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| CLUB RATING Session Notes: The November 7 session marked the beginning
of a new season for the club. With this new season, we'll be keeping
a different set of statistics, maintaining the Club Rating system based
on the NSA rating system as well as introducing a percentage of games won.
With this season we will be archiving all club session results on our
Web site (www.TucsonScrabble.com). A coven of players attended last session.
We had a new player join us. Jennifer Buchanan read Word Freak
and decided that tournament Scrabble sounded right up her alley. We
hope to see more of her each week as she prepares to compete in the Tuscon
December tournament. Welcome Jennifer! We also had
John Hart visit us from Portland, Oregon. John will be with us for the
next few weeks and will hopefully be in and out of town during the season. Nobody played a Triple-Triple, and the
pot for doing so now stands at $58.00 plus a quarter of the dues collected
at he next session. The winner of the high game prize was Lewis Saul,
who thoroughly trounced Josh with a 574 point game. The contest for the
highest-scoring word that begins with UN went to Nathan Benedict for an
82 point play of UNDERPAID. Other notable UN words
were: Notable plays included Naurlene Canterman
starting her game against Bob Whitcomb by playing three bingos in a row.
Lewis Saul had an interesting play of four tiles to form five words. Putting
down REDE, he formed HER, DE, ED, and
LEZ for 37 points. Bob Whitcomb proved that luck of the
draw is just that: luck. With 5 Es remaining in the bag and
ZINC on the board, he held AT hoping to
play ZINCATE, which never happened. the next night he played a
non-club game against Naurlene and again drew ZINCAT,
after which Naurlene promptly blocked the only playable E. Next week's session will include prizes
for Triple-Triple plays and high game as well as a cash prize for the
highest-scoring word that begins and ends with the same letter (e.g.,
GUESSING, SAINTS,
YUMMY, CROC, REORDER,
etc.). Good luck! Below are the bingos and their anagrams played at Club
565 on November 7 by player. Phonies are in red
lower case. |