is the plural of an alternative definition for REX (an animal with a single wavy layer of hair). Too bad VOXES hasn't yet managed to find a place in English, too. Given time, no doubt it will.
Will - You ROCK!!
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