From: "John J. Chew III" To: crossword-games-pro@yahoogroups.com Subject: [cgp] Speed Scrabble results (final) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:12:38 -0400 I've finished updating my Speed Scrabble web site, and generating a numerical tournament report. What a fun day it was: I played just two fewer games in one day than will be played in four days in New Orleans! We started about fifteen minutes late, but managed to make up the time over the course of the day by playing extra fast, and finished the final KOTH round 40 just a little over eight hours after we started the day. Kibitzers and well-wishers dropped by throughout the day with food and helped out with scorekeeping (thanks, Lisa, Evan, Josh, Joseph, Glenn, Gary, Ayami), and of course after official play ended we kept things going for a little while with more Speed Scrabble (I took Jamie out for a walk so that Kristen could play), Anagrams (I remember Matt making LAMINATES+D, and everyone missing CDDEIIOSV), and a round of Matt's current favorite: consultation SOWPODS Gibson-blank blankety-blank toroidal bidirectionally-scored "Scrabble". Finally, here is the full record of wins and losses, for the benefit of any stats weenies present. Ratings are entirely notional, and were computed by calculating performance ratings from the Speed Scrabble event at last September's Mike Wise Memorial (fixing Matt's rating at 2000), and then the usual combination of performance ratings for unrated players and Elo changes for rated ones. Rank Seed Name (online) Wins OldR NewR Chng 1 5 Adam Logan 27.0 n.r. 2220 2 1 Matt Graham 24.0 2000 2028 +28 3 5 John Chew 15.0 n.r. 1787 4 2 Sinna Vijayakumar 14.0 1719 1745 +26 5 4 Libero Paolella 11.0 1620 1651 +31 6 5 Heather McCall 9.0 n.r. 1647 7 2 Lynda Wise 6.0 1719 1647 -72 8 5 Roger Cullman 2.0 n.r. 1410 1 Adam Logan W05 B-- W06 B-- W03 W08 B-- W04 W02 W04 W04 W04 B-- B-- B-- W05 W05 W05 W03 W03 W03 B-- B-- B-- W06 W06 W06 W08 W08 W08 W07 W07 W07 B-- B-- B-- W02 W02 L02 W02 2 Matt Graham B-- W05 W03 B-- W04 W06 W08 B-- L01 W08 W08 W08 B-- B-- B-- W07 W07 W07 W06 W06 W06 B-- B-- B-- W03 W03 W03 W05 W05 W05 B-- B-- B-- W04 W04 W04 L01 L01 W01 L01 3 John Chew B-- B-- L02 W06 L01 L04 W05 B-- W08 B-- B-- B-- W07 W07 L07 B-- B-- B-- L01 L01 L01 W08 W08 W08 L02 L02 L02 L04 L04 W04 W05 W05 L05 B-- B-- B-- W06 W06 W06 W04 4 Sinna Vijayakumar B-- W08 L05 B-- L02 W03 W06 L01 B-- L01 L01 L01 B-- B-- B-- W08 W08 W08 B-- B-- B-- W06 W06 L06 W07 W07 L07 W03 W03 L03 B-- B-- B-- L02 L02 L02 W05 W05 L05 L03 5 Libero Paolella L01 L02 W04 W08 B-- B-- L03 W06 B-- B-- B-- B-- L06 L06 W06 L01 L01 L01 B-- B-- B-- L07 L07 W07 B-- B-- B-- L02 L02 L02 L03 L03 W03 W08 W08 W08 L04 L04 W04 W06 6 Heather McCall W08 B-- L01 L03 B-- L02 L04 L05 B-- B-- B-- B-- W05 W05 L05 B-- B-- B-- L02 L02 L02 L04 L04 W04 L01 L01 L01 B-- B-- B-- W08 W08 L08 W07 W07 W07 L03 L03 L03 L05 7 Lynda Wise B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- B-- L03 L03 W03 L02 L02 L02 W08 W08 L08 W05 W05 L05 L04 L04 W04 B-- B-- B-- L01 L01 L01 L06 L06 L06 B-- B-- B-- B-- 8 Roger Cullman L06 L04 B-- L05 B-- L01 L02 B-- L03 L02 L02 L02 B-- B-- B-- L04 L04 L04 L07 L07 W07 L03 L03 L03 B-- B-- B-- L01 L01 L01 L06 L06 W06 L05 L05 L05 B-- B-- B-- B-- I've pencilled in Sunday, June 12th, 2005 as the date for next year's 41-game tournament. Send me private e-mail if you'd like to be reminded of it closer to the event, or keep an eye on http://www.poslfit.com/speed. John Chew -- John J. Chew, III * jjchew@math.utoronto.ca * +1 416 876 7675 Director, Toronto SCRABBLE(R) Club (National SCRABBLE(R) Association Club #3) http://www.torontoscrabbleclub.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crossword-games-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: crossword-games-pro-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/