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Club Results—2007– 2008 Season
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Session Results - April 27, 2008
| # | Name | Win-Loss | Spread | Bingos per Game | Points per Game | Club Rating new | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Saunders | 5-2 | +622 | 1.8571 | 437.8571 | 1655 | (+5) |
| 2 | Richard Spence | 4-2 | +45 | 1.3333 | 362.5000 | 1641 | (+8) |
| 3 | Jason Sommer | 4-4 | -15 | 1.2500 | 384.6250 | 1619 | (-9) |
| 4 | Monique Kornell | 2-2 | -133 | 1.2500 | 359.7500 | 1558 | (-3) |
| 5 | Sarah Jacobson | 0-5 | -585 | 0.0000 | 289.6000 | 934 | (-1) |
Session Notes - April 27, 2008 Session
This session marked the thirty-fourth of NSA Club #565 (Northwest)'s 2007-2008 season!
We welcomed Sarah Jacobson and Jason
Sommer on their first visits to the Northwest Club. Both graced the
tables at the Airport Club on Thursday as well.
Sarah has played at the Airport Club in the past as a visitor from Los Angeles
and recently made a permanent move to Tucson. She is now checking out the
other Scrabble options available to her. (she made the long trek up here
from the far southeast side of town for the session).
Jason is a long-time member of the Tucson Scrabble extended family visiting
from Solvang, California. We expect to see him periodically and he will
always be welcome at our clubs.
We were also happy to see Richard Spence take a brief respite from his preparations for the scholastic National MathCounts Championships in May to play a little Scrabble this week.
The goodies table included John Spence's chocolate chip cookies, macaroons courtesy of Monique Kornell, crackers and cheese, nuts, raisins, and chips today. Thanks to all who provided snacks for the group.
The tournament rules division was joined by 5 players who played 30 games in which we scored 11,204 points for a 373.4667 point-per-game average. Of the 36 recorded bingos we played, none were phoneys that went unchallenged.
Some numbers and whatnot for the tournament session include:
- High Game - 522 points by Ed Saunders
- Low Win - 309 points by Monique Kornell
- High Loss - 393 points by Jason Sommer (Opponent at 405)
- Bingo King - Ed Saunders for averaging 1.8571 bingos per game
Some interesting bingos:
- AROINTS \v. to drive away (played by Jason Sommer)
- ATELIER \n. a workshop or studio (played by Richard Spence)
- DUNGAREE \n. a coarse cotton fabric (played by Ed Saunders)
- ELEGIES \n/pl. ELEGY - a mournful poem for one who is dead (played by Jason Sommer)
- ENHALOED \v. to surround with a HALO - a ring of light (played by Jason Sommer)
- ESTRIOL \n. an ESTROGEN - a female sex hormone (played by Monique Kornell)
- FLOATIER \adj. tending to float (played by Monique Kornell)
- MOTHLIKE \adj. resembling a moth (played by Richard Spence)
- OBELISES \v. OBELIZES - to mark with an OBELUS - a symbol used in ancient manuscripts to indicate a doubtful passage (played by Ed Saunders)
- SENHORA \n. a married Portuguese or Brazilian woman (played by Ed Saunders)
- Tell Me That Again, Please. . . . Late in his second game against Jason Sommer, Ed Saunders found himself with a rack of INFOrMS and no place to hook the bingo. With one tile left in the bag, Ed played off the "F" for 10 points and drew the last tile, an "R, giving him a new rack of IMNORS?, which gave him (among others) the possible bingo INfORMS for the second rack in a row. At that point, Jason stepped up to the plate and played AWE, back-hooking the "E" to an existing "R" that just happened to have nine open squares behind it. Having just had the unplayable bingo INFOrMS on his rack, replaced by the unplayable bingo INfORMS on the next rack, Ed took advantage of the new prefix "RE" on the board and played REINfORMS (meaning, appropriately, "informs again"), a situation-fitting 72 point out play and a 9+ Bingo Progressive Pot winner in the bargain.
- Weekly Anagram Challenge Monique Kornell gives us our challenge again this week. With a rack of CEINORS, Monique played the bingo RECOINS, one of the FOUR bingos in that rack. Can you come up with the other three? (Answers in "Bingos" section below.)
Since neither of them had an entry last time around, we featured reruns of last week's two regular contests this week.
The first was the Fabrics Of Our Lives Contest for the highest scoring
play of a word that is the name of, or incorporates the name of somewhere
within it, a fabric of some kind. Ed Saunders kind of cottoned to the rerun
idea, playing the D/D DUNGAREE for 90 points and
slipping the $5.25 prize into the pocket of his dungarees.
The second was the "IC" A Contest for the highest scoring play
of a word that contains the letter couplet "IC", in that order,
somewhere within it. Sarah Jacobson saw MICE on
her rack for 18 pts, Richard Spence's PICA was
worth 23 pts, but Ed Saunders saw his way clear to the $5.25 payoff with
his OPTICS for 48 pts.
As I informed you once earlier in these notes, Ed Saunders picked up the $3.91 9+ Bingo Progressive Jackpot for his 72 point play of REINFORMS, played from the existing "RE".
Ed's $14.41 total winnings will be donated back to the club kitty.
No one cashed in on any of the other Progressive Jackpots this week and each shall have $0.93 added to it. As of this session we have paid out $301.37 in prizes this season. Click here for a complete list of prizes awarded during the 2007-2008 season.
The next session (May 4, 2008) shall feature the following contests:
• The War Of The Roses Contest - On May 4,
1471, the Battle of Tewkesbury was fought in England's War of the Roses.
In honor of this event, 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 somewhere within it, a flower or flowering
plant. (e.g. ABUTILON, ASTILBE, MAGNOLIA, ORCHIDS, VERBENA, SALVIAS, OPUNTIAS,
CLEMATIS, DAHLIAS, ROSEwood, MAYBUSH, HAWKWEED, BLUEBELL, etc.)
• Here, Fishy, Fishy! Contest - 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* - $2.04
plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who
scores a Triple-Triple
play.
•100+ Play Progressive Jackpot* - $3.91 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 - $3.16 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.
Bingos
The following is a list of bingos played by players at NSA Club #565 (Northwest)
on April 27, 2008
Phony bingos are listed in red, lowercase.
Monique Kornell (5 bingos)
ESTRIOL (LOITERS, TOILERS)
EXISTED
FLOATIER
RECOINS (COINERS, CRONIES, ORCEINS)
STORMIER (MORTISER)
Ed Saunders (13 bingos)
AMBITION
BYGONES
DOUSING (GUIDONS)
DUNGAREE (UNAGREED, UNDERAGE)
LIAISES (SILESIA)
OBELISES
OUTSIDES
REINFORMS (INFORMERS)
RESTIVE (SIEVERT, VERIEST, VERITES)
SENHORA (HOARSEN)
STARERS (ARRESTS, RASTERS)
WAITERS (WAISTER, WARIEST, WASTRIE)
WEDGIEST
Jason Sommer (10 bingos)
AROINTS (RATIONS)
BETTORS
CLIMATE (METICAL)
COINAGES
ELEGIES (ELEGISE)
ENHALOED
INROADS (ORDAINS, SADIRON)
PELTING
SLEAZILY
STARVER
Richard Spence (8 bingos)
ARRANGE
ATELIER
DELAYERS
HEATERS (AETHERS, REHEATS)
INTERACT
MOTHLIKE
NIFTIEST
ROADIES
- Click here for a list of all the bingos played by tournament division players at NSA Club #565 (Northwest) during the 2007-2008 Season
- Click here for a list of all the phony bingos played by tournament division players at NSA Club #565 (Northwest) during the 2007-2008 season
Combined Results for the August 2007 - July 2008 Season (as of April 27, 2008)
| Name (click for details) |
Club Rating |
Games Played |
Won | Lost | Win % |
Bingos Played |
Bingo Avg |
Phony Bingos Played |
Phony Bingo % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlock, Judy | 1363 | 96 | 38 | 58 | .396 | 126 | 1.313 | 9 | 7.143 |
| Clem, Janis | 1405 | 44 | 17 | 27 | .386 | 41 | 0.932 | 6 | 14.63 |
| Jacobson, Sarah | 934 | 5 | 0 | 5 | .000 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | ----- |
| Knickerbocker, Yvonne | 1421 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 6 | 1.000 | 0 | ----- |
| Knouse, Bob | 1250 | 50 | 17 | 33 | .340 | 25 | 0.500 | 0 | ----- |
| Knouse, Carol | 1141 | 49 | 10.5 | 38.5 | .214 | 15 | 0.306 | 1 | 6.667 |
| Kornell, Monique | 1558 | 62 | 33 | 29 | .532 | 74 | 1.194 | 6 | 8.108 |
| Levy, Dennis | 1083 | 12 | 5 | 7 | .417 | 10 | 0.833 | 0 | ----- |
| Love, Marina | 748 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | 1 | 0.333 | 0 | ----- |
| Lundeen, Karen | 1211 | 35 | 9 | 26 | .257 | 22 | 0.629 | 0 | ----- |
| Masel, Sandra | 1272 | 7 | 1 | 6 | .143 | 5 | 0.714 | 0 | ----- |
| Readle, Robert | 1093 | 8 | 4 | 4 | .500 | 5 | 0.625 | 0 | ----- |
| Rhodes, Michael | 1434 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .500 | 6 | 1.500 | 0 | ----- |
| Saunders, Ed | 1655 | 187 | 122 | 65 | .652 | 365 | 1.952 | 27 | 7.397 |
| Sommer, Jason | 1619 | 8 | 4 | 4 | .500 | 10 | 1.250 | 0 | ----- |
| Spence, Richard | 1641 | 103 | 74.5 | 28.5 | .723 | 166 | 1.611 | 10 | 6.024 |
| Strasberg, Harriet | 1457 | 5 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 7 | 1.400 | 0 | ----- |
| Club # 565 NW (17 Players) | 1314 | 684 | 342 | 342 | .500 | 884 | 1.292 | 59 | 6.674 |
Season Schedule and Past Session Results
NSA Club #565 (Northwest) meets each Sunday. The 2007-2008 schedule is below. Click on past dates for completed session results.
08/05/07 | 08/12/07 | 08/19/07 | 08/26/07 | 09/02/07 | 09/09/07 | 09/16/07 | 09/23/07 | 09/30/07 | 10/07/07 | 10/14/07 | 10/21/07 | Canceled | 11/04/07 | 11/11/07 | 11/18/07 | 11/25/07 | 12/02/07 | 12/09/07 | 12/16/07 | 12/23/07 | 12/30/07 | 01/06/08 | 01/13/08 | 01/20/08 | 01/27/08 | 02/03/08 | 02/10/08 | Canceled | 02/24/08 | 03/02/08 | 03/09/08 | Canceled | (Easter) | 03/30/08 | 04/06/08 | Canceled | 04/20/08 | 04/27/08 | 05/04/08 | 05/11/08 | 05/18/08 | 05/25/08 | 06/01/08 | 06/08/08 | 06/15/08 | 06/22/08 | 06/29/08 | 07/06/08 | 07/13/08 | 07/20/08 | 07/27/08
The 500 and 600 Clubs and Triple-Triple Plays
| Name | 500 and 600 point games | Triple-Triple Plays |
|---|---|---|
| Judy Carlock | 532 | |
| Janis Clem | 588 | ENVISION for 149 |
| Monique Kornell | 529, 501 | ENACTING for 131 |
| Margaret Miller (Recreational) | TRASHING for 149 (rec) | |
| Ed Saunders | 599, 561, 555, 551, 540, 533, 532, 530, 530, 522, 507, 506, 504, 503, 500 | JACINTHS for 203 (rec) |
| Richard Spence | 534, 528, 525, 506, 505 | CARRIAGE for 140 |
| Harriet Strasberg | 534 |