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10/6/2024

Top finishers at the 10th Annual Canadian Open in Calgary, AB (WGPO, 21 rounds):

(full results)

Division 1
Evan Kramer
14-7
+840
Juraj Pivovarov
14-7
+433
Peter Sargious
13-8
+477
Division 2
Sue Brigliadori
14-7
+629
Sunshine Gudlaugson
13-8
+599
Twyla Bellefleur
13-8
+389

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Calgary:

Division 1
Evan Kramer
1st/12
14-7
+840
Peter Sargious
3rd/12
13-8
+477
Letitia Sears
12th/12
6-15
-633
Division 2
Sunshine Gudlaugson
2nd/10
13-8
+599
9/2/2024

Top finishers at 33nd Annual Labor Day Weekend Tournament in Portland, OR (WGPO, 20 rounds):

(cross-tables: [NWL EB] [Collins EB] [NWL Main] [Collins Main])

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Division 1
Carl Johnson
14-5-1
+905
Nigel Peltier
13-7
+206
Paul Holser
12-8
+732
Division 2
Natalie Dicou
16-3-1
+1120
Hank Hees
14-5-1
+810
Richard Moyer
12-8
+432
Division 3
Susan Hoehn
15-5
+392
Deborah Baggett
13-7
+337
George Bissonnette
13-7
+300
Collins Division
Dave Wiegand
16-4
+1955
Conrad Bassett-Bouchard
16-4
+1375
Alec Sjoholm
14-6
+1310

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Portland:

Division 1
Chris Cheng
9th/10
8-12
-432
Evan Kramer
8th/10
8-12
-142
Division 2
Miriam Gregory
6th/16
11-9
+246
7/31/2024

Top finishers at the 2024 Word Cup in Albuquerque, NM (WGPO, 31 rounds):

(tournament website)

Division 1
Jackson Smylie
23-8
+1699
Rafi Stern
22-9
+847
Orry Swift
20-11
+882
Division 2
Greg Harper
25-6
+1494
Joe South
21-10
+2005
Ryan Chepita
20-11
+453
Division 3
Lisa Perry
22-9
+1136
Ben Lam
21-10
+1527
Diane Weinerman
20-10-1
+1189
Division 4
Thomas Tremont
20-10-1
+792
Julia Swaney
20-11
+1067
Ted Gest
20-11
+292
Collins Division 1
Eta Karo
23-8
+1943
Wellington Jighere
20-11
+1303
Waseem Khatri
19-11
+585
Collins Division 2
Mpakaboari Jack
21-10
+1967
Bharath Balakrishnan
20-11
+733
Adebola Sanya
20-11
+595

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Albuquerque:

Division 1
Chris Cheng
23rd/40
16-15
+195
Jill Turney
30th/40
14-17
-196
Division 3
Letitia Sears
16th/38
16-15
+28
7/24/2024

Top finishers at 2024 Scrabble Players Championship in South Bend, IN (NASPA, 31 rounds):

(tournament website) (cross-tables: [NWL] [NWL final] [Collins] [Collins final])

Division 1
Mack Meller*
25-7
+1729
Ian Weinstein*
24-8
+1123
Noah Walton
20-11
+1604

* Meller beat Weinstein 3-2 in a best-of-5 final.

Division 2
Mike Johnson
23-8
+807
Darin True
21-10
+1879
Bryan Richgruber
20-11
+1725
Division 3
David Garcia
24-7
+1253
Ken Louie
22-9
+908
David Shuman
21-10
+1184
Division 4
Diane Pietrzak
26-5
+2618
Katherine Rybak
21-10
+864
Oscar Freire
20-11
+1092
Collins Division
Joshua Castellano*
24-7
+1938
Waseem Khatri*
19-11
+809
Alec Sjoholm
20-11
+1095

* Castellano beat Khatri 3-0 in a best-of-5 final.

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in South Bend:

Division 2
Letitia Sears
58th/60
10-21
-960
6/8/2024

Top finishers at the Vancouver One-Day Tournament in Vancouver, BC (WGPO, 8 rounds):

(cross-table)

Division 1
Mimmo Rossi
6-2
+536
Miriam Gregory
6-2
+158
Chris Cheng
5-3
+200
Division 2
Vern Giesbrecht
6-2
+179
Kevin Argue
5-3
+440
Sunshine Gudlaugson
5-3
+147
3/17/2024

Top finishers at the Greeneye V tournament in Minneapolis, MN (WGPO, 23 rounds):

Division 1
David Pearl
16-7
+1051
Wallace Schultz
14-9
+417
Gregg Bigourdin
14-9
+300
Division 2
Bennett Jacobstein
18-5
+738
Dick Stephen
15-8
+826
Jane Geary
15-8
+558
Division 3
Linda Stratton
16-7
+758
Lesley Salas
15-8
+554
Julia Swaney
14-8-1
+652
Collins Division
Laurie Cohen
19-4
+1558
Mike Johnson
17-6
+1901
Zbigniew Wieckowski
17-6
+1486

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Minneapolis:

Division 1
Chris Cheng
8th/12
12-11
-63
2/19/2024

Top finishers at the Van Rand Tournament in Phoenix, AZ (WGPO, 20 rounds):

(cross-tables: [NWL] [CSW])

Division 1
Jon Shreve
15-5
+1038
Wallace Schultz
15-5
+754
Richard Spence
14-6
+1027
Division 2
Lynda Finn
14-6
+715
Jon Demeter
13-7
+854
Greg Harper
13-7
+502
Division 3
Zana Anderson
15-5
+602
Noah Goldstein
14-6
+738
Miriam Gregory
13-6-1
+575
Division 4
Blythe Camenson
15-5
+814
Deborah Baggett
14-6
+251
Marlena Tremont
13-7
+331
Collins Division
Becky Dyer
18-2
+1890
Mohammad Sulaiman
11-9
+1001
Gary Smart
11-9
+538

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Phoenix:

Division 3
Miriam Gregory
3th/18
13-6-1
+575
2/5/2024

Top finishers at 15th Annual Boards on the Boardwalk Scrabble Tournament in Atlantic City, NJ (NASPA, 19 rounds):

(cross-tables: [EB] [NWL] [Collins])

Division 1
Joshua Sokol
17-2
+1354
Seth Lipkin
14-5
+1467
Scott Appel
13-6
+618
Division 2
Linda Oliva
14-5
+661
Glenn Filzer
13-6
+537
Josh Greenway
13-6
+381
Division 3
Dianne Wittman
14-5
+903
Greg Golding
13-6
+508
Peter Filandro
12-7
+754
Collins Division 1
Joshua Castellano
14-5
+1376
Erickson Smith
11-8
-33
Ben Schoenbrun
9-10
+72

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Atlantic City:

Division 2
Letitia Sears
6th/20
12-7
+263
1/15/2024

Top finishers at the Crescent City Cup in New Orleans, LA (WGPO/CoCo, 20 rounds):

(cross-tables: [NWL] [CSW])

NWL Open Division
Jackson Smylie
14-6
+1161
Cooper Komatsu
14-6
+893
Eric Harshbarger
14-6
+880
NWL Lite Division
Carolyln Atchison
15-5
+643
Noah Goldstein
14-6
+1146
Lindsey Dimmick
14-6
+596
CSW Open Division
Dave Wiegand
14-6
+1065
Joshua Castellano
14-6
+930
Evans Clinchy
13-7
+435
CSW Lite Division
Yukiko Loritz
14-6
+1135
Terry Kang
13-7
+477
Guy Ingram
12-7-1
+427

Results of Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in New Orleans:

NWL Open Division
Chris Cheng
13th/53
12-8
+127
CSW Open Division
Dean Saldanha
17th/24
9-11
-539