Heres a recap of my games in Division A of the WESPA World Scrabble Championships in Goa. Coach Tikolo won it. Yours truly in second:
Game 1 against a rising star in Indian scrabble and a fellow chemical engineer and he dominates from start to finish my rotchies not withstanding and a desperation phoney oralise:
Game 2 against my good friend and I just about bingo more than him to take it:
Game 4 my only highlight was a double double with Organza. It was all him the rest of the way to win by 100 plus:
Game 5 was my worst loss to a very good player from New Zealand. Her warpaint and rejoneos were nice indeed:
Game 6 was a good win for me. Was pleased with my unsawed and chinones:
I loose by over 100 in this one despite my phoney aven staying on the board against my good friend and end day 1 on 3-4:
Start well day 2 but give up spread as I try booteed needlessly after challenging off trialings. Just pushed through in the end:
Did take the next one with very good tile flow:
Talking about what you should not do in scrabble, phoneyed thrice trying winkier,minkier and tarsy,changed twice and blew a 100 point lead to lose by over 60:
Was lucky not to lose by 150 plus in the next one as he phoneyed with a blank and an s, he did block my bowlines earlier on. Just happy to reduce spread:
7-7 now and I kind of wake up. This was a multi bingo game for me and I extended water on the board to topwater. Unakites was nice and an easy win in the end:
End the day on a high note with a good win against a good friend, 9-7 after day 2:
Day 3 starts good but I needlessly chicken out of medlars mid game and sizers towards the end to give up valuable spread in a narrow win:
Finally a good game against the brilliant New Zealander who had dominated me thus far. Kinda picked everything, gobshite was nice:
So from 7-7 I have pulled it back to 11-7 and enter a close game which he should have won had he played vom instead of mob, instead I win by 5:
Now I play the king and start with a double double with upstates and bingo 3 more times to just about win:
Well all good things have to come to an end and they certainly did that in the next game. My 3 bingos to his 1 not withstanding, Coach Tikolo runs out a winner by over 100 and wraps up a well deserved title. Playing for second:
Game 1 against a rising star in Indian scrabble and a fellow chemical engineer and he dominates from start to finish my rotchies not withstanding and a desperation phoney oralise:
Game 2 against my good friend and I just about bingo more than him to take it:
Game 3 I start with readily, then bingo 3 more times to take it easily:
Game 4 my only highlight was a double double with Organza. It was all him the rest of the way to win by 100 plus:
Game 5 was my worst loss to a very good player from New Zealand. Her warpaint and rejoneos were nice indeed:
Game 6 was a good win for me. Was pleased with my unsawed and chinones:
I loose by over 100 in this one despite my phoney aven staying on the board against my good friend and end day 1 on 3-4:
Start well day 2 but give up spread as I try booteed needlessly after challenging off trialings. Just pushed through in the end:
Did take the next one with very good tile flow:
Talking about what you should not do in scrabble, phoneyed thrice trying winkier,minkier and tarsy,changed twice and blew a 100 point lead to lose by over 60:
Lose the next one to my good friend, who led all the way through so now at 6-6:
The next one was a very good game against a very good friend. The crucial blank pickups in the end meant that I found my only 9 letter word of the tournament with believers and was able to extend locating to relocating and go out in 2 and eke out a smallwin:
Was lucky not to lose by 150 plus in the next one as he phoneyed with a blank and an s, he did block my bowlines earlier on. Just happy to reduce spread:
7-7 now and I kind of wake up. This was a multi bingo game for me and I extended water on the board to topwater. Unakites was nice and an easy win in the end:
End the day on a high note with a good win against a good friend, 9-7 after day 2:
Day 3 starts good but I needlessly chicken out of medlars mid game and sizers towards the end to give up valuable spread in a narrow win:
Finally a good game against the brilliant New Zealander who had dominated me thus far. Kinda picked everything, gobshite was nice:
So from 7-7 I have pulled it back to 11-7 and enter a close game which he should have won had he played vom instead of mob, instead I win by 5:
Now I play the king and start with a double double with upstates and bingo 3 more times to just about win:
Now I meet my good friend and fellow chemical engineer yet again. I challenge doably and cabalers off (the anagram was berascal) and still find myself down 57. I hit Nandines which he challenged. It let me win by 5 in the end:
Up against yet another rising star of Indian scrabble. Started by changing 2 ee's and ended up picking an a and another e, thought I should change again but suddenly see chaetae, vidames came next and two more.He minimized spread with godetia and I am on an 8 game winning streak:
Well all good things have to come to an end and they certainly did that in the next game. My 3 bingos to his 1 not withstanding, Coach Tikolo runs out a winner by over 100 and wraps up a well deserved title. Playing for second:
From coach to chief and I build a 150 point lead with virando and trephine. He comes back well with subtones and takes the lead with a few moves to go. It was all his if he had hit any one of bi/tri/re cycles. He was under a bit of time pressure and missed and that's the only thing that prevented a Nigerian 1-2-3. I finish 2nd winning 9 out of my last 10:
