(cross-tables: [main event] [early bird] [nite bird] [late bird])

Results after of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Portland:

Results at the Can-Am Tournament in Denver, CO (14 rounds):

(games) (cross-table)

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

(complete results by division: [A] [B] [C]) (cross-table)

(tournament website) (cross-table)

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members (and friends from BC) who competed at the NSC:

According to posts by Sam Kantimathi, the location of the 2010 and 2011 National Scrabble Championships was revealed at the Town Hall meeting of this year's NSC to be Dallas, TX.

The following day, John Fultz posted his notes from the Town Hall meeting, including this explanation from Chris Cree when asked about the location:

"The simple answer is Dallas, TX. I definitely did not want to pick Dallas.

I contacted people in places such as Kansas City, Louisville, some place in Virginia. Jane recommended using a search company, which I contacted. Literally, every day for 60 days, I got emails and faxes with 10-30 proposals for locations everywhere. Important for me was the cost of the facility, hotels, availability of emergency facilities, food/beverage requirements, square feet. For example, got 12 hotels in Vegas, 8 hotels in Reno. These proposals required commitments for food/beverage, $25,000 for the space, and so on. I refused to make commitments for food/beverage. A hotel in Dallas, the Intercontinental, wanted a commitment for the number of hotel rooms. I made a commitment of 200 rooms in Dayton. The Intercontinental offered the meeting space for free if the room commitment is met. I didn't want to do this because it would look like "home cookin'". The search company guy as an incentive offered 10% of his fee to NASPA to take this place. I had dinner with the hotel representative to sign the contract, and he pulled out two contracts...one for 2010 and one for 2011. The deal was too good to pass up.

I heard from John Williams that they're back in Orlando looking for a site for School Scrabble, and the Orlando people are saying that Las Vegas are kicking their butts because they've dropped prices. I'm wondering where were those lower prices in February? Now that I've heard about Vegas dropping their prices, we're interested in talking to them. Concerning requests about moving the NSC around the country, that seems like it would be a good part of the selection process, but we really want to look for a deal. One major issue has been the hospital situation. New Orleans wanted us to come back, but we didn't want to go because of the hospital situation there. The other thing to remember is that when you make the deal, it depends upon how hungry the people you're dealing with are. 18 months ago, Dayton was a wonderful deal. It doesn't look quite as good today because of the down economy."

The full version of Fultz's notes can be found here.

Top finishers at July 18-19 Tournament in Toronto, ON (14 rounds):

(cross-table)

Div. A				Div. B
Ross Brown	10-2	+1361		Priya Fernando	10-2	+747
Tony Leah	9-3	+397		Clarissa Lewis	8-4	+249
Matthew Tunnicliffe	9-3	+248		Lorraine Soubliere	8-4	-48
Div. C
Wayne Barclay	9-3	+703
Shan Abbasi	9-3	+684
Sean Baizana	8-4	+268

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Toronto:

Results from the Canadian WSC Qualifying Tournament in Vancouver:

(Team Canada)

(complete results) (cross-table)

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Seattle:

Because of dwindling attendance, the Vancouver Scrabble Club will not be meeting at the Masonic Lodge in July. Club nights at the Masonic Lodge will resume in August.

During the hiatus, a number of the club's players will likely meet elsewhere. Please stay tuned for more details.

After negotiations between RIck Wong/Jeff Widergren and NASPA, the 2009 West Coast Championship has now been sanctioned by NASPA and will be rated.

Jeff Widergren's announcement on cgp of the tournament's sanctioning can be found here.

On May 26, Rick Wong announced that the 2009 West Coast Championship will not be sanctioned by the new NASPA organization. The tournament will therefore not be officially rated, and no rating fees will be paid to NASPA.

The following is an excerpt from a post on cgp by Wong:

"So, after many difficult discussions, and repeated efforts to work out various compromises with Chris [Cree], Jeff [Widergren] and I have decided that we are not willing to accept the current terms of running a NASPA-sanctioned event ... We believe that many others agree with us that the players of the West Coast are underrepresented in the decision-making processes of the new organization and that NASPA's business plan or proposed budget should be made available before it starts to collect money from the players. After nearly two years, Jeff and I cannot continue to pretend to have faith that Chris Cree is working in the best interests of the Reno tournament."

"It is unfortunate that I have to announce at this time that the 2009 Reno West Coast Championship will not be a NASPA-sanctioned event."

"... I do still have hope that we will soon figure out some compromises that will make us one big happy family in the future, but I feel that we have to take this step to let Chris Cree and NASPA know that we do not feel that our grievances and issues are insignificant and should just be ignored."

The complete text can be found here. John Chew's response can be found here.

(cross-tables: {1-10}{11-19}{final})

Results after of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Campbell:

(tournament website) (cross-tables: [early bird] [main event] [late bird])

* Dielle Saldanha defeated Chris Cree 2-1-1 +15 in the final.

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Portland:

Top finishers at the Cascadia Challenge in Coeur D'Alene, ID (14 rounds):

Div. 1				Div. 2
Michael Baker	12-2	+1272		Maureen Morris	11-3	+843
Rich Moyer	11-3	+966		Marion Dimond	10-4	+79
Jeff Fleetham	9-5	+197		Ben Settle	9-5	+377
Ruth Hamilton	9-5	-62		Betty Bergeron	9-5	+231

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Coeur D'Alene:

Top finishers at the Spring Tournament in Calgary, AB (14 rounds):

(cross-table)

Div. 1				Div. 2
Siri Tillekeratne	13-1	+621		Noella Ward	10-4	+750
Wayne Clifford	8-6	-31		Wendy McGrath	9-5	+313
Juraj Pivovarov	7-7	+89		Sylvia King	9-5	-102
Div. 3
Sunshine Gudlaugson	11-2-1	+547
Laverne Brookes	10-3-1	+411
Claudette Bazinet	9-5	+323

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Calgary:

(complete results) (cross-table)

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Seattle:

(Complete results and tournament coverage) (cross-tables: {1-10}{11-19}{final})

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Dallas:

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in our tournament:

Results from the Saldanha Handicap Tournament:

Top finishers at the Phoenix Scrabble Tournament in Phoenix, AZ (20 rounds):

(cross-tables: [early bird] [main event: {1-10}{11-20}{final}])

Div. 1				Div. 2
Sam Kantimathi	16-4	+600		Michael Thelen	13-7	+987
Nathan Benedict	15-5	+823		Luise Shafritz	13-7	+903
Dominick Mancine	13-7	+1001		Joel Elkins	13-7	+449
Randy Greenspan	13-7	+856		Ed Saunders	13-7	+243
Marty Gabriel	13-7	+684		Ruth Hamilton	12-8	+374
Div. 3				Div. 4
Kevin Schutz	14-6	+985		Gigi Miller	16-4	+1105
Peter Noom	13-7	+798		Eugene D'Eon	15-5	+990
Michael Wier	13-7	+250		Angela Dancho	13-7	+498
Susan Beard	12-8	+630		Valerie Gallant	13-7	+65
Gretchen Cowan	12-8	+410		Jane Geary	12-8	+89
Div. 5				Div. 6
Doug Stone	15-5	+1830		Janet Elliott	17-3	+1151
Tobey Roland	13-7	+544		Erika Anderson	14-6	+1008
Andy Ludwig	13-7	+456		Laura Rickhoff	14-6	+962
Steve Desch	12-8	+535		Arthur Vantol	13-7	+725
Richard Strick	12-8	+211		Robert Readle	13-7	+509

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members (and friends from BC) who competed in Phoenix:

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Seattle:

Top finishers at the Martin Luther King Jr. Scrabble Tournament in Reno (Sparks), NV (19 rounds):

(cross-tables: [early bird] [main event: {1-10}{11-19}{final}] [night bird])

Div. 1				Div. 2
Joe Dackman	15-4	+989		Cynthia Seales	15-4	+1414
Mark Schellenberg	14-5	+821		John Ortman	13-5	+1218
Dave Wiegand	13-6	+1549		Chuck Riordan	13-6	+728
Carl Johnson	13-6	+1391		Mark Peltier	12-7	+825
Conrad Basset-Bouchard	13-6	+864		Kevin Burbridge	12-7	+724
Div. 3
Daniel Citron	15-4	+1207
Jim Barker	12-7	+462
Ron Barker	12-7	+210

Results of the Vancouver Scrabble Club members who competed in Reno: