| Redeye |
[Jan. 26th, 2008|04:48 pm] |
I haven't posted here in months. Plenty going on these days, but my desire to write here has waned.
I had a great Redeye tourney, and wanted to share a few tidbits from that tourney. I finished 19-9, 4th of 26, despite being the 23rd seed. My rating, which had never topped 1700, went from 1592 to 1766.
I drew as well as I ever have, which is the primary reason for the result. Two stats sum up how ridiculously well I drew: I got 35 of the 56 blanks, and I exchanged only twice while my opponents exchanged 20 times.
It was a great time, and thanks to Steph Steele for once again treating us Scrabble addicts to a great time, despite the frigid temps outside and the sauna-like temps inside. Can't wait to do it again next year (with 2 more games added, of course).
Two positions of note: Here's the board against Ben Withers, who found the only winning play (Note: Ben challenged WILDERS, which is entered as "Pass"):
Chris Lipe had this position, and found the only outplay, and though it didn't win the game for him, it was a cool play:
Answers in comments. |
|
|
| Comments: |
Ben played 8G C(EN)TIAReS. Note that none of the 18 7-letter bingos would play in columns K or M, and I blocked nARCIST, the only playable bingo in column A, the previous turn.
Chris played 12C (A)RaBIzES.
I'll add this, just to embarrass and humble myself a bit: | | Valid, challenged | Phoney, unchallenged | Phoney, challenged | | My Plays | POTENCY
FEASES
PRESALES
DIEBACKS
WILDERS | MISTRIED
PUKERS | ONER
OORARIS
DJINNIS
IRIDE
ODONATION
BOWIEST | | Their Plays | REFUSNIK
VIZIER | TWINEY
ORERY
DONES
UNCOZY | BOBEYES |
This chart was generated by cross-tables.com | |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
hartsman's journal
