This has been my second World Scrabble Championship appearance after the 2009 WSC in Malaysia. All my goals have been achieved:
1) to win 12 games - I won 15 games
2) to finish in the top 100 - I finished 93rd.
All in all it's been a Championship full of surprises for me.
I managed to beat two good players in games where I got no blanks.
I also managed to lose a game to a Czech player, who's never played at this level before.
This just goes to show how unpredicatable this game can get.
The two games I will remember most were the last game on day 3 which I lost to Nick Ball (CAN) by 3 points (511:514):
http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=9621
and the first game on day 4 which I won against Gunnar Anderson (SWE) by 1 point (374-373):
http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=9622
I will also cherish the game I won against Alastair Richards (AUS) (who finished 10th in the overall standings). I went into this game with a memory of my previous 3 games against him (all clearly lost) played in a recent tournament in Coventry not even a week before (381:446, 273:498 and 337:570 - a game with 6 bingos for my opponent). I had no blanks in this game but thanks to good fortune I managed to win this one by 395-361.
My other happy game was against John O'Laughlin (USA) - this time I got 4 S's and a blank and won by 417-385.
And then there was the lucky finish of the tournament. After beating Phil Robertshaw of England I won the remaining three games of the tournament - against Keichiro from Japan, then against the current Polish champion Wojtek and finally against a Canadian - Andrew Golding.
I'm really happy with my four wins against native English speakers from USA, Canada, England and Australia.
I'm happy with my overall performance despite getting only 40% of the blanks.
I think it was a very good idea to play in the Cock of the North tournament in Coventry just before the WSC.
I now feel strong and confident about my chance of doing well in my 5th (after Mannheim, Peterborough, Coventry and Warsaw) and last Scrabble tournament this year - the ultimate Causeways Challenge 2011 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia in 40-days' time.
1) to win 12 games - I won 15 games
2) to finish in the top 100 - I finished 93rd.
All in all it's been a Championship full of surprises for me.
I managed to beat two good players in games where I got no blanks.
I also managed to lose a game to a Czech player, who's never played at this level before.
This just goes to show how unpredicatable this game can get.
The two games I will remember most were the last game on day 3 which I lost to Nick Ball (CAN) by 3 points (511:514):
http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=9621
and the first game on day 4 which I won against Gunnar Anderson (SWE) by 1 point (374-373):
http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=9622
I will also cherish the game I won against Alastair Richards (AUS) (who finished 10th in the overall standings). I went into this game with a memory of my previous 3 games against him (all clearly lost) played in a recent tournament in Coventry not even a week before (381:446, 273:498 and 337:570 - a game with 6 bingos for my opponent). I had no blanks in this game but thanks to good fortune I managed to win this one by 395-361.
My other happy game was against John O'Laughlin (USA) - this time I got 4 S's and a blank and won by 417-385.
And then there was the lucky finish of the tournament. After beating Phil Robertshaw of England I won the remaining three games of the tournament - against Keichiro from Japan, then against the current Polish champion Wojtek and finally against a Canadian - Andrew Golding.
I'm really happy with my four wins against native English speakers from USA, Canada, England and Australia.
I'm happy with my overall performance despite getting only 40% of the blanks.
I think it was a very good idea to play in the Cock of the North tournament in Coventry just before the WSC.
I now feel strong and confident about my chance of doing well in my 5th (after Mannheim, Peterborough, Coventry and Warsaw) and last Scrabble tournament this year - the ultimate Causeways Challenge 2011 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia in 40-days' time.
The STATS for WSC 2011:
Games won: 15
Games lost: 19
Spread: -318
Average for: 406.0
Average against: 415.3
Blanks: 27/68 = 40%
S's: 77/132 = 57%
Games won:
2 blanks: 6/6 (100%)
1 blank: 5/15 (33%)
0 blanks: 4/13 (31%)
Bingos for: 63 (1.85 per game)
Bingos against: 60 (1.76 per game)
7 letter bingos: 36 (57%)
8 letter bingos: 27 (43%)
Bingos with blanks: 21 (33%)
Bingos without blanks: 42 (67%)
Highest no of bingos in a game: 4
Lowest no of bingos in a game: 0
High game: 546
Low game: 292
Highest combined score: 1025 (lost to Nick Ball by 511-514)
No comments:
Post a Comment