The Word Wiz Scrabble Club hosted by Bing Encelan took their turn in organizing a Rated Tourney at Kubo Videoke Bar, Angono, Rizal last Sunday, Feb 13, 2005. (Note: Bing Encelan in a phone call told me to send the results by email as he was too busy).
19 players saw action using Straight King-of-the-Hill (KOTH) format, 9 rounds, 25 minutes time limit with forfeiture, 5 point Malaysian Penalty Rule.
Final Results:
2. Nacala, Bonnie 7 +245
3. Prudencio, Marlon 6 +343
4. Aquino, Andy 6 +78
5. Basman, Hyatt 5 +349
6. Tabasa, John Edward 5 +166
7. Encelan, Bing 5 +164
8. Rivera, Asbhy 5 +3
9. MAndapat, Rollie 5 +2
10.Rivera, Oca 4 +503
11.Padua 4 -11 (Div. B Champ)
12.Malonzo, Tony 4 -55
13.Labog, Nora 4 -89
14.Genato, Mon 4 -121 (Div. B Runner-up)
15.Marinas, Ric 4 -370
16.Paz, Freddie 3 -117
17.Toledo, Rey 2 -33
18.Mendez 2 -84
19.Miranda, Mario Incomplete Games
Highlights:
In the penultimate round, I (6, +354) was paired to Marlon (5, +153) and the result was a complete massacre! I was beaten black and blue, 516-315 a whopping 201 pt. spread by Marlon who played 3 bingos, TWOCcER, GLUCINA and a nice set-up play of JINN hooking the last D to JINN to form RaPIDER! Not only that, he also scored heavily with FENIS 48 pts and FIZ 52 pts.
Due to this, Marlon got ahead 6, +354 who was paired at board 1 to Bonnie (6, +234) in the last round. I (6, +199) was paired to Bing Encalen (5, +276) at board 2.
Marlon faltered in the endgame losing to Bonnie by a mere 11 pts. (413-402) via a grandslam bingo move from a rack of ?EINSTY thru floater letter C as the last letter of the word. According to Marlon, the loss was attributed by not leaving at least 1 tile in the bag after blocking the other potential bingo lane, thereby giving Bonnie the game winning move!
At board 2, I beat Bing, 461-349 to tie Bonnie with 7 wins but his inferior spread placed him 2nd. This was a few occasion wherein a board 2 player wins it.
Bonnie dealt the 3 losses of Marlon in their 3 outings. In rd 4, 442-417 and rd 6, 364-311.
My 2 losses were at the expense of Marlon. One of which was an analytic endgame which I lost by 1 pt. in round 3.
The board position, current scores and racks were:
Marlon: - - 389
Unseen: ADDFIIILO
Marlon's last play was CIS 14j blocking the most obvious bingo lane for me. I've got plenty of options such as DYKES 10dm YORKED c7, YOD c7, RYES 10e, BY 7b, BYES b7, EYE 9b and YODE c7.
The actual moves were:
2. Marlon: FAOIIIL - FADO 12a 24 -> 413
4. Marlon: LIII - LI d5 13 -> 426
5. Ronald: DE - DE g4 15 -> 421+4 (II)= 425
and I lose by 1
Analysis:
Of my 7 choices of move, I consulted with Maven and found these results after 40,000 iterations:
YODE c7 43.6
BY 7b 41.2
BYES 7b 39.9
EYE 9b 37.2
YORKED c7 28.5
RYES 10e 23.7
DYKES 10d 23.11
Assuming I played YOD and picked up AD in the bag, the best continuation would be:
2. Marlon: FAOLIII - AIM 9f 6 -> 395 (blocking SKEARED f8)
3. Ronald: KDERESA - RADS 10e 30 -> 404
4. Marlon: FOLII - UFO n1 24 -> 419
5. Ronald: EKE - EKE 11c 422+6 (IIL) = 428
Going back to the actual moves above, I missed a draw starting at move 3. The play should have went to:
4. Marlon: LIII - LI i5 13 -> 426
5. Ronald: AD - LAD g2 16 -> 422+4 (OII)= 426(drawn)
However, draw can be avoided if he played ALIF d12 instead of FADO 12a. Let us see:
3. Ronald: ADES - FADES 15d 27 -> 405+6 (OII)=411
There are plenty of variations but I leave to you the best ideas that you would want to share.
WORD OF THE DAY: SYNDETIC -adj. serving to connect.
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