From: JCGreen@ix.netcom.com (John C Green Jr)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 23:55:00 GMT
Subject: Later Dreck Reno Results (Was: Early Reno Dreg Results)
Message-id: <199801190312.VAA21381@dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com>
SCRABBLE (registered trademark) Brand Crossword Game is hereinafter referred to as SCRABBLE.
Yesterday I posted some early dreg results. Here are some later dreck results. There is also a little about other divisions after the important Novice Section complete results.
The 1998 Martin Luther King Reno SCRABBLE tournament has four sections:
Expert 32 players unlimited rating Intermediate 37 players < 1600 rating Recreational 22 players < 1300 rating Novice 22 players < 1100 ratingfor a total of 113 players.
The first part of the tournament was a quasi round robin of 13 rounds. The next part will be quads (four person round robins). The final round 17 will be KOTH.
The Novice standings after round 13:
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A Standing D Rating B Seed E Score Win = 1, Tie = 0.5, Loss = 0 C Player F Cumulative spread A B C D E F 1 22 David Moss UNR 11 + 750 2 2 David Filippi 1086 10 +1147 3 9 Myna Wallin 940 10 + 490 4 5 Kimo Ah Yun 994 9 + 617 5 11 Mengus Reeves 909 9 + 242 6 19 John Green 683 9 + 78 7 17 Joseph Perkowski 711 9 - 297 8 1 Cynthia Ho 1088 8 + 639 9 7 Julia Bogle 969 8 + 197 10 12 Sandy Yerkes 835 8 + 17 11 3 Evi Pike 1027 7 + 442 12 10 Jim Barker 910 7 + 127 13 6 Judith Whitcomb 973 7 - 13 14 4 Eve Jones 999 5 - 3 15 18 Laurie Longway 703 5 - 117 16 21 Paula Catanese 500 5 - 342 17 16 Sharon Perkowski 740 4 - 545 18 8 Gretchen Richmond 960 3 - 691 19 20 Jacqueline Veevers 568 3 - 780 20 13 Judith Romanenkov 832 2 - 574 21 14 Charlotte Bremond 750 2 - 667 22 16 Letty Dolphin 735 2 - 717Five of the eight rated between 1000 and 1099 elected to play in the next higher section. As we all know the SCRABBLE rating system is broken and puts higher rated players in a section at a disadvantage. The five that are playing up are sacrificing any chance for prize money in order to earn rating points. The three that aren't playing up are sacrificing rating points to win prize money.
David Moss appears to be a ringer. Paula Catanese's only previous tournament was about ten years ago.
Six of the top 50 experts are here.
Recreational Division
1 R. A. Fontes 11 +318 2 Renee Palmer-Jones 10 +592 3 Ron Barker 10 +331 4 Robert Whitcomb 9 +124 5 Jacqueline Stewart 8 +447 6 William Palmer 8 +442Intermediate Division
1 Cynthia Seales 10 +935 2 Carlynn Moreno 10 +598 3 Eileen Gruhn 9 +582 4 Maggie Morley 9 +513 5 Bruce Ward 9 +404 6 John Karris 9 +366Expert Division
1 Brian Cappelletto 12 +1553 2 David Wiegand 10 + 865 3 Robert Felt 10 + 566 4 Jim Geary 9 + 635 5 Ira Cohen 9 + 587 6 Lester Schonbrun 8.5 + 545
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