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Here is the divisional tables at just over the half-way stage.
Remember 19 games have to be played for relegation/promotion.
10 points for winning a game, 5 for drawing.
10 points for beating someone one division higher, 20 for 2 divisions higher. (win-bon)
5 points for beating average score (as at 30/9/19).(avgbon)
2019-2020 WINTER LEAGUE Up to and Including 28 November 2019
Played Won Lost Draw Win-Bon AvgBon Total AVERAGE Division A
Division B
Division C
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Over the weekend of the 16/17 November 60 players took part in the UK's Winter Matchplay Championships in Milton Keynes. Most if the players were UK based, but some of the participants had travelled from all over the world and were treating this as a 'warmup' for the Mattel Scrabble World Championships being held a few days later in Torquay.
The sole East Berks Player to participate at Milton Keynes was Richard Spencer who was rated as the 13th best player (out of 18) in Division B.
Richard played well above rating for all the tournament, rarely dropping out of the top 3, and despite losing a couple of games late on in the tournament managed to secure a worthy second place. Well done Richard ! (Photo courtesy of Nicky Deco)
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Over the weekend of 9/10 November two one day tournaments were held in Grantham run and hosted by Nuala O'Rourke in memory of her late husband, Mike.
Tricia Walker from East Berks travelled to the event and competed in the Warm-Up on the Saturday and the Main Event on the Sunday.
She finished third in her division on the Saturday, just missing out on a prize. On the Sunday, Tricia performed even better winning 6 out of 8 games and finished second.
Well done Tricia on your performances of the weekend.
(Photo courtesy of Nicky Deco).
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Congratulations to Richard Spencer, who wins the best improver award for 2018-2019. Results are below in rating change order. The quarterly improver prizes went to Joy Wade, Frank Charlesworth, Graham Harding, and Sharon Hewitt.
League Division 1 was won by Wanda de Poitiers, Division 2 by Tricia Walker, and Division 3 by Joy Wade. The All-play-All was won by Graham Harding and Deborah Porter won the Handicap.
Highest game scores of the year were:
• 625 Richard Spencer
• 597 Helen Harding
• 582 Graham Harding
• 570 Graham Harding
• 568 Richard Spencer
• 565 Graham Harding
• 562 Graham Harding
• 562 Richard Spencer
• 556 Richard Spencer
• 555 Evelyn Wansbrough
• 551 Wanda de Poitiers
The highest single moves were:
• 158 MEDIATES Graham
• 131 SQUARES Laura
• 131 SENATORS Graham
• 125 HUNKERS Maire
• 124 REQUITAL Julie
• 124 RAZORED Joy
• 122 RESONATE Helen
• 122 TREATERS Maire
• 113 CHUGGER Helen
• 112 WOOTZES Graham
• 110 QUERIES Wanda
• 109 PACKETS Wanda
• 108 JILTING Michael
• 108 RAVINES Graham
• 107 MAJESTY Helen
• 105 EXARATE Richard
• 104 SEXTAIN Helen
• 102 FRAGMENT Graham
Name |
Old Rating |
New Rating |
Rating Change |
P |
W |
D |
L |
Average |
Highest score |
Richard Spencer |
156 |
178 |
22 |
130 |
102 |
1 |
27 |
427.4 |
625 |
Frank Charlesworth |
85 |
105 |
20 |
52 |
21 |
0 |
31 |
314.7 |
431 |
Hannah Corbett |
112 |
130 |
18 |
83 |
44 |
1 |
38 |
355.1 |
455 |
Keith Radbourn |
50 |
65 |
15 |
134 |
26 |
0 |
108 |
271.9 |
370 |
Martin Stephens |
101 |
114 |
13 |
103 |
42 |
1 |
60 |
328.6 |
469 |
Tricia Walker |
139 |
149 |
10 |
108 |
74 |
0 |
34 |
378.5 |
515 |
Maire Bennett |
68 |
77 |
9 |
123 |
32 |
0 |
91 |
282.8 |
448 |
Hepzi Rodrigues |
141 |
148 |
7 |
75 |
44 |
0 |
31 |
371.9 |
508 |
Deborah Porter |
130 |
136 |
6 |
65 |
33 |
1 |
31 |
349.9 |
499 |
Charles Parker |
98 |
103 |
5 |
105 |
37 |
0 |
68 |
306.5 |
455 |
Helen Harding |
169 |
174 |
5 |
143 |
117 |
1 |
25 |
425.5 |
597 |
Joy Wade |
94 |
97 |
3 |
72 |
28 |
0 |
44 |
324.2 |
440 |
Evelyn Wansbrough |
128 |
131 |
3 |
109 |
63 |
1 |
45 |
367.1 |
555 |
Julie Wise |
120 |
120 |
0 |
104 |
51 |
0 |
53 |
347.8 |
474 |
Jan Bailey |
135 |
135 |
0 |
92 |
47 |
0 |
45 |
354.0 |
479 |
Maureen Barlow |
140 |
137 |
-3 |
148 |
87 |
0 |
61 |
357.9 |
528 |
Wanda de Poitiers |
174 |
169 |
-5 |
134 |
104 |
0 |
30 |
425.1 |
551 |
Graham Harding |
179 |
174 |
-5 |
159 |
126 |
1 |
32 |
423.9 |
582 |
Harminder Rahanu |
64 |
56 |
-8 |
80 |
6 |
0 |
74 |
247.6 |
353 |
Sharon Hewitt |
168 |
152 |
-16 |
73 |
40 |
0 |
33 |
360.4 |
501 |
Michael Spencer |
98 |
66 |
-32 |
123 |
19 |
0 |
104 |
276.8 |
381 |
Guests, new members without a previous year’s playing record, and people playing less than 52 games |
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Patrick Beatty |
98 |
112 |
14 |
23 |
10 |
0 |
13 |
347.0 |
423 |
Laura Sheridan |
76 |
81 |
5 |
25 |
7 |
0 |
18 |
296.8 |
371 |
Joyce Charlesworth |
65 |
68 |
3 |
42 |
7 |
1 |
34 |
284.0 |
380 |
Sue Ashwell |
50 |
48 |
-2 |
35 |
10 |
1 |
24 |
285.6 |
349 |
Kathy Smith |
92 |
89 |
-3 |
51 |
16 |
1 |
34 |
285.6 |
359 |
Stephen McDonald |
50 |
44 |
-6 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
112.6 |
186 |
Tricia Cooper |
178 |
168 |
-10 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
356.0 |
377 |
Paul Steadman |
|
175 |
|
6 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
402.7 |
472 |
Anne Connolly |
|
123 |
|
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
405.5 |
424 |
Sheila Stears |
|
107 |
|
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
271.0 |
343 |
Mithi Ravindran |
|
74 |
|
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
264.3 |
277 |
Fay Hanniker |
|
45 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
265.0 |
265 |
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Over the weekend of 4-5 October two East Berks Scrabble Players took part in the National Scrabble Championships.
A World Class field assembled in Warrington (players flew in from America and Sweden to participate) and lots of tough high scoring games took place. Over the weekend Wanda won 6 out of 16 and Helen won 5 out of 16. To give some idea of how high the standard was - twice Wanda had 6 (SIX) bonus words laid against her in a single game, and Helen lost one game having scored 472 points ! Phew!
Wanda and Helen prepare for battle in Round 4 of the National Scrabble Championships 2019
In the Plate competition (for those players that hadn't qualified for the NSC Final), Graham finished fourth, again in a tough division. Had he won his last game (instead of a 250 point loss), he would have finished second.
Graham thinking hard near the end of a game
A thoroughly enjoyable weekend even though the results didn't quite go East Berks players way.
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