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Rafal Dominiczak has won Division C at the UK Open in Coventry. After a grueling fight he ensured the title in his last - 38th game of the tournament. He won the tournament on spread of +2530.
Rafal wins 1500 Ł - the highest prizemoney won by a Polish Scrabble player ever!
CONGRATULATIONS!
In division B Mihai Pantis of Romania claims the title and 1500 Ł - six points clear of the rest of the field with a record of 31-7 +2203. According to Adrian Tamas this is the first prizemoney ever won by a Romanian player in a Scrabble tournament.
WELL DONE, MIHAI !
In division A Nigel Richards walks away with the 1st prize of 2100 Ł - two points ahead of Paul Allan (2nd) and Craig Beevers (3rd).
Helen finished 5th and gets 105 Ł.
After a good start to the tournament Adrian hit the lows and finished 18th.
A fascinating tournament and a lucky finish for two of my hot favorites.
It's fantastic that players from countries which could be called "underdogs of English-language Scrabble" managed to beat the native players on their home ground. I think this is an example that if we could start the movement of English Scrabble on a wider scale in Poland / Romania the success would be almost certain.
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Congratulations to Rafal from Romania ! It was a fantastic competition with a fabulous finish (eg. a round where both leaders tied their games) !
As for the money, we won some pounds in the past, including Adrian himself, Mihai, me (Catalin Caba), Dan Sandu and also Ovidiu Tamas - Adrian's farther (5th place on D division).
We should think seriously of organizing a bilateral tournament Polish-Romanian, for example one year in Poland, next year in Romania, being the only nations from the old Warsaw Pact who play English competitional scrabble.
The next tournaments where we will take part are the one in Malta (European Open and Malta Open). There will be Mihai, Dan, me and maybe Ovidiu Tamas. Hope to see you all there ! Good luck and keep in touch !
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