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World
SCRABBLE®
Championship
Melbourne, Australia
November 3 - 7
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Back to WSC 1999 Round by Round
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1999 World SCRABBLE® Championship
Melbourne, Australia |
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Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5
Joel, David, Joel and David hold the top four places!
Rk Player Country W Spread 1 Joel Sherman U.S.A. 11 +440 2 David Wiegand U.S.A. 10 +823 3 Joel Wapnick Canada 10 +580 4 David Boys Canada 10 +501 5 Nigel Richards New Zealand 9 +1237 6 Brett Smitheram England 9 +772 7 Adam Logan Canada 9 +573 8 Jakkrit Klaphajone Thailand 9 +570 9 John Luebkemann U.S.A. 9 +435 10 John Holgate Australia 9 +433 11 Mark Nyman England 9 +261 12 Phil Appleby England 9 +150 13 Andrew Fisher England 8 +776 14 Roland Filio Bahrain 8 +554 15 Brian Cappelletto U.S.A. 8 +478 16 Ron Tiekert U.S.A. 8 +413 17 Trevor Hovelmeier South Africa 8 +400 18 Odette Rio Philippines 8 +390 19 Virgilio Quiballo Philippines 8 +352 20 Stanley Ndungu Kenya 8 +346 21 Lester Schonbrun U.S.A. 8 +191 22 Russell Byers England 8 +127 23 Femi Awowade Nigeria 8 +112 23 Rodney Judd Pakistan 8 +112 25 Steven Gruzd South Africa 8 +97 26 James Cherry Canada 8 +56 27 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk Thailand 8 -78 28 Jeff Grant New Zealand 8 -84 29 Helen Gipson England 8 -101 30 Tony Sim Singapore 7 +615 31 Joe Edley U.S.A. 7 +456 32 Michael Gongolo Kenya 7 +316 33 Suresh Chinnaiyah Sri Lanka 7 +246 34 Steve Polatnick U.S.A. 7 +237 35 Kendall Boyd New Zealand 7 +225 36 Gareth Williams Wales 7 +181 37 Robert Felt U.S.A. 7 +171 38 Jim Geary U.S.A. 7 +114 39 Ronald Credo Philippines 7 +111 40 Arvind Abraham U.A.E. 7 +100 41 Randy Hersom U.S.A. 7 +22 42 Leslie Charles Trinidad 7 +21 43 Mohan Chunkath India 7 +14 44 Rashid Khan Pakistan 7 -47 45 Naween Fernando Sri Lanka 7 -75 46 Paul Cleary Australia 7 -106 47 Amnuay Ploysangngam Thailand 7 -238 47 Michael Pray Oman 7 -238 49 Wilma Warwick Scotland 7 -294 50 Taewan Sutthasin Thailand 6.5 -344 51 Bob Jackman Australia 6.5 -353 52 David Webb England 6 +296 53 Saheed Jimoh Nigeria 6 +150 54 Howard Warner New Zealand 6 +128 55 Paul Epstein U.S.A. 6 +35 56 Kong Chock Heng Malaysia 6 -4 57 Lisa Odom U.S.A. 6 -6 58 Shafique Thobani Kenya 6 -79 59 Joan Rosenthal Australia 6 -90 60 Kunihiko Kuroda Japan 6 -104 61 A Ganesh Malaysia 6 -145 62 Cher Siong Gan Singapore 6 -237 63 Owen Bondin Malta 6 -257 64 Pui Cheng Wui Malaysia 6 -267 65 Peter Elbourne Malta 6 -273 66 Peter Sinton New Zealand 6 -291 67 Albert Hahn Canada 6 -317 68 Ishtiaq Chishty Saudi Arabia 5.5 +97 69 Keiichiro Hirai Japan 5.5 +54 70 Andrew Cook England 5 +132 71 Edward Metivier Trinidad 5 +95 72 Selwyn Lobo U.A.E. 5 +50 73 Jim Nanavati Canada 5 -23 74 Bob Lipton U.S.A. 5 -53 75 Alec Webb England 5 -95 76 Dylan Early South Africa 5 -128 77 Ricardo Gonzalez Saudi Arabia 5 -161 78 Michael Tang Singapore 5 -215 79 Barbara Berlin Australia 5 -279 80 Gold Eburu Nigeria 5 -289 81 Matayo Bwire Kenya 5 -350 82 Johnson Fasuba Seychelles 5 -368 83 Dixon Assesa Kenya 5 -404 84 Linda Pray Oman 5 -605 85 Laurentiu Sandu Romania 5 -993 86 Roger Blom Australia 4 +11 87 Akshay Bhandarkar Bahrain 4 -167 88 Catherine Costello Ireland 4 -197 89 Brendan McDonnell Ireland 4 -346 90 Alistair Kane Australia 4 -365 91 Lakshan Wanniarachch Sri Lanka 4 -401 92 Eugene Goh Singapore 4 -402 93 Antonin Michel France 4 -651 94 Wojciech Usakiewicz Poland 4 -860 95 Mario Saliba Malta 3 -494 96 Vivian Penaflor Bahrain 3 -613 97 Dhanapala Silva Seychelles 3 -1101 98 Catalin-Eugen Caba Romania 3 -1468
Here are game scores, as officially reported.
1 Joel Sherman US 11 440 497 395 491 452 435
424 282 441 548 371 0
>USRH>CADB>NZNR USDW>THJK CAJW
2 David Wiegand US 10 823 431 504 443 548 480
394 372 364 452 401 0
>UKAC>NZKB>KEMG>USJS>CADB NZNR
3 Joel Wapnick CA 10 580 478 381 423 393 404
368 321 333 337 397 0
>NISJ>PHRC>UKMN>USLS>NZNR USJS
4 David Boys CA 10 501 484 282 443 404 401
456 395 438 363 480 0
>NZNR USJS>CAAL>BHRF USDW UKBS
5 Nigel Richards NZ 9 1237 456 587 441 451 397
484 259 491 354 404 0
CADB>USLS USJS>CAAL CAJW USDW
6 Brett Smitheram UK 9 772 382 507 467 450 443
320 277 441 435 323 0
>UKAF>KEST>UKHG>PKRJ>BHRF CADB
7 Adam Logan CA 9 573 449 463 438 354 460
320 317 443 451 389 0
>AEAA>UKMN CADB NZNR>USBC THJK
8 Jakkrit Klaphajone TH 9 570 390 496 432 470 371
430 424 331 356 435 0
USLS>NIFA>CAJC>UKPA USJS CAAL
9 John Luebkemann US 9 435 454 532 387 417 446
425 320 343 387 348 0
>USBL>MYAG>PHRC>KEMG>ZATH AUJH
10 John Holgate AU 9 433 461 417 372 456 521
289 434 394 352 350 0
>UKHG BHRF PKRJ>USRH>NIFA USJL
11 Mark Nyman UK 9 261 419 317 333 448 390
405 463 423 342 379 0
>PHRC CAAL CAJW>CAJC>USLS UKPA
12 Phil Appleby UK 9 150 451 544 436 356 402
448 450 500 470 384 0
>USRF>USRH BHRF THJK>PKRJ UKMN
13 Andrew Fisher UK 8 776 320 395 456 499 508
382 339 401 356 328 0
UKBS>JPKH>SGTS>THPN>UKHG BHRF
14 Roland Filio BH 8 554 415 434 500 363 323
355 417 436 404 443 0
>USJE>AUJH>UKPA CADB UKBS UKAF
15 Brian Cappelletto US 8 478 479 441 417 449 389
493 301 319 422 460 0
NIFA>UKAW>USJE>USRT CAAL ZATH
16 Ron Tiekert US 8 413 496 427 487 422 430
379 349 427 449 417 0
>USPE>UKAC>NZKB USBC>USJE PHOR
17 Trevor Hovelmeier ZA 8 400 314 411 504 494 348
470 343 268 277 446 0
KEMG>PKRK>NZPS>TTLC USJL USBC
18 Odette Rio PH 8 390 474 474 362 412 446
398 345 347 385 322 0
>MYKC>USSP>UKAC>NISJ>USJG USRT
19 Virgilio Quiballo PH 8 352 365 401 484 439 488
408 333 420 314 363 0
UKRB>USBL>ZADE>AEAA>PHRC KESN
20 Stanley Ndungu KE 8 346 444 426 380 472 433
240 355 424 322 419 0
>SLWW>ZADE NIFA>NZKB>KEMG PHVQ
21 Lester Schonbrun US 8 191 430 259 463 337 379
390 587 411 393 390 0
>THJK NZNR>USRH CAJW UKMN UKRB
22 Russell Byers UK 8 127 408 368 496 475 404
365 512 361 352 386 0
>PHVQ USJG>MYAG>LKNF>USRF USLS
23 Femi Awowade NI 8 112 493 424 424 421 350
479 496 380 395 521 0
>USBC THJK>KESN>USJG AUJH PKRJ
24 Rodney Judd PK 8 112 345 399 394 435 384
313 396 372 450 402 0
>LKSC>AEAA>AUJH UKBS UKPA NIFA
25 Steven Gruzd ZA 8 97 462 346 393 350 349
414 510 380 371 310 0
>INMC KEMG>USRF UKHG>USRH CAJC
26 James Cherry CA 8 56 409 439 331 342 364
395 386 432 448 332 0
>ZADE>USRF THJK UKMN>TTLC ZASG
27 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk TH 8 -78 422 316 428 356 467
311 398 348 499 414 0
>PKRK UKHG>NZJG UKAF>OMMP SGTS
28 Jeff Grant NZ 8 -84 435 490 348 467 388
331 410 428 392 371 0
>THAP>NIGE THPN>MYPC>PKRK UKHG
29 Helen Gipson UK 8 -101 289 398 441 371 328
461 316 467 350 508 0
AUJH>THPN UKBS>ZASG UKAF NZJG
30 Tony Sim SG 7 615 423 436 401 436 594
370 544 456 362 395 0
>NIGE USJE UKAF>UKAC>NZHW THPN
31 Joe Edley US 7 456 355 544 319 388 417
415 436 417 371 430 0
BHRF>SGTS USBC>UKDW USRT KEMG
32 Michael Gongolo KE 7 316 470 510 364 387 419
314 346 443 417 433 0
>ZATH>ZASG USDW USJL KESN USJE
33 Suresh Chinnaiyah LK 7 246 313 453 442 381 340
345 287 452 391 322 0
PKRJ>INMC TTLC PHRC>UKDW USSP
34 Steve Polatnick US 7 237 471 345 427 436 475
346 474 322 353 400 0
>AUAK PHOR>MYKC>UKAW>NISJ LKSC
35 Kendall Boyd NZ 7 225 479 372 427 322 556
322 504 487 472 398 0
>USJG USDW USRT KESN>AUJR WAGW
36 Gareth Williams WA 7 181 375 420 384 335 416
462 399 350 406 273 0
TTLC>USPE>UKAW USRF>JPKK NZKB
37 Robert Felt US 7 171 448 386 380 406 386
451 439 393 335 404 0
UKPA CAJC ZASG>WAGW UKRB USJG
38 Jim Geary US 7 114 322 512 414 395 322
479 368 332 421 446 0
NZKB>UKRB>AEAA NIFA PHOR USRF
39 Ronald Credo PH 7 111 405 321 343 391 363
419 381 387 381 488 0
UKMN CAJW USJL>LKSC PHVQ AEAA
40 Arvind Abraham AE 7 100 320 396 332 314 528
449 399 414 439 356 0
CAAL PKRJ USJG PHVQ>SGCS PHRC
41 Randy Hersom US 7 22 424 450 411 352 310
497 544 463 456 349 0
USJS UKPA USLS AUJH ZASG TTLC
42 Leslie Charles TT 7 21 462 436 452 277 332
375 372 442 494 364 0
>WAGW>NISJ>LKSC ZATH CAJC USRH
43 Mohan Chunkath IN 7 14 414 287 406 438 415
462 453 423 400 374 0
ZASG LKSC LKNF>KEST>USLO PKRK
44 Rashid Khan PK 7 -47 311 343 451 380 371
422 411 364 374 388 0
THPN ZATH>KEDA>SGCS NZJG INMC
45 Naween Fernando LK 7 -75 437 420 423 352 417
436 320 406 475 395 0
>IEBM>SARG>INMC UKRB>MYAG AUPC
46 Paul Cleary AU 7 -106 393 351 428 394 409
413 430 388 380 323 0
CAAH KEDA>MTOB>MTPE>MYPC LKNF
47 Amnuay Ploysangngam TH 7 -238 331 526 286 460 393
435 371 433 371 373 0
NZJG>AUBJ SGCS>SAIC>NZPS OMMP
48 Michael Pray OM 7 -238 385 413 367 369 414
345 364 328 354 467 0
>SGEG>SLWW>NIGE>NZPS THPN THAP
49 Wilma Warwick SL 7 -294 240 364 371 439 359
444 413 354 426 333 0
KESN OMMP>SCJF>NIGE>JPKH THTS
50 Taewan Sutthasin TH 6.5 -344 361 423 335 440 417
419 393 335 396 407 0
SCJF>OMLP=AUBJ>TTEM>UKAC SLWW
51 Bob Jackman AU 6.5 -353 364 371 335 409 485
389 526 335 366 403 0
JPKH THAP=THTS>AURB>AESL UKDW
52 David Webb UK 6 296 448 473 506 371 322
384 441 355 388 340 0
>NZHW>AURB>USLO USJE LKSC AUBJ
53 Saheed Jimoh NI 6 150 368 372 486 385 400
478 436 327 412 475 0
CAJW TTLC>KEST PHOR USSP NZHW
54 Howard Warner NZ 6 128 384 497 461 391 395
448 345 409 304 594 0
UKDW>ROLS>AURB>JPKH SGTS NISJ
55 Paul Epstein US 6 35 379 399 394 400 327
496 420 389 414 308 0
USRT WAGW>CAJN USLO>USBL MYKC
56 Kong Chock Heng MY 6 -4 398 395 322 458 377
474 392 427 374 324 0
PHOR>IEBM USSP>LKLW>UKAW USPE
57 Lisa Odom US 6 -6 341 494 355 414 374
399 415 506 400 415 0
UKAW>CAJN UKDW>USPE INMC KEST
58 Shafique Thobani KE 6 -79 533 277 327 400 410
294 507 486 438 372 0
>KEDA UKBS NISJ INMC>ZADE USLO
59 Joan Rosenthal AU 6 -90 383 389 430 493 398
398 312 329 305 556 0
SGCS>SGMT>SARG>KEDA NZKB JPKK
60 Kunihiko Kuroda JP 6 -104 408 411 420 447 273
355 315 390 367 416 0
>LKLW>AUAK>USBL>ZADE WAGW AUJR
61 A Ganesh MY 6 -145 380 320 361 425 395
379 532 496 282 417 0
>CAJN USJL UKRB>CAAH LKNF SGCS
62 Cher Siong Gan SG 6 -237 398 434 433 374 356
383 373 286 380 528 0
>AUJR>SCJF>THAP PKRK AEAA MYAG
63 Owen Bondin MT 6 -257 328 402 388 400 401
371 396 428 384 359 0
MTPE>AUBB AUPC>SCJF>KEMB MYPC
64 Pui Cheng Wui MY 6 -267 324 407 402 392 323
394 346 342 467 409 0
NZPS>MTPE>CAAH NZJG AUPC MTOB
65 Peter Elbourne MT 6 -273 371 346 347 380 463
328 407 334 394 457 0
>MTOB MYPC>KEMB AUPC>NIGE NZPS
66 Peter Sinton NZ 6 -291 394 464 268 354 373
324 388 504 369 393 0
>MYPC>CAAH ZATH OMMP THAP MTPE
67 Albert Hahn CA 6 -317 413 388 342 282 415
393 464 402 425 366 0
>AUPC NZPS MYPC MYAG>KEDA SAIC
68 Ishtiaq Chishty SA 5.5 97 397 474 324 371 487
399 399 367 460 308 0
AURB>TTEM JPKH THAP>OMLP CAAH
69 Keiichiro Hirai JP 5.5 54 389 339 367 304 333
364 395 324 391 359 0
>AUBJ UKAF>SAIC NZHW SLWW UKAC
70 Andrew Cook UK 5 132 394 349 347 362 407
431 427 362 436 417 0
USDW USRT PHOR SGTS THTS JPKH
71 Edward Metivier TT 5 95 401 399 464 396 366
281 474 271 440 334 0
>AESL SAIC>ROLS THTS>AURB CAJN
72 Selwyn Lobo AE 5 50 281 438 461 492 403
401 279 294 367 485 0
TTEM>POWU>IEBM>CAJN AUBJ USBL
73 Jim Nanavati CA 5 -23 379 415 389 367 438
380 494 394 492 340 0
MYAG USLO USPE AESL>IECC TTEM
74 Bob Lipton US 5 -53 425 333 390 407 308
454 401 420 364 327 0
USJL PHVQ JPKK>IECC USPE AESL
75 Alec Webb UK 5 -95 399 301 350 353 324
341 441 384 436 377 0
>USLO USBC WAGW USSP MYKC ZADE
76 Dylan Early ZA 5 -128 395 355 420 367 372
409 426 484 447 410 0
CAJC KESN PHVQ JPKK KEST UKAW
77 Ricardo Gonzalez SA 5 -161 471 320 329 420 471
323 420 430 421 387 0
>SGMT LKNF AUJR KEMB>IEBM AUBB
78 Michael Tang SG 5 -215 323 312 325 433 435
471 389 370 241 408 0
SARG AUJR SGEG>SCDS>BHAB NIGE
79 Barbara Berlin AU 5 -279 459 396 333 423 381
297 402 511 372 306 0
>BHVP MTOB IECC>AUAK>LKLW SARG
80 Gold Eburu NI 5 -289 370 410 328 426 457
423 490 367 439 463 0
SGTS NZJG OMMP SLWW MTPE SGMT
81 Matayo Bwire KE 5 -350 373 385 334 421 359
292 337 347 420 401 0
>FRAM>SGEG MTPE>SARG MTOB SCJF
82 Johnson Fasuba SC 5 -368 419 373 354 384 405
361 434 371 400 399 0
>THTS SGCS SLWW MTOB>SGEG KEMB
83 Dixon Assesa KE 5 -404 294 430 364 305 366
533 351 451 493 415 0
KEST>AUPC PKRK AUJR CAAH OMLP
84 Linda Pray OM 5 -605 425 393 391 336 308
390 423 367 302 487 0
>BHAB THTS>BHVP>SGEG SAIC KEDA
85 Laurentiu Sandu RO 5 -993 351 345 271 341 382
290 497 464 398 371 0
>POWU NZHW TTEM IEBM>MTMS AURB
86 Roger Blom AU 4 11 399 441 409 366 334
397 473 461 409 366 0
>SAIC UKDW NZHW AUBJ TTEM ROLS
87 Akshay Bhandarkar BH 4 -167 390 406 521 428 408
425 447 271 307 435 0
OMLP LKLW>ROCC>POWU SGMT IECC
88 Catherine Costello IE 4 -197 450 514 511 364 340
400 377 333 407 438 0
>SCDS>FRAM>AUBB USBL CAJN BHAB
89 Brendan McDonnell IE 4 -346 436 392 294 398 387
437 395 461 341 471 0
LKNF MYKC AESL>ROLS SARG AUAK
90 Alistair Kane AU 4 -365 346 315 391 372 442
471 411 461 423 373 0
USSP JPKK LKLW AUBB>POWU IEBM
91 Lakshan Wanniarachch LK 4 -401 355 447 461 374 306
408 406 391 458 381 0
JPKK>BHAB>AUAK MYKC AUBB FRAM
92 Eugene Goh SG 4 -402 345 337 370 302 399
385 385 325 336 405 0
OMMP KEMB>SGMT OMLP SCJF MTMS
93 Antonin Michel FR 4 -651 292 377 344 424 360
373 514 491 289 359 0
KEMB IECC MTMS>ROCC>BHVP LKLW
94 Wojciech Usakiewicz PO 4 -860 290 279 368 307 373
351 438 358 428 442 0
ROLS AESL>SCDS BHAB AUAK ROCC
95 Mario Saliba MT 3 -494 392 320 491 461 371
420 404 344 301 382 0
ROCC SCDS>FRAM>BHVP ROLS SGEG
96 Vivian Penaflor BH 3 -613 297 387 367 301 359
459 298 391 461 360 0
AUBB>ROCC OMLP MTMS FRAM SCDS
97 Dhanapala Silva SC 3 -1101 400 404 358 241 324
450 320 368 433 467 0
IECC>MTMS POWU SGMT ROCC BHVP
98 Catalin-Eugen Caba RO 3 -1468 420 298 271 289 467
392 387 521 424 324 0
>MTMS BHVP BHAB FRAM>SCDS POWU
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