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From: poslfit@gmail.com (John J. Chew III)
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 00:15:44 -0500
Subject: Brantford ON 1997-11-01
Message-id: <199711020515.AAA15375@coxeter.math.toronto.edu>

The imitable Glenn Dunlop held his 14th annual tournament today (Saturday, November 1st, 1997) in Brantford ON. Situated as it is within driving distance of Toronto, Buffalo, Michigan and even occasionally Montreal, Glenn's annual tournament is a very pleasant way for much of the local Scrabble community to get together for a day. The food is always good and plentiful; and I lost track of how many non-playing runners he had working at this 120-player tournament, but it must have been close to a dozen.

As usual, we played five rounds according to a fixed schedule in smaller groups, followed by two rounds of KOTH. This made for an exciting race in the top group, where after the first five rounds, Libero Paolella was the only 4-1, with eight 3-2s hot on his heels. Libero went on to take advantage of the absence of many of his fellow WSC97 competitors to win a well-deserved victory.

The high point of my own day came in my last game of my day, against a tropical fish from Buffalo who might prefer not to be reminded of the game. I found and played the highest-scoring (and I believe correct) play with the rack '??BEIUU' and the following position (score 123-47 in my favour before the play, opp's last play AERIE (15)).

= . . ' . . . = . . . ' . . =
. - . . . " . . . " . . . - . 
. . - . . . ' . ' . . . - . . 
' . . - . . . W I D T H . . ' 
. . . A E R I E . I - . . . . 
. " . . . " . . . X . . . " . 
. . ' . . . ' . ' I . . ' . . 
= . . G R E Y E S T . ' . . = 
. . ' O . . ' . ' . . . ' . . 
. " . W . " . . . " . . . " . 
. . . A - . . . . . - . . . . 
' . . N . . . ' . . . - . . ' 
. . - . . . ' . ' . . . - . . 
. - . . . " . . . " . . . - . 
= . . ' . . . = . . . ' . . = 

With Fern Lindzon's help, I entered complete final standings as posted on the wall; I apologise for any typos made by my tired end-of-tourney fingers, and for not having had time to enter the numerous secondary prizewinners.

John


John Chew (poslfit on MD/WD/PD)
poslfit@gmail.com * http://www.math.utoronto.ca/~jjchew

EXPERT

Libero Paolella        5    +332    Mike Wise		   4	-162
Mark Przybyszewski     5    +287    Lloyd Mills 	   3	+266
John Dafoe	       5    -225    Randy Greenspan	   3	 +71
Ray Francis	       4    +265    Shaun Goatcher	   2	+124
Tim Anglin	       4     +60    Glenn Mosher	   2	 -91
John Chew	       4     +46    Jerry Scheiten	   2	-357
Leah Katz	       4     -67    Ken Lambe		   2	-523

INTERMEDIATE 1

Bruce Cramer	       6    +558    Fern Lindzon	   3	 -17
Hilda Schlechter       6    +436    Ron Folga		   3	-104
Grant Rowland	       5    +449    Judy Weiler 	   3	-197
Linda Gomes	       5    +366    Shirley Green	   3	-207
Tim Knowles	       4    +295    Mike Krepakevich	   3	-351
Gene Rawlins	       4    +231    Alida Hunt		   2	-114
Trevor Sealy	       4     +97    Steve Ozorio	   2	-116
Dianne Thomas	       4     +54    Neil Naft		   2	-325
Karen Francis	       4     -14    Lynda Wise		   2	-382
Heather McCall	       4     -68    Desiree Gomes	   1	-627

INTERMEDIATE 2

Lorraine Lamont        5.5  +447    Eugene Van der Walker  4	 -73
Gladys Rood	       5.5  +191    Eunice Smith	   3	 +81
Anthony Famularo       5    +278    Stan Jeffay 	   3	 +12
Sophia Murzin	       5    +277    Robert Johnson	   3	   0
Pat Tolhurst	       5    +139    Joan Phillips	   3	 -29
Barbara Palmer	       4.5  +264    Faye Lapping	   3	 -86
Joyce Skuse	       4.5  +184    Cliff Gauthier	   3	-238
Jamie Loveless	       4    +482    Mag Barrett 	   2	-146
May Aquilina	       4    +256    Joyce Wood		   2	-223
Myna Wallin	       4     +71    Frances Forsythe	   2	-239
Pat McGuinness	       4     +66    Rosemarie Schmidt	   2	-531
Barb Mersereau	       4     +26    Audrey Dion 	   1	-276
Evi Pike	       4     -13    Linda Lamont	   1	-735

RECREATIONAL 1

Maddalena Palazzo      6    +395    Gerhard Stefely	   3.5	-185
Carl Maden	       6    +360    Jean Wilson 	   3	+229
Tia Grainger	       6    +299    John Lodinsky	   3	+195
Ruth Simpson	       5    +346    Tony Fodero 	   3	+103
Tiffany Monture        5    +233    Sophia Ozorio	   3	  +5
Chris Sykes	       5    +189    Don Ross		   3	  -5
Barry Spinner	       5    +158    Donna Wyonch	   3	-110
Su Edwards	       5    +154    Crista Scheiten	   3	-267
Vivienne Muhling       5     +95    Mandy Adamson	   2.5	+116
Chuck Leonard	       5    -145    Vinnette Francis	   2	 +66
Joyce Spalding	       4    +203    Janice Madill	   2	 -76
Charmaine Wolfe        4    +169    Shirley Kramer	   2	-186
Kim Monture	       4    +118    Sal Desiato 	   2	-235
Jean Barinque	       4     +95    Theresie Breault	   2	-238
Gene Tyszka	       4     +59    Maureen Case	   2	-334
Stuart Levinsky        4     +57    Isabel Foster	   2	-354
Wanell Kelsey	       4     +32    Bill Gunn		   1	-359
Diane Brown	       4     +20    George Van Dyk	   1	-497
John Robertson	       4     -90    Eva Jones		   0	-842

RECREATIONAL 2

Lou Cornelis	       7    +304    Lucian Keil 	   4	  -3
David Nykamp	       6    +203    Evan Kramer 	   3	+153
Anne Shorten	       5    +367    Susan Gosso 	   3	 +79
Valeria Kovacs	       5    +276    Petronella Read	   3	 +67
Adrienne Monture       5    +194    Sharon Crawford-Mackay 3	-119
Michael Zigler	       4    +425    Dorothy Hackney	   3	-259
Ken Somerville	       4    +199    Karma Madden	   2	-220
Debbie Peacock	       4    +193    Wendy Madden	   2	-253
Marg Miklos	       4    +112    Melissa Van Dyk	   1	-409
Margaret Zygocki       4     +37    Cathy Smith 	   1	-441
Jim Masluk	       4     +32    Lydia Koperdraad	   0	-907