LJ Idol Season 8, Week 17: "Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight"

[copyright1983]

"Nemesis"

Certain people have earned the right to be called by a single name. Babe. Kobe. Pele. Cher. Bono.

In the tournament Scrabble community, especially in the Pacific Northwest,

Comments

[bbstenniz]

epic.

[copyright1983]

:) Voting is up; you must join the community at therealljidol to vote this week. (You can unjoin on Thursday, once the results are announced. Or you can stay--Gary is usually pretty good about not spamming people's friends lists.)

[cesarsalad]

haha, those are some amazing games you put up. DIGITIZER omg.

[copyright1983]

He seems to hit all of his nines against me, for some reason (I count at least five in 20 games). :)

[whipchick]

So much fun, and great insight into a unique world! I play Facebook scrabble with my boyfriend, and I'd never appreciated what a cool game it was before.

[copyright1983]

It is pretty cool. It is also one of the most frustrating, nerve-wracking challenges I've ever faced. Which is what makes it cool. :) Thanks for reading!

[halfshellvenus]

We would clash several times in tournament play, and there was a distinct variety to our games: some were high-flying dogfights that Dave would win, others were tense trench-warfare battles that Dave would win, and a few were lopsided routs that Dave would win.
Hahahaha! Oh, the frustration.

I peeked at the final game, and was surprised that "Qi" was a word, Jin a word (rather than gin or jinn or djinn), and how the heck is patootie a word and not slang? But I give high style points for "vectored."

Kudos to you for beating The Dave. May you grow ever worthier to displace him. :)

[ar_raqis]

slang is legal. seriously, it's in the box rules.

[halfshellvenus]

Hmmm. I guess I've always played by the "in the dictionary" rules, because otherwise it's hard to validate a challenge. Similarly, "English-only" rules (except for what's in the dictionary).

I mean, what is the exact definition of a patootie?

The other problem is always spelling, which is one of my gripes with the NY Times crossword puzzle. They tend to randomize Yiddish spelling for convenience, but "schlub" and "kitsch" both have Cs in them. The Cs don't just randomly vanish because they're 'inconvenient' or something.

[ar_raqis]

Uh, yeah, it does have to be in the dictionary. Some slang is in the dictionary, although I guess it depends on which one you're using.

Yiddish can be a problem. In the standard North American scrabble dictionary (which is a subset of the world dictionary) the word GANEF is spelled eight different ways.

[muchtooarrogant]

This was incredibly fun to read. Congratulations on your three wins! *smile*

Dan

[copyright1983]

Thanks for reading!