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Yeah, I think so. Everybody who was really interested in this got their games in pretty quickly. So, now we have a 12-player tournament, which only takes four rounds to determine a clear winner in this format.

ROUND TWO: WE'RE GOING TO LOCK AND LOAD, PRIVATE!

1. Julia vs. Dean Gulberry (aka Dr. Glen, whatever)
2. Rock Hardy vs. Edward O
3. Gravel Puzzleworth vs. restandrec
4. Dom Passantino vs. Pleasant Plains
5. Greig vs. Kirsten
6. Dan Perry vs. Sundar

on yr mark, get set, go

(Ed O, the sooner we can play the better, or I'll have to put it off entirely until after the first of Aug.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:31 (twenty-four years ago)

Sundar, hit me up via gmail; I should be around online this week to play.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:44 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Since people who aren't specifically looking for a game wouldn't check the "come play" thread, I'm starting one for this idea. Here are the last few posts at the other thread:

I would like to put a tickle in all the lit players' brains with these three words:
ILX LITERATI TOURNAMENT.

(Has this already been done before?)

-- Rock Hardy (crump...), May 14th, 2005 4:04 PM. (Rock Hardy) (later) (link)

I don't think it has been done before, but I'd be up for it.

-- d'ngullberry (melte...), May 14th, 2005 4:24 PM. (noisemeltdown) (later) (link)

I'm afraid I only played this about five times, and got irritated with the fact that the other player could create rules I didn't know about. I said every time that I was a rank beginner, then would get 'Oh dear you ran out of time'. But I didn't know there was a time limit! 'Oh yes, I put one on.' Fuck that, I thought.

-- Martin Skidmore (lonewolf.cu...), May 15th, 2005 7:51 PM. (Martin Skidmore) (later) (link)

Well, we'd set the tournament rules before anything was played. Yahoo's default is 3:00 per move, but I think tournament Scrabble is 20:00 per player per game. There are a lot of asshats out there who get opponents into a room and then change the timer after the opponent hits "start" but before they hit it.

-- Rock Hardy (crump...), May 15th, 2005 9:21 PM. (Rock Hardy) (later) (link)

I'd be interested, to see if I can actually play funny Literati when so used to Scrabble. Most tournament Scrabble games tend to be 25 minutes, but since you don't have to do scoring, 20 minutes is better.

-- edward o (edwardo...), May 15th, 2005 1:35 AM. (edwardo) (later) (link)

I've been thinking about format, and I like the idea of a March Madness style bracket. Seeding as such might not be possible, but it would be good to get a general idea of player ability so all the 2200+ (and equivalent among Scrabble players) rankings don't accidentally get bunched in one "region."

The worst thing about Literati is that some fucked-up letter distributions aren't just possible, they're common. Eight S's, 4 Q's, etc. I think each round should be several games (best of 3 or best of 5) to get a fairer competition without "park effects," as it were.

If anybody knows of a good online Scrabble server with an acceptable Mac interface, making this a Scrabble tournament would be okay.

-- Rock Hardy (crump...), May 15th, 2005 9:28 AM. (Rock Hardy) (later) (link)

Who's interested?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Sign me up!

What is to be the FORMAT?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Still to be agreed-upon, but I had some ideas above.

Bad timing: I'm about to be away from my computer until the 27th.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I can't play until the 27th either!

I am dreaming of minileagues. I always do, I suppose.

I think I might... prefer... literati to scrabble. One seems to have better letters more often, and you don't get those 2-0 blank splits.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so far it's Dingle Berry, Edward O, Gravel, and me. And maybe Martin. Come on, all you tileheads, step up.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I potentially interested, do you have a date/frame of time?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I Tarzan.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm interested.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

You can add me to the list.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

What's the timeframe here? I'm interested even though I can't remember if I've ever played Literati before.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I'll throw myself in, even though I'm more of a Scrabble whore.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

How does early June sound? It could be a fairly relaxed affair once the brackets are made out — opponents can make arrangements via email or this thread to get together and play their match(es) whenever is convenient for both of them.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

William Crump ("rock hardy")
Dean Dingleberry Gulberry
Edward O
Gravel Puzzleworth
Gygax!
Ian John50n
Pleasant Plains
Dan Perry
Dom Passantino

...makes nine, maybe Martin makes ten. Let's say the next couple of weeks for saying "I'm in" and hammering out format, then playing in June? I'll try to find internet access a couple of times while I'm on the road and bump this thread to the top.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 May 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

FWIW: The first week of June is not possible for me.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd play.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I'd be interested in playing

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

im so in!!

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm in.

Julia is away from her computer for a few more days, but doesn't she play this a lot? Save a spot for her.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, maybe if it comes at the right time, as long as we don't play with time limits, as I won't be able to find slots where I can focus on this without any interruption. This doesn't imply that I'm slow and with fuck people around if I can avoid it, just that if a phonecall or AIM chat or something intervenes I can be delayed.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Bump.

I'm back, Victoriaville was great, thanks for asking.

Martin, I think we have to have reasonable time limits on these games. 20 minutes per player per game, without a limit per move, is more than fair.

So far:
William Crump
Dean Gulberry
Edward O
Gravel Puzzleworth
Gygax!
Ian John50n
Pleasant Plains
Dan Perry
Dom Passantino
Kirsten
Greig
Chaki
Casuistry
Julia

I'd like to get a few more people in — at least 16 total. Anybody else interested?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

thanks chris, yeah, i'm totally in. haven't played for a while, i'm not sure that i'm as good at this as i used to be...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Looks good! I think the time limit is fair.

How about this - best two out of three, over the course of a week. That way, we could account for time zone differences and personal schedules while still keeping the tourney moving along smoothly.

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

And yeah, I'd prefer Literati over Scrabble.

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

me 2 pls!

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd prefer best 3 of 5 in each round to factor out some of Lit's crazy-nutty letter distributions, but if most folks think best 2 of 3 is enough, I won't argue. (xpost)

bnw, thou art includedest.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

I think that even in a week, playing three or more games might be too daunting. If we did do 3 of 5, we should maybe try to match the first bracket up by time zone or something to cut down on scheduling problems. Personally, I might be too busy for more than three games in a week. This is all assuming that I don't get routed by gygax!

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Saturday, 28 May 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

i'm playing this for the first time ever right now. i'm in!

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm in!

― Huk-L, Saturday, 28 May 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Updated:
William Crump
Dean Gulberry
Edward O
Gravel Puzzleworth
Gygax!
Ian John50n
Pleasant Plains
Dan Perry
Dom Passantino
Kirsten
Greig
Chaki
Casuistry
Julia
bnw
joseph
Huk

If anybody has any ideas about how to determine initial pairings, I'd love to hear them.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

'Sevilla' from here is a free tournament organiser thing, you could try that? Excited!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

That looks perfect, but not available for Mac OS. Frowny!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

How about this, then?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Aaaargh, I somehow assumed that was for Mac. Ignore!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

A piece of paper would work, also.

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

"Paper"...?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

"Paper"...?

For Mac OSX

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Memorial Day bump. Has everybody who hangs out on the weekend, and who might be interested, seen this?

Gravel, I've downloaded Spendid City. Still trying to figure out the options for an odd number of participants, a number that's not a power of two, etc. Has anybody else here run a tournament? I think I may be about to get in over my head.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

You can use a Swiss-pairing program for non-power-of-2 tournaments, but everyone would have to play 4-5 different opponents to get a final result.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

I was looking at the Swiss-style tournament and it looks like it could work, especially if each round was one game and not best-of-3. Everybody would have several games to average out crazy letter distributions, just not several against one opponent.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

You could do a Swiss and just put in the number of games won in a best-of-5 match-up - so the pairings would be decided on margin of wins rather than of scoring.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm definitely in over my head, because I didn't really follow any of that.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

No, no, I just explained it badly.

There are a couple of different flavours of Swiss. (ooh-er. Sounds a bit rude).

What generally gets done is that the field is sorted after game 1 first on wins, then on score. So the person who won their first game with the highest-score plays the person who won the first game with the second-highest score. 1 plays 2, 3 plays 4, 5 plays 6 etc until you get to the bottom, where the two players with the worst losses play each other. SUbsequent rounds follow the same pattern except you can't play someone you've already played. (this isn't technically Swiss, as I think that goes top-v-middle in every round, but I'm not that up on this stuff)

Instead of doing that, though, you could have people play rubbers of three games, and sort on that. I.e. 3-0 is the best result, then 2-1, then 1-2 then 0-3 as the worst, rather than using the score.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Is that chess tournament style?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Swiss sounds like a good way to go, really. Since we've gone over 16 players, it would take five rounds to determine a clear winner, if I'm reading my tutorial right, which would be 5-15 games for every player (depending on the criteria for determining the next round's pairings). Is everybody up for that much Lit action?

Maybe after the fifth round, the top two players could play a five-game cage match.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

Weekday bump. Can we get to 20 players?

Tourney participants, would you post or email me your Lit screen names, and your ranking and/or W-L record if you have one?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.the-elite.net/---/lit/relaxant.JPG

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

gygax0r!
Rating: 2110
Games Played: 1234
Wins: 679
Losses: 555
Games Abandoned: 45
Streak: won 2
Highest Ladder Position: 79

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I would like to not have to play gygax first plz k thnx by.e

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

167!!!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I like the score too. Then again, I hate those social league vultures.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

In the interest of full disclosure:

hr1163
Rating: 2158
Games Completed: 1942
Abandoned Games: 5
Wins: 1265
Losses: 677
Streak: -1

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

acewhiskey:

Rating: 1562
Games Played: 149
Wins: 71
Losses: 78
Games Abandoned: 2
Streak: lost 1

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

j_bdules

Rating: 1921
Games Played: 383
Wins: 235
Losses: 148
Games Abandoned: 4
Streak: won 1

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

That's gygax0r! with the exclamation mark? I've never seen exclamation marks in screen names before. Also, what date are you available to start play?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Swiss seems a grander and grander idea with the posting of all these obscene ranks. Literati tournament!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I've never actually played before.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

you should play before the tournament to get used to the board, which is a bit different from ordinary scrabble. takes a bit of getting used to.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Like getting used to "aa" being a word.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

There are some variations from Scrabble, as you can see from gygax's screen capture: different letter values, different placement of premium squares. What that screencap doesn't tell you is that a game might have 3 Q's or J's. The same 100 letters are not used in each game. It would be worthwhile to create yr. screen name and get a few games in before the tourney starts, unless you're secretly a Scrabble grandmaster. (xxpost)

I finally looked AA up: it's "a rough, cindery lava."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Is 'aa' not a word in American scrabble? Y'all and your wacky dictionary. Do you have ae?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, we have ae. aa is a word too.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

AA is in the Scrabble dictionary. (xpost)

First rule of hardcore Scrabble: learn the 2s and 3s.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Literati uses Dictionary.com (which is like a bastard of OSPD and SOWPOD with some glaring variances).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

(and I hate having to go over there to see if "Pebu" is a word and only getting an acronym. I'M NOT READING A DICTIONARY FOR ACRONYMS!)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Any room left?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Also, what date are you available to start play?
-- Rock Hardy (crump...), June 2nd, 2005 12:10 PM. (Rock Hardy)

Yeah, I'm kind of unavailable, these are the days I can make:
6/13
6/15
6/16
6/20 onward I'm wide open

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Chuck's in and makes 18 players.

Hopefully, I'll be done scratching my head and we'll be all set up to at least get the first round done by the 16th.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I have played twice or three times, but it was a very long ago and my game history appears to be pruned, so no rating! (I am very good at Scrabble, so I'm not too worried about not being able to play)

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd prefer after June 18.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I'd also prefer AFTER June 16.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Um, okay. If there are any other scheduling issues, everybody holla.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

I haven't played before but I'd be interested in trying this out.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

You're in!

William Crump
Dean Gulberry
Edward O
Gravel Puzzleworth
Gygax!
Ian John50n
Pleasant Plains
Dan Perry
Dom Passantino
Kirsten
Greig
Chaki
Casuistry
Julia
bnw
joseph
Huk
Chuck Tatum
Sundar

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 3 June 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

One more makes 20. Who wants in?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I haven't played this much but I'd also be interested in trying this out.

― RR (restandrec), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

restandrec

Rating: 1539
Games Played: 8
Wins: 6
Losses: 2
Games Abandoned: 1
Streak: won 2

― RR (restandrec), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Okey doke, restandrec is in, nice even number.

Swiss style tournament, five rounds, each round three games (not best-of-three). Placement for rounds 2-5 determined by W-L record in previous round, with ties broken by total points. Leader after the 5th round is the winner. Since we don't have a power-of-2 number of players, I can't think of a better setup.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

So I'm playing my first game of this, as a practice run.

Is there actually no way to discard your tiles?

Also is there a list of the 2 and 3s?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I was away for foods.

Yes, you can discard tiles. Click "PASS" and it will bring up your rack and you can click on tiles to discard before the end of your turn.

There's no list of 2s and 3s at Yahoo, but there are Scrabble sites on the web that might have the lists.

If you're still on right now, I'll join you in an unrated game and walk you through the setup.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm logging in if anyone wants to play a first-timer.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Table 99 in the Blabber room.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

On my way. What's yr screen name?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Oops, Blabber is full, I can't get in there.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm loitering in Social Lounge 22, screen name hr1163.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I see I won't last very long in this tournament.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Aw, now, it'll be fun. And the Swiss format means everybody gets a load of games regardless of experience/ranking.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Lettuce begin!

Anybody care how the initial pairings are done? For lack of a better idea or the energy to try to come up with seedings, how about alphabetical?

bnw
Casuistry

Chaki
Chuck Tatum

Dan Perry
Dean Gulberry

Dom Passantino
Edward O

Gravel Puzzleworth
Greig

Gygax!
Huk

Ian John50n
joseph

Julia
Kirsten

Pleasant Plains
restandrec

Rock Hardy
Sundar

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

BNW, are you ready? Because I am going DOWN!!!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

fine by me. when etc?

― juliaaa, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Everybody make contact with 1st round opponents, make arrangements to play, play 3 games, post results and scores here or email them to me. When everybody's done, I'll post 2nd round pairings. (#1 plays #2, #3 plays #4, etc., as described upthread.)

When playing the games, whoever is in charge of the room set it up as Initial Time 20 minutes; Increment 0 seconds; move timer turned off.

I'll start sending out emails to people that it's time to start.

And good luck to all!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

When is the deadline for Round 1?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

I hate to specify one, but it seems to me a week to 10 days is way plenty.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

haha this pairing is so uneven. Ah well, only way to learn I s'pose. If you're around now, maybe we could play the first round.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I tottered off to bed after my last post. I'm available to play this evening after about 7 p.m. (U.S., central time).

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Thank you for pairing me against a Championship level Scrabble player.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

The really unfair stuff will be gotten out of the way in Round 1, and the format provides several more rounds of equitable play. When I asked for skill levels earlier, only 3 people initially responded.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Just sent mail to everyone (I hope). If your spam filter blocks mass emails, well, oopsie.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

(Thank you for organizing this, by the way!)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

My pleasure! I hope it's enough fun for everyone that we can do it every year or so.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, thanks for organizing this!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Chiming in: thanks for organizing this.

― RR (restandrec), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Sundar and I just played our first game, and since I always play with a 3:00 per move timer instead of a game timer, I wasn't sure what would happen if the timer ran out. Answer: game over!

And don't forget to record your scores as well as W-L record -- they're needed for tiebreaks.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Any results? Any games played at all?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

restandrec is 1 out of 3 so far after defeating me last night.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

The first round of Passantino vs Ed O was 283-259.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 June 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

In other news, there were about 36 Cs in our game.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 24 June 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

i played my first two rounds with kiersten yesterday...we're going to finish up after the weekend.

― juliaaa, Friday, 24 June 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

BNW where are youuuuuu?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 June 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Round two, Ed O's revenge: 323-222.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

And round 3 goes to me 304-205.

There are no good words in the dictonary. I was amazed it allowed my DHOOTIES and Dom's quite excellent SUBORNER.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 26 June 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Cool, I guess you guys are the first to finish the round. I'm waiting for Sundar to finish a work project to play our 3rd game.

BNW, where you at? Chris is waiting for you.
Chaki and Chuck Tatum, Dan and Dean, Gravel and Greig, Gygax and Huk, Ian and Joseph -- have you made contact at all? Play one tournament!

Pleasant/restandrec, games 2 and 3? Julia/Kirsten, acknowledged -- game 3 after weekend.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 26 June 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Emails went out yesterday to the people who'd gone silent up to then -- responses gotten from Dean, Ian and Joseph, thanks.

Sundar and I played our 3rd game yesterday, so there are these standings to report:

Rock Hardy: 3-0
Edward O: 2-1
Dom Passantino: 1-2
Sundar Subramanian: 0-3

BNW, Chaki and Chuck, Gravel and Greig, Gygax and Huk: WTF?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, still waiting on Dan...

― deannnnnnnnnnnnn (bundgee), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

SORRY! I've been distracted.

I should be online tonight around 8:00.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Julia is kicking my ass, by the way. Like, kicking it SOUNDLY.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

As I was telling Sundar yesterday, I lost 3 games and 70 rating points before lunch, but I keep coming back for more.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

BNW and I joust tonight.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Are we just using standard 3 mins/turn settings? I assume reference websites are considered unkosher?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

No no no, instructions are upthread. 20 minute initial time, 0 increment, 3:00 timer turned off. Keep up with game scores, they will be tiebreakers. No dictionaries, no anagram programs, no hairpulling, eye gouging, kicking or 3rd-party kibitzing.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Under-the-table groping?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm totally okay with that. It's a longstanding sitting-alone-and-looking-at-the-internet tradition.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh! Hey, also my internet connection is a little flakey these days. If I get disconnected, is there a protocol, or do I forfeit? Hrm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Um. I am at a loss with that question. Lots of variables: size of lead, how far along in game. I don't have an answer that sounds 100% fair to both sides.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

I think it just happened. Halfway through the game, I was ahead 124 to 109, but I had just moved as well (& I went first). We were basically tied.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Yikes. I'd be okay with a restart if you were playing against me, but you and BNW should make the final decision between the two of yez.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

We restarted.

First round, I beat BNW 244-243. Squeaker!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

And then my connection got lost again. Grr. Another time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Pleasant Plains: if you're there, check your e-mail.

― RR (restandrec), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I just got the e-mail. If you're there, I'm on my way.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

We made contact, hurray!

Round 2 result: I beat Pleasant Plains 212-208.

― RR (restandrec), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Also, round 1 score: I won 242-177.

― RR (restandrec), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

I've been off on holiday for the last week and missed this.
I don't seem to have received any email about it either.
It might be better to contact me at trefell at gmail dot com

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

argh typo!
that's treefell at gmail dot com

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

first game: dan 155 dean 278

― deangulberrryy (duelberg), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

second game: dan x dean x

― deangulberries (duelberg), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

oops! gunshy

― ryan duelberg (duelberg), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

also, trigger happy ... also, trying to post on ilx while playing literati.

― ryan duelberg (duelberg), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Dean is so much better at this game than I am.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

apparently i'm really bad at posting coherently on ilx, so i guess it all evens out.

― tackleberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Dean: 301 Dan: 187

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

Restandrec, your table is ready.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

me 224 dan 171

― tackleberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Greig, email Gravel at mostlyconnect at gmail dot com and make arrangements, or Gravel email Greig. Game guidelines are upthread. Meanwhile, gygax! is having a delay while he has an ISP changeover at home.

Julia and Kirsten, did you get your 3rd game in? Also, scores?

Dean and Dan, that 3rd game must have been 100 C's and U's.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Dean moves to 1st position (3-0, 803 total pts.). K-boom!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Pleasant Pains pulled one out tonight vs restandrec, 219 - 201. RR wins the series however, 2-1. (Scores upthread.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd fancy Dan's chances in any game involving lots of Cs and Us, personally.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

i emailed kirsten about a third game...hopefully we'll get that done today, or soon.

scores so far:

kirsten: 207
julia: 301

kirsten: 175
julia: 287

― juliaaa, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I do better with Cs and Ts. Ha ha. Sigh.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me, Sundar dropped TICTAC on me in one of our games. Always good to learn new words.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

It occurred to me a couple days later that I could just as easily have used "tactic".

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Anybody have anything to report tonight?

Chris, you were asking about lists of 2- and 3-letter words; here are six lists including the 2s, the 3s, and the all-powerful Q-without-U list.

Chuck and Chaki, play some gosh-dang Lit!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Those are for Scrabble. I thought Literati was going to be different.

BNW will have to wait until Friday before I am able to play again -- I have to finish up my move tomorrow.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty game the same game.

― tackleberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

Only differences between Scrabble and Lit that I know of are letter values, placement of premium squares, and the variability of the letters from game to game. Otherwise, it's Scrabble, and the word lists are useful for both.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

The latter two things are huge differences, at least to me. I've been playing Scrabble seriously for nearly seven years, and I am SO used to the premium square layouts and such that I can't get used to Literati's. I just ASSUME that if I play in one part of the board it's safe, except no! in Lit, there's two double word squares really close to each other.

Also, the variability of letters things mean a lot of Scrabble strategies can't be used in Literati.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

They are huge differences, and if www.isc.ro had a better Mac interface, I'd drop Literati like a hot rock. I'm afraid Lit is dumbing me down too much to play Scrabble -- I should find a local club and find out.

I think if I got away from Lit and started playing Scrabble seriously, the biggest adjustment for me would be the number of S's. Four (+ blanks, potentially) as opposed to seemingly endless supplies of S's in Lit. My last game against Sundar, I counted five S's on the board with 2/3 of the bag still to play.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Have you tried using Virtual PC? That's what some people I know do.. possibly. I'm THIS close to installing the client on my work computer which is a Mac... but I spend enough time on the ISC at home.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty game the same game.

hahah wtf? someone diagnose me already.

game related question: maybe this was already discussed, but how will we deal with the third round when we're left with five players?

― larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

It's not a knockout. It's swiss (or imitation swiss) paired, Larry!

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Larry, are you Dean?

(shit, there's one for "quoted out of context")

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Went to ISC yesterday and there's much for the Mac user to be happy about: a new browser-free java app interface thingy called Wordbiz. My old login was invalid, so I created a new account and bumped my rating from 500 to 936 in four games. Maybe next year we should have a Scrabble tourney instead of Lit.

In the meantime, ARE WE EVEN GOING TO GET THROUGH THE FIRST ROUND OF THIS THING?! There are three pairs of you who haven't even started yet!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

You can unpair me if you like, I feel like I'm holding some of you up. I'm still unsure when exactly my situation will be resolved.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

: (

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Not until I know what's going on with Chuck/Chaki, Gravel/Greig, unless you specifically say you're out.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Cool, thanks.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

It's not like we have a train to catch, esp. if it's on fire like in that movie.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

that would be really cool to have an isc scrabble tournament next year! i love isc for internet scrabbling.

― juliaaa, Friday, 1 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd be down for an ISC battle, especially as my rating has been collapsing on their recently. I'm down to fucking 692 now!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

bump. Chuck and Chaki, Gravel and Greig, report for duty.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 3 July 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Report! Greig and I had a missed connection on Saturday and are hopefully playing on monday.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 3 July 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Okey doke. I'll be out of town Tues.-Thurs. and unavailable to hassle the shit out of people, I'm sure to everyone's relief.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 July 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Game 1:
Gravel 259 : 156 Greig

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Game 2:
Gravel 341 : 133 Greig

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Game 3:
Gravel had to resign due to real life commitments. Scores at that point:
Gravel 204 : 148 Greig

I'm not bothered if I get the win cause of the resignation or if Gravel gets it with the superior score.

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

played our last game, so:

1
kirsten: 207
julia: 301
2
kirsten: 175
julia: 287
3
kirsten: 158
julia: 293

― juliaaa, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Slowly but surely.

1. Julia (3-0, 881 pts.)
2. Dean (3-0, 803 pts.)
3. Rock Hardy (3-0, 681 pts.)
4. Edward O (2-1, 886 pts.)
5. Gravel Puzzleworth (2-1, 804 pts.)
6. restandrec (2-1, 655 pts.)
7. Dom Passantino (1-2, 686 pts.)
8. Pleasant Plains (1-2, 604 pts.)
9. Greig (1-2, 437 pts.)
10. Kirsten (0-3, 540 pts.)
11. Dan Perry (0-3, 513 pts.)
12. Sundar (0-3, 497 pts.)

I feel like a blue meanie, but a resignation is a resignation even if it's for bailing out to deal with personal stuff. But if you guys agree that you'd like to replay your game 3, and get it done before the rest of Round 1 finishes, I think it would be fine to include and revise the standings.

Gygax, got internets?

Casuistry/BNW, Joseph/Ian: status? (Sorry in advance if any of you are from London, obv. real world concerns come first.)

I am prepared to drop Chaki and Chuck Tatum and carry on with 18 players. It won't affect this tourney format.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I'M NUMBER 11! IN YER FACE, SUNDAR!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I'M THE BEST LOSER~!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna bow out. I'm currently internet free at home (and seriously it's liberating so I'm not in any rush to reconnect, I just rely on my mobile). Hit me up next time for sure!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

if ian is reading this, i will play tonight, if you're available

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I've been all busy. And dealing with computer/internet issues. But I'll try to reconnect with BNW.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I totally forgot about this, will check in.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I totally forgot about this, will check in. Where y'at Chaki?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Chuck, I've emailed you and CC'd Chaki, so he should have yr. actual email address now.

Looks like Huk gets a round-one bye. I'll review Swiss-style format to see how byes are handled from here on.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Er. How do the point totals work in the case of byes? Because Huk should be .00001 points behind me so that I can gloat at someone else. (Sorry Sundar, you know you's my boy.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

For odd number of teams, the lowest ranked team gets placed into the bye slot. A bye round for a team gets treated as a win and compounded with enough scores or goals for to place that team back into the middle of the rankings for subsequent rounds.

So Huk would get a record of 1-1-1 (I've had several ties over the last few years, so that's not as weird as it looks) and put into the list between the 2-1's and the 1-2's.

Casuistry, BNW, Joseph and Ian, would somebody please update me on what's going on? Chuck and Chaki, did you ever schedule games? For that matter, I haven't heard from Huk since he originally signed up in May.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

The inability to get through one round without bogging down is very discouraging. I am about to go into Monster Workload Hell until August 1st, and will be checking this thread sporadically for the next couple of weeks. It would be nice to carry on to round 2 with more than 12 players, but we'll see.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we should just move on? It's been a month already. Finishing in 2005 would be preferable.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I haven't played Lit since finding the improved GUI at isc.ro — it's been all Scrabble since then, probably 4-6 weeks.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Ahh I should've kept my mouth shut. Now I'm certain to lose to Julia.

― ryan duelberg (duelberg), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

How many logins do you have, anyway?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Plains: after 11pm GMT weekdays is best for me over the next month.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

(xpost - more than two)

Julia, I'll be available after the weekend. I'll send you an email shortly.

― ryan duelberg (duelberg), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Dom: How late after 2300 GMT? My ideal time would be between 0200 - 0500 GMT, but that might be too late for you.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I am not on ilx much but when is good for you, restandrec? mail me or something.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Mr Crump, I keep slightly odd hours which may fit OK with you. If you're on the isc a lot, add me to your buddies list (I'm "taqi") and if we should meet we can waltz over to the Yahoo place. Otherwise hit me with an email.

Next couple of days is best for me.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

OTHERWISE, end of August, as I will be MOSTLY off the intranot in the middle of August.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Edward, I have emailed you. This evening and tomorrow evening works for me, sort of.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Game 1: Edward O 341 Rock Hardy 328
Game 2: Edward O 328 Rock Hardy 248

Game 3 to take place another time.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

In the pointing-out-of-failures of Dictionary.com - Literati does not allow RUSTINESS.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

It's madness! Next year, Scrabble tourney for sure.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Aaaand..
Game 3: Edward O 423 Rock Hardy 238

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Which would best be described as "having bloody good letters".

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

As asswhippin' of mythic proportions. I will drink to forget.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Dan! I know you're out there! I'm not on AIM but I'm in Social Lounge 22 at Table 9. Msg me when you enter. Hope you see this.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

(If anyone's on AIM and reads this, could you please do me a massive favour by relaying this info to Dan? I can stick around for another 20 min maybe.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

I'M ON I'M ON (deXter_aRRogAnt)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I've sent you a couple of messages; are you getting them?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

First game 263-177 my favour

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Second game 204-203 (!) for Dan.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm finishing up a game. Does anyone want some? Social Lounge - personification

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Just message me if you want a game.

Sorry, I'm logged in as "americanaltitude"

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Another night. Who wants some?

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm in "Social Lounge" as "americanaltitude". Just message me.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

(Dan, I'm in Social Lounge 21. Are you using the same name as before?)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

dean/dr.glen/ryan, send me an email or let me know when you'd be available to play...i can't log on lately so can't see your email address.

― juliaaa, Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Plains: if you can hold on for a fortnight, I can make those times.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

That's fine by me, Dom. Just let me know.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 1 August 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

julia 252 - me 210

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

I appreciate all y'all keeping on with the games while my brane was on fire. I pretty much finished the magazine today and will be back to full pestering status after a couple of good nights' sleep. (245:15 billable hours and counting, bitchez!!!)

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Fuck. 245 for June?!

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

err july fuck.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

From June 27 through today. Probably about 5 hrs. left of final corrections, file prep and online proofing. I am a solid mass of RSI's (esp. left hand), heartburn and nervous tics.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

I can relate. I think I billed 255 hours in May. Good times ruining your body for cash...

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

This is why I have a hard time working up the energy to find other clients. I spend a month working myself into a coma and a month recovering, repeat 6x/yr.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

me 298, julia 258

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Edward's 3-0 and I'm 0-3 in Round 2, Sundar/Dan and Julia/Dean have splits in their first two games. Dom and Pleasant Plains scheduled to go midmonth.

No word from Gravel/Restandrec or Greig/Kirsten. Are you guys playing, or keeping up with this at all?

I finally got a good 10-hour sleep.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Haven't played Gravel yet -are you there, Gravel? And did you get my email?

― RR (restandrec), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Can someone please tell me if there's really such a thing as "literati buddy?"

Some twat today accused me of using it because I was beating him. Funny, because his first word was "embryons" but he spelled buddy as "buddie"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

A dictionary?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

I mean really though, cheating at Literati???

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

I think some people are really crazy when it comes to ratings.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

It's an anagram program. I've never seen it in action, since there's no Mac version. There are some cheat programs where you just enter your rack and it spits out all playable words. I believe there's another that somehow keeps up with your game and gives you your best play.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

It certainly beats painstakingly studying the most likely racks until you can instantly recall the 7-letter-words playable with it. If you're a cretin, that is.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

I think some people are really crazy when it comes to ratings.

-- Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr_...), August 10th, 2005.

This is remarkable to me, since there is nothing to gain materially.

The kid who accused me of cheating (and who probably was himself) actually followed me to my next game and tried to tell my opponent that I was a cheater. I told him "you must have an exciting life," and he left.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I assume the next version won't even require you to be at the computer at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I forgot all about this!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know if mostlyconnect@gmail.com is Gravel's actual email address? He hasn't responded to my emails.

― RR (restandrec), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

It is Gravel's right address, I used it to contact him when I played him last round.
He was using a shared computer, though, and he was finding it hard to get time online.

Kirsten, you around? Contact me on treefell at gmail dot com to arrange a game.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Greig; we've now made contact and should be playing on Sunday.

― RR (restandrec), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Gravel, are you there? I'm at table 43 in Articulate.

― RR (restandrec), Monday, 15 August 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

arse arse there now!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 15 August 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

(well loading applet)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 15 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

ok after shambolic flakiness on my part, and infinite patience on his (shared computer hell ends in a week!):

RR 141 - 288 GP
RR 208 - 273 GP
RR 203 - 237 GP

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 15 August 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Dom, are you ready to face the challenge of Pleasant "Set Voice for Stun" Plains?

Kirsten and Greig, have you played?

Dan & Sundar and Julia & Dean, have you played your 3rd games?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

nope

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

I've just emailled Kirsten as I've had no contact from her as of yet. Hopefully we'll get our games in soon.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

I think Dan and I missed each other last time. I should have full Net access next week if it can wait till then.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Greig vs Kirsten

Game 1: Kirsten 206 - Greig 186

Game 2: Kirsten 185 - Greig 185

Game 3: Greig 242 - Kirsten 214

I think we both agreed that they were great games

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Game 3: me 194, Dan 171

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Dom P. and Pleasant Plains, please play some games, kthx. Also, Dean and Julia, one more plz.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Round 2 incomplete standings:

1. Edward O: 3-0 (1092 pts.)
2. Gravel Puzzleworth: 3-0 (798)
3. Sundar: 2-1 (660)
4. Greig: 1.5-1.5 (613)
5. Kirsten: 1.5-1.5 (605)
6. Dan Perry: 1-2 (552)
7. Rock Hardy: 0-3 (814)
8. RestandRec: 0-3 (552)

Two sets of results still to incorporate.

814 pts. and no wins to show for it is a hard pill to swallow. Ed's a monster.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Is this tournament dead?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm ready to play whenever. Name a time PP.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Is ten o'clock CDT too late for you?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

(A little less than five and a half hours from now.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

That'd be.... four AM GMT? Can you try any earlier?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

I work from 1700 GMT to 0130 GMT. What time outside of that frame would be best for you?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

1:31GMT?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, if that's cool with you.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I'll try to get on a little early for you. I'll check back to this thread when I'm finished with work.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Dom, I'm in Social Lounge 17, Table 2. Username is Acewhiskey.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

On my way.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

At a later time (I'm still working) will somebody be willing to teach me this game? I am a good scrabble player and I know it is similar, but I am timid to enter the game room "alone" and clueless lest I make an ass of myself. I'lll check back later.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

239-225 to Pleasant in the first.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I'll write you later about Game 2, Dom. The java of yahoo was getting my computer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

wiggy--it's pretty straightforward if you're good at scrabble, just takes some getting used to small differences...i'll play you sometime if you like.

dean, i just emailed you.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I apologize for my failure in, uh, basic competence.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

Causistry don't sweat it, how hard can it be. We will get it and -- Juulia says she'll help. I just gotta find a time where I can do it and concetrate. My email is legit if you want to discuss a time to mee in the yahoo games forum and give it a shot.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Did we get through round 2 while I was gone, he asked unconfidently?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

bump

The tourney is dead on the operating table. Maybe Dean, Julia, Dom or Tre have a defibrillator?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

we have one game left
i've been busy with things
i might be able to get a game in soon

― the son of dean cameron (dr g), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

In a funny sort of way, I discovered that I prefer my opponents not to have names.

Dom and I had two more to go, but we're too busy with rock trivia right now.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

i tried emailing dean but it didn't go through. we only need a third game...dean, could you email me?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

will do

― the son of dean cameron (dr g), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I'd be up for playing in the next tourney.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I think next time ILX should try to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I like the new name wc!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

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