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National Scrabble Association Club #565's Airport Club
Club Results—2007– 2008 Season

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Session Results - Thursday, April 24, 2008

# Name (Tournament Division) Win-Loss Spread Bingos per Game Points per Game Club Rating
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1 Jason Sommer 4-1 +22 1.6000 370.0000 1628 | (+16)
2 Ed Saunders 3-1 +543 2.2500 436.2500 1674 | (+1)
3 Sarah Jacobson 2-1 +69 0.0000 348.3333 935 | (+58)
4 Judith Whitcomb 2-2 +147 0.5000 393.0000 1419 | (-2)
5 Mickey Matz 1-4 -269 1.0000 324.4000 1265 | (-31)
6 Pat Madea 0-3 -512 0.6667 294.6667 1301 | (-20)
# Name (Recreational Division) Win-Loss Spread Bingos per Game Points per Game  
1 No recreational games this week          
2            

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Session Notes - April 24, 2008 Session

This session marked the twenty-fourth week of NSA Club #565's 2007-2008 season!

We welcomed three old friends back to the club this week.

Sarah Jacobson, who played with us several times as a visitor from California, made her first appearance at club as a Tucson resident. Having recently moved here from L.A., Sarah plans to be a Thursday night club regular, visit the Northwest Club on occasion, and participate in the Tucson tournaments. She is a welcome addition to the family in all three cases.

Jason Sommer, a long-time member of the Tucson Scrabble extended family from Solvang, California, dropped in to visit old "fremds*" (Jason, himself, is one of the "fremdlier*" people that I know). He plans to visit the Northwest Club, as well, before he heads back out to California.

And last, but definitely not least, Judith Whitcomb made her first appearance at club since May of 2007. A lot has happened in the interim and Judith does not expect to return to club as a regular player, but indicated that she might stop in on days when she has other business in Tucson. We look forward to those opportunities to visit and play with one of our founding members.

Since this season will be our first full season as a two-tiered club with both a Recreational and a separate Tournament Rules Division. There will be some tweaking done as the Recreational Division develops.

In the Tournament session, we were joined by 6 tournament division players who played 24 games in which we scored 8,718 points for a 363.25 points per game average. Of the 26 recorded bingos we played, one was a phoney that went unchallenged.

There were no recreational games played this week. Click here for a roster of Recreational Players

Some numbers and whatnot for this tournament session include:

Some interesting bingos:

We featured two regular contests this week

The first regular contest was the Oh, You Can Call Me "JAY" Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that contains the letter "J". The most interesting entry was Jason Sommer's 16 point play of FJELD. Pat Madea played a JOKE for 20, Judith Whitcomb tried a JURIST for 26, Jason Sommer betrayed his FJELD play with JUDAS for 31, and Ed Saunders capped off the scoring with his TAJ for 38 and the $4.50 win.

The second regular contest was the Here, Fishy, Fishy Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that is, or incorporates somewhere within it, the name of a fish or other underwater creature. There were no entries in this contest this week, so we'll toss the $4.50 prize back in the water for next week and see if we can reel in a winner then.

Ed's $4.50 winnings go back to the club kitty.

Pat Madea called in some IOUS this week and played 2 bingos that ended in those letters. One of them was NOXIOUS, the other was FELONIOUS (makes ya wonder where Pat invests his money. . . .). The FELONIOUS one cleaned out the 9+ Bingo Progressive Jackpot and earned Pat an honest $14.72. Pat played his rack of ILOSU?? from an existing FE for 70 points to pick up the cash.

No one cashed in on any of the other Progressive Jackpots this week and each shall have $1.12 added to it. As of this session we have paid out $155.80 in prizes this season. Click here for a complete list of prizes awarded during the 2007-2008 season.

The next session (May 1, 2008) shall feature the following contests:
• It's An ILL Wind Contest - On May 1, 1956, Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was made available to the public. In honor of this occasion, a quarter of dues collected shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest scoring play of a word that is the name of, or incorporates the name of within it, some sort of illness, disease, or medical ailment. (e.g. ILEITIS, PLEURISY, DIARRHEA, MALARIA, PINKEYE, LUMBAGO, GANGRENE, ASTHENIA, FLUency, ePOXies, COLDish, BERIBERI, etc.).
• Here, Fishy, Fishy! Contest - $4.50 plus a quarter of dues collected shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest scoring play of a word that is the name of, or incorporates the name of within it, a fish or other underwater creature. (e.g. SEAROBIN, TUNICATE, OCTOPUS, INCONNU, MOJARRA, RATTAIL, OARFISH, MOLLIES, NAUTILI, REMORAS, PIRANHA, RORQUALS, SEAHORSE, CUCUMBER, RATFISH, LOBSTER, etc.)
•Triple-Triple Progressive Jackpot* - $9.13 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores a Triple-Triple play.
•100+ Play Progressive Jackpot* - $3.72 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores 100 or more points in a single play
•Club 565 Progressive Jackpot - $2.05 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores 565 or more points in a single game.
•9+ Bingo Progressive Jackpot* - A sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who plays a bingo of 9 or more letters in length.
* = Jackpot prizes cannot be combined.

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Bingos

The following is a list of bingos played at NSA Club #565 on April 24, 2008.
Phony bingos are listed in red, lowercase.

Pat Madea (2 bingos)
FELONIOUS
NOXIOUS

Mickey Matz (5 bingos)
DUETING
MEALIEST (METALISE)
MUSTIER
RETAINED (DETAINER)
ROUSING (SOURING)

Ed Saunders (9 bingos)
AROINTS (RATIONS)
BEARINGS (SABERING)
DREARILY
ELASTIC (LACIEST, LATICES)
FAITOUR
HOARSEN (SENHORA)
IONISES
STONIEST
tetonies (NOISETTE, TEOSINTE)

Jason Sommer (8 bingos)
AUDITEES
DANDIES
GARBOIL
GENETIC
LANDERS (DARNELS, RELANDS, SLANDER, SNARLED)
MINERALS (MARLINES, MISLEARN)
SANDIER (RANDIES, SARDINE)
SATIETY

Judith Whitcomb (2 bingos)
RUSTIER
SPENDING

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Combined Results for the November 2007 - July 2008 Season (as of April 24, 2008)

  • Click here for a roster of Recreational Players
  • Click here for Season-to-Date Club Rankings

    • Name
    (click for details)    		 Club
    Rating    		 Games
    Played     		Won Lost Win
    %     		Bingos
    Played     		Bingo
    Avg     		Phony
    Bingos
    Played     		Phony
    Bingo
    %
    Hofffman-Blum, Sherry 1387 1 0 1 .000 2 2.000 0 -
    Jacobson, Sarah 935 6 3 3 .500 1 0.167 0 -
    Kaufman, Jeannette 829 2 1 1 .500 0 0.000 0 -
    Kaye, Vic 1050 3 3 0 1.00 3 1.000 1 33.33
    Levy, Dennis 1071 3 0 3 .000 0 0.000 0 -
    Madea, Pat 1301 36 6 30 .167 19 0.528 1 5.263
    Masel, Sandra 1254 4 1 3 .250 3 0.750 0 -
    Matz, Mickey 1265 66 17 49 .258 69 1.045 7 10.15
    Saunders, Ed 1674 82 64 18 .780 164 2.000 6 3.659
    Sommer, Jason 1628 5 4 1 .800 8 1.600 0 -
    Spence, Richard 1612 24 17 7 .708 41 1.708 4 9.756
    Whitcomb, Judith 1419 4 2 2 .500 2 0.500 0 -
    Club # 565 (12 Players) 1285 236 118 118 .500 312 1.322 19 6.090

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    Season Schedule and Past Session Results

    NSA Club #565 meets each Thursday. The 2007-2008 schedule is below. Click on past dates for completed session results.

    11/01/07 | 11/08/07 | 11/15/07 | (Thanksgiving) | 11/29/07 | 12/06/07 | 12/13/07 | 12/20/07 | 12/27/07 | 01/03/08 | 01/10/08 | 01/17/08 | 01/24/08 | 01/31/08 | 02/07/08 | 02/14/08 | cancelled | 02/28/08 | 03/06/08 | 03/13/08 | 03/20/08 | 03/27/08 | 04/03/08 | 04/10/08 | 04/17/08 | 04/24/08 | 05/01/08 | 05/08/08 | 05/15/08 | 05/22/08 | 05/29/08 | 06/05/08 | 06/12/08 | 06/19/08 | 06/26/08 | (07/03/08) | 07/10/08 | 07/17/08 | 07/24/08 | 07/31/08

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    The 500 and 600 Clubs and Triple-Triple Plays

    Name 500 and 600 point games Triple-Triple Plays
    Pat Madea (recreational)   149 ENDEARED (recreational)
    Ed Saunders 602, 582, 521, 515, 511, 508, 504, 503, 502 122 VAGARIES
    Phyllis Spence (recreational)   149 FEMININE (recreational)
    Richard Spence 596, 525, 523, 507

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