::had the 2nd Singapore National Youth Scrabble Competition today.. they didn't have one last year and the 1st one was a ITE Dover.. Didn't have the challenge cup this year, so I guess we won the 1st and only challenge cup?
had to report in school at 6.30am, didn't have much problem waking up so early.. because I woke up 6 hours before that? read some word list, played 1 game with myself before heading for school.. couldn't come for training cause like all my days are packed? all my other classmates in scrabble didn't want to go because of their studies? I've no problems with juggling my studies and other activities.. felt I should go as I was like one of the first sec1s to start off the scrabble club.. the others tagged along some time after..
Ms Naz hired quite a big bus for the 20 of us? those 32-seater kind.. there was a heavy mist hanging around the forested areas beside the expressway on our way there.. first time I ever seen anything like that happen in Singapore.. don't really get to go out so early in the morning.. reached Marsling about 20 mins early, took a quick group photo then registered.. still had to wait for quite a while for the other schools to come..

Scrabble Competition
the pairings were picked by lucky draw.. so we faced Nayang Girls for the first round.. sometimes I think I shouldn't challenge some words.. then your turn you can capitalize on that and put a high-scoring word.. happened twice in that game.. argh.. so in the end only won by less than 100.. below my average..
things started to pick up on the 2nd game.. faced Fuhua.. won by 240, twice his score would be mine.. haha.. our team had a total of 9 legitimate bingos in that round, so we won some novelty prize for that.. at first heard that Bukit Panjang got 11, so I guess some of their bingos were not legitimate??
3rd round we faced Northland.. that round, the novelty prize was for the highest spread.. but our spread of 1296 was not even close of the 1900+ spread of the winning team... so far, none of us has lost a game.. that was until round 4.. faced Pasir Ris Crest.. was a really close game, worthy opponents though.. my opponent had a bingo, so I responded by my own "Easting" and "Valleys" after that.. but he still manage to catch up in the end, was neck to neck in the final moments.. lost by only 27 points.. that was the only game our whole team lost, even Kelvin? just our luck to pick them..
next round was my bingo spree.. faced the host school, Marsling.. we had a friendly here not too long ago, so we know each other already.. had a bingo on my first move? and 2 more following that.. Nazrul was kinda paranoid after the first 3 bingos.. had a 4th but couldn't put.. dunno why but I always had this kinda bingo sprees in the final rounds of competition.. happened the last time at Suntec..
so in the end we got 1st and 2nd Runners up for Team 4 and 1.. me being in Team 4.. kinda unexpected the sec 1 team won something.. alot of unexpected things happen in scrabble competitions, like Nanyang Girls winning 3rd in the Cup catagory?? if only we didn't face PRCS in the 4th round..

Joel and our 1st Runners Up Trophy
well, at least I can add another trophy to my collection.. still not very happy with the system they have..::

.:JeReMyChAn blogged on 11:49 am:.
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