2004 National SCRABBLE® Championship Photos: Round 21

[ Congratulations to the new National Champion, Trey Wright, who defeated David Gibson in three straight games, 365-328, 355-344 and 429-328. Please tune in to ESPN to watch the final games at 1 P.M. ET on Sunday, October 3rd, 2004. We welcome your e-mailed corrections to our web site. ]

Go to: Before the Tournament Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8 Round 9 Round 10 Round 11 Round 12 Round 13 Round 14 Round 15 Round 16 Round 17 Round 18 Round 19 Round 20 Round 21 Round 22 Round 23 Round 24 Round 25 Round 26 Round 27 Round 28 Round 29 Round 30 Final Round 1 Final Round 2 Final Round 3

Photo 21-001	Division 3's Susan Hoehn (Saint Paul, MN) defeated Nancy Hanley (Wilmington, DE), 552-286. See commentary.
Photo 21-002	Division 3's Susan Hoehn (Saint Paul, MN) and Nancy Hanley (Wilmington, DE) have a jolly time filling out their endgame paperwork.
Photo 21-003	Division 3's Heather McCall (Toronto ON) plays James Abbott (Chicago, IL).
Photo 21-004	Division 3's top boards: At 1, Jerry Scheiten (Buffalo, NY) vs. Steve Moniz (Manchester, NH); at 2, Kenneth Rubin (New York, NY) vs. Gina Fassio (Methuen, MA), and at 3, Paul Haverly (Los Angeles, CA) vs. Greg Heidler (Waialua, HI).
Photo 21-005	At table 1, division 3's Jerry Scheiten (Buffalo, NY) defeats Steve Moniz (Manchester, NH), 391-339. See commentary.
Photo 21-006	Division 5's Andre Ornish (La Mesa, CA) uses his Franklin between rounds.
Photo 21-007	Table 2's top tables: at 1, Dannene Drummond (Athens, GA) vs. David Pearl (Long Beach, CA), and at 2, Bob Lundegaard (Minneapolis, MN) vs. Jason Bednarz (Athens, GA).
Photo 21-008	Table 2's top tables viewed from the other end: at 4, Korakoch Kiatsommart (Winter Park, FL) vs. Win Inthara (Winter Park, FL), and at 3, Fern Lindzon (Toronto ON) vs. Patrick Hodges (Glendale, AZ).
Photo 21-009	Division 2's Rick Wong (San Jose, CA) defeated Mike Wolfberg (Concord, MA), 496-390. See commentary.
Photo 21-010	Bill Geist from Sunday Morning on CBS. He spent four days with us and over time really understood the scene. At this point, he is writing down words of interest. His favorite: WAFFLESTOMPERS. He knew enough to look it up in the Long List.
Photo 21-011	Looking down from the press stage onto tables 1-4 behind the velvet rope. At board 1, Robert Ellickson (New Haven, CT) draws tiles in his game vs. Trey Wright (Los Angeles, CA). Kristen Chew and Beth Lerman annotate their game. At board 2, Sammy Okosagah (Baltimore, MD) plays Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn (Thailand). Martin Smith and Pat Larash annotate their game. At board 3, David Gibson (Spartanburg, SC) vs. Joey Mallick (Cape Elizabeth, ME) with Stefan Fatsis looking on, and at board 4, Adam Logan (United Kingdom) vs. Komol Panyasophonlert (Thailand).
Photo 21-012	Division 1's Sammy Okosagah (Baltimore, MD) defeats Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn (Thailand), 449-370. See commentary.
Photo 21-013	Division 1's board 2 annotators, Pat Larash and Martin Smith, comb over their annotation sheets to check for accuracy and to fill holes in each other's coverage. These sheets, expertly detailed, are used for inputting of online games on this web site. Some will also go to Joe Edley (Coram, NY) for use in upcoming issues of SCRABBLE^® News.
Photo 21-014	NSA webmaster, John J. Chew III, and his buddy, Andre Ornish (La Mesa, CA) from division 5.
Photo 21-015	Division 3's Ed Liebfried (Exeter, NH) defeats Chris Ofstad (Antioch, CA), 402-377. See commentary.
Photo 21-016	Division 1's Komol Panyasophonlert (Thailand) defeated Adam Logan (United Kingdom), 406-403. This game was such a painful loss for Adam, I stayed back and got no commentary.
Photo 21-017	John D. Williams, Jr., and Stefan Fatsis speak on camera.
Photo 21-018	Division 2's Wil Dabbs (Neosho, MO) defeated Jeff Martin (Albuquerque, NM), 448-332. See commentary.
Photo 21-019	Division 2's Fern Lindzon (Toronto ON) defeated Patrick Hodges (Glendale, AZ), 388-353. See commentary.
Photo 21-020	Division 1's Joel Wapnick (Montréal QC) defeated Jason Katz-Brown (Richmond, CA), 446-395. See commentary.
Photo 21-021	Division 1's Chuck Armstrong (Saline, MI) defeats Jere Mead (Chelmsford, MA), 429-406. See commentary.
Photo 21-022	CBS reporter, Bill Geist, interviews David Gibson (Spartanburg, SC) and focuses on David's by now famous hardcover Official SCRABBLE^® Players Dictionary.
Photo 21-023	Gathering around an interesting division 1 endgame, Jere Mead (Chelmsford, MA), Stefan Fatsis, Paul Avrin (New York, NY), Jason Katz-Brown (Richmond, CA), and John D. Williams, Jr.
Photo 21-024	Division 1's Jan Dixon (Newark, DE) ties Brian Cappelletto (Chicago, IL) with a 387.
Photo 21-025	Keith Smith (Austin, TX), Paul Avrin (New York, NY), Randy Greenspan (Buffalo, NY), and Ron Hoekstra (Kentwood, MI), stand around Jan Dixon (Newark, DE) as she talks about her unusual endgame with Brian Cappelletto (Chicago, IL). This incident missed the round's color, but it worth mentioning that a tile that was on the board, ended up getting mixed in Jan's rack and getting put back onto the board and scored as a play. And it wasn't until in the post-game chat that they realized what had happened. The game ended in a tie, 387-387.

HASBRO is the owner of the registered SCRABBLE^® trademark in the United States and Canada. © 2004 HASBRO. All rights reserved. "SCRABBLE^® Brand Crossword Game" is the proper way to refer to this unique group of word games and related properties marketed by HASBRO. "SCRABBLE^®" is not a generic term. To use it as such is not only misleading but also does injustice to the company responsible for the trademark's longtime popularity. All we ask is that when you mean SCRABBLE^® Brand Crossword Game, you say so.

The SCRABBLE^® trademark is owned by J.W. Spear and Sons, PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. outside of the United States and Canada.

For more information about SCRABBLE^® or the NSA, or to comment on or correct the contents of this page, please e-mail: info@scrabble-assoc.com
To report technical difficulties in reading this page, please contact webmaster John Chew at: jjchew@math.utoronto.ca