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Frank Tangredi winning the six-game Early Bird tourney
$413

Jason Idalski winning Division B of the 15-game main tourney
$450

Getting to spend the weekend with a good friend
Priceless

franktangredi wrote:Frank Tangredi winning the six-game Early Bird tourney
$413

Jason Idalski winning Division B of the 15-game main tourney
$450

Getting to spend the weekend with a good friend
Priceless

I did not know that you guys played for $$$$. I thought you might win new dictionaries.

Congrats to both of you!!!!!!

Congratulations to you both! I'm proud of you, and I'm delighted that you two had a chance to get together.

Where is Jason living, now that he's out of college?

Congratulations!

Very nice! Spend the money wisely!

How great!

Congratulations.

silvercamaro wrote:Congratulations to you both! I'm proud of you, and I'm delighted that you two had a chance to get together.

Where is Jason living, now that he's out of college?

Jason's still in Michigan. He's a copyeditor on a newspaper and wants journalism to be his long-term career.

Want to feel old? He's going to be 25 in two weeks!

I keep up with Jason's age as he is a year younger than my son. They are now both young men.

Congratulations to both of you!

Wow! Congratulations to you both! Good thing you were inside and missed all the crappy weather around here over the weekend. Do the wins qualify you for national tournaments?

Congrats on the victory, Frank! I don't know if you had worked out that I'm another Scrabble player. I can't wait to meet you over the board someday. I'm sure we'll see each other, if not necessarily over the board, at the Nationals in Orlando.

I'm headed to Portland for Oregon Tile in a couple of days, so wish me luck!

plasticene wrote:Congrats on the victory, Frank! I don't know if you had worked out that I'm another Scrabble player. I can't wait to meet you over the board someday. I'm sure we'll see each other, if not necessarily over the board, at the Nationals in Orlando.

I'm headed to Portland for Oregon Tile in a couple of days, so wish me luck!

Is it significant that your "Perf" has increased monotonically and that your result has matched or exceeded your seed in every event that's listed? --Bob

franktangredi wrote:Frank Tangredi winning the six-game Early Bird tourney
$413

Jason Idalski winning Division B of the 15-game main tourney
$450

Getting to spend the weekend with a good friend
Priceless

Congratulations to both of you! --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

plasticene wrote:Congrats on the victory, Frank! I don't know if you had worked out that I'm another Scrabble player. I can't wait to meet you over the board someday. I'm sure we'll see each other, if not necessarily over the board, at the Nationals in Orlando.

I'm headed to Portland for Oregon Tile in a couple of days, so wish me luck!

Is it significant that your "Perf" has increased monotonically and that your result has matched or exceeded your seed in every event that's listed? --Bob

The significance is that I'm improving fast between tournaments. I study like a fiend, because I'm eager to play against the best competition.

I only started going to Scrabble club last August. I had played some Scrabble online, but most of my word knowledge came from playing (online) Boggle obsessively about six years ago, which gave me a great education in the short words, but not so good in the long words.

When I started going to club, I already knew maybe 97% of the 5,100 words up to four letters. I think most people start concentrating on learning 7- and 8-letter words before they completely master the fours, so that actually gave me a leg up when I started playing in tournaments. Since then, I've learned practically all the 9,000 fives and maybe 7,000 of the 24,000 sevens, but only a few hundred of the 30,000 eights, (By "learned", I mean the ability to look at the scrambled letters of a word and unscramble them reasonably quickly.)

Fortunately, I really enjoy the studying. I can do it while watching TV or eating lunch. I love playing the game, and I love getting to know all the other people who love it as much as I do. (Kind of like Play-It!, in a way.)

plasticene wrote:Congrats on the victory, Frank! I don't know if you had worked out that I'm another Scrabble player. I can't wait to meet you over the board someday. I'm sure we'll see each other, if not necessarily over the board, at the Nationals in Orlando.

I'm headed to Portland for Oregon Tile in a couple of days, so wish me luck!

Cool. I didn't realize we had another NSAer here. You seem to be on the rise.

I will definitely be at Orlando. Jason won't this year, but I'm sure you will meet him as well.

If any of the old gang is interested, here are my stats and Jason's.

http://www.cross-tables.com/results.php ... alldates=1

http://www.cross-tables.com/results.php?p=810