From jjchew Sat Sep 16 23:53:40 2006 To: crossword-games-pro@yahoogroups.com, nsaclub3@yahoogroups.com Subject: Mike Wise Memorial Main Event Day 1 Status: R Five rounds left to go of the twelve-round main event. The tournament is running very smoothly. I had only one director's call today, from an expert player who forgot what the overdraw rule was. The hottest controversy of the day was over whether I was right in ruling this year that Most Outrageous Phoney prize candidates had to stay unchallenged on the board. Chris Bonin played PIGSTANDINGS* in a game that was already lost; we'll see if the audience votes him the prize. (There are three front extensions for STANDINGS: two are common words and the third is listed by MW as a British term for a place to park an airplane, though it's not in TCD.) I've been spending my spare time tinkering with tsh, as I usually do. Today I added the beginnings of a web interface, command-line history for people who like a command-line interface, optional player photos in pairings listings (so that you can see what your next opponent looks like), and an easy way to enter scores using partial matches of player names when players don't write their correct player numbers on their slips (but don't tell any players I just added that feature). Two unusual 9-letter words got played in Division A. Robin played AEEIPRS through -L-C-. ACEEILPRS has three anagrams (and a fourth in SOWPODS). She played the alphabetically second which put the P on a bonus square. Libero Paolella played HYPE in the triple lane, Chris Sykes replied by extending it to make the only new nine-letter word beginning with HYPE in OWL2 for 60 points. There wasn't enough interest to make it worth holding the speed tournament this year, so I ran just a duplicate tournament tonight. I'll report on it separately so as not to spoil the game for anyone that wants to try beating our players' scores themselves, but here are the racks we used: ADFINUW AAEIMUW AILRRPU NOPQRTU INPRSTX EGINPTX EIOPRST ACEGNPY AEISTTV ADEIFRT AEMNOY? ABHJOTU AEEILOT ADEIITV CDEELNO AAGKOWZ ABEGHKW BGLORSU EORRSU? Put Quackle in solitaire mode, enter each rack, see what the highest-scoring play you can come up with is, update the board with Quackle's highest-scoring choice and see if the total of your scores comes close to Quackle's 1097 or the rest of our players: 932 Mark Przybyszewski (won $35) 917 Tim Anglin (won $20) 765 Libero Paolella 749 Lynda Wise 704 Karen Falconer (free entry to any evening event next year). Herebelow are the main event standings. John -- John J. Chew, III * jjchew@math.utoronto.ca * +1 416 876 7675 Director, Toronto SCRABBLE(R) Club (National SCRABBLE(R) Association Club #3) http://www.torontoscrabbleclub.com -- Division A Rank Seed Name Wins Cumul OldR NewR Chng For Agn Hi 1 2 Mills, Lloyd 7.0 +689 1881 1922 +41 448 349 487 2 1 Daniel, Robin Pollock 5.0 +714 1911 1910 -1 474 372 598 3 6 Sykes, Christopher 5.0 +278 1823 1838 +15 431 391 511 4 13 Vijayakumar, Sinna 5.0 +225 1734 1778 +44 425 393 479 5 3 Wapnick, Joel 5.0 +66 1872 1878 +6 406 397 523 6 4 Greenspan, Randy 4.0 +120 1857 1850 -7 429 412 474 7 14 Przybyszewski, Mark 4.0 +21 1711 1736 +25 400 397 530 8 7 Hoekstra, Ron 3.0 +142 1821 1807 -14 419 399 487 9 9 Kaufman, Zev 3.0 +63 1764 1750 -14 424 415 512 10 8 Goatcher, Shaun 3.0 +18 1778 1772 -6 405 402 532 11 11 Thomas, Randall 3.0 -71 1745 1745 +0 381 391 475 12 17 Lipe, Chris 3.0 -92 1645 1665 +20 401 414 512 13 10 Leah, Tony 3.0 -128 1757 1745 -12 401 419 468 14 12 Paolella, Libero 3.0 -163 1738 1738 +0 395 419 504 15 5 Rowland, Craig 2.0 -142 1836 1800 -36 391 411 484 16 18 Desiato, Salvatore 2.0 -645 1642 1635 -7 356 448 424 17 16 Ozorio, Steve 2.0 -791 1671 1661 -10 357 470 447 18 15 Francis, Ray 1.0 -304 1676 1643 -33 383 426 547 1 Mills, Lloyd W18 W11 W03 W12 W10 W02 W04 ?06 466 418 469 487 410 426 458 2 Daniel, Robin Pollock W17 W14 L10 W07 W12 L01 W11 ?05 598 473 405 429 505 394 514 3 Sykes, Christopher L11 W18 L01 W16 W14 W10 W06 ?04 345 428 438 511 397 417 478 4 Vijayakumar, Sinna W09 W06 L16 W08 W05 W12 L01 ?03 470 479 412 451 459 398 307 5 Wapnick, Joel L12 W13 W15 W14 L04 W11 W08 ?02 352 503 380 523 301 421 365 6 Greenspan, Randy W16 L04 W09 L10 W08 W07 L03 ?01 465 362 467 395 450 474 393 7 Przybyszewski, Mark W13 W15 L12 L02 W09 L06 W10 ?08 419 530 291 377 422 308 452 8 Hoekstra, Ron W15 L12 W13 L04 L06 W14 L05 ?07 401 441 441 419 410 487 333 9 Kaufman, Zev L04 W16 L06 L11 L07 W17 W15 ?12 425 448 411 355 376 512 444 10 Goatcher, Shaun L14 W17 W02 W06 L01 L03 L07 ?13 388 532 470 455 247 384 356 11 Thomas, Randall W03 L01 W18 W09 L16 L05 L02 ?14 437 310 416 475 336 337 358 12 Lipe, Chris W05 W08 W07 L01 L02 L04 L14 ?09 435 512 441 379 278 368 392 13 Leah, Tony L07 L05 L08 W15 W18 W16 L17 ?10 412 468 327 406 428 419 345 14 Paolella, Libero W10 L02 W17 L05 L03 L08 W12 ?11 401 425 504 371 340 304 423 15 Rowland, Craig L08 L07 L05 L13 W17 W18 L09 ?16 381 290 376 387 445 484 372 16 Desiato, Salvatore L06 L09 W04 L03 W11 L13 L18 ?15 345 255 418 340 424 366 345 17 Ozorio, Steve L02 L10 L14 W18 L15 L09 W13 ?18 270 334 271 416 331 447 428 18 Francis, Ray L01 L03 L11 L17 L13 L15 W16 ?17 370 373 263 352 389 385 547 Division B Rank Seed Name Wins Cumul OldR NewR Chng For Agn Hi 1 30 Edelson, Mark 6.0 +814 1315 1442 +127 476 360 597 2 9 Leonard, Dave 6.0 +442 1498 1534 +36 415 352 516 3 19 Lobo, Yvonne 6.0 +305 1385 1462 +77 383 339 477 4 4 Ubeika, Jason 5.0 +374 1562 1573 +11 418 365 543 5 3 Scheiten, Jerry 5.0 +206 1603 1595 -8 406 377 507 6 27 Bowman, Joseph 5.0 +143 1340 1405 +65 409 388 502 7 21 Rackham, Anita 5.0 +40 1377 1421 +44 375 369 446 8 32 Fall, Nicholas 4.0 +287 1293 1317 +24 401 360 447 9 20 Spinner, Barry 4.0 +258 1380 1398 +18 396 360 491 10 10 Lancashire, Michael 4.0 +169 1479 1473 -6 386 362 438 11 26 Akomanyi, Curtis 4.0 +167 1348 1372 +24 397 373 427 12 1 Dunlop, Glenn 4.0 +62 1669 1639 -30 375 366 416 13 12 Levinsky, Stuart 4.0 +53 1455 1465 +10 380 372 451 14 25 Palazzo, Mad 4.0 +39 1356 1373 +17 389 383 449 15 22 Fernandes, Maria 4.0 -7 1362 1373 +11 375 376 434 16 8 Engelhardt, David 4.0 -47 1516 1501 -15 380 386 446 17 11 Broersma, Jason 4.0 -88 1465 1460 -5 385 398 542 18 5 Williams, Stan 4.0 -184 1555 1551 -4 355 382 399 19 34 Muhling, Vivienne 3.5 -37 1234 1276 +42 373 379 477 20 12 Sealy, Trevor 3.5 -69 1455 1442 -13 365 375 458 21 16 Rawlins, Gene 3.0 +144 1406 1400 -6 388 368 474 22 6 McCall, Heather 3.0 +58 1550 1520 -30 372 364 445 23 7 Weissman, Emely 3.0 +48 1549 1507 -42 382 375 442 24 2 Nelson, Ember 3.0 -70 1629 1574 -55 350 360 453 25 28 Bigall, Vera 3.0 -140 1325 1336 +11 367 387 415 26 31 Charach, Richard 3.0 -151 1313 1319 +6 355 377 424 27 18 Schlechter, Hilda 2.5 -263 1389 1364 -25 373 411 442 28 33 Downey, Sharon 2.5 -335 1237 1248 +11 362 410 442 29 14 Keras, Lydia 2.0 +118 1429 1402 -27 374 358 533 30 23 Pengelly, Allen 2.0 -87 1359 1340 -19 394 407 486 31 24 Oliva, Linda 2.0 -192 1358 1338 -20 339 366 428 32 15 Gooley, Mark 2.0 -273 1417 1384 -33 384 423 459 33 35 Stalnaker, Austin 2.0 -300 1233 1244 +11 345 388 443 34 28 Pollak, Mitzi 2.0 -386 1325 1308 -17 339 394 443 35 16 Cullman, Roger 2.0 -455 1406 1367 -39 344 409 405 36 36 Sullivan, Shelley 0.0 -643 1203 1169 -34 339 431 386 1 Edelson, Mark W35 W18 L08 W10 W12 W04 W02 ?06 597 514 367 465 425 434 531 2 Leonard, Dave W34 W07 W17 W03 W04 W21 L01 ?05 416 409 516 417 435 375 336 3 Lobo, Yvonne W31 W33 W24 L02 W10 W06 W09 ?04 379 477 342 312 357 447 365 4 Ubeika, Jason W36 W21 W32 W12 L02 L01 W18 ?03 490 384 543 404 335 322 448 5 Scheiten, Jerry W28 L09 W27 L21 W22 W33 W13 ?02 384 261 507 346 428 440 476 6 Bowman, Joseph W22 L29 W15 W16 W21 L03 W17 ?01 372 342 458 429 371 388 502 7 Rackham, Anita L17 L02 W34 W24 W26 W20 W25 ?08 283 343 425 334 398 446 397 8 Fall, Nicholas L18 W35 W01 L25 L14 W28 W26 ?07 357 410 447 393 317 446 438 9 Spinner, Barry W27 W05 L28 L13 W16 W11 L03 ?14 385 491 382 324 437 423 333 10 Lancashire, Michael W14 W19 W23 L01 L03 W25 L20 ?13 438 418 384 394 314 376 381 11 Akomanyi, Curtis L13 L16 W26 W32 W28 L09 W12 ?15 341 380 419 421 427 371 421 12 Dunlop, Glenn W25 W30 W20 L04 L01 W18 L11 ?16 386 399 346 330 392 416 358 13 Levinsky, Stuart W11 W26 L16 W09 L18 W17 L05 ?10 417 364 355 451 341 391 338 14 Palazzo, Mad L10 W23 W19 L17 W08 L26 W21 ?09 299 415 449 412 425 325 398 15 Fernandes, Maria W29 L22 L06 L33 W19 W30 W35 ?11 331 337 415 305 401 434 405 16 Engelhardt, David L26 W11 W13 L06 L09 W22 W33 ?12 378 404 387 360 283 399 446 17 Broersma, Jason W07 W34 L02 W14 W25 L13 L06 ?20 542 388 325 417 406 354 265 18 Williams, Stan W08 L01 W35 W22 W13 L12 L04 ?19 365 335 396 354 371 399 267 19 Muhling, Vivienne W23 L10 L14 T20 L15 W24 W27 ?18 424 315 382 316 302 477 397 20 Sealy, Trevor W30 L25 L12 T19 W33 L07 W10 ?17 458 349 312 316 362 371 385 21 Rawlins, Gene W32 L04 W36 W05 L06 L02 L14 ?24 397 350 474 442 359 300 395 22 McCall, Heather L06 W15 W29 L18 L05 L16 W28 ?25 340 340 399 343 418 320 445 23 Weissman, Emely L19 L14 L10 W30 L27 W29 W31 ?26 365 360 376 442 344 386 399 24 Nelson, Ember L33 W31 L03 L07 W32 L19 W29 ?21 270 453 267 319 415 342 382 25 Bigall, Vera L12 W20 W30 W08 L17 L10 L07 ?22 310 415 409 395 357 339 342 26 Charach, Richard W16 L13 L11 W29 L07 W14 L08 ?23 424 351 324 414 326 375 273 27 Schlechter, Hilda L09 T28 L05 L34 W23 W36 L19 ?29 366 442 306 344 423 374 359 28 Downey, Sharon L05 T27 W09 W31 L11 L08 L22 ?30 348 442 420 384 320 291 329 29 Keras, Lydia L15 W06 L22 L26 W31 L23 L24 ?27 328 533 328 316 396 346 374 30 Pengelly, Allen L20 L12 L25 L23 W36 L15 W32 ?28 409 294 400 316 465 389 486 31 Oliva, Linda L03 L24 W33 L28 L29 W35 L23 ?34 354 267 416 343 249 428 316 32 Gooley, Mark L21 W36 L04 L11 L24 W34 L30 ?35 379 459 350 367 281 455 397 33 Stalnaker, Austin W24 L03 L31 W15 L20 L05 L16 ?36 443 301 271 440 309 293 359 34 Pollak, Mitzi L02 L17 L07 W27 L35 L32 W36 ?31 316 324 277 443 307 353 355 35 Cullman, Roger L01 L08 L18 W36 W34 L31 L15 ?32 293 405 252 398 396 283 378 36 Sullivan, Shelley L04 L32 L21 L35 L30 L27 L34 ?33 386 346 320 317 307 359 337 Division C Rank Seed Name Wins Cumul OldR NewR Chng For Agn Hi 1 3 Miransky, Anna 6.0 +498 1182 1216 +34 400 329 485 2 1 Fernando, Priya 6.0 +384 1278 1294 +16 388 333 470 3 5 Ozorio, Sophia 5.0 +440 1135 1151 +16 390 327 481 4 13 Bonin, Chris 5.0 +141 1024 1073 +49 361 340 411 5 2 Lashley, Sid 4.5 +60 1194 1195 +1 382 374 477 6 4 Turner, Kevin 4.0 +341 1146 1134 -12 382 333 497 7 18 Saunders, Andy 4.0 +198 934 1014 +80 363 335 465 8 8 Simpson, Fraser 4.0 -137 1061 1082 +21 333 353 382 9 9 Farbstein, Denis 3.0 +53 1048 1038 -10 365 358 465 10 15 Wigley, Paul 3.0 +1 996 994 -2 364 364 397 11 14 Wittman, Dianne 3.0 -51 998 1003 +5 375 382 495 12 10 Hamilton, Mark 3.0 -160 1046 1045 -1 338 361 396 13 7 Brown, Diane 3.0 -345 1081 1064 -17 333 383 436 14 6 Bathgate, Jillian 3.0 -466 1116 1097 -19 321 388 427 15 12 Aitken, Terry 2.5 +19 1025 1010 -15 369 367 456 16 11 Frodyma, KC 2.0 +34 1033 1009 -24 373 368 446 17 17 Hunter, Pamela 2.0 -354 955 944 -11 323 374 390 18 16 Henkelman, Emilie 0.0 -656 971 918 -53 330 423 387 1 Miransky, Anna W10 W11 L08 W12 W14 W05 W02 ?04 389 375 274 445 377 485 455 2 Fernando, Priya W07 W16 W13 W05 W04 W08 L01 ?03 347 393 359 382 413 470 349 3 Ozorio, Sophia W09 L04 L05 W17 W16 W12 W14 ?02 420 363 369 481 347 307 442 4 Bonin, Chris W15 W03 W18 L08 L02 W14 W09 ?01 351 379 411 281 336 382 384 5 Lashley, Sid W18 T15 W03 L02 W08 L01 W11 ?06 391 396 388 306 477 270 449 6 Turner, Kevin L17 L12 W14 W09 W07 L11 W08 ?05 324 357 497 401 395 317 383 7 Saunders, Andy L02 W13 W16 L14 L06 W09 W17 ?08 317 465 344 375 309 351 383 8 Simpson, Fraser W11 W10 W01 W04 L05 L02 L06 ?07 365 350 324 380 263 269 382 9 Farbstein, Denis L03 W18 W15 L06 W12 L07 L04 ?10 319 465 372 305 426 324 347 10 Wigley, Paul L01 L08 L11 L13 W18 W17 W15 ?09 386 253 397 378 397 374 364 11 Wittman, Dianne L08 L01 W10 W16 L17 W06 L05 ?13 332 331 407 495 329 347 381 12 Hamilton, Mark L14 W06 W17 L01 L09 L03 W13 ?15 312 383 396 344 282 306 345 13 Brown, Diane L16 L07 L02 W10 W15 W18 L12 ?11 268 246 284 436 358 398 343 14 Bathgate, Jillian W12 W17 L06 W07 L01 L04 L03 ?16 427 329 242 382 298 318 251 15 Aitken, Terry L04 T05 L09 W18 L13 W16 L10 ?12 292 396 353 456 336 399 353 16 Frodyma, KC W13 L02 L07 L11 L03 L15 W18 ?14 408 362 308 380 308 398 446 17 Hunter, Pamela W06 L14 L12 L03 W11 L10 L07 ?18 365 328 223 338 390 274 344 18 Henkelman, Emilie L05 L09 L04 L15 L10 L13 L16 ?17 341 314 270 327 339 387 330 Division D Rank Seed Name Wins Cumul OldR NewR Chng For Agn Hi 1 16 Edur, Olev 6.0 +685 n.r. 1118 413 316 460 2 2 Gosso, Susan 6.0 +289 947 991 +44 390 349 462 3 5 Falconer, Karen 5.0 +586 879 904 +25 395 311 535 4 1 Ross, Matt 5.0 +355 1019 1021 +2 388 337 464 5 6 Peters, Eric 5.0 +113 821 859 +38 382 366 441 6 11 Westcott, Christine 4.0 +155 720 730 +10 373 351 434 7 4 Tellone, Bert 4.0 +114 884 879 -5 362 346 516 8 9 Fernando, Percy 4.0 +84 766 774 +8 365 353 455 9 8 Archer, Aldona 4.0 -263 777 799 +22 356 394 436 10 16 Hazzard, Jason 3.0 -13 n.r. 785 357 359 428 11 3 Alexander, Cathy 3.0 -68 918 889 -29 351 361 447 12 10 Magnan, Lorette 3.0 -72 729 723 -6 356 366 415 13 14 Lamantia, Josephine 3.0 -161 712 707 -5 350 373 415 14 7 Davies, Alice 2.0 -97 787 738 -49 340 354 411 15 16 Hillman, Megan 2.0 -221 n.r. 559 349 381 397 16 12 Peters, Ken 2.0 -325 719 708 -11 332 378 411 17 13 Charach, Arthur 2.0 -572 713 690 -23 316 398 399 18 15 Kennedy, Irene 0.0 -589 412 396 -16 272 356 298 1 Edur, Olev L02 W08 W18 W09 W03 W11 W04 ?05 411 429 421 431 374 460 368 2 Gosso, Susan W01 W12 W07 W03 W09 L04 W05 ?06 415 396 394 354 462 317 391 3 Falconer, Karen W13 W16 W14 L02 L01 W09 W11 ?04 387 465 389 326 299 535 364 4 Ross, Matt W10 W06 L05 W16 W07 W02 L01 ?03 413 464 391 369 353 369 355 5 Peters, Eric W06 L10 W04 W07 W11 W16 L02 ?01 374 284 424 375 441 405 374 6 Westcott, Christine L05 L04 L10 W18 W15 W17 W13 ?02 316 357 328 345 410 434 419 7 Tellone, Bert W08 W18 L02 L05 L04 W10 W12 ?11 384 311 306 319 289 410 516 8 Fernando, Percy L07 L01 W12 L17 W13 W18 W16 ?14 296 305 417 332 455 342 405 9 Archer, Aldona W17 W15 W11 L01 L02 L03 W10 ?12 349 436 395 346 335 239 392 10 Hazzard, Jason L04 W05 W06 L11 W16 L07 L09 ?13 278 428 359 333 412 333 358 11 Alexander, Cathy W15 W17 L09 W10 L05 L01 L03 ?07 359 447 315 391 405 255 288 12 Magnan, Lorette W18 L02 L08 L13 W17 W14 L07 ?09 350 319 335 336 415 365 372 13 Lamantia, Josephine L03 W14 L16 W12 L08 W15 L06 ?10 302 382 297 391 336 415 329 14 Davies, Alice L16 L13 L03 L15 W18 L12 W17 ?08 295 336 331 362 365 281 411 15 Hillman, Megan L11 L09 L17 W14 L06 L13 W18 ?16 315 326 397 393 332 320 361 16 Peters, Ken W14 L03 W13 L04 L10 L05 L08 ?15 411 291 360 326 296 314 325 17 Charach, Arthur L09 L11 W15 W08 L12 L06 L14 ?18 328 220 399 395 285 312 274 18 Kennedy, Irene L12 L07 L01 L06 L14 L08 L15 ?17 278 298 234 284 264 264 284