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)).
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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
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
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
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
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
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