Here's my Scrabble Tournament Record.
May 21, 2016. The very first tournament, sanctioned or otherwise, that I played in, held in Loveland, Colorado. I won 3, lost 3, tied 1 and had a "B", whatever that means. The story of that tournament is that I was 2 and 3, I think, then my next opponent had some kind of health issue and left without telling anyone. So I won that game. Then I was to play that same guy in the position round, so I won that by default, too. However it worked out, I took 3rd place out of 8 players in C division. (I don't remember the tie, but unfortunately I didn't keep my records for that tournament. The event that sticks in my memory is the guy who left without telling anyone where he was going, so I won two games by default.)
Ending rating:758
September 17, 2016. I placed 7th out of 8th in the next tournament, winning only 2 times.
Ending rating: 693
May 20, 2017. I missed the January tournament because of a storm, I believe/ For this tournament in May, I won 5, lost 3, and took home 3rd place.
Ending rating: 738
September 16, 2017. I won only 3 games, lost 5, and was 9th out of 12th. For this tournament, there was an A and B division for some reason, with the Cs lumped in with the Bs.
Ending rating: 741
November 18, 2017. The previous four tournaments were held in Loveland, CO. This tournament was held in Monument, at a person's house. (Or should I say, mansion?) I lost all 8 games in the C division. Because every single game I drew lousy tiles. All vowels or all consonants every turn. Turn in three of something, get three of something else. Every single game. If I did get some decent tiles, they came for one rack only, usually at the end of the game. I remember in one game, getting one bingo with about 2 turns left to go, and after that I was still down by 200 to the other player...and drew lousy tiles as I normally do after any bingo I ever get!
Ending rating: 630
January 1, 2018. First tournament of the new year. I won 3 and lost 5. Of the two I won, both were against members of my Cheyenne club whom I brought with me.
Ending rating: 610
May 19, 2018. Second tournament of the new year. Won 5, lost 3, and took third place because another player, who also finished 5-3, had less of a point spread than I did. One of the games I lost was to a woman from my Cheyenne Scrabble Club. I got stuck with the Z at the end, with no place to put it, so ended up giving her 20 points, and she won by 6.
This tournament had 30 players, so there were 10 people in the C division, although everyone only played 8 games.
Ending rating: 671
MY TOURNAMENT RECORD AS OF May 24, 2018
Rating: 671.
Recrod of 21-33-1, for a winning percentage of 39.1%.
Average score 316-342
And 671 is the new starting point! I don't intend to go below 671 again and indeed in the next 4 tournaments that I'll be attending before the Word Cup, I intend to get my rating up to the 900s!
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