Results after game 10
BORDER CHALLENGE 2003 -- NSW : VIC
Rank Player Wins Mar
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1 Trevor Halsall 8 563
NSW 2 Rod Talbot 7 583
NSW 3 Bob Jackman 7 431
4 Geoff Wright 7 4
NSW 5 Joanne Craig 6 491
6 Andrew Fisher 6 430
NSW 7 Jan Serisier 6 313
8 Harry Malcolm 6 305
9 Linda Findlay 6 257
NSW 10 Kerry Constable 6 -42
11 Gwen Lampre 5 22
NSW 12 Alison Pollard 4 159
13 Sal Costanzo 4 -74
NSW 14 John Barker 4 -200
NSW 15 Susan Macgillivray 4 -261
NSW 16 Gary Pollard 4 -442
17 Gwen Chadwick 3 -363
NSW 18 John Spaan 3 -494
19 Barbara Berlin 2 -685
20 Zina Costanzo 2 -997
HIGH GAME: Andrew Fisher 543
HIGH WORD: Bob Jackman 118
"EQUATIONS"
Teams totals NSW : VIC = 51 : 49
Results after game 10
BORDER CHALLENGE 2003 -- OPEN
Rank Player Wins Mar
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1 Rex Shakespeare 8 531
2 Michael Adler 7 405
3 Heather Sorensen 7 176
4 Edith Lowbeer 6 499
5 Richard Birch 6 389
6 Ann Fiddler 6 362
7 Daphne Bezuidenhout 6 64
8 Anne Schick 6 -10
9 Liz Jackman 6 -11
10 Chile Malcolm 6 -110
11 Chris Phillips 5 58
12 Chris Haining 5 32
13 Sunny Wright 5 -13
14 Mary Craven 5 -143
15 John Smith 5 -160
16 Maria Kaye 3 -332
17 Joy Bresser 3 -562
18 Maree Heynen 3 -660
19 Elwyn Smith 2 -505
20 A bye 0 -10
HIGH GAME: Ann Fiddler 626
HIGH WORD: Richard Birch 104
"ZATIS"
Report from Harry Malcolm, VictoriaOnce again the Wagga Wagga sojourn was a happy weekend for allcomers from NSW and VIC. NSW pulled off a 51-49 win after a neck and neck race over two days.
VIC looked to have the stronger team until Rod Talbot was a late NSW addition, and he led for most of the tournament.
Its just a great weekend at the huge and luxurious RSL club venue. The autumn sun, the beautiful gardens, the manicured lawns, the period houses and wide open spaces are so relaxing. There are accommodations and food for every budget, and those of us who are “regulars” think people just don’t know what they are missing.
The games are played from 2pm Saturday, 5 before dinner, (which is traditionally Chinese food at the venue), and two after dinner. Sunday morning 9 till 12 we have the last three games. There’s a certificate for the best performers (no trophies), but then again no entry fee. The ambience of the tournament is relaxed and good natured. Wilma Vialle, tournament director, kept us all on our toes with humour, and did a great job writing up result sheets faster than the computer could print.
Chile and I arrived after the 450km drive at 6.30 Friday afternoon, enjoyed the best ham from the carvery (smorgasbord $13) and hit the pokies for some handy pocket money. The Pollards were there early too, having the mobile home in the car park already.
After play on Saturday night the Pollards and the Malcolms made handsome couples on the dance floor. A dozen or so scrabblers tossed anagrams (anagram of FLUKIEST?) while chatting and imbibing in the expansive lounge area. Others were trying their “lucky dip” scrabble leanings on the pokies, while the keenest were playing social games in their rooms.
A lot of us had less than 7 hours sleep for various reasons. Richard Birch reportedly led a group of three on a morning stroll, well down on the number of “certain starters” the night before! Heck the weekend is such a lot of relaxing and holidaying, I wish everyone would try it once, its just great timeout.
After the tournament I collected “best moments from people I could find, and I’ve appended those against Bob’s previously reported results.
Results after game 10
BORDER CHALLENGE 2003 -- NSW : VIC
Rank Player Wins Mar
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1 Trevor Halsall 8 563
DOOKETS MISCIBLE CANTRIPS ATHETISE BISTRED LATERAD finding a play in
EIIILR#.... RILIEVI
NSW 2 Rod Talbot 7 583
AAOUGR# thru L for ARUGOLAS, SANGUINE outplay to win over Andrew,
REGOLITH MUDIRIA, VERBIAGE, HAUTERS VALONEA, ENGOULED, HERISSON
NSW 3 Bob Jackman 7 431
Wrapped around AT to make EQUATIONS for 118 high word.
4 Geoff Wright 7 4
Hey I fair dinkum fell asleep during game one and woke totally
disoriented!
NSW 5 Joanne Craig 6 491
SIXAIN 71
6 Andrew Fisher 6 430
SENTIENCE BAKEWARE and CDIIR## to play and end on N……. CIDERKIN.
NSW 7 Jan Serisier 6 313
“Another tournament booklet bites the dust!”
8 Harry Malcolm 6 305
It was great to beat Bob, but next game I had YY WW UUUU BB VV and
didn’t see INTAKES outplay for my last rack! (wouldn’t have won
anyhow!)
9 Linda Findlay 6 257
Great atmosphere and fellowship
NSW 10 Kerry Constable 6 -42
Tonnes of vowels, lots of blanks.
11 Gwen Lampre 5 22
I had a blank in the first 6 games! And then 2 in the 7th to play
SHOGUNS for 76
NSW 12 Alison Pollard 4 159
13 Sal Costanzo 4 -74
Overlapped BECKE onto YAGI (KY EA) against Rod on 2nd move, helped me
to 446/306 win.
NSW 14 John Barker 4 -200
NSW 15 Susan Macgillivray 4 -261
NSW 16 Gary Pollard 4 -442
Sal blocked my chance to play out with BIGGY, but I used his B to
make BITCH. With F on his rack, the scores switched to a 361-356
win. I also answered Harry’s opening play of FOX with FORTIFY/FOXY
17 Gwen Chadwick 3 -363
I hooked SNOUTED under DOLL(S) and COND(O)
NSW 18 John Spaan 3 -494
19 Barbara Berlin 2 -685
20 Zina Costanzo 2 -997
Yes, I finally got to beat BJ, and no I didn’t get everything. I did
get an X at the end which made me X-static.
HIGH GAME: Andrew Fisher 543
HIGH WORD: Bob Jackman 118
"EQUATIONS"
Teams totals NSW : VIC = 51 : 49
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Results after game 10
BORDER CHALLENGE 2003 -- OPEN
Rank Player Wins Mar
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1 Rex Shakespeare 8 531
2 Michael Adler 7 405
I risked E onto MOZ for MOZE to play TORCHER for 101.
3 Heather Sorensen 7 176
I enjoyed the challenge of playing high rated players, the 10 games,
and doing well!
4 Edith Lowbeer 6 499
5 Richard Birch 6 389
6 Ann Fiddler 6 362
Four bingos in one game! WATERED 80 GUISERS 66 DISTORT 75 BAINITE 84,
and high game 626.
7 Daphne Bezuidenhout 6 64
Most enjoyable. Could play all day and there should be more of it.
8 Anne Schick 6 -10
9 Liz Jackman 6 -11
10 Chile Malcolm 6 -110
I played the word ZANANAS.
11 Chris Phillips 5 58
I enjoyed playing Chris Haining tho he got 4 bingos to my 1. I gave
him the (then) high game but only ended 119 behind. He played
VETOING 82 NOTIONAL 59 MERRIEST 80 and UNROBES 101
12 Chris Haining 5 32
13 Sunny Wright 5 -13
14 Mary Craven 5 -143
15 John Smith 5 -160
16 Maria Kaye 3 -332
17 Joy Bresser 3 -562
18 Maree Heynen 3 -660
19 Elwyn Smith 2 -505
20 A bye 0 -10
HIGH GAME: Ann Fiddler 626
HIGH WORD: Richard Birch 104
"ZATIS"
(Apologies if I lost a slip or two.) Say, how often is the high
word not a 7 or longer??? After the Sunday noon finish, some stayed
around till about 3pm for a variety of lunch options, (coffee shop to
smorgasbord), a bit more pokies and chatter.
We saw the XPT zip past us as we headed southward home, had a
power-nap at Albury, and safely home by 7.30pm. Weekends don’t get
much better than that.
Stats for Tournament : BORDER CHALLENGE 2003 +--------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+---------------+ | state Name | National | State | Wins | Rating Points | | | Old New | Old New | Exp Act | Old Change New| +--------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+---------------+ +Section: *NSW : VIC + + + + +--------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------------+ | VIC Trevor Halsall | 24 16 | 9 5 | 6.6 8.0 | 1715 +29 1744 | | NSW Bob Jackman | 6 6 | 3 3 | 7.8 7.0 | 1858 -13 1845 | | NSW Rod Talbot | 8 8 | 4 4 | 7.4 7.0 | 1816 -7 1809 | | VIC Geoff Wright | 19 20 | 7 8 | 6.7 7.0 | 1727 +6 1733 | | NSW Joanne Craig | 20 24 | 8 8 | 6.4 6.0 | 1723 -8 1715 | | VIC Andrew Fisher | 2 7 | 2 2 | 8.1 6.0 | 1875 -33 1842 | | VIC Harry Malcolm | 31 32 | 15 16 | 6.2 6.0 | 1677 -3 1674 | | VIC Linda Findlay | 73 62 | 38 32 | 4.4 6.0 | 1527 +33 1560 | | NSW Jan Serisier | 159 101 | 40 25 | 2.5 6.0 | 1402 +83 1485 | | NSW Kerry Constable :act | 69 58 | 17 15 | 4.0 6.0 | 1536 +39 1575 | | VIC Gwen Lampre | 62 61 | 32 31 | 4.7 5.0 | 1556 +6 1562 | | VIC Sal Costanzo | 98 97 | 49 48 | 4.0 4.0 | 1490 +2 1492 | | NSW John Barker | 38 49 | 9 14 | 5.2 4.0 | 1628 -24 1604 | | NSW Alison Pollard | 83 82 | 19 19 | 3.8 4.0 | 1515 +5 1520 | | NSW Susan MacGillivr:act | 163 141 | 42 37 | 2.5 4.0 | 1400 +31 1431 | | NSW Gary Pollard | 123 109 | 31 29 | 3.1 4.0 | 1457 +18 1475 | | VIC Gwen Chadwick | 92 105 | 46 50 | 4.1 3.0 | 1502 -21 1481 | | NSW John Spaan :act | 100 107 | 24 27 | 3.4 3.0 | 1487 -9 1478 | | VIC Barbara Berlin | 46 67 | 22 35 | 5.4 2.0 | 1613 -68 1545 | | VIC Zina Costanzo | 122 142 | 57 63 | 3.6 2.0 | 1460 -31 1429 | +-------------------------------------+---------+-----------+----------------+ +Section: *OPEN + + + + +--------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------------+ | NSW Rex Shakespeare | 279 264 | 69 67 | 6.6 8.0 | 1237 +30 1267 | | NSW Michael Adler :act | 255 255 | 62 63 | 7.1 7.0 | 1279 1279 | | NSW Heather Sorensen :ac | 556 483 | 129 116 | 3.6 7.0 | 902 +78 980 | | NSW Ann Fiddler | 332 331 | 83 84 | 5.9 6.0 | 1152 +3 1155 | | NSW Edith Lowbeer | 339 322 | 86 82 | 4.9 6.0 | 1147 +23 1170 | | NSW Richard Birch | 325 336 | 81 86 | 6.6 6.0 | 1161 -12 1149 | | NSW Daphne Bezuidenhout | 510 481 | 117 114 | 4.8 6.0 | 959 +24 983 | | NSW Liz Jackman | 293 294 | 73 74 | 6.0 6.0 | 1218 1218 | | NSW Anne Schick :act | 799 730 | 202 182 | 3.6 6.0 | 720 +48 768 | | VIC Chile Malcolm | 247 277 | 100 109 | 8.4 6.0 | 1288 -47 1241 | | NSW Chris Haining | 0 161 | 0 42 | 9.1 5.0 | 1485 -82 1403 | | NSW Sunny Wright | 421 455 | 100 108 | 6.4 5.0 | 1052 -26 1026 | | NSW Chris Phillips | 665 636 | 163 152 | 3.7 5.0 | 811 +27 838 | | NSW Mary Craven :act | 537 558 | 125 131 | 6.1 5.0 | 923 -22 901 | | NSW John Smith :act | 955 909 | 245 229 | 3.4 5.0 | 605 +33 638 | | NSW Maria Kaye | 969 965 | 251 251 | 2.9 3.0 | 596 +3 599 | | NSW Maree Heynen | 893 905 | 224 227 | 3.4 3.0 | 647 -7 640 | | NSW Joy Bresser :act | 813 863 | 207 218 | 4.7 3.0 | 709 -34 675 | | NSW Elwyn Smith :act | 1080 1216 | 293 343 | 2.8 2.0 | 515 -16 499 | | --- A Bye | 1216 1218 | 1 2 | 0.2 0.0 | 0 -2 -2 | +-------------------------------------+---------+-----------+----------------+