# Scrabble Tournament? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 5, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386 "2001-07-05T19:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/1 "2001-07-05T19:15:07Z")
Some of us have recently gotten into playing Scrabble over at [http://www.games.com](http://www.games.com), and I got to thinking, during my latest bout with insomnia, why don’t we have a Stright Dope tournament? So, I hereby throw the little sack filled with letter tiles down and spin the deluxe board in your general direction. Who’s in? (Mechanics will be worked out later, pending actual participation) ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/2 "2001-07-05T19:24:41Z")
**Straight** Dope tournament, of course. The lack-of-preview bug strikes again… ---
**Author:** ![dobbinaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@dobbinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dobbinaire)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/3 "2001-07-05T20:43:39Z")
I’m game:). Afternoons would work best for me, but not Fridays or Saturday night. Sunday’s cool. dob ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/4 "2001-07-05T20:49:45Z")
I’m already playing most nights so the times that work for me are 6:30-whenever I pass out CST My name is Octarinefire there by the way… ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/5 "2001-07-05T20:54:06Z")
You’re on, baby. I’m prepared to lose horribly in the name of fun and games. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/6 "2001-07-05T21:27:20Z")
Dyno, I’m totally in. On games, my name is Zoggling, and I too am into Scrabble. So is Mercutio. I’ll probably be on late tonight too…my AOL/AIM name is FenchurchIV. IM me if you want to set up a game. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/7 "2001-07-05T21:56:06Z")
I am **so** in. Who’s the queen, baby? Rose ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/8 "2001-07-05T21:59:20Z")
So too could Scotticher, a fellow Seattleite. She had to miss a Dopefest for a real-world Scrabble tourney. She’s probably good. I win about 50% of the games with Virgin Games Scrabble software set at Level 7. I know – that and a $5 bill will get me a beer. ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/9 "2001-07-05T23:11:05Z")
ok, so it looks like we’ll get enough people for a decent tournament. So, I’m going to put an entry deadline of…say 11:59 PM CST Saturday, July 7, 2001. At that point, I’ll put together some brackets or something and we can get to the games. It’d be nice if we wound up on a multiple of two, but, if not, I get a bye 😉 (kidding, kidding…that’ll be decided randomly) ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/10 "2001-07-05T23:21:36Z")
definitely in. ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/11 "2001-07-05T23:25:40Z")
do we wanna play there, or at [games.yahoo.com](http://games.yahoo.com)? ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/12 "2001-07-05T23:38:13Z")
I’m in, if the time works out for me. But JFYI, it was **ren** who missed the DopeFest for a tourney. You associated him with me, hon, because I used to play Scrabble with him by email until they closed it down. ☹ I even beat him once. He is GOOD! I’ll email him about this when you decide on a time. Scrabble is my favorite game. ---
**Author:** ![Grok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/13 "2001-07-06T00:11:22Z")
I’ll play! I’m Groker on [games.com](http://games.com) (stupid six-letter rule for names…). ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/14 "2001-07-06T06:42:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DynoSaur \* > **Some of us have recently gotten into playing Scrabble over at [http://www.games.com](http://www.games.com), and I got to thinking, during my latest bout with insomnia, why don’t we have a Stright Dope tournament?** I’ve not played scrabble in years. I’d love to play although I am probably quite rusty. I even tried to play in a spades game this week there, however for some reason the applets from that site never load for me. ☹ Still messing with settings trying to figure it out, Abby ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/15 "2001-07-06T09:51:13Z")
I’ll play. I joined [games.com](http://games.com) yesterday, Almost all of the people I played left, so I won by default. I’m actually pretty bad at scrabble. I can be contaced by email, or AIM. My AIM sn right now is skoolskipper102. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/16 "2001-07-06T11:00:50Z")
I’ll (3) be (4) in (2) it (2). ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/17 "2001-07-06T12:39:29Z")
I’m in, assuming the games are at midnight-ish EST. ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/18 "2001-07-06T12:41:46Z")
I’ll play too if I can get it to load on my at-home pc. Scrabble is my favorite game! ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/19 "2001-07-06T14:59:28Z")
I’m getting better. I just scored 54 points for axis, la, ax with the x on a triple letter. Woo Hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386/20 "2001-07-06T20:40:13Z")
I registered but didn’t see any hints on joining a group. DynaSaur – will you just publish pairings or something like that? Will they be 2-player games? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble-tournament/71386.md?page=2)