One of the best games I’ve ever had, on line or in real life! You folks should have been there - it was the Scrabble equivalent of the final scene from Rocky II!
And DPR is so right - it’s great to play against a pleasant opponent. I had actually stopped playing at games.com because of how nasty some of those folks are in the chat portion.
Due to technical difficulties at games.com Flymaster and I were unable to play our game this evening as scheduled. We will do so tomorrow night. Sorry if this delays things.
…I would totally have signed up for this, but our server crashed and we didnt get it up and running on time to see this thread! Oh well. Good luck to you all, and hopefully next time!
And Mike has defeated me as of… now.
288 - 237, and I got lucky. And he gave me breaks!
Whoever gets Mike next, be afraid. He’s damn good at this.
For my next feat, I shall challenge Mike to a game of ‘blade - scrabble’, in which only words relating to knives, swords, and other sharp metal implements will be allowed. 
Flymaster was good enough to give me a second game after I screwed up the first (I accidentally closed the window).
Unfortunately I rewarded his generosity by beating him. 265-254. It was a good game.
Is that everyone for the first set of games? Who do we play next?
I certainly want to take part if you have another one of these. My handle at games.com is tcreole.
I would still love to play too if anyone is interested in helping me figure out why applets from games.com don’t load on my computer. 
OK, I have the following as winners in the first round of the SDMB scrabble tourney:
MikeG-playing under the nom de guerre Octarine fire
obfusciatrist
blanx
dpr nice score, by the way 
Dynosaur
Mooney252
WickedBlue
and missing are the results if any from the Dr.Paprika/Ender battle, and the Merc/Dyno battle.
I would also like to echo the sentiment that I love the tone of the games so far. There were only two challenges in my game (could have been more on both sides!) and I did in fact give up a triple word score on a X word in order to open up the upper left quadrant:)
Let’s go again!
So, Mikey…
…wanna play with me next?
Rose
Please post a schedule for round #2 by this weekend. I’m off to Oshkosh (Grok knows why) on July 18 and will be out-of-pocket for a week to 10 days.
I’ve still got to get a game in with Merc, and I’ve heard nothing from DrPaprika or Ender.
The next matches that don’t depend on these results:
**Mooney252
WickedBlue
blanx
dpr
Zoggie
Scotticher
mblackwell
Grok
Mnementh
Flymaster
Mike**, you’re waiting for the winner of the Merc vs. me game, and obfusciatrist, you’re waiting for the winner of Paprika vs. Ender. The losers of those two matches will meet, as well.
i should also add that the winner of the Scotticher/Zoggie game plays dobbinaire
Happy scrabbling.
Thanks, Dyno, for a sec there I thought you were dropping me from the tourney!
I did have fun, ya know. Winner of Zoggie vs. ???[sub]oops:o[/sub] email me, I’m ready for the next game.
Well, I thought DrP would announce it before now. Seeing as no one but my conscience is here to refute me…
I won big time!
[sub]I lost[/sub]
Man I soooooo kicked his ass!
[sub]I bent over and took it[/sub]
When I was done with him, the man couldn’t spell "doper!"
[sub]In my own defense, I couldn’t get vowels when I needed them.[/sub]
How he became a doctor I have NO clue. Man that guy sucks at scrabble.
[sub]In my own defense, I couldn’t get consonants when I needed them.[/sub]
Please, someone, anyone, challenge me.
[sub]Are there any 3rd graders out there? Preferably illiterate ones.[/sub]
Ender, you’re a doctor?
Don’t take it so hard. I know you’re not so bad. I’ve seen you play a couple times. (Okay so one of those times I couldn’t even see my letters…)
Anyway the point is, I dub thee…competent.
OK, the two matches that were waiting for others to be completed are:
**me
MikeG
Enderw24
Mecutio
**
Dr_Paprika. I haven’t received a response to my email yet, just curious what your schedule is (of course, it could be that you don’t access over the weekend).
I’m not really impatient, but mostly wanted to bump this as it had fallen to page 3 in a bit over a day.
I haven’t played a game yet, but thanks to mblackwell’s patient assistance the applet’s load now and it sure looks like I can play. My msn games nickname is the same as it is here on the SDMB and on AOL.
Anyone want an easy but enthusiastic target just let me know!
Abby
Scotticher 284
Zoggie 260