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From: JCGreen@ix.netcom.com (John C Green Jr)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:44:02 GMT
Subject: Early Reno Dreg Results
Message-id: <199801180547.XAA28734@dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com>

SCRABBLE (registered trademark) Brand Crossword Game is hereinafter referred to as SCRABBLE.

Felt posted some early elite results. Here are some early dreg 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 rating
for a total of 113 players.

The first part of the tournament is a quasi round robin.

The Novice standings after round 06:

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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  5 Kimo Ah Yun         994 6 +646
 2  2 David Filippi      1086 5 +611
 3  7 Julia Bogle         969 5 +317
 4 22 David Moss          UNR 5 +278
 5  9 Myna Wallin         940 5 + 56
 6  3 Evi Pike           1027 4 +483
 7  1 Cynthia Ho         1088 4 +230
 8 19 John Green          683 4 + 25
 9  4 Eve Jones           999 3 +246
10 11 Mengus Reeves       909 3 +112
11 10 Jim Barker          910 3 + 69
12 12 Sandy Yerkes        835 3 +  4
13  6 Judith Whitcomb     973 3 +  1
14 21 Paula Catanese      500 3 - 75
15 17 Joseph Perkowski    711 3 -639
16  8 Gretchen Richmond   960 2 -260
17 16 Sharon Perkowski    740 2 -296
18 18 Laurie Longway      703 1 -248
19 16 Letty Dolphin       735 1 -278
20 20 Jacqueline Veevers  568 1 -351
21 13 Judith Romanenkov   832 0 -459
22 14 Charlotte Bremond   750 0 -472
Five 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.

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