Date | Event | Players | Games |
Bingos | Phoneys |
TotalScore | AvgScore | Note |
Dec 18 2023 | Thus concludes 2023 Austin Scrabble meetings | 11 | 15 | 39 | 3 | 11532 | 384.4 | There is a gift bag for Pat. Buy nice things for Pat! |
Dec 11 2023 | King of the hill Jim | 9 | 10 | 26 | 1 | 7653 | 382.6 | Jim earned King of the Club by taking a bye round 1 and then winning two. David Cole and Kevin Leeds undefeated 3-0. |
Dec 4 2023 | December fourth | 11 | 16 | 50 | 1 | 12695 | 396.7 | Valerie gave us all a Gel Blaster Pulse so we can shoot green goo at things to vent our frustration in case we lost our Scrabble game. |
Nov 27 2023 | November twenty-seventh | 12 | 16 | 37 | 0 | 11569 | 361.5 | Ruler of the Roost is Chris Canik again. |
Nov 20 2023 | November twentieth | 9 | 11 | 38 | 2 | 8612 | 391.5 | |
Nov 13 2023 | November thirteenth | 8 | 11 | 26 | 1 | 8579 | 390.0 | King of the Hill is Chris Canik, over Bob Bolender in the 3rd round. |
Nov 6 2023 | November sixth | 8 | 11 | 29 | 1 | 8297 | 377.1 | David Cole defeated Ed Gordon for Sovereign of the Meeting |
Oct 30 2023 | Halloween Meeting! | 8 | 10 | 26 | 1 | 7533 | 376.6 | Valerie celebrated by wearing a fabulous costume! I seem to remember that it was a witch? It was a sudden dramatic visitation, suddenly here and suddenly gone. I remember it happened while MY clock was running! Scrabble games are very important at the time. |
Oct 23 2023 | Meeting Nearing Hallowe'en Holiday | 9 | 11 | 28 | 1 | 8694 | 395.2 | David Z won the meeting! Halloween is a Scottish shorting of Allhalloweven and directly descended from Middle English and Old English terms for All Saints' Day, ironically. |
Oct 16 2023 | October sixteenth 2023 | 11 | 14 | 35 | 4 | 10812 | 386.1 | Maybe we could have "bye" slips to track which players ended up sitting out a round when the number of players is odd. |
Oct 9 2023 | Oct 9, 2023 | 12 | 16 | 27 | 3 | 11867 | 370.8 | The weather is cooling off! |
Oct 2 2023 | October second 2023 | 13 | 17 | 37 | 3 | 12621 | 371.2 | In round one, two different games featured the word FORAGES |
Sep 25 2023 | Sept 25, 2023 | 12 | 14 | 36 | 1 | 10344 | 369.4 | We try to update austinscrabble.org when appropriate (especially if we will be at Jason's Deli instead of Pat's Games) |
Sep 18 2023 | Sept 18 2023 | 12 | 17 | 45 | 2 | 13371 | 393.3 | world war I ended about 105 years ago! |
Sep 11 2023 | Sept 11 2023 | 12 | 16 | 38 | 1 | 11774 | 367.9 | Looks like Chris Canik and David Cole were undefeated. Looks like Chris put "ME" for his name on one of his score sheets but on the back he put "C" for the bingos so I think it was Chris |
Sep 4 2023 | Labor Day Evening Meeting | 10 | 13 | 35 | 1 | 10021 | 385.4 | we normally meet in the evening on mondays now. Some people lost scrabble games. it can be upsetting to lose a scrabble game after trying so hard to win! we all lose sometimes, so have some empathy for the loser, but not until after the game is over! |
Aug 28 2023 | David Z and Chris C both went 3-0 | 12 | 17 | 41 | 1 | 12787 | 376.1 | Excellent meeting at Pat's Games. Jim H is often courteous in volunteering to sit out a game. |
Aug 21 2023 | Welcome, new player Meghan G | 13 | 18 | 35 | 4 | 13086 | 363.5 | New players are encouraged to learn new two-letter and three-letter words and their hooks, in order to beat Kevin, because he is mean! This meeting took place at Jason's Deli, surprisingly to some, although Jim did announce it. Some people forgot it was announced, sorry! |
Aug 14 2023 | Nine people , so one player volunteers to play two games at once | 9 | 13 | 32 | 3 | 9821 | 377.7 | To play two games at once involves a lot of fast thinking. |
Aug 7 2023 | August 7th. It's been a hot summer | 12 | 16 | 36 | 0 | 11659 | 364.3 | Bob Bolender 3-0 +541, David Cole 3-0 +297 Is it a monarchy or a diarchy? |
Jul 31 2023 | It's great to meet on Mondays again | 10 | 13 | 33 | 3 | 9419 | 362.3 | King of the Hill is David Zuckerman. Way to go! |
Jul 24 2023 | Wonderful meeting! | 15 | 20 | 55 | 1 | 15446 | 386.1 | We had visitors! Maria Smith and Matthew DeWaelsche from San Antonio. But, visitors? They're at home here! What was I thinking. |
Jul 17 2023 | Meeting at Jason's Deli | 7 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 6856 | 380.9 | is our club disfunctional? i feel like we need a better way to remind everyone when we meet at Jason's Deli. Jim announced it on 7/10 or 7/5 or both and Jim made a post on Facebook about it. This time we were out by 10pm! Seven people showed up. One player was tortured by a staircase board. |
Jul 10 2023 | Twelve people! eighteen games | 11 | 16 | 36 | 6 | 12349 | 385.9 | We are having meetings on Monday again! Pat's Games is trusting us. |
Jul 5 2023 | The last Wednesday meeting. Next week 7/10 Mondays | 11 | 16 | 36 | 3 | 12030 | 375.9 | |
Jun 28 2023 | June twenty-eighth, 2023 | 10 | 14 | 36 | 3 | 10788 | 385.3 | |
Jun 21 2023 | June twenty-first, 2023 | 8 | 11 | 30 | 1 | 8347 | 379.4 | Eleven games, eight players. Winner of the round robin: David Cole! |
Jun 14 2023 | Meeting June 14 , 2023 | 8 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 7560 | 378.0 | The result slips have been found! Top of the Hill: David Cole. |
Jun 7 2023 | June seventh, 2023 | 13 | 18 | 35 | 2 | 13024 | 361.8 | Twelve players, eighteen games |
May 31 2023 | May 31, 2023 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 1 | 9081 | 378.4 | Congratulations! Jim Hughes wins the King of the Hill in an 8-player bracket pairing. Maybe the site can show the KOTH each week. |
May 24 2023 | Wednesday, May 24th 2023 | 11 | 15 | 37 | 0 | 11111 | 370.4 | Queen of the Hill Anna Talarico! Congratulations! |
May 17 2023 | May Seventeenth, 2023 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 8929 | 372.0 | |
May 10 2023 | Matt Canik going far away. Thin envelope because of thin result slips | 8 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 6807 | 378.2 | Matt Canik is one of our greatest players ever in the club - Geoff Thevenot is another one who played here often. Both are top-notch players in North America and for Geoff, in the world. |
May 3 2023 | May 5th, 2023 Fourteen games | 12 | 15 | 32 | 2 | 11375 | 379.2 | |
Apr 26 2023 | April 26, 2023 Fourteen games | 10 | 14 | 27 | 1 | 10274 | 366.9 | |
Apr 19 2023 | April 19, 2023 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 2 | 10817 | 386.3 | There is a new player named Sheryl or Cheryl |
Apr 12 2023 | April 12, 2023 | 12 | 18 | 48 | 2 | 13870 | 385.3 | |
Apr 5 2023 | April 5, 2023 | 11 | 14 | 40 | 4 | 11045 | 394.5 | |
Mar 29 2023 | A meeting three months ago | 11 | 16 | 37 | 1 | 11851 | 370.3 | Data Entry person has been slacking |
Mar 22 2023 | March Twenty-Second, 2023 | 9 | 12 | 32 | 1 | 9545 | 397.7 | |
Mar 15 2023 | Wednesday, Fifteenth of March, 2023 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 2 | 10513 | 375.5 | |
Mar 8 2023 | Wednesday, March Eighth | 10 | 13 | 35 | 6 | 10317 | 396.8 | A nice web site for Word of the Day, from our umbrella organization NASPA
https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl |
Mar 1 2023 | Great Meeting | 11 | 16 | 41 | 2 | 12264 | 383.2 | Something about the meeting! |
Feb 22 2023 | Enjoyable meeting | 11 | 16 | 35 | 2 | 11884 | 371.4 | There's much to enjoy at an Austin Scrabble Club meeting. |
Feb 15 2023 | Much happy scrabble | 11 | 12 | 26 | 1 | 8846 | 368.6 | Post- ice storm meeting. So many trees had so much ice! |
Feb 8 2023 | Meeting of confusing results? | 14 | 15 | 32 | 1 | 11430 | 381.0 | Players are so excited about the points and the bonus squares and the bingos and winning that they forget about time! What round is it? What date is it? Time has ceased to exist! |
Jan 25 2023 | Big meeting | 13 | 13 | 30 | 1 | 9767 | 375.7 | Many people were at the meeting (at least twelve.) |
Jan 18 2023 | We're joined by Joe Gaspard from Minneapolis, MN | 11 | 16 | 40 | 4 | 12665 | 395.8 | |
Jan 11 2023 | Sarah Directed! Jim was away | 9 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 8850 | 368.8 | Sarah Clancy ran the meeting! Our director had a corporate meeting at Cancun. There is a Cajun card game named COONCAN or CONQUIAN, which is Cancun backwards. |
Jan 4 2023 | Happy Scrabble 2023! | 9 | 11 | 23 | 2 | 8380 | 380.9 | If we were good we would have Awards! Cesar Jaramillo had awards for us and Geoff Thevenot did too, so maybe we can get together some awards for 2023. |
Annual Statistics for 2023