Scrabble New South Wales in Berowra, New South Wales | Organisation

Scrabble New South Wales

Locality: Berowra, New South Wales

Phone: +61 400 226 541

Address: 31 Gwandalan Crescent 2081 Berowra, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.scrabblensw.org.au

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25.01.2022 Joanne Craig delivering her winners speech, tournament organisers Don Hadley and Jacky Booth and results of the 20th and last Kempsey Challenge this past weekend.

25.01.2022 Here are some pictures of the winners and placegetters at yesterdays Janboree event at Burwood RSL. There are were six divisions of 10 players playing a 9 game Round Robin. Division F was entirely comprised of kids. Results further below.

23.01.2022 The 2020 NSW Scrabble Matchplay Division A progress results of are now available on a dedicated webpage at https://challonge.com/gnxxo6qw

23.01.2022 Hills Tournament: Ryan Sutton 1st with 8 wins (+58 rating points) , Rod Talbot 2 nd on 6 and Jyoti Chandna 3rd on 5 HG: Jyoti 509; HW : Marion Miller: Spirtle(102)

21.01.2022 Eight-year old Jeffrey Lam stole the show at todays Youth tournament held at Black Muscat Park on the shores of the Georges River, Chipping Norton today. Not only did he win the tournament but he achieved a massive high game score of 701 and a high word score of 140 for the word DEPOSITS in the record game. Here is the board and the scoresheet:

19.01.2022 Divisional winners at yesterdays Central Coast Jack Frost tournament were Rod Talbot (A Division), Sandra Elliott (B Division) and Julie Banister (B Division).

19.01.2022 58 players took part in the City of Sydney International Masters over the Australia Day weekend. After 18 games over the two days, Andrew Fisher emerged victorious with 13 wins by spread over Edward Okulicz and Ryan Sutton. The next three placegetters were all on 12 wins - David Eldar, Naween Fernando and Trevor Halsall. Pictured further below are the 6 placegetters from right to left. Winners of Rating band prizes were Arnold Appelhof and Hanne Marks in the 1000 to 1250 band..., Lexie Neale and Norma Tracey in the 1250 to 1400 band and Paul Richards and Carmel Dodd in the 1400 to 1600 band. Adam Kretschmer (SA) took out the award for the best first time player with 11 wins while Noel Barrett (ACT) won the best medical word prize with TYMPANIC. Russell Honeybun (WA) recorded the high game of 668 while Carmel Dodd (SA) got to high word score of 154 for her EROTEMAS. The highest rating gainer was Ryan Sutton (NSW) with 126 points gained. See more

17.01.2022 Eight-year old Jeffrey Lam stole the show at today's Youth tournament held at Black Muscat Park on the shores of the George's River, Chipping Norton today. Not only did he win the tournament but he achieved a massive high game score of 701 and a high word score of 140 for the word DEPOSITS in the record game. Here is the board and the scoresheet:

17.01.2022 Here are some pictures of the winners and placegetters at yesterday's Janboree event at Burwood RSL. There are were six divisions of 10 players playing a 9 game Round Robin. Division F was entirely comprised of kids. Results further below.

16.01.2022 The final of the NSW Homes Challenge was played out at the Revesby Workers Club last weekend with the organiser and State President Bob Jackman emerging as the eventual winner over Rod Talbot. Ivor Zetler won the side event over Sharon Sorensen. The tournament got off to a shaky start with two players arriving ten minutes after the scheduled start of play and the computer equipment arriving one hour later. Margaret Berliner got gifted a 119 play for FISTIER in the Side Event... to record the high scoring word for the day. Here are the results and winners: Results and ratings: 29.08.2020 HOME CHALLENGE FINAL SHOWDOWN 8 games W M Old Chg New 1 7 +447 Bob Jackman 1630 +50 1680 2 5 +412 Rod Talbot 1653 +1 1654 3 5 +384 John Holgate 1645 +7 1652 4 4 +33 Joanne Craig 1865 -44 1821 5 4 -4 John Barker 1318 +36 1354 6 4 -304 Graeme Lock Lee 1538 +7 1545 7 2 -595 Rene Chelton 1102 +25 1127 8 1 -373 Noel Barrett 1649 -82 1567 High game: Joanne Craig 575 High word: Bob Jackman HEXAPODS 113 SIDE EVENT 8 games W M Old Chg New 1 7 +734 Ivor Zetler 1451 +29 1480 2 6 +209 Sharon Sorensen 1330 +15 1345 3 5 +314 Margaret Berliner 1127 +29 1156 4 5 +216 Chris Ostrowski 1345 +3 1348 5 4 +326 Peter Shaw 1498 -52 1446 6 4 +86 Norma Tracey 1174 -8 1166 7 4 -361 Josie Mally 948 +29 977 8 3 -34 Moana Nepia 1232 -17 1215 9 3 -474 Louisa Doyle 651 +33 684 10 2.5 -123 Krystyna Batten 1048 -38 1010 11 2.5 -318 Liz Jackman 853 -4 849 12 2 -575 Julie Banister 858 -19 839 High game: Peter Shaw 515 High word: Margaret Berliner FISTIER 119 Winners below, from left Bob, Rod, John, Ivor and Sharon.

16.01.2022 Group photos of placegetters and high word/game winners by Division at Kempsey on the weekend.

15.01.2022 A couple of boards from yesterdays World Youth fundraiser at Cabramatta, featuring Jyoti Chandnas DISSOLUTE using D and L on board John Hamiltons EXIGEANT, and Bob Jackmans TECHNOLOGY off TECH. Also the kids and the results are shown.

14.01.2022 The very first post COVID tournament - COVID-19 Beecroft Marathon hosted by Dr Ivor Zetler at his beautiful home yesterday, 12 diehard scrabblers attended , 13 games, great food all day , the delectable Thai dinner and post dinner entertainment- musical clips of Leonard Cohen and The Beatles, and catch up with our close scrabble family made the day very special ! We hope the scrabble as weve known it will eventually return in the months to come . A few pictures of the group and the top three with Joanne Craig, Rod Talbot and Noel Barrett in that order

14.01.2022 Prize winners at the 2019 NSW Championship presentation ceremony.

13.01.2022 At the Central Coast Yuletide tournament yesterday Trish Windhurst was the stellar performer bagging the first prize with 6 wins (+ 595 ), the overall central coast champion award as well as the highest rating gain of + 57, well done Trish ! Joanne Craig finished second with 6 wins (+449) and Ivor Zetler 3rd with 6 wins(+ 159) Milestone Badges also awarded to Monica Dwyer for reaching 1000 games and to Veena Mohe for 2000 games , some pictures

11.01.2022 The Mystery word prize had jackpotted to $350 and was won by Mr Arie Holla for sixteen this evening ! This was the first word he played in his very first game of the tournament ( interestingly , to claim this prize, the word needs to be recorded in ones scorebook , coincidentally this was the only word Mr Holla made a note of, in the entire tournament )

09.01.2022 Divisional winners Jan Chapman and Bob Jackman at the Central Coast championship on the weekend and Scrabble NSW banner on display in the foyer of the venue, Ourimbah RSL Club.

09.01.2022 The inaugural NSW Home Challenge was played out this past weekend at four homes in Sydney and Wollongong. The top two players in each group of 6 or 8 progress to the Home Challenge Showdown on August 29th at Revesby Workers Club, which incorporates an Open Side event for all aspiring players. Here are the results of the Home events with some photos: JACKMAN 7 games... W M Old Chg New 1 7 +734 Joanne Craig 1842 +23 1865 2 4 +252 Bob Jackman 1648 -18 1630 3 4 +104 Ivor Zetler 1459 -8 1451 4 4 +9 Sunny Wright 1134 +36 1170 5 2 -385 Sharon Sorensen 1346 -16 1330 6 0 -714 Liz Jackman 870 -17 853 High game: Joanne Craig 497 High word: Sharon Sorensen RECITERS 149 CHELTON 7 games W M Old Chg New 1 4 +451 Graeme Lock Lee 1584 -46 1538 2 4 +153 Natalie Tadday 1302 -15 1287 3 4 -37 Alex Timpano 1085 +29 1114 4 4 -110 David Eddington 902 +41 943 5 1 -514 Kara Eddington 968 -27 941 6 games 1 3 -54 Rene Chelton 1087 +15 1102 1 games 1 1 +111 Keith Bioletti 1349 +4 1353 High game: Graeme Lock Lee 542 TRACEY 7 games W M Old Chg New 1 6 +207 Joan Rosenthal 1625 +14 1639 2 5 +546 Rod Talbot 1663 -10 1653 3 5 +375 John Barker 1284 +34 1318 4 5 -52 Peter Shaw 1490 +8 1498 5 3 +149 Jyoti Chandna 1423 -24 1399 6 2 -158 Norma Tracey 1187 -13 1174 7 1 -461 Jenny Templeton 901 -2 899 8 1 -606&Andrew Kaplan ( 952) ( 950) High game: Rod Talbot 538 HUNT 6 games W M Old Chg New 1 5 +198 Noel Barrett 1626 +23 1649 2 4 +460 John Holgate 1644 +1 1645 3 3 +317 Tony Hunt 1660 -20 1640 4 3 -7 Rocky Sharma 1627 -17 1610 5 2 -567 Josie Mally 934 +14 948 6 1 -401 Julie Banister 859 -1 858 High game: John Holgate 598 High word: Tony INFOTECH 167 Andrew Kaplan is still provisional (48 games)

09.01.2022 Final board of Game 1 of day 2 of the NSW Championship between Chris May and Bob Jackman. Chris sets up winning play of PATCH with Bob holding DERRICK and Chris left with WY, scores level at 454. Note 6 tile overlap of CAROUSAL by Chris for 87 and 3 moves later AFFIX for 89 also by Chris. Bobs three natural bingoes were not enough!

09.01.2022 First trans tasman challenge in Sydney 1996

09.01.2022 Hot from the press ! Chris May is the NSW champion with 21 wins and a massive spread of 1894, Bob Jackman 2nd on 17 and Rod Talbot 3rd with 16 .

08.01.2022 KEMPSEY-MACLEAY RSL SCRABBLE CLUB 20th Annual SCRABBLE Tournament... (OUR FINAL TOURNAMENT) Will be held on Saturday, 2nd February & Sunday, 3rd February, 2019 At the Kempsey-Macleay RSL Club York Lane, Kempsey Saturday 11.00 am until 8.00 pm Sunday 9.00 am until 12 noon All games are 44 minutes Please bring rotating boards and clocks if you can 2 Divisions split by ratings Cash prizes for each division: 1st $200.00, 2nd $100.00 and 3rd $50.00 High Game and High Word in each division Raffle, spot prizes and lucky door prize Registration by 5pm on Friday, 2nd February please Cost including finger food on Sunday: ASPA Members $40.00 Non-members $45.00 Please register with: Don Hadley Email to [email protected] or Jacky Booth 043 111 8841 (Message can be left) Emergency phone on days: 043 111 8841

07.01.2022 At the recently concluded World Seniors Scrabble Champs in Gold Coast , the top 3 were from NSW:Esther Perrins 1st, Joanne Elizabeth Craig 2nd and Rod Talbot 3rd , congratulations !

07.01.2022 These results are posted on behalf of Sandra Elliott from the NSW Ourimbah Scrabble Club. Provisional Results and ratings: 01.06.2019 Jack Frost tournament A SECTION... 7 games W M Old Chg New 1 6 +645 Rod Talbot 1594 +43 1637 2 6 +611 Bob Jackman 1808 +16 1824 3 4 +392 Ryan Sutton 1777 -21 1756 4 4 +219 Wayne Jones 1673 -5 1668 5 4 +95 John Barker 1356 +36 1392 6 3 -109 Ivor Zetler 1375 +2 1377 7 3 -175 Jyoti Chandna 1440 -8 1432 8 3 -260 Chris Ostrowski 1433 -4 1429 9 3 -277 Richard Birch 1374 +1 1375 10 2 -288 Monica Dwyer 1302 -21 1281 11 2 -289 Trish Windhurst 1308 -18 1290 12 2 -564 Hailey Sutton 1358 -19 1339 High game: Ryan Sutton 597 High word: Jyoti Chandna FORCEPS 97 B SECTION 7 games W M Old Chg New 1 6 +478 Sandra Elliott 1131 +42 1173 2 5 +274 Robyn Cameron 1184 +19 1203 3 5 +190 Maureen Hilder 1122 +27 1149 4 5 +59 Denise Smith 1024 +39 1063 5 4 -62 Sharon Sorensen 1176 +1 1177 6 3 -4 Liz Jackman 969 +6 975 7 3 -29&John Linney (1202) (1140) 8 3 -34 Ann Fiddler 1030 -2 1028 9 2 +112 Sunny Wright 1172 -38 1134 10 2 -118 Shelley Cartwright 1129 -35 1094 11 2 -341 Shirley Crocker 991 -18 973 12 2 -525 Donna MacDonald 1055 -24 1031 High game: Sandra Elliott 528 High word: John Linney INEQUITY 114 C SECTION 7 games W M Old Chg New 1 5 +156&Julie Banister ( 596) ( 718) 2 5 +28 Krystyna Batten 955 +13 968 3 4 +414 Kathryn Tiffen 925 -8 917 4 4 +301 Stephanie Muldoon 940 -5 935 5 4 +201 Josie Mally 893 -3 890 6 4 +181 Devorah Ullman 882 +2 884 7 4 +14 Asher Chhabra ( 769) 782 8 4 -66&Judy Burke ( 745) ( 792) 9 3 -142*Louisa Doyle ( 666) 10 2 -389 Wayne Willis 799 -40 759 11 2 -431 Ann Boorer 525 +1 526 12 1 -267 Geraldine Poulton 600 -30 570 High game: Stephanie Muldoon 484 High word: Asher Chhabra BLOOMING 92 Louisa Doyle was previously unrated Judy Burke is still provisional (21 games) John Linney is still provisional (24 games) Julie Banister is still provisional (29 games) Asher Chhabra is no longer provisional (51 games) Regards, George Khamis (Tournament Director)

07.01.2022 Here is the late-arriving picture of Tony Hunt's 167 point INFOTECH play on Sunday during the Homes Challenge. He could have scored 18 more but still would have lost to John Holgate.

07.01.2022 Scrabble NSW has two annual awards presented at the State Championship. They are the Joan Rosenthal award presented to the player who gains the most rating points in the past year and the Jan Serisier award to the high rating gainer of the year who gained the most rating points over the Championship. This year the Joan Rosenthal award was won by Josie Mally who gained 151 points over the year, while the Jan Serisier award was won by Chris Ostrowski of who gained 60 points over the championship.

06.01.2022 The City of Sydney Masters is scheduled to take place on 27th and 28th January at the vibrant Bankstown Sports Club, southern Sydney. Open to locals over 1000 in ratings and all International players, there will be 18 games over the two days. Another 8 games are available in the preceding one day Australia Day Open on 26th, open to all. All details of the CSIM are on the dedicated web site linked below, including names of existing entries. The flyer carries essential info. Entries to the two day CSIM can be made through the Events tab of this page. http://nsw.scrabble.org.au/csim-2019/index.html

05.01.2022 Photos of winners of NSW Winter Masters and results sheet. Thanks to Sharon Sorensen for providing same.

05.01.2022 Here is the late-arriving picture of Tony Hunts 167 point INFOTECH play on Sunday during the Homes Challenge. He could have scored 18 more but still would have lost to John Holgate.

05.01.2022 Badge presentations at the commencement of the 2019 NSW Championship. Tony Hunt reaching 4000 games and Karen Richards 6000 games.

04.01.2022 Tony Hunt as the NSW Youth Scrabble Coordinator has been doing some great work promoting scrabble amongst school kids. The results are so positive that we had 10+ children at the Janboree tournament yesterday. Here are a few pictures of Tony giving some last minute tips to the kids before the tourney kicked off . If you would like to support Tony in his efforts through your time or ideas or resources, pl let Tony know . Congratulations Tony for your commitment to youth scrabble and a big thankyou from NSW Scrabble

04.01.2022 NSW Champs photos: moments, winners and celebrations

03.01.2022 Group photos by Division of theme word winners at the 20th and last Kempsey tournament.

03.01.2022 ......and Division B 2020 NSW Matchplay results can be found at https://challonge.com/2ix6y189

03.01.2022 Green and yellow at Day 3 of the NSW Championship.

02.01.2022 Placegetters, rating band winner and spring theme winners at yesterdays Spring Marathon, the last Scrabble NSW - organized event on the 2018 calendar.

01.01.2022 The next tournament on NSW calendar is the Spring Marathon on 13 October at Club Burwood RSL, details in the flyer .