The first tournament on the Cape Town calendar was a great success, with 26 players competing in one section. The winner was our champion Lanre Oyekunle, who was unbeaten at 8 wins with the impressive margin of +1122! This has pushed his rating up by 8 points to 1971, within sniffing distance of the golden 2000…

Man of the match, I think we would all agree, goes to Jarrod Page, our rising star who came second with 6 wins +57, causing him to gain a whopping 68 rating points and the best rating mover prize! Jarrod is now rated at 1423 - not too shabby for someone who was rated 1226 in September last year!

Joy Palm also did very well, third with 6 wins +53, gaining 47 rating points to 1472.

Well done to Sasha Page and Kassy Cunningham for doing very well in their first tournament, with 4 and 2 wins respectively.

Lanre had the highest game score of 614, Pearl Seitz the high word score of 114 for “bequest”, and Eleanor Forbes the high non-7 word score of 88 for “squits”.

Thanks to the Lansdowne club for arranging such an enjoyable start to our Scrabble year!

The full results are:

(Rank,Player,Wins,Mar,Rating,Move,Rating)

1 Lanre Oyekunle 8 1122 +8 1971

2 Jarrod Page 6 57 +68 1423

3 Joy Palm 6 53 +47 1472

4 Gwen Rea 5 446 +0 1581

5 Blanda Townsend 5 289 +18 1360

6 Carol Parker 5 244 -12 1530

7 Angela Cohen 5 172 +21 1421

8 Linda Leshetz 5 115 -2 1456

9 Barbara Giloi 5 -167 +20 1284

10 Pearl Seitz 4 316 -39 1494

11 Duncan Keet 4 280 -17 1529

12 Noreen Schneider 4 112 +35 1257

13 Eleanor Forbes 4 43 -12 1377

14 Estelle Marney 4 40 +39 1263

15 Debbe Hossy 4 21 -28 1507

16 Elaine Lizzi 4 -34 +30 1154

17 Sasha Page 4 -87 +0 1101

18 Ralph Sultanie 3 104 -34 1256

19 Evelyn Terblanche 3 -7 -28 1296

20 Annalie Van Rensburg 3 -22 +10 1015

21 Barbara Montgomery 3 -390 +2 942

22 Roscoe Palm 3 -521 -28 1337

23 Elize Plaganyi 3 -702 +22 866

24 Michael Leuw 2 -119 -72 1317

25 Kassy Cunningham 2 -772 +0 838

26 Joan Isaacs 0 -593 -25 708

HIGH GAME: Lanre Oyekunle 614

HIGH WORD: Pearl Seitz 114 “BEQUEST”

Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Barry
Filed under: Results, Tournaments