Matte Dunn, who had travelled up from Melbourne to see his team the Brisbane Bears get thrashed by the Sydney Swans the night before, got off to the best start with 5 straight wins, including one to the eventual winner, Jammy Bastard, who only lost one other game during the course of the event (to Jan Serisier)
Jammy Bastard was ruthless in his blank drawing and jammy plays, following up his 27 out of 40 blanks in the Winter Masters, and a surfeit of blanks in his recent matchplay victory over John Holgate, with 28 out of 40 blanks in this event. Against me he jammily slotted down CAIRNED as a double-double, creating three adjacent end hooks. He did however miss out on a blank in one of our games.
As the BBQ sausages were slightly underdone, and extra game was slotted in before lunch, making 10 for the mornings play. A lazy 10 games after lunch saw the day finished by 7.30 pm, with the hostess providing a lovely lasagna dinner for those that lingered on.
Thanks to Richard for his organization of the event, and Jean Noonan for her behind the scenes work, and of course the hostess for letting a dedicated a nd determined bunch of Scrabblers take over her home. Roll on Speedy 2005.
Note: Chris May me gave unreserved permission to use Edward’s new nickname for him in this report!
Results after game 20
SPEEDY 14 2004 -- OPEN
Rank Player Wins Mar
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1 Jammy Bastard 18 2525
2 Edward Okulicz 17 2163
3 Bob Jackman 14 981
4 Jan Serisier 12 562
5 Rod Talbot 12 546
6 Matte Dunn 12 39
7 Pat Schuberg 10 -139
8 Liz Jackman 10 -460
9 Jean Noonan 10 -503
10 Mark Smith 9 -9
11 John Spaan 7 -105
12 Richard Birch 4 -1411
13 George Khamis 4 -2197
14 Lynn Parnell 1 -1992
HIGH GAME: Edward Okulicz 649
HIGH WORD: Chris May 122
"TAENIATE"
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| state Name | National | State | Wins | Rating Points |
| | Old New | Old New | Exp Act | Old Change New|
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+Section: *OPEN + + + +
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|*NSW Chris May | 0 2 | 0 2 | 18.0 18.0 | 1680 1680 |
| QLD Edward Okulicz | 7 3 | 2 1 | 13.1 17.0 | 1403 +127 1530 |
| NSW Bob Jackman | 4 5 | 4 4 | 14.4 14.0 | 1453 -3 1450 |
|*NSW Matte Dunn | 0 10 | 0 8 | 12.0 12.0 | 1331 1331 |
| NSW Rod Talbot | 3 6 | 3 5 | 15.3 12.0 | 1502 -63 1439 |
| NSW Jan Serisier | 11 12 | 9 10 | 10.4 12.0 | 1273 +33 1306 |
| NSW Jean Noonan | 16 20 | 13 16 | 11.4 10.0 | 1242 -39 1203 |
|*NSW Pat Schuberg | 0 31 | 0 22 | 10.0 10.0 | 1118 1118 |
| NSW Liz Jackman | 25 26 | 17 19 | 9.0 10.0 | 1126 +20 1146 |
| NSW Mark Smith | 37 35 | 26 25 | 4.6 9.0 | 910 +151 1061 |
|*NSW John Spaan | 0 39 | 0 28 | 7.0 7.0 | 984 984 |
| NSW Richard Birch | 33 40 | 22 29 | 8.3 4.0 | 1041 -83 958 |
| NSW George Khamis | 38 42 | 27 31 | 5.6 4.0 | 906 -31 875 |
|*NSW Lynn Parnell | 0 43 | 0 32 | 1.0 1.0 | 583 +1 584 |
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