My Only Scrabble Tournament
Here is something that popped into my head randomly while trying to sleep last night ... Back in the late 90's, I was in my one and only Scrabble tournament. It was a local fundraiser at the Escondido Public Library. My wife-at-the-time was on my team, and two close friends were a couple on another team. There were about 30 players, and our entry fees went to a literacy charity. I won a few rounds, and as I recall I made it to the round where there were only 2 games being played. So if there were 32 players to start, round two would be 16, round three would be 8, round four would be those two games. That all adds up (in my head). My fresh opponent started by saying, "Let's not add up the scores each round, so we can focus on the game. It's such a hassle." I didn't know if there was an actual rule against doing that, but I figured I could ignore the total score. Why should those numbers affect my choice of words anyway? In the end, we did add our scores,