Hello babies. Well, another fabulous Twin Cities Redeye tournament is
behind us.
75 die-hard NSA competitors, representing 17 different states and two
Canadian provinces holed up in a Holiday Inn in Bloomington, Minnesota on
our coldest weekend of the year (average "highs" in the minus single digits)
to play 28 games of Scrabble in two days. You will find the results below.
I will try and write some color after I've had a beer and a long nap.
I'd like to thank the members of the Twin Cities Scrabble scene for all of
their endless help with organizing and running this event. I would not have
been able to host this event without the help of John Slaton, who did all of
our data entry for us, Steve Pellinen who organized all the pairings, Dawn
Gwecke who co-directed and Sue Hoehn, who was an endless source of support
and wisdom from beginning to end. Thanks to Mary Krizan for donating 3 of
her beautiful tile bags for "Sad Sack" awards, and one of her Board Bags for
the REDEYE award. Thanks to Greg Edwards we received two wonderful articles
in our local papers (The Pioneer Press ran one on Friday and The Star
Tribune ran one today), we also had live segments on two of our local news
stations, when, unfortunately all of us were hunched over boards playing our
25th game.
I'd also like to thank all 74 of the players listed in the standings below.
They are the people who deserve the most credit for making this tournament
such a huge success. Their friendship and support and winning attitudes are
what made these last two days so much fun for me. Thanks to all of you.
Please feel free to send me comments and suggestions for next year's Redeye
tournament. I'll be compiling notes over the next couple of days to use for
next year's event, and I'm open to all of your ideas.
Congratulations to all of our winners, and safe trip home to all of our
friends who joined us from afar.
steph.
xxx.
DIVISION 1
1. Tim Adamson 21-7 930
2. Peter Armstrong 20-8 1333
3. Robin Pollock Daniels 19-9 1338
4. Steve Hartsman 19-9 473
5. Vincent Van Dover 18-9-1 1510
6. Ben Withers 18-9-1 995
7. Geoff Thevenot 18-10 750
8. Chris Lipe 17-11 750
9. Michael Baker 17-11 636 ($80 Performance Prize)
10. Alex Fiszbein 15-13 114
11. Dan Stock 15-13 -167
12. Joe Gaspard 14-14 255
13. Winter 14-14 197
14. Steve Pellinen 14-14 -96
15. Rob Robinsky 13-15 582
16. Andy Bohnsack 13-15 -1091
17. Bradley Whitmarsh 12-15 129
18. Jeff Fiszbein 12-16 -596
19. Phil Polsky 11-16 -92
20. David Weiss 10-18 -757
21. Bob Prentiss 10-18 -794
22. Eric Ziegeweid 10-18 -1120
23. Ira Freehof 9-19 -1927
24. Jeff Parsons 8-20 -815
25. Lisa Slankard 8-20 -1236
26. Dave Herfel 7-21 -904
DIVISION 2
1. Andrew Solomon 20-8 1937
2. Lynda Finn 19-9 1172
3. Niko Tomlinson 19-9 946
4.Sue Rhea 18-10 978
5. Nola Hembrook 17-11 891
6. Kit Morehead 17-11 547
7. Carolyn EAster 17-11 452
8. Mary Krizan 16-12 603 ($80 Performance Prize)
9. Dave Lockrem 15-13 705
10. Mark Garrod 15-13 521
11. Angelina Scroggins 15-13 202
12. Renato Umali 15-13 -350
13. Michael David 14-14 394
14. Beth Amos 14-14 -408
15. Mary Atwood 14-14 -467
16. Carol Dustin 13-15 178
17. Phyllis Koselke 13-15 -68
18. Marlys Feder 13-15 -188
19. Sue Hoehn 13-15 -762
20. Michael Donegan 12-16 -872
21. Mark Gooley 11-17 -714
22. Jeffrey Nelson 10-18 -416
23. Tom Kowalik 10-18 -625
24. Denise Mahnken 9-19 -1718
25. Steph-whatgameisthis?-Steele 8-20 -885
26. Cory Herberg 7-21 -2053
DIVISION 3
1.Derek Martinez 21-7 1315
2. Anne Loring 21-7 980
3. Aditya Kini 19-9 1177
4. Diane Weinerman 19-9 989
5. Katya Lezin 18-10 759
6. Gary Sharon 17-10 672
7. Dan Bliss 17-11 702
8. Janice Kaye 17-11 80
9. Tom O'Laughlin 16-12 627
10. Gail Opperman 15-13 539
11. Aaron Daly 15-13 11
12. Nicholas Orth 14-13 -372 ($80 Performance Prize)
13. Erica Moore 14-14 -81
14. Liz Miller 13-14 203
15. Brad Williams 13-15 -602
16. Paul Kyllonen 12-15 906
17. Jason Vaysberg 12-16 -347
18. John Spangler 12-16 -635
19. Scott Hawkins 12-16 -899
20. Melissa Brown 11-17 -530
21. Janice Konkol 11-17 -966
22. Karen Slaton 10-18 -400
23. Francis Biagioli 5-23 -2728
$20 for each of the following non-division prizes
Most letters in REDEYE- Bob Prentiss with TENDERLY for 89 points
(this was a Board Bag made by Mary Krizan)
Highest scoring play using the letters MLK- Mark Garrod with MILKINGS* for
98 points
Lowest scoring win- Anne Loring with 293
Highest scoring word using no power tiles- Andrew Solomon with REDIRECT for
158 points
Closest final score- Alex Fiszbein and Steve Hartsman- 457-456
