Third Canadian National SCRABBLE® Championship
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This page is mirrored from the Official Event Site. |
This page lists all fifty competitors in the Canadian Championship, in order of pre-tournament ranking. | ||
Name: David Boys Age: 36 Occupation: Programmer Analyst Pre-Tournament Ranking: 1 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 5 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 5 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 18 Qualifying Rating: 2027 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal, QC Years of Tournament Play: 15 Notes: David was the 1995 World Champion. According to his mother, his future in the game of SCRABBLE® was foretold when at the tender age of four, he took up a red crayon and inscribed the F word on the wall of his bedroom, spelling it correctly of course. | ||
Name: Adam Logan Age: 25 Occupation: Mathematician Pre-Tournament Ranking: 2 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 1 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 4 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 2 Qualifying Rating: 2023 Residence: Berkeley, CA Years of Tournament Play: 15 Notes: Adam has represented Canada both in the World Scrabble Championship and in the International Mathematical Olympiad, a mathematics contest for high school students. In 1996, he won both the Canadian and North American Championships. | ||
Name: Joel Wapnick Age: 54 Occupation: Professor, Faculty of Music, McGill University Pre-Tournament Ranking: 3 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 3 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 1 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 15 Qualifying Rating: 1959 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 17 Notes: Joel is the reigning World and Canadian champion. | ||
Name: James Cherry Age: 30 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 4 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 29 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 3 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 6 Qualifying Rating: 1939 Residence: Ottawa, ON Years of Tournament Play: 6 Notes: "One of the few EE PhDs who's resisted the Brain Drain to the US -- so far." | ||
Name: Zev Kaufman Age: 53 Occupation: Contractor Pre-Tournament Ranking: 5 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 6 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 24 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 8 Qualifying Rating: 1921 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto, ON Years of Tournament Play: 19 Notes: Will walk to Scrabble tournaments, up to 3 miles. | ||
Name: Tim Anglin Age: 59 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 6 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 30 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 31 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 29 Qualifying Rating: 1883 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto, ON Years of Tournament Play: 13 Notes: Omar Sharif said "I make movies so I can play bridge." Tim says "I retired so I could play SCRABBLE®." | ||
Name: Albert Hahn Age: 52 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 7 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 16 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 2 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 4 Qualifying Rating: 1877 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary, AB Years of Tournament Play: 7 Notes: Albert was the runner-up at the 1998 CNSC. | ||
Name: Jakob Teitelbaum Age: 18 Occupation: student Pre-Tournament Ranking: 8 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 33 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 19 Qualifying Rating: 1877 Residence: Ottawa, ON Years of Tournament Play: 7 Notes: Second-youngest competitor, son of 13th-ranked Peter Teitelbaum. | ||
Name: Bernard Gotlieb Age: 42 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 9 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 19 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 27 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 27 Qualifying Rating: 1858 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 22 Notes: Bernard is the director of the Montréal club and the winner of the 1998 Michael Wise NSA Director of the Year award. He once got a flat on his wheelchair in front of Buckingham Palace, and a bobby helpfully corrected him, telling him that what he had was a puncture. | ||
Name: Evan Berofsky Age: 25 Occupation: Administrative Assistant, I.T. Department, Shoppers Drug Mart Pre-Tournament Ranking: 10 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 24 Qualifying Rating: 1854 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto, ON Notes: "Once described by a fellow Scrabble® player as the next David Boys." | ||
Name: Jim Nanavati Age: 43 Occupation: teacher Pre-Tournament Ranking: 11 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 26 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 8 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 9 Qualifying Rating: 1846 Residence: Burlington, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 8 Notes: Once won 15 of 21 games in a marathon session with a friend, from 5:30 P.M. to 3:00 A.M. | ||
Name: Libero Paolella Age: 45 Occupation: bicycle courier Pre-Tournament Ranking: 12 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 11 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 9 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 7 Qualifying Rating: 1843 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto, ON | ||
Name: Peter Teitelbaum Age: 54 Occupation: physician Pre-Tournament Ranking: 13 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 18 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 40 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 5 Qualifying Rating: 1839 Residence: Ottawa, ON Years of Tournament Play: 16 Notes: Father of 8th ranked Jakob Teitelbaum. | ||
Name: Paul Sidorsky Age: 23 Occupation: student Pre-Tournament Ranking: 14 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 50 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 10 Qualifying Rating: 1836 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary Years of Tournament Play: 4 | ||
Name: Ron Hoekstra Age: 32 Occupation: Accountant (at the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired) Pre-Tournament Ranking: 15 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 32 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 1 Qualifying Rating: 1833 Residence: Grand Rapids, MI NSA Club: #371, Grand Rapids Years of Tournament Play: 4 Notes: Ron was born and raised in Richmond BC, plays keyboards, loves hockey and languages. He speaks Dutch and some French, and is studying Latin and Spanish. | ||
Name: Shaun Goatcher Age: 48 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 16 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 4 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 11 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 36 Qualifying Rating: 1820 Residence: Mississauga, ON NSA Club: #422, Mississauga, ON Years of Tournament Play: 37 Notes: Shaun is the past director of the Mississauga club. | ||
Name: George MacAulay Pre-Tournament Ranking: 17 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 28 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 14 Qualifying Rating: 1813 Residence: Saskatoon, SK | ||
Name: Christopher Sykes Age: 34 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 18 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 3 Qualifying Rating: 1812 Residence: Cambridge, ON Notes: Chris writes: "I am a Christian who happens to be a computer programmer living and working in Cambridge ON. Originally from England, I came to Canada in 1990, and became a SCRABBLE® player in 1996 shortly after John Robertson and Su Edwards founded the Golden Triangle SCRABBLE® Club in Cambridge. Formerly known as 'The Huddersfield Mangler', my online name changed from 'Huddersmangler' to 'gospell'." | ||
Name: Craig Rowland Age: 34 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 19 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 12 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 20 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 33 Qualifying Rating: 1807 Residence: Mississauga, ON NSA Club: #422, Mississauga Years of Tournament Play: 7 Notes: Craig is the director of the Mississauga club, and a self-described language freak with a passion for minority non-Indo-European languages who spent the past summer learning Finnish in Helsinki and is also a collector of Apple Records and Beatles memorabilia. | ||
Name: Hugh Currie Pre-Tournament Ranking: 20 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 15 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 23 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 40 Qualifying Rating: 1806 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto | ||
Name: Lisa Deift Age: 38 Occupation: gemologist Pre-Tournament Ranking: 21 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 10 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 39 Qualifying Rating: 1804 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 17 | ||
Name: Andrew Golding Age: 35 Occupation: programmer/analyst Pre-Tournament Ranking: 22 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 20 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 6 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 37 Qualifying Rating: 1804 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 12 Notes: "Gave up skydiving to become a SCRABBLE® player." | ||
Name: Jeffrey Parsons Age: 37 Occupation: Associate Professor (Information Systems) Pre-Tournament Ranking: 23 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 36 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 30 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 13 Qualifying Rating: 1790 Residence: St. John's, NF NSA Club: none Years of Tournament Play: 12 Notes: Jeff is the only player representing the Maritimes at the CNSC, and prefers fishing for salmon to fishing for tiles. | ||
Name: Rama Murty Age: 59 Occupation: Adjunct professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Pre-Tournament Ranking: 24 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 23 Qualifying Rating: 1783 Residence: Waterloo, ON Notes: "I work in an area of mathematics called combinatorics, more specifically, graph theory. I like travelling, languages, reading and history. I am looking forward to playing in my first CNSC." | ||
Name: Fran Silver Age: 56 Occupation: Teacher for "Special" Children and Adults Pre-Tournament Ranking: 25 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 14 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 7 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 22 Qualifying Rating: 1773 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 14 Notes: "Dancer, Teacher, Scrabbler, Wife and Mother... in that order!" | ||
Name: Glenn Dunlop Age: 56 Occupation: Retired (from Ontario Government, Corrections) Pre-Tournament Ranking: 26 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 7 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 13 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 17 Qualifying Rating: 1768 Residence: Brantford, ON NSA Club: #193, Brantford Years of Tournament Play: 19 Notes: Glenn is the director of the Brantford club and of its popular annual November tournament. His tournament holds the North American attendance record for one- or two-day tournaments: 132 players competed on November 5th, 1994. He himself holds the Canadian record for highest scoring club or tournament game: 706 points vs. Hy Francis at the Toronto SCRABBLE® Club. | ||
Name: Randall Thomas Age: 44 Occupation: Freelance Pre-Tournament Ranking: 27 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 12 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 30 Qualifying Rating: 1765 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary, AB Years of Tournament Play: 9 Notes: Randall writes: "The highest altitude (on land) at which I've played a game of SCRABBLE® was 17,600 feet. That was on a rest day at Nido de Condores (Nest of the Condors) on the standard route of Aconcagua in Argentina. Unfortunately, a few days later, we had to turn back from our summit bid due to bad weather, at approx. 21,600 feet." | ||
Name: Don Malcolm Age: 62 Occupation: Retired high school teacher Pre-Tournament Ranking: 28 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 36 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 12 Qualifying Rating: 1765 Residence: Victoria, BC NSA Club: #402, Victoria Years of Tournament Play: 6 Notes: Enjoying retirement, sharing a happy life with Roslyn, trying to be as good an investor as Gene Rawlins and as good a SCRABBLE® player as Joel Wapnick. | ||
Name: Siri Tillekeratne Age: 58 Occupation: civil/structural engineer Pre-Tournament Ranking: 29 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 23 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 25 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 16 Qualifying Rating: 1730 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary Years of Tournament Play: 25 Notes: Siri is the director of the Calgary club and the winner of the 1996 Michael Wise NSA Director of the Year award. | ||
Name: Linda Espallardo Age: 59 Occupation: Registered Nurse Pre-Tournament Ranking: 30 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 25 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 18 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 34 Qualifying Rating: 1720 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 17 | ||
Name: Carl Madden Pre-Tournament Ranking: 31 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 26 Qualifying Rating: 1718 Residence: Brantford ON | ||
Name: Leah Katz Age: 74 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 32 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 37 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 22 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 48 Qualifying Rating: 1707 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 18 | ||
Name: Wayne Clifford Pre-Tournament Ranking: 33 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 38 Qualifying Rating: 1701 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary, AB | ||
Name: Ray Francis Age: 40 Occupation: Manager, Market Data Infrastructure (Scotiabank) Pre-Tournament Ranking: 34 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 24 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 28 Qualifying Rating: 1697 Residence: Pickering, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto, ON Years of Tournament Play: 17 | ||
Name: Steve Ozorio Occupation: Assistant Hotel Manager Pre-Tournament Ranking: 35 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 46 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 43 Qualifying Rating: 1697 Residence: Mississauga, ON NSA Club: #422, Mississauga, ON | ||
Name: Fern Lindzon Age: 42 Occupation: jazz singer/pianist Pre-Tournament Ranking: 36 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 35 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 42 Qualifying Rating: 1672 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 5 | ||
Name: Joe Peters Age: 40 Occupation: groundskeeper Pre-Tournament Ranking: 37 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 21 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 34 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 47 Qualifying Rating: 1670 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 18 | ||
Name: Leon Fernandes Age: 14 Occupation: student Pre-Tournament Ranking: 38 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 44 Qualifying Rating: 1666 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary, AB Notes: Leon is the youngest competitor this year. | ||
Name: Anita Rackham Occupation: Retired after 35 years in pharmaceutical new drug research. Pre-Tournament Ranking: 39 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 45 Qualifying Rating: 1656 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Notes: Anita writes: "I hope that my 693-point play of a few years ago (QUIXOTES on a triple-triple) was not a once-in-a-lifetime occurence - If I can just pull off another one in Toronto!" | ||
Name: Mike Ryan Age: 54 Occupation: Thoroughbred Race Charting Pre-Tournament Ranking: 40 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 32 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 11 Qualifying Rating: 1650 Residence: Richmond, BC Notes: Mike's avocation: the archaeology of prehispanic (Mayan) Mesoamerica | ||
Name: John Robertson Age: 36 Occupation: Part-time bookkeeper at a medical facility, private tutor, writer and softball umpire. Pre-Tournament Ranking: 41 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 21 Qualifying Rating: 1648 Residence: Cambridge, ON Notes: John is the author of three books on baseball history: The Babe Chases 60, Baseball's Greatest Controversies, and 777 Baseball Trivia Teasers. He has also written approximately 75 biographical sketches for sports encyclopedias. From 1995 through 1999, he wrote a weekly sports history column for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. In 1996, he co-founded the Cambridge-based Golden Triangle SCRABBLE® Club. | ||
Name: Lisa Kessler Age: 45 Occupation: Media Supervisor Pre-Tournament Ranking: 42 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 15 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 46 Qualifying Rating: 1637 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 12 Notes: Lisa writes: "I'm always entertained by what we call 'SCRABBLE® Sightings' - instances when SCRABBLE® games show up unexpectedly in real life. Working as I do in Advertising, the two worlds collided recently when I spotted an ad for a new car. The SCRABBLE® trademark has surely reached new heights, to wit: with the ad's headline claiming that this car was designed to deliver more than the competition, the selling point - as demonstrated with tiles on a SCRABBLE® rack - was that its name outscores the names of its competitors!" | ||
Name: Sary Karanofsky Age: 49 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 43 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 33 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 16 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 32 Qualifying Rating: 1629 Residence: Montréal, QC NSA Club: #83, Montréal Years of Tournament Play: 11 | ||
Name: Trevor Sealy Age: 51 Occupation: Manager of Accounting, Durham District School Board Pre-Tournament Ranking: 44 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 20 Qualifying Rating: 1626 Residence: Oshawa, ON NSA Club: #263, Oshawa, ON Notes: Trevor is the director of the Oshawa club. | ||
Name: John Dafoe Age: 48 Occupation: computer consultant engineer Pre-Tournament Ranking: 45 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 43 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 25 Qualifying Rating: 1617 Residence: Brampton, ON NSA Club: #422, Mississauga Years of Tournament Play: 6 | ||
Name: Mike Ebanks Age: 51 Occupation: courier Pre-Tournament Ranking: 46 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 31 Qualifying Rating: 1612 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary, AB | ||
Name: Danny Panganiban Age: 50 Occupation: Corrosion technologist Pre-Tournament Ranking: 47 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 44 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 41 Qualifying Rating: 1583 Residence: Calgary, AB NSA Club: #374, Calgary, AB Years of Tournament Play: 5 Notes: Spends half his time in Calgary AB, the other half in Mississauga ON. | ||
Name: Brenda Megannety Age: 48 Pre-Tournament Ranking: 48 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 26 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 49 Qualifying Rating: 1580 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 8 | ||
Name: Lynda Wise Age: 56 Occupation: High school guidance counsellor and teacher Pre-Tournament Ranking: 49 CNSC 1996 Ranking: 35 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 37 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 50 Qualifying Rating: 1554 Residence: Toronto, ON NSA Club: #3, Toronto Years of Tournament Play: 25 Notes: Her most frequent SCRABBLE® thought: "I'm really going to start learning words right after this tournament!" | ||
Name: Hilda Schlechter Age: 62 Occupation: Retired Pre-Tournament Ranking: 50 CNSC 1998 Ranking: 38 CNSC 2000 18-Round Ranking: 35 Qualifying Rating: 1549 Residence: Oshawa, ON NSA Club: #263, Oshawa, ON Years of Tournament Play: 18 Notes: Hilda's pastimes are baking and gardening. | ||
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