By Matthew E. Milliken
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June 28, 2018
About a month after this year’s pokerpalooza concluded, I participated in a week-long Scrabble tournament. I was seeded third in the 12-person C division, which contained the lowest-ranked group of competitors after divisions A and B.
The event opened with an 11-game round robin, meaning everyone in the division played everyone once. That was to be followed by a five-game “king of the hill” battle. After 16 games staged over two days, the division’s top three players would receive small cash prizes.
My Saturday morning began with an opening game against D.A., whom I’d never faced before. Her rating entering the event was 991, a bit higher than my mark of 965. (My longtime local rival, J—, was the top seed with a rating of 1019.)
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