Wednesday, August 17, 2016

2016 Nationals - Fort Wayne, IN

Day One

Rd. 1 vs. Marshall Resnick
WARDENS for 90 for him, AAEEPRST (1) for me. RADICEL for him,, late chicken-out on AEINNPR (2) which would've put me 44% chance to win late.
Blown game factor: 3
347 – 397 0-1 (50) me: SJXZ

Rd 2 vs. Trevor Sealy
PANDERS for him, ABDEIMOO (3) for me. But he oxymornon'ed me with FATTIER and LANKIER.
Blown game factor: 0
333 – 463 0-2 (180) me: SSJZ

Rd 3 vs. Bernard Gottlieb
I got the only first half bingo with DEILOPT (4), but he made a calculated, aggressive play with VOICE tws-dls opening for 51-pt. ADZ play I couldn't happen to block. Two many duplicate letters for me to make hay and he eventually landed ENRAGES. I tried (COOK)PANS* to no avail, and missed EEHSTUY (5) for an out to mitigate spread.
Blown game factor: 1
326 – 407 0-3 (261) me: ??SSSX

Rd 4 vs. Guy Ingram
EEINRTU (6), DEILNRTU (7), and AEINSTT (8) made my draws those a player in any division would love. He had fun play LAKING – a noun – and SANDInG. But the latter gave me QI for 63. He told me later he'd chickened out on the safer LADINGS.
463 – 433 1-3 (231) me: ?SJQ

Rd 5 vs. Elizabeth Ralston
EIOPRSTV (9) before I missed new-to-me ACHILMS (10). Her TURGITE allowed me ZIGS for 72. AABCILNO (11) just looked off to her this day and so earned me a challenge. ABEORRT (12) got one as well, and then (HOWE)S/SKEEN.
Late, I decided to not fish for a bingo and burn good tiles scoring well for tws RE(D)ONE saving UY. I ended up drawing to EFLNSUY (13), and she gave me a place for it with PEAsE/S(LYING)*. I was actually getting against PEASES being good, since all contexts I can find for PEASE show it as an archaic own-plural for PEA.
Elizabeth finished higher in final standings than I did. Some games just go wonky.
653 - 277 2-3 +145 me: ?SSSSJXZ

Rd 6 vs. Diana Grossman
She opened FABLING, but I got ACELNOTV (14). FLAMINGS* cost her a turn, but she landed ALUMINES and CHANTIES before I cut the spread late with ELIRRSTU (15).
Blown game factor: 3 (missed some good stuff like POOKA, GAWKY and GAVOTTE)
418 – 451 2-4 +112 me: ?SSQZ

Rd 7 vs. Janet Gray
ABEHIRS (16) and AENOSTU (17) early for me, but REGISTER and RIDGIEST back-to-back for her. She hit OUTLIER late, but I snaked it out somehow.
425 – 415 3-4 +155 me: ?SSJQZ

Stat me, baybeeee –
Blanks: 6/14
Esses: 15/28
JQXZ: 12/28

Quiz
1) SEPERATE (also ASPERATE)
2) PANNIER
3) AMOEBOID
4) PILOTED
5) SHUTEYE
6) REUNITE (also RETINUE, UTERINE)
7) UNDERLIT
8) SATINET (also INSTATE)
9) OVERTIPS (also SORPTIVE, SPORTIVE)
10) CHIMLAS – archaized word for chimley, chimney
11) ANABOLIC
12) TABORER (also ABORTER)
13) SYNFUEL
14) COVALENT
15) SULTRIER
16) BEARISH
17) SOUTANE


Bingos: 14 – 12 Avg score: 423 - 406
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