A fabulous tournament with some excellent game coverage from Will Anderson and Conrad Bassett-Bouchard. The post-game analysis is a must-watch. Dave Koening ran out the winner. Here are some game boards from organizer and runner up Austin Shin:
Game 1 was a 476-410 win for Austin, Conidian was a nice play:
Game 2 ended up in a 418-451 loss. Interestingly at one point, both players had the exact same rack AEIMORT. Tribunal or turbinal would have clinched it:
Game 3
Ended up in a 408-431 loss:
Game 4 was a huge 528-312 win, aided by the 9X ferrites:
Game 5 was a 407-493 loss:
Game 6 was a big 576-372 win, thanks to 5 bingos:
Game 7 was a good 486-389 win:
Game 8 ended up in a 546-384 win:
Game 9 resulted in a 401-445 loss, Fedayeen was nice:
Game 10 was a 468-326 win, and the scoring never stops en route to an 8 game win streak:
Game 11 was a narrow 417-408 win, veratrium was a phoney but terrarium would have been a valid 9:
Game 12 was a come from behind (125 points) win, after surviving the 9X play staggier:
Game 13 a game between National champions ended in a 472-377 win. Parquets would have scored 137:
Game 14 was a 512-392 win, prosely was a phoney, only leprosy in that rack:
Game 15 was a come from behind (135 points) win, the parallel play of brownest was nice, acini almost stopped the comeback blocking wiremen. Quins left no vowels and resulted in a VVJ rack for the opponent, which secured the 477-470 win:
Game 16 was a 506-420 win, meadowed was a phoney:
Game 17 was a 464-437win, budgies secured the win:
Game 18 saw the 8 game win streak come to an end with a 352-452 loss:
Game 19 began a 2 game series with the eventual champion and ended in a 416-525 loss:
Game 20 shows you why scrabble can be a game of inches, the play of iodic would have stopped anhedral that came right after agio was played and completely changed the game resulting in a 352-454 loss:
All in all a great tournament, with some great coverage.
