Fifty one players gathered in the Waratah Room of the Revesby Workers Club last Sunday. The Gremlins were also there and proceeded to wreak havoc on the computer equipment and software. One laptop died and the printer had a hissy fit which delayed proceedings for half an hour. Worse was to come after Game 9 when an inadvertent keystroke added a 53rd player (who refused to be deleted) to the draw sending the Swiss program into chaos spitting out little hearts and clubs.
Nevertheless some good Scrabble was played and Rod Talbot won in a canter winning 10/11 from Tony Hunt, Ivor Zetler and Kris Logan on 8/3.
High word score went to Ann Fiddler for MASQUES (135) and high game to Moana Nepia for 527.
In the first two rounds two games started by missing the central pink square altogether which created an adjudication headache (both were against Jean McGiffen!).
Some interesting nonwords played were ROULETS*, HUGGIEST* UNSIDED* SPOONER* (instead of SNOOPER) CLEATER* GLITTERER* COMEDIAL* TRASHER* ROLLY* WELTY* MEASILY* and JUPED*.
Some good legitimate finds were MEDCINAL BERGANA (Talbot) SCABIOUS (Tuckett)DUPONDII YTTRIOUS (Hunt) CREWMAN (Barker) and WICKENS (Gauci).
My thanks to Jackson Schuberg and Veena Mohe who did an excellent support job under difficult conditions, to Ann Fiddler for her invaluable help and to Joy Morris and Daphne Bezuidenhout for their good work at the reception desk.
Hopefully we can resurrect the ratings in the next few days.
Results after game 11 NSW SPRING MARATHON -- OPEN Rank Player Wins Mar --------------------------------- 1 Rod Talbot 10 1142 2 Tony Hunt 8 701 3 Ivor Zetler 8 508 4 John Barker 8 474 5 Kris Logan 7 433 6 Jean Noonan 7 416 7 Moana Nepia 7 395 8 Betty Foreman 7 257 9 Mal Ramsdale 7 213 10 Gordon Meggs 7 89 11 Fay Van Oyen 7 -26 12 Liz Jackman 7 -90 13 Sue Gergelifi 6.5 342 14 Jean McGiffen 6 330 15 Sheryl Davidson 6 326 16 Louise Kobler 6 293 17 Ram Mohe 6 284 18 Cristine Small 6 160 19 Judy Hay 6 83 20 Daphne Bezuidenhout 6 16 21 Tony Kalayzich 6 1 22 Norma Tracey 6 -2 23 Pat Schuberg 6 -25 24 Stacey Judd 6 -52 25 Cheryl Michler 6 -57 26 Dolores Barbon 6 -78 27 Jan Serisier 5.5 168 28 Alan Gauci 5 191 29 Ann Fiddler 5 62 30 Nanette Reynolds 5 -50 31 Jayanthi Viswanathan 5 -58 32 Margaret Andrews 5 -65 33 Greg Pinchbeck 5 -86 34 Nonie English 5 -95 35 Mark Smith 5 -137 36 Hari Nanayakkara 5 -173 37 Ian Close 5 -206 38 Maree Heynen 5 -371 39 Sue Tuckett 5 -397 40 Ngaire Beehag 5 -505 41 Sheila Sree Kumar 4 74 42 Margaret Coulter 4 -66 43 Pam Bennett 4 -101 44 Karmel Patterson 4 -224 45 Tresham Rendell 4 -474 46 Ivana Duria 4 -529 47 David More 3 -183 48 Joy Morris 3 -255 49 Glenn Holmes 3 -327 50 Silvana Newman 3 -481 51 Diana Field 2 -1295 52 A Bye 0 -550 HIGH GAME: Moana Nepia 527 Stats for Tournament : NSW SPRING MARATHON +--------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+---------------+ | state Name | National | State | Wins | Rating Points | | | Old New | Old New | Exp Act | Old Change New| +--------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+---------------+ +Section: *OPEN + + + + +--------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------------+ | NSW Rod Talbot | 10 9 | 5 5 | 9.5 10.0 | 1786 +11 1797 | | NSW Tony Hunt | 36 40 | 11 11 | 8.7 8.0 | 1622 -14 1608 | | NSW John Barker | 77 56 | 20 16 | 6.4 8.0 | 1517 +34 1551 | | NSW Kris Logan | 93 86 | 27 24 | 7.6 8.0 | 1486 +10 1496 | | NSW Ivor Zetler | 32 38 | 10 10 | 8.8 8.0 | 1627 -14 1613 | | NSW Moana Nepia | 110 82 | 30 21 | 5.4 7.0 | 1468 +35 1503 | | NSW Jean McGiffen | 42 53 | 12 15 | 9.3 7.0 | 1600 -45 1555 | | NSW Betty Foreman | 160 162 | 43 43 | 7.2 7.0 | 1398 -3 1395 | | NSW Jean Noonan | 161 136 | 44 37 | 5.4 7.0 | 1398 +32 1430 | | NSW Gordon Meggs | 292 293 | 76 77 | 7.1 7.0 | 1202 +2 1204 | | NSW Mal Ramsdale | 557 428 | 136 101 | 3.6 7.0 | 910 +132 1042 | | NSW Liz Jackman | 293 240 | 77 60 | 3.3 7.0 | 1200 +85 1285 | | NSW Fay Van Oyen | 385 356 | 94 88 | 5.9 7.0 | 1082 +25 1107 | | NSW Sue Gergelifi | 79 93 | 21 27 | 8.0 6.5 | 1515 -29 1486 | | QLD Sheryl Davidson | 58 79 | 7 7 | 7.9 6.0 | 1547 -39 1508 | | NSW Louise Kobler | 250 239 | 63 59 | 5.5 6.0 | 1275 +14 1289 | | NSW Cristine Small | 108 128 | 29 36 | 7.5 6.0 | 1470 -28 1442 | | NSW Ram Mohe | 267 260 | 68 65 | 5.3 6.0 | 1246 +16 1262 | | NSW Pat Schuberg | 128 166 | 37 44 | 8.7 6.0 | 1443 -51 1392 | | NSW Judy Hay | 300 304 | 79 81 | 6.1 6.0 | 1185 -3 1182 | | NSW Cheryl Michler | 231 203 | 58 54 | 4.5 6.0 | 1298 +31 1329 | | NSW Dolores Barbon | 397 380 | 97 93 | 5.5 6.0 | 1075 +10 1085 | | NSW Tony Kalayzich | 504 479 | 121 118 | 4.2 6.0 | 961 +35 996 | | NSW Norma Tracey | 62 81 | 17 20 | 7.5 6.0 | 1533 -29 1504 | | NSW Daphne Bezuidenhout | 304 281 | 81 72 | 3.6 6.0 | 1182 +47 1229 | | NSW Stacey Judd | 896 644 | 231 160 | 1.5 6.0 | 650 +190 840 | | NSW Jan Serisier | 83 110 | 22 30 | 7.4 5.5 | 1505 -39 1466 | | NSW Ann Fiddler | 269 283 | 69 73 | 5.8 5.0 | 1241 -16 1225 | | NSW Greg Pinchbeck | 345 359 | 86 89 | 6.2 5.0 | 1129 -25 1104 | | NSW Margaret Andrews | 363 396 | 91 97 | 6.3 5.0 | 1100 -25 1075 | | NSW Nanette Reynolds | 440 448 | 105 106 | 5.7 5.0 | 1033 -9 1024 | | NSW Alan Gauci | 407 409 | 100 99 | 5.3 5.0 | 1065 -5 1060 | | NSW Hari Nanayakkara | 260 298 | 65 79 | 8.7 5.0 | 1261 -68 1193 | | NSW Nonie English | 346 390 | 87 94 | 7.7 5.0 | 1128 -51 1077 | | NSW Mark Smith | 649 628 | 160 156 | 4.4 5.0 | 836 +12 848 | | NSW Jayanthi Viswanathan | 749 650 | 193 162 | 2.6 5.0 | 753 +85 838 | | NSW Ian Close | 248 273 | 62 71 | 7.5 5.0 | 1279 -45 1234 | | NSW Sue Tuckett | 398 372 | 98 91 | 4.4 5.0 | 1074 +16 1090 | | NSW Ngaire Beehag | 455 462 | 110 112 | 5.2 5.0 | 1017 -4 1013 | | NSW Maree Heynen | 737 716 | 188 183 | 4.3 5.0 | 766 +18 784 | | NSW Tresham Rendel | 1040 935 | 282 247 | 2.6 5.0 | 541 +84 625 | | NSW Sheela Sreekumar | 375 450 | 92 107 | 6.3 4.0 | 1089 -65 1024 | | NSW Margaret Coulter | 769 732 | 198 189 | 2.3 4.0 | 741 +35 776 | | NSW Pam Bennett | 537 524 | 129 126 | 3.4 4.0 | 928 +12 940 | | NSW Karmel Patterson | 825 820 | 209 210 | 3.7 4.0 | 701 +6 707 | | NSW Ivana Duria | 529 557 | 128 136 | 5.3 4.0 | 932 -23 909 | |*NSW David More | 0 612 | 0 153 | 3.0 3.0 | 861 861 | | NSW Glenn Holmes | 606 686 | 152 177 | 5.0 3.0 | 865 -58 807 | | NSW Joy Morris | 931 942 | 245 250 | 3.3 3.0 | 628 -6 622 | | NSW Silvana Newman | 910 907 | 235 234 | 2.9 3.0 | 643 +1 644 | | NSW Diana Field | 1089 1208 | 303 348 | 2.5 2.0 | 504 -9 495 | | --- A Bye | 1209 1210 | 2 2 | 0.2 0.0 | -7 -2 -9 | +-------------------------------------+---------+-----------+----------------+