Game Details
Player 1
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#player1 Garth_van_Vliet Garth van Vliet
#player2 Josh_Watt Josh Watt
>Garth_van_Vliet: AELV 8C THEINES +78 78
#note Garth played this before his tiles had even hit his rack - quite intimidating as my first higher rated opponent at my first tournmant. He also has a very strong voice which adds to the the theatre when announcing his scores.
>Josh_Watt: AELV D8 .ALVE +22 22
#note Shed the V and try to draw something nice.
>Garth_van_Vliet: DFNORW E3 FROWN.D +31 109
#note Scores well and sheds the FW combo.
>Josh_Watt: OO D3 OO +13 35
#note No good options. This left me a good balanced leave and was preferred to an exchange.
>Garth_van_Vliet: BOT C2 BOT +25 134
#note Scoring and closing the quadrant
>Josh_Watt: IQ I6 QI. +13 48
#note My rack was great except for Q. This board was horrible for Q's but i needed to score something as I was 99 behind so couldn't exchange.
>Garth_van_Vliet: BEI 11D .IBE +18 152
#note Curious play. Not sure opening that area of the board is necessary when he should infer a decent leave after QIS.
>Josh_Watt: OO F5 OO +13 61
#note Unfortunately betrayed again by drawing two O's from the bag. I'm close to a bingo after this though, I reason.
>Garth_van_Vliet: IMRT 10G TRIM +14 166
#note Confusing for the same reason as last turn.
>Josh_Watt: AEINNST K4 TANNIES +71 132
#note I miss INANEST here to collwct both double words. Garth points this out to me after I hit my clock.
>Garth_van_Vliet: AIJ J4 AJI +37 203
#note Good vision.
>Josh_Watt: CEINZ C12 ZINC +41 173
#note I thought about playing just ZIN and retaining the C for hooks next turn. I also thought about ZINE but ultimately decided that I didn't want my opponent to get value from the Z. I also liked the C as the third letter of a 7 or 8 letter word.
>Garth_van_Vliet: CEGIP -CEGIP +0 203
#note I don't know what Garth exchanges here. EXCH 5 leads me to infer S or blank.
>Josh_Watt: DDEEINR 15C .INDERED +89 262
#note I draw very well here. I spend a while looking for Triple-Triples a la "RESCINDED" but correctly find none. Garth challenges this and it remains on the board.
>Garth_van_Vliet: HRTU L1 HURT +28 231
#note Opens a difficult triple-triple lane but scores enough while behind to justify.
>Josh_Watt: AELOSTW 1L .OWL +30 292
#note Scores well, closes the lane and leaves ATES.
>Garth_van_Vliet: ?ADEPRR 12G sPARRED +76 307
#note The blank was held as assumed and the bingo comes down. He missed (L)ARRuPED from the L in HOWL.
>Josh_Watt: ACEFSTU 14I FAUCETS +88 380
#note ATES bails out by terrible draw of FUC and gives me FAUCETS, my only bingo in this position.
>Garth_van_Vliet: MY F2 MY +23 330
#note Incorrectly scored as 26 points in game.
>Josh_Watt: ?AAPUUV O11 UVA. +11 391
#note I consider VASA but ultimately wanted to shed a U too. I needed to close the triple triple lane to ensure a win. Garth challenges unsuccessfully.
>Garth_van_Vliet: EY 3L .YE +12 342
#note Fairly obvious S-hook gambit.
>Josh_Watt: AA 2N AA +18 409
#note I block and outscore the gambit.

>Garth_van_Vliet: EGK N9 KEG +13 355
#note the game is over here.
>Josh_Watt: UX B13 XU +31 440
#note No-brainer

>Garth_van_Vliet: LLS 8K .LLS +14 369
>Josh_Watt: OP M8 .OP +17 457
>Garth_van_Vliet: GI A14 GI +13 382
>Josh_Watt: ?AE B1 EAr +22 479
#note I finally go out with the blank. He challenges rOOFY bu it stays on the board and the game is over. Garth and I would go on to place 6th and th in this tournament, respectively. We are seperated in the end by 158 points of spread.
>Josh_Watt: (G) +4 483
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