Clearly I'm not posting any more. But I wrote this at Gerry's behest for some MSI thing, and here it is ( Read more... )

I'd been asked to write an article for the upcoming Aussie scrabble magazine about Nigel's triumph in Belgium. It ended up much longer than I intended, but the editor is going to publish the whole thing - I also put it up as a public Facebook note, and amazingly enough it has already been shared 35 times (I'm going viral). So I'll put it here too.
( Article here )

Three games against worthy opponents for my readership's delectation ( Read more... )

Modest recovery yesterday in the Team Challenge event, the worst part of which was having to wear festive team headgear for photos etc - mine a sparkling silver top hat. Netted seven wins from nine, the most interesting being this encounter with Naween.http://www.cross-

I’ve not blogged in ages, partly because nobody much reads this and the conversation has moved on to other arenas. And partly because I’m less focused on Scrabble than I used to be. This could be related to an ongoing campaign of unpleasantness from a bullying individual who has been haranguing and harassing the Victorian committee (of which I used ( Read more... )

This year’s Victorian championship was a real struggle. The field was pretty weak despite a good top prize of $1,000 - only 50 participants, of whom a mere 5 exceeded 1700 in rating. Good to see quite a few interstaters, but I don’t know why the locals are so Laodicean these days (possibly a three-day tournament is too long for some). I was ( Read more... )

Here's another, already on Facebook and with a few comments, though I don't expect anything here these days ( Read more... )

Looks like I was playing pretty sharply this time (much better than in Prague). I'll post links here to some of the games when uploaded, but will also put them on Facebook where I expect a few more responses will be engendered. This is my first of two matchups with Naween: Read more... )

Gosh - I have played the two highest bingos ever recorded in tournament scrabble in Sweden ( Read more... )

I had three pleasant days in Prague before the tourney began. By the time Wednesday rolled around I had been everywhere I desired, mainly on foot, occasionally bumping into parties of scrabblers (e.g. Chris Cree and friends en route for the mediaeval clock, or Hubert in a seafood café in an out-of-the-way mall) and occasionally meeting them by ( Read more... )