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2011 Kingston Cup Match

The 27th annual Toronto-Montreal (SCRABBLE®) interclub match takes place on November 26–27, 2011 at the Confederation Place Hotel. TWL tsh standing reports CSW tsh standing reports player statistics team statistics

Contacts

Confederation Place Hotel

237 Ontario Street, Kingston ON, K7L 2Z4, 1-888-825-4656 or 1-613-549-6300. Directions: take the Division St. or Montreal St. exit from the 401, drive to Princess Street, turn left, drive all the way down to the waterfront at Ontario Street, turn right and the hotel will be on your left.

Lisa Kessler (Toronto team captain)

E-mail likes@primus.ca

John Chew (Toronto deputy team captain)

E-mail poslfit@gmail.com or call +1 416 876 7675 (cellphone, before, during or after the event).

Bernard Gotlieb (Montreal team captain)

Call +1 514 484 0824.

Sary Karanofsky (Montreal deputy team captain)

E-mail saryk @ videotron.ca Call +1 514 481 7941.

Rules

We play by regular NASPA tournament rules. In past years, no record was kept of cumulative spread, and games could therefore end by resignation; there will be a brief discussion at the beginning of this year’s event concerning conforming to an informal request from NASPA to abandon this practice.

Lisa and Sary draw to see which side goes first in even-numbered rounds, overriding the NSA’s usual protocol.

A entry fee of $20 is collected from each player at the tournament, to cover the cost of the room and the NASPA participation fee. All participants must be NASPA members before play begins.

Schedule

This Year’s Teams

If you are not listed below and want to play for your city, please contact your team captain immediately. Division assignments are still tentative, and we still need to recruit a few players.

This Year’s Format

Teams will compete in four divisions (A, B and C) with no intermixing. Results of the TWL and CSW sections of the A division will be combined to determine the result of the Kingston Cup.

We had originally planned on having 8 players on the Toronto B team and 6 players on the Montreal B team play according to the following schedule:

T1: T4 M6 T3 M5 M4 T2 M3 M3 M2 M2 M1 M1
T2: M6 T3 M5 T4 M3 T1 M5 M4 M1 M1 M3 M2
T3: M5 T2 T1 M6 T4 M5 M1 M1 M4 M3 M2 M3
T4: T1 M5 M1 T2 T3 M1 M4 M2 M3 M6 M5 M4
T5: M4 M3 M6 M2 M1 M2 T8 M6 T7 M5 M4 T6
T6: M3 M4 M4 M1 M2 M6 M2 T7 M5 T8 M6 T5
T7: M2 M1 M2 M3 M6 M4 M6 T6 T5 M4 T8 M5
T8: M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M3 T5 M5 M6 T6 T7 M6

However, due to two last-minute cancellations, we are likely to play 7 on 5, with one bye each round, like this:

T1: T5 M5 M3 T4 M4 M3 T3 M2 M2 T2 M1 M1
T2: M3 T6 M4 M3 T4 M5 M1 T3 M1 T1 M2 M2
T3: M5 M2 T7 M5 M1 T4 T1 T2 M4 M1 M4 M3
T4: M4 M4 M1 T1 T2 T3 M2 M1 M5 M2 M3 M5
T5: T1 M3 M5 M1 M2 M1 M5 M4 T7 M3 T6 M4
T6: M1 T2 M2 M4 M5 M2 M3 M5 M3 M4 T5 T7
T7: M2 M1 T3 M2 M3 M4 M4 M3 T5 M5 M5 T6

History

Montreal now leads Toronto 15½–10½ in the Kingston Cup and 9–6 in the 401 Trophy, and Toronto leads Montreal 7½-1½ in the Midway Cup. Click to see historical records about the players and the teams.