Speedy Tournament - 1st August 2004


Three last minute withdrawals (More, Patterson and Pincott) created a minor inconvenience in that predetermined draws based on 16 starters were unable to be posted on the day. However, the welcome and hitherto unexpected arrival of Edward Okulicz meant that an even group of 14 faced the the starters gun at just after 9am, at the home of Jean Noonan’s sister, Elizabeth, in Baulkam Hills.

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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