Tournament Wordlist Update

Just a heads-up that the official tournament word list transition to TWL2014 is coming soon.  There will be a NASPA Advisory Board conference call later this week, where the official date is likely to be decided on.  Barring any last-minute surprises from Hasbro or Merriam-Webster (which I think is unlikely, but, given their recent history, I would not completely rule out) regarding their acceptance of Zyzzyva's implementation of the electronic version of the new list, I would expect the official rollout date to fall sometime in April.  This means that tournaments after that date will use TWL2014 as the official lexicon, and words like PO, TE, and BACKWOODSIEST will suddenly become acceptable for the first time.

What does this mean for our club?  Well, I'll wait for the official NASPA announcement before throwing out a date for our club to change over to the new list, but practically speaking, I'd like folks to have a week or two to begin familiarizing themselves with the new words (if you haven't started already) before we start using it at club.

Where do you go to get the new words?  There are two good resources currently available.  The first is the official hard-copy TWL2014 word list available at the NASPA online store, here:  http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/shop.pl

The second resource is the Seattle Scrabble Club's website, which has a very nice list of the new 2-4 letter words, plus an ever-growing (updated) list of the longer words: http://www.seattlescrabble.org/owl3.php

Thirdly, an electronic list will be available to NASPA members via a licensed copy of Zyzzyva, pending the Hasbro/M-W approval mentioned above.  The expectation is that an announcement of Zyzzyva availability with the new word list is coming soon.   I'll pass along more details on this as soon as they're available.

updated stats, 1/26

					old	new		avg	avg.		first
	W	L	Win %		rating	rating		score	bingos		club rating
Marc	7	6	53 %		1736			424	2		1795
Steve	36	8	81 %		1733	1734		435	1.8		1680
Will	50	15	76 %		1624	1610		415	1.7		1503
Matthew	74	32	69 %		1552	1560		409	1.9		1724
Ken	3	2	60 %		1404			388	1		1406
Jim	30	34	46 %		1283			341	1		nr
Joe	8	7	53 %		1150			370	1.2		1169
Betty	65	47	58 %		1134	1134		373	1		947
Eric	5	2	71 %		1105			365	1.1		1086
Martha	5	8	38 %		1102			329	0.3		nr
Margaret	13	13	50 %		1041			370	1		968
Victoria	54	46	54 %		1016	1016		361	1.3		863
Wendy	4	3	57 %		949			368	1.3		931
Lisa	6	8	42 %		923			347	0.7		nr
Brandon	2	3	40 %		899			367	1.2		888
Kelly	2	7	22 %		879			325	0.6		894
Jan	35	63	35 %		691	709		327	0.3		652
Marsha	0	3	0 %		500*			190	0		500
Janney	19	73	20 %		400	392		311	0.1		312
Cheryl	10	47	17 %		314			292	0.2		311

Results, 1/25

Steve          3-1      +692
Jan              2-1       +96
Matthew     2-1       +25
Will            2-2        +11
Betty          2-2       (119)
Victoria      1-2       (376)
Janney        0-3       (296)
   (I'm off 33 somewhere, but the hour is too late for 100%v preciseness haha)

Victoria  385        Jan  370                      Steve  544          Will  281                     Matthew  438          Victoria  370
KIESTER            BOUNCER                 CURATIVE                                           PADRONE             UNHEATED
TENDRIL                                                SECONALS                                          TURFIEST
                                                                 RONNELS                                             VIDEOTEX
                                                                 FEIGNER

Betty  341          Janney  314                   Steve  435          Betty  302                   Matthew  425           Steve  375
                          GUESSER                     SOLANIN         STAMPERS                LINEAGES             ENSURER
                                                                 GNATHITE                                           WAVELET
                                                                                                                                MENSING

Will  506            Janney  272                   Jan  346             Janney  311                  Will  407                 Matthew  314
DIRENESS                                                                                                              SLEAVES              SHUTTED*
ERMINED
CONTRIVE
LOGANIAS*

Betty  422            Will  359                      Jan 358               Betty  282                   Steve  519               Victoria  196
WHELMING       TEENAGE                                                                                  NEGRONIS
                                                                                                                                  DAUBING
                                                                                                                                  TUFTIEST

Club tomorrow (1/25)

I'm planning to be there tomorrow.  Who else?

Updated stats, 1/19

					old	new		avg	avg.		first
	W	L	Win %		rating	rating		score	bingos		club rating
Marc	7	6	53 %		1736			424	2		1795
Steve	33	7	82 %		1716	1733		432	1.7		1680
Will	48	13	78 %		1624			417	1.7		1503
Matthew	72	31	69 %		1565	1552		410	1.8		1724
Ken	3	2	60 %		1404			388	1		1406
Jim	30	34	46 %		1283			341	1		nr
Joe	8	7	53 %		1150			370	1.2		1169
Betty	63	45	58 %		1134			374	1		947
Eric	5	2	71 %		1105			365	1.1		1086
Martha	5	8	38 %		1102			329	0.3		nr
Margaret	13	13	50 %		1041			370	1		968
Victoria	53	44	54 %		1016			362	1.3		863
Wendy	4	3	57 %		949			368	1.3		931
Lisa	6	8	42 %		923			347	0.7		nr
Brandon	2	3	40 %		899			367	1.2		888
Kelly	2	7	22 %		879			325	0.6		894
Jan	33	62	34 %		695	691		326	0.4		652
Marsha	0	3	0 %		500*			190	0		500
Janney	19	70	21 %		403	400		312	0.1		312
Cheryl	10	47	17 %		307	314		292	0.2		311