Table of Contents
Links Elsewhere
|
| ||
Table of Contents |
|
Links Elsewhere |
|
| ||
The Sixth Annual Can-Am SCRABBLE® Challenge takes place on June 21–22, 2008 in Toronto, ON. Vying in this invitational tournament for the majority of the 98 team points and the Challenge Trophy will be the seven top ranking players from Canada and the USA.
This web page will be updated regularly over the course of the weekend. Standings generated by the tsh pairing software will also be updated automatically, as will games at the end of each round and photos at the end of the tournament.
Monday, 9:50 A.M.
I have posted a small event photo album. E-mail me at jjchew@math.utoronto.ca if you would like higher resolution versions of any of the photos.
Sunday, 9:30 P.M.
Thank you for following along. This web site will be continue to be updated for about a week, with the addition of games and photographs.
Sunday, 3:37 P.M.
U.S.A. wins the last three games to retain the trophy with a 50.5-47.5 record. Canada finishes second.
Sunday, 3:20 P.M.
Four games have reported in, with three wins for Canada and one for U.S.A., leaving us tied again at 47.5. Still playing are Dave Boys and Dave Wiegand, Evan Berofsky and Nathan Benedict, Dean Saldanha and Dave Koenig.
Sunday, 2:40 P.M.
Canada wins Round 13 5-2 and now trails U.S.A. by two games, 46.5-44.5 with one round to go. The U.S.A. will retain possession of the cup on an overall tie, so they need to win 2.5 games; Canada needs to win 5.
Sunday, 1:10 P.M.
U.S.A. wins Round 12 6-1 and takes a five-game lead going into lunch, 44.5-39.5.
Sunday, 12:50 P.M.
Adam points out that Mark extended WAR to WARRANTIES against Dave Koenig.
Sunday, 12:10 P.M.
U.S.A. wins Round 11 5-2 and ties the series at 38.5 games.
Sunday, 11:00 A.M.
Canada wins Round 10 4-3 and widens the lead back to three games, 36.5-33.5.
Sunday, 10:00 A.M.
U.S.A. wins the round 4-3 and trails by only two games now, 32.5-30.5.
Sunday, 9:00 A.M.
Craig Rowland joins us as an annotator for today’s six remaining rounds. We’s be breaking for lunch after four rounds today, and playing to a slightly faster pace to accommodate travellers and soccer fans.
Saturday, 5:15 P.M.
Heather McCall has arrived to help annotate the last two rounds of the day. Canada won Round 6 4-3 and now leads again, 21.5-20.5. Six of those 21.5 wins are Robin's; she has a two-game lead over John, Dave B, Adam and Rod.
Saturday, 4:20 P.M.
Adam and Nathan finish their game first. Nathan bingoes RENOVATING through -OVA-, but loses 523-391.
Saturday, 4:00 P.M.
U.S.A. wins 4-3 and the series is tied 17.5-17.5.
Saturday, 3:00 P.M.
Chris and Mark tie at 367 in Round 4, Team U.S.A wins the round 4.5-2.5, and trails Canada 14.5-13.5, so the Challenge will not end in a tie unless we have another individual tie.
Saturday, 1:30 P.M.
At the lunch break (from China China Palace and Pizza Hut), Canada leads 12-9, after winning the last round 5-2.
Saturday, 12:20 P.M.
The U.S.A. beat Canada 4-3 in Round 2, and the series is tied at 7 games apiece.
Saturday, 11:30 A.M.
Canada beat the U.S. 4-3 in Round 1. I'm a little delayed posting the games from Round 1, because I'm trying to arrange lunch, which is scheduled for a half hour between Rounds 3 and 4. The original plan, suggested by the hotel, was to order in Chinese and pizza, but almost all of the restaurants the hotel had on file do not in fact open for weekend lunches, as we're in the middle of a large business district by the airport. I think I've found a Chinese place that will fax me their menu, and am running back and forth between the playing room and the front desk.
Saturday, 10:30 A.M.
In addition to the fourteen players and one director, we have five volunteer annotators present, each recording one side of a game and then asking for the other side's racks at the end for posting to the web site. Thank you very much to Alyssa Faria, Amanda Hubble, Cecilia Le, Chris Lipe and Jason Ubeika.
Saturday, 10:00 A.M.
All players are present, and begin playing after brief opening formalities. U.S. Team Captain Brian Cappelletto draws an A, beating Canadian Team Captain Adam Logan's B, so the U.S. will go first in odd-numbered rounds. The tournament will run in a double round-robin format, so each player will play all seven opposing players twice in succession.
HASBRO is the owner of the registered SCRABBLE® trademark in the United States and Canada. © 2008 HASBRO. All rights reserved. "SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game" is the proper way to refer to this unique group of word games and related properties marketed by HASBRO. "SCRABBLE®" is not a generic term. To use it as such is not only misleading but also does injustice to the company responsible for the trademark's longtime popularity. All we ask is that when you mean SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game, you say so.
The SCRABBLE® trademark is owned by J.W. Spear and Sons, PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. outside of the United States and Canada.
For more information about SCRABBLE®
or the NSA, or to comment on or correct the contents of this page,
please e-mail:
info@scrabble-assoc.com
To report technical difficulties in reading this page,
please contact webmaster
John Chew at:
jjchew@math.utoronto.ca