DOCSLIB.ORG

November 2011: Vol. 3, No. 11

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
November 2011: Vol. 3, No. 11 N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A November 2011: Vol. 3, No. 11 Your Committees at Work by Chris Cree On Wednesday evening, November 30, NASPA held a conference call for a portion of its committee chairs. Each gave an over- view of what they have done and what they are currently working on. The highlights were: Membership Committee — Committee Member Tony Leah, in attendance to give the update for Chair Mad Palazzo, reported that the committee had just made their first proposal for the possibility of a NASPA Life- time Membership. NASPA has had the ben- efit of meeting and being able to speak with a few MENSA America officers about this and other facets of their organization. The com- mittee also looked at the United States Chess Federation’s model. NASPA is considering this possibility and will try to come to a decision during the first quarter of 2012. The Recognition portion of the Ratings and Recognition Committee — Cochair Dave Johnson (Portland, OR) presents a SCRABBLE Flash set to Seth Lipkin is working on a quantifiable Maggie Morley (Kensington, CA), the Most Improved Player at his tournament. method to determine a NASPA Expert, Master and Grandmaster. These terms are 2012 NSC Update 27-Year Friendly Rivalry bestowed upon people in bridge and chess, by the Championship Committee by John Chew amongst other endeavors. The Association Registration for the 2012 National Tournament SCRABBLE players start of British SCRABBLE Players (ABSP) also SCRABBLE Championship (NSC) is now playing because they’re competitive and like does this and was kind enough to share their open! As we go to press, there are 19 players the game, but what keeps everyone coming formula. Seth is taking the idiosyncrasies of already registered, led by 2002-rated former year after year is the personal relationships not only our current rating system, but the champion Joel Wapnick (Montreal, QC). that are formed when we see each other at history of our rating system into account to The NSC will take place on August 11–15, our home club, favorite tournaments or come up with something that identifies and 2012, at the Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, championships. After all, which is more fun: honors our players who have accomplished FL, returning to the popular venue of the trouncing an old friend who will remem- the most over the years. 2008 NSC and the 2011 National School ber your brilliant plays for years (and if not, Tournament Committee — Chair Dallas SCRABBLE Championship. be reminded of them), or a random player Johnson reports that his committee is sanc- Early registration is being driven by a new you’ve never met before? tioning tournaments that “come in waves”. offer this year, where entry fees are reduced My predecessor as director of the Toronto There are 153 tournaments, thus far, on the by $25 until the end of December 2011. SCRABBLE Club, Mike Wise, boiled this calendar for the coming year. Dallas was Also new this year will be an event T-shirt down to two words when he said that our pleased to report that we have no disciplinary designed by expert player and professional game is at its best when it is played in a spirit issues on the docket. NASPA feels that the artist Jeremy Hildebrand (Ottawa, ON), of friendly rivalry. At no event is this spirit enforcement of the Code of Conduct is hav- which will be available for pre-order on our more immanent than at the annual Kingston ing an impact on the overall comportment of website early in the new year. Cup interclub match between the Toronto the players. Division cutoffs remain unchanged from ON and Montreal QC clubs. The 27th in- Dictionary Committee — Chair Jim Pate, 2011 at 1700, 1400 and 1100, with unlim- stallation of this event took place on Novem- gave us an update on his newest committee ited play-up permitted. The guaranteed top ber 26–27, by tradition on neutral territory members, who are working on the Long List prize for Division 1 will be $10,000; further midway between these cities, in a ballroom at as well as the rest of the committee’s plans to details about the rest of the prize pool will be the Confederation Place Hotel in Kingston work with Merriam-Webster for the next up- announced as registration progresses. ON, with a beautiful view of the head of the date. To clarify, NASPA is beholden to Has- Entry fees have remained the same as last St. Lawrence River. bro. Merriam-Webster has the working rela- year: $175 in Division 1 and $150 in Divi- 42 players contested three divisional tro- tionship in regards to our word list with the sions 2, 3 and 4. Youths (under 18 years as phies, with the Toronto side under more game’s trademark holder in North America, of August 11, 2012) are eligible for a special pressure than usual to regain honor lost last COMMITTEES continued on p. 2012 NSC UPDATE continued on p. KINGSTON CUP continued on p. NASPA Bulletin, November 011, Vol. 3, No. 11 Working Committees from YOUR COMMITTEES AT WORK p. 1 Hasbro. NASPA has a very good relationship with Merriam-Webster and looks forward to continuing to do what the NSA’s Dictionary Committees did: work with them on updat- ing the dictionary. When might that be? The target date as I type is the latter part of 2014. That is subject to change. Not surprisingly, Jim had the most ques- tions to answer by the committee chairs who are, first and foremost, SCRABBLE Players! Rules Committee — Chair Jan Cardia, did such a great job last year in her first year as chair. She asked what kind of timetable we 2011 Kingston Cup Tournament Participants (Photo: Kate Doe) would like to see for the next update to the rules. I would think the same kind of sched- Kingston Cup point in holding any sort of competition for ule as this past year. She said she would get from 27-YEAR FRIENDLY RIVALRY p. 1 27 years without meticulously documenting on the 100 issues right away! Someone asked year, when Montreal swept the event. As it’s the statistics of the event; and in any large a rules related question and Jan responded, seldom possible to accommodate all play- group there are usually people willing to take “Make that 101!”. It was asked if the rules ers in both cities who want to play without on this task. I am pleased to report that a to- could be printed by NASPA for directors mismatched team sizes, several ringers were tal of 147 players have now participated in who wished it. We feel that any printing recruited by both teams from nearby Ontario 869 appearances at the Kingston Cup, play- would have to be budgeted for approximate- clubs in Brantford, Kingston and Ottawa. ing 5,177 rated games. Montreal leads To- ly 420 directors and each change to the rules In Division C, contesting the Midway ronto in Division A 15½–11½ and 9–7 in would make the previous printing obsolete. Cup, 7 Toronto players faced four Montre- Division B; Toronto leads Montreal 7½–2½ NASPA asks that directors who do not have alers, two Ottawans and one Kingstonian. in Division C. Internet access at their events download the While Diane Brown (Toronto ON) led the Lynda Wise (Toronto ON) is the only PDF or copy and paste it into a Word docu- field with an impressive 11–1 record, the player to have missed only one of the 27 ment and keep it available on a computer or next five places ended up going to Montreal: years. David Boys (Dorval QC) has the most handheld at their tournament site or print Lany Ramos (Montreal QC), Daria Pecht wins with a 208–93 record over 25 years. their own current copy. (Gananoque ON), Emilie Henkelman (Ne- Joel Wapnick (Montreal QC) holds the dis- International Committee — Cochairs pean ON), Patrick Niesink (Ottawa ON) tinction of being the only player ever to go Sam Kantimathi and Tony Leah announced and Akiva Gitelman (Montreal QC), giving undefeated at this event, a feat he has accom- that WESPA would continue to rate NASPA them a 47–37 win. plished twice, in the inaugural year of 1985 Collins events and thanked NASPA for rat- In Division B, the pairing officer faced un- (12–0) and then again in 1999 (13–0), the ing Collins Divisions at tournaments. usual challenges. A few days before the event, year he won the World SCRABBLE Cham- Director’s Manual Committee — Chair it looked like there were going to be eight pionship. Rebecca Slivka reported that no updates have players for Toronto and six for Montreal, I’m happy to have maintained my even gone into the DM at this time. Rebecca also for which a complicated schedule involving record, now 79½–79½ with a 6–6 record serves on the Technology and Web Commit- one Toronto–Toronto game each round was against a tough field this year, and looking tees. For the Technology Committee, she constructed. Then there was one emergency forward to many more year of competition brought up and reiterated that handheld de- medical cancellation on both sides, neces- to come. vices are inappropriate for tournament play, sitating the construction of a similar 7-on- be it for adjudication, time keeping or arith- 5 schedule. Toronto prevailed 39–21 over No Pointless Games! metic. Jan Cardia mentioned that reference twelve rounds, and swept the top five places by John Chew to that is in the rules.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • February 2011: Vol
    N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A February 2011: Vol. 3, No. 2 Renewed Direction By Chris Cree About one year ago, Bryan Pepper (Bed- ford, TX), National SCRABBLE Champion- ship (NSC) Division 1 Leader and Official SCRABBLE Tournament Director since 1998, announced to one and all that he was going to PLAY SCRABBLE tournaments in 2011. That meant that not only were we go- ing to have to find another Division 1 leader at this year’s NSC — thanks, John Robert- son (Cambridge, ON) — but that the Dal- las Open and all of our local one-day events were going to need a new director. Mary Rhoades (Bedford, TX) stepped in for this year’s Dallas Open and yours truly volunteered to take over the one-day events and direct for the first time in about 23 years. That leads to a question I get asked often: How did you first get started playing Official SCRABBLE tournaments? I was a freshman at SMU in Dallas in 1973. A kid named Michael Griffin decided to have a SCRABBLE tournament for our dorm. We had 2 out of 3 matches. I wiped everybody out, even got to play YTTERBIA Nick Fall, Director of the Kingston, Ontario SCRABBLE Club, presenting a SCRABBLE Flash in one of the games and naively thought, game to Daria Petch, Kingston SCRABBLE Club tournament winner, which took place on “I must be good.” I asked my parents for a December 1, 2010 at the Waterford Retirement Residence in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
    [Show full text]
  • April 2011: Vol. 3, No. 4
    N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A April 2011: Vol. 3, No. 4 Hotel Negotiations 101 By Chris Cree About a month before this year’s Dal- las Open (DO), I could tell that at- tendance and thus, room sales were going to be off considerably. As it turned out, our attendance was half off of its zenith and 30% off of its mean. Increased airfare and the economy in general have strengthened the presence of the one day event, including three different cities in Texas. Our players want their offi- cially rated games. Thus, what we have seen is attendance sharply off for multiday events while the total number of tournament games played has increased. I had been talking with the Crowne Plaza – Park Central in Dallas for a while and had made decent acquaintances with the sales manager, events coordinator and food and beverage manager. We had been talking about moving the local one day events from a Golden Corral Buffet-style restaurant in a far north suburb called The Colony From left to right: NASPA Copresident and NSSC host John Chew, 2011 National School to the Crowne Plaza in Dallas proper. I SCRABBLE Champions Alex Li and Jackson Smylie, Hasbro Director of Marketing Jay Bruns, told them I did not have much to offer and National SCRABBLE Association Executive Director John D. Williams, Jr. but if their Chef Danny wants to prepare $10 meals for lunch, that would work. We still do not know if we are going to a question, I asked, “What is it precisely that Canadians Win NSSC do the lunches, but they floored me with we bring to the table that would make you by John Chew the response which was that they just want to do this?” A few years ago, I was having a drink wanted us there and that they would They responded with what could only with a Hasbro vice president and I man- provide small (500–700 square feet) meeting seem like surprise, “You all are great to aged to find the courage to ask the question space for no charge.
    [Show full text]
  • ABSP Wedding Prize Puzzle Mikki Wins in Style
    Bimonthly Magazine for the Association of British Scrabble Players ABSP Wedding page 4 Mikki wins in style page 12 Prize Puzzle page 21 Issue 135 - December 2010 from the editor Overall, I’ve been pleased with the feedback from the first issue of Onboard, particularly the emailed pdf version which went down really well. A bit of colour makes all the difference. If any member would prefer to receive their copy of OnBoard as an emailed pdf file, please contact membership secretary, Anne Ramsay at [email protected] Emailed pdfs should arrive a little earlier than the mailed booklets. They will be indexed and in full colour throughout. In general, the colour cover on the magazine also drew approving comments and this magazine again has a colour cover, but it does cost more to print, so I will revert to a black and white cover on editions where I do not have anything worthy of the more costly option. I hope you agree that this issue is worthy. I am very grateful to all the people who have contributed some content to this issue. I really am getting to know who OnBoard’s friends are. Nevertheless, I have again written an unsustainably large proportion of the material myself. I continue to strive to make this a membership magazine as much as a Scrabble one. Please make it your New Year’s resolution: to write something for OnBoard in 2011. Have a great Christmas holiday and New Year. Alec Youth Scrabble Coaching On Saturday and Sunday 15th and 16th January, Alastair and Karen Richards are running a coaching clinic and tournament for young players, in the Girl Guide club room in Coventry.
    [Show full text]
  • Rank Name Home Wins-Losses Spread 1 Nigel Richards New
    Rank Name Home Wins-Losses Spread 1 Nigel Richards New Zealand 19.0-5.0 +1594 2 Ganesh Asirvatham Malaysia 18.0-6.0 +2501 3 Wellington Jighere Nigeria 18.0-6.0 +1635 4 Joel Wapnick Canada 17.0-7.0 +1075 5 Akshay Bhandarkar United Arab Emirates 16.0-8.0 +1056 6 Patrick Litunya Kenya 16.0-8.0 +845 7 Hubert Wee Singapore 16.0-8.0 +824 8 Tim Adamson United States 16.0-8.0 -363 9 Emmanuel Umujose Nigeria 15.0-9.0 +983 10 Lanre Oyekunle South Africa 15.0-9.0 +907 11 David Eldar World Youth Champion 15.0-9.0 +578 12 Suanne Ong Malaysia 15.0-9.0 +503 13 Edward Okulicz Australia 15.0-9.0 +263 14 Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn Thailand 15.0-9.0 -103 15 Helen Gipson England 14.5-9.5 +376 16 Andrew Fisher Australia 14.0-10.0 +1154 17 David Boys Canada 14.0-10.0 +682 18 Komol Panyasophonlert Thailand 14.0-10.0 +542 19 Gareth Williams Wales 14.0-10.0 +419 20 Mohammad Sulaiman Pakistan 14.0-10.0 +414 21 Geoff Thevenot United States 14.0-10.0 +407 22 Howard Warner New Zealand 14.0-10.0 +365 23 David Webb England 14.0-10.0 +266 24 Jim Kramer United States 14.0-10.0 +198 25 Adam Logan World Champion 14.0-10.0 +140 26 Theresa Camilleri Malta 14.0-10.0 -124 27 Odette Carmina Rio Philippines 13.5-10.5 +506 28 John O'Laughlin United States 13.0-11.0 +1050 29 Sam Kantimathi United States 13.0-11.0 +850 30 Michael Gongolo Kenya 13.0-11.0 +516 31 Naween Fernando Australia 13.0-11.0 +371 32 Nathan Benedict United States 13.0-11.0 +333 33 Siu Hean Cheah Singapore 13.0-11.0 +322 34 Trevor Mark Hovelmeier South Africa 13.0-11.0 +272 35 Amit Chakrabarti United States 13.0-11.0
    [Show full text]
  • The Association of Premier Scrabble* Players JOEL SHERMAN WINS
    The Association of Premier Scrabble* Players Issue No. 57 NEWSLETTER December 1997 JOEL SHERMAN WINS WORLD TITLE American Joel Sherman is the 1997 World Scrabble Champion. In a battle of New Yorkers, he defeated stand-up comedian Matt Graham 3-1 in the Final. It was a sweet success for Sherman, who had reached the Final in 1995, only to be defeated by Canada's David Boys. One little-known fact about Joel is that he's a member of die APSP! He joined in 1995, when the World Championship was held in London, and has retained his membership ever since. So we can offer our congratulations to one of our own members! For the first two days the tournament had been dominated by the UK team. At one stage, the top four positions were occupied by UK players. But as the pressure mounted the Americans made their move, with Graham winning 13 successive games to secure his place in the Final. The top UK finisher was Mark Nyman in 5th place, with Russell Byers (7th) also achieving a top ten finish. You can read a full report, including Mark's own account of the event, on page 4. ANDY COOK IS NATIONAL CHAMPION The rise of Andy Cook continues unabated. Within three years he's risen from the ranks of the "who's her to become the UK's National Champion. In the Final he defeated Jackie McLeod, 3-0. Andy's winning prize included an expenses-paid trip to Washington DC to watch the World Championship. Not bad for a weekend's Scrabble! The Intermediate title was won by 21-year-old Paul Chadwick, with a magnificent record of 9 wins and 1 tie in his ten games.
    [Show full text]
  • Issue 141 December 2011
    Bimonthly Magazine for the Association of British Scrabble Players Issue 141 - December 2011 SCRABBLE ® is a registered trademark of J.W.Spear & Sons Ltd, Maidenhead SL6 4UB committee matters Minutes of ABSP Committee Meeting: Sunday 2nd October 2011 Venue: Philip’s house, London Present: Peter Ashurst (PA), Wayne Kelly (WK), Ross Mackenzie (RM), Philip Nelkon (PN), Steve Perry (SP). Standing apologies: Anand Buddhdev (AB), Elie Dangoor (ED), Darryl Francis (DF), Anand Buddhdev (AB), Elie Dangoor (ED), Paula Davenport (PD), Alec Webb (AW). Apologies: Laura Finley (LF), Stewart Holden (SH), Elisabeth Jardine (EJ), Anne Ramsay (AR) Ratings Officer: John Grayson (JG) Resignations/appointments: Allan Simmons stepped down from the Committee as of the AGM but will remain on the Committee discussion group, at least during the handover period. Minutes of the previous meeting: agreed via email Team member reports and discussion Treasurer’s report: • Barclays mandate has been updated with PA, RM and LF as signatories • Bank balance – £14,359.22 nett of payment of £27,605.62 for Yarnfield Park • 2010 accounts have been audited and approved • Standing Orders – the matter was deferred at the AGM. PA is investigating further. • Membership database has been reformatted, PA / AR are to review the current set up. • Out turn cost for BMSC was a loss of £860.55, prize money was increased by using 2010 surplus of £540. • BMSC giveaway mugs – surplus were sold to Tilefish • Out turn cost for Masters was a loss of £37.00 • 50 Short Scrabble boards have been
    [Show full text]
  • IMA MUMBAI WEST Editor Contact for Write-Ups, Articles, Interviews and Dr
    1 CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S DESK............................................................................. 3 WEEKLY SCIENTIFIC LECTURES ..................................................... 4 G.P.FORUM ............................................................................................. 4 SECRETARY’S DESK ............................................................................ 5 EDITORIAL ............................................................................................. 7 PUBLIC HEALTH & WELFARE SUBCOMMITTEE A REPORT ............... 9 REPORT OF “DENTISTRY UPDATE” ................................................... 11 AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON “CANCER OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT”.................................... 13 PROGRAMME ON “WORLD HEART DAY” ......................................... 14 “CARDIOLOGY CAMP” ON OCCASION OF “WORLD HEART DAY” .... 15 WOMEN’S WING PROGRAME .............................................................. 16 IMA HQ ................................................................................................... 17 ALTER EGO ........................................................................................... 19 ‘SCRABBLE’.......................................................................................... 21 CHELATION THERAPY ......................................................................... 23 ARE WE ‘OVER’ OXYGENATING OUR MI PATIENTS ?........................ 27 EDITORIAL BOARD Published by : IMA MUMBAI WEST Editor Contact for write-ups, articles, interviews and Dr. B.
    [Show full text]
  • WESPA Rules OK AGM Minutes - Page 2
    Bimonthly Magazine for the Association of British Scrabble Players Brett wins BMSC for fourth time page 13 WESPA Rules OK AGM Minutes - page 2 Prize Puzzle page 15 Lorraine Feather sings Scrabble page 34 Issue 134 - October 2010 from the editor Well, here I am back in the editor’s chair and already questioning my sanity. Nevertheless, I do have enough of my marbles left to know how much I owe to everybody who has sent me material of some sort for inclusion. I really cannot produce a magazine without you lot, so please do keep giving a thought to what you may contribute. This, of course is issue number 1 of the newsletter under the new title of OnBoard. It was very gratifying to receive so many name suggestions - over 50 - and I am happy with the final choice. The full array of suggestions was emailed to committee members with the request that they send me short lists of their favourites. I had hoped by this means to create my own short list to put to an AGM vote, however the title of OnBoard was the favourite of seven out of the eleven replies I received; and five of those seven declined to add any other names to their list. OnBoard was unchallengeable as the new title. Here is a list of the suggested titles as received by the committee - they were not informed as to who had proposed what. I was pleased to be able to tell them that their popular choice had been solely the suggestion of outgoing editor Elisabeth Jardine.
    [Show full text]
  • July 2012: Vol. 4, No. 2 the 2012 Dallas Open: Winter in Spring by Chris Cree 2012 Marked the Final Year for the Dallas Open
    N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A July 2012: Vol. 4, No. 2 The 2012 Dallas Open: Winter in Spring by Chris Cree 2012 marked the final year for the Dallas Open. This was the seventh such event: DO7. The event was born following discussions of divisions and my belief that the players of today have no idea how good they are. Anybody can beat anyone at any time. For many years with our old rating system, one was basically stuck within a division. This was in contrast to the way SCRABBLE tour- naments were when I first started in 1980. All tournaments were single-division. After the formation of divisions, upward move- ment was extremely difficult to maintain and lower-division players never had the oppor- tunity to compare themselves to and com- pete with the best. So, to prove the point, the open tournament was resurrected and the first Dallas Open took place in 2006. In the very first game of the first Dallas Open, Phyllis Owen (Plano, TX), rated no Board 1 at the Dallas Open: (L–R) annotator Dee Segrest (Highland Village, TX), event leader more than 800, bested one of the best players Kate Fukawa-Connelly (Kittery, ME) in the seat she kept throughout the second day, her Round to ever play the game, Robin Pollock Daniel 15 opponent Patricia Barrett (Houston, TX) and annotator Kathleen Watson (Bedford, TX). (Toronto, ON). No matter what happens in the rest of her career, Phyllis has that personal What Happened in Vegas 2012 NSC Update victory that no one can ever take away.
    [Show full text]
  • Rank Name Home Wins Spread 1 Adam Logan Canada 20.0 +1613 2
    Rank Name Home Wins Spread 1 Adam Logan Canada 20.0 +1613 2 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk Thailand 18.0 +678 3 Naween Fernando Australia 17.0 +741 4 Ganesh Asirvatham Malaysia 16.0 +690 5 Gareth Williams Wales 16.0 +664 6 Paul Cleary Australia 16.0 +643 7 David Boys Canada 16.0 +612 8 Dave Wiegand United States 16.0 +599 9 Lukeman Owolabi Nigeria 15.0 +832 10 Siu Hean Cheah Singapore 15.0 +776 11 David Eldar Australia 15.0 +672 12 Paul Allan Scotland 15.0 +591 13 Dean Saldanha Canada 15.0 +414 14 John O'Laughlin United States 15.0 +367 15 Michael Arthur Quao Ghana 14.5 +725 16 Panupol Sujjayakorn World Champion 14.5 +422 17 Harshan Lamabadusuriya England 14.0 +1209 18 Howard Warner New Zealand 14.0 +894 19 Joel Sherman United States 14.0 +847 20 Terry Kirk England 14.0 +770 21 Andrew Fisher Australia 14.0 +724 22 Chrys Placca Ghana 14.0 +437 23 Oscar T. Rivera Philippines 14.0 +254 24 Edward Martin England 14.0 +210 25 Tim Adamson United States 14.0 +166 26 Akshay Bhandarkar India 14.0 +127 27 Manop Phiphatboonserm Thailand 14.0 -553 28 Peter Armstrong United States 14.0 -815 29 Helen Gipson England 13.0 +736 30 Steve Polatnick United States 13.0 +492 31 Nick Ball England 13.0 +407 32 Albert Hahn Canada 13.0 +405 33 Joel Wapnick Canada 13.0 +395 34 John Luebkemann United States 13.0 +392 35 Theresa Camilleri Malta 13.0 +349 36 Femi Awowade England 13.0 +332 37 Keiichiro Hirai Japan 13.0 +330 38 Lisa Odom United States 13.0 +272 39 Jojo Delia Malta 13.0 +260 40 Yawo Takyi Ananga Ghana 13.0 +183 41 Phil Appleby England 13.0 +167 42 Gerald Carter Thailand
    [Show full text]
  • June 2011: Vol
    N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A June 2011: Vol. 3, No. 6 Easy Does It by Chris Cree [Chris found time recently to play in tour- naments in four consecutive weeks. Here are some of his notes from the road.] The first week of June, I was able to at- tend the New Orleans Cajun Fest SCRAB- BLE Tournament. Lila Crotty, her husband Tim and Metairie NASPA Club #541 were exceedingly hospitable. Marlene Milkent took top honors. It was her first tournament victory in two years and boosted her rat- ing to a career high 1868. Lindsey Dim- mick and Alex Rivard rounded out the vic- tors. New Orleans is just different. It is a world unto itself. Marlene Milkent Bill Clark, Rhonda Roederer and her husband, Brian were all kind enough to cart me all over town and Joel Wapnick (Montreal, QC) with the CNSC cup after emerging victorious at the 2011 hit upon some incredible places to eat. Canadian National SCRABBLE Champion in Toronto, Ontario (photos: John Chew) I arrived a day early to do site inspec- tions at the Marriott, where the National CNSC 2011 NASPA Code of Conduct SCRABBLE Championship took place in By Chris Lipe Revisions 2004, and the Hyatt, which is undergoing a For most Americans, “Canadian” is a syn- complete rebuild post-Katrina. A scheduled onym for “Cold American.” Last weekend By the NASPA Advisory Board visit to the downtown Hampton Inn was however, 52 Canadian SCRABBLE players, The NASPA Advisory Board enacted re- postponed.
    [Show full text]
  • February 2012: Vol
    N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A February 2012: Vol. 4, No. 1 The Big Easy & Other Points Hither and Yon by Chris Cree Official SCRABBLE tournaments re- turned to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend west of the Mississippi and did so with a big splash! Lila Crotty (Metairie, LA) and Kate Fu- kawa-Connelly (Kittery, ME) produced the Inaugural Crescent City Cup SCRABBLE Tournament in New Orleans, LA. Their hus- bands, Tim & Tim, handled respectively data entry and direction of the event. The event took place at the Inn on Bourbon, a quaint oasis in the midst of the French Quarter. The room was the perfect size for the event. In a wild finish befitting the personality of this city, 6 people had identical records entering the final round. Jesse Day (Berke- ley, CA) bested Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY) at Table 1 and had enough cumulative point spread to fend off the two others who fin- ished with Jesse’s 14–6 record. The hostess, Alan Mason (Eureka, CA) won the SCRABBLE Flash game at the Redwood Coast SCRABBLE Kate Fukawa-Connelly, finished second and Club’s February 12 tournament in Arcata, CA. The tournament was directed by Leah Kruley. Jim Burlant (Grapevine, TX) finished third. In the Lite Division (with a nod to Port- Member Services 2012 NSC Update land’s description of the second division at an by the Web Committee by John Chew Open), Roy Dixon (Dade City, FL) held off We are often asked if we can provide some As we go to press, we have broken 100 Lindsey Dimmick (Baton Rouge, LA) and sort of information or service to our mem- paid registrants to this year’s National Harry Durbin (Collierville, TN) for the title.
    [Show full text]