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The Winter League reached its conclusion in early February. Here are the divisional tables - well done to Richard, Deborah and Charles for winning their respective divisions. (Minimum of 17 games).
2023-2024 WINTER LEAGUE
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Played Won Lost Draw Win-Bon AvgBon Total AVERAGE Division A
Division B
Division C
During the season (up to the end of January, subject to bad weather etc), every player will have fixtures rearranged, broadly a range of different players each week. You may play some people more than once. A WIN is worth 10 points, a DRAW 5 points. Sadly nothing for a LOSS.
If you beat a player one Division above you, you get a 10 point bonus (WIN-BON). If you have beat a player 2 divisions above you get a 20 point bonus.
If anyone, winner or loser, in any division, exceeds their average score they will accrue a 5 point bonus. (AVG-BON). It doesn’t matter if you can’t play every week, as the total scores are averaged by the number of games played to see who won the league.
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The Winter League reached its conclusion in early February. Here are the divisional tables - well done to Richard, Deborah and Charles for winning their respective divisions. (Minimum of 17 games).
2023-2024 WINTER LEAGUE
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Played Won Lost Draw Win-Bon AvgBon Total AVERAGE Division A
Division B
Division C
During the season (up to the end of January, subject to bad weather etc), every player will have fixtures rearranged, broadly a range of different players each week. You may play some people more than once. A WIN is worth 10 points, a DRAW 5 points. Sadly nothing for a LOSS.
If you beat a player one Division above you, you get a 10 point bonus (WIN-BON). If you have beat a player 2 divisions above you get a 20 point bonus.
If anyone, winner or loser, in any division, exceeds their average score they will accrue a 5 point bonus. (AVG-BON). It doesn’t matter if you can’t play every week, as the total scores are averaged by the number of games played to see who won the league.
Promotion / relegation for those that play more 17+ games. |
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What to do with 2 blanks ?
Try to make them into a 7 letter word. Think about the other 5 tiles -what is missing to make a good rack? An S ? A vowel ? A consonant ? Mentally turn one of the blanks into one of these ‘missing letters’ and then continue again to allocate the second blank.
Here are two questions :
1. What bonuses can you make with BLANK and two blanks ?
There are 8 words to find – try to find at least 5.
2. What are the 9 anagrams of NOVEM and two blanks ?
This is harder, most are NOT in common parlance, but most are ‘definable’ if you saw them in a book. Try to find at least 4.
Answers below :
Coming soon
Soon
Nearly there
Now
Answers :
BLANK?? –
BLACKEN BLANKED BLANKIE BLANKER BLANKET BALKING BLANKLY LAMBKIN
NOVEM??
OVERMAN ENMOVED VENOMED UNMOVED ENVENOM OVERMEN VENOMER ENMOVES EMOVING
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On 9th October, Richard played in the Luton one-day tournament..
It was a well attended, enjoyable day with 42 players split between 3 divisions of 14 and the first tournament held there since 2019. Richard played in Division A and won 4 out of his seven games which was enough to finish 7th, win the ratings prize for the division and a cash prize.
The highlight was Richard managing to win 2 games against an expert player that he had not managed to defeat before.
Bonuses played in the tournament by Richard were as follows;
MORULAE, GRANULES, VAPORING, GREASING, ARTLESS, YPERITES, SNORTER, CREASING, BLISTER, RADIATE, LINEAGE, WHIRRING, ORACIES, DELATING, ENSLAVES, AERONAUT, TRIDENT, LISTENED.
Well played Richard - here is a photo of Richard receiving his rating prize. Thanks to Angele Andrews for supplying the photograph.
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The Ilford tournament returned on the 3rd April for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and was attended by two club members, Richard Spencer and Fiona Titcombe. Eight games were played over the course of the day, Richard playing in division B and Fiona in division C.
Both players started well, winning their first few games. Richard's good run continued, and his six wins (+412 spread) were enough to secure him the third place prize for his division. Well done Richard! Fiona finished on four wins (+75 spread), a decent effort for her second tournament.
Aside from the scrabble, a definite highlight of the event was the excellent cakes kindly provided by Stella Burley! The next Ilford tournament is planned for the 26 June.
Here is Richard receiving his third place prize.
Thanks to Fiona for this report.
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