Almost Time for Annual Post

Went to Books A Million this past Saturday to catch up with my Charleston friends. Enjoyed an afternoon of Scrabble and catching up with the gang. Shelley showed up as well and Huntington was well represented for the first time in a while.

Life gets busy!!! Hopefully, will be able to show up a little bit more.

Great to see everyone!

Mountain State Open Begins Next Friday!!!

The first ever Huntington, WV Scrabble Tournament, AKA the "Mountain State Open" begins next weekend September 11-13th.

To date we have 14 entries for the early bird and 21 for the main draw.

There are players from West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee including a few local first timers!

We are looking forward to a great first tournament and there is still time to enter.

See www.cross-tables.com or www.wvscrabble.com for more information.

As if the message to Pennsylvania wasn't enough...

Rumor has it John Spangler, co-director from Lexington Club 637, has brought forth from the mighty Bluegrass State a tentative I-64 Morehead smackdown challenge in October.
The West Virginia native should know better...although I recall taking a mighty beating myself the last time one of John's Kentucky colleagues played me at Java Joint.
As always, we're open for Fall festivities in Morehead in October, or perhaps Ashland.
We'll just have to wait and see what the planning committee comes up with!
Good luck to everyone in Dayton next week!

Pennsylvania and West Virginia Friends Unite for Smackdown!

The mighty members of Club 620 and 767 competed with vigor Saturday July 18th in a WV vs PA tournament, dubbed the "Smackdown".
6 members from each state went head to head through 6 rounds. After an exhilirating day West Virginia's Club Director from #767, Brad Mills, proudly hoisted the first annual traveling WV vs PA Smackdown trophy and after a team picture of the collective nerdy bunch we all headed home.
We all had a great time of fun and fellowship, and as usual Terry taught me a new word or two (e.g. CHANTAGE= blackmail) on her way to my sound thumping.
Panera bread was a fun atmosphere, the food was great, and it made for a relaxing and blessed Saturday.
Thanks to all the organizers for their hard work and dedication to the game we love so much.
And to Andrew, the most well behaved and smartest 4-year-old I've ever met, I am sure one day you will be facing off against PA with us as well if your parents have anything to do with it.
Stay tuned for future announcement regarding Huntington Club 767 next meeting at Java Joint in August. Due to schedules we are most likely going to go to one meeting per month.

Summer Break!

Since most of the Huntington people are scattered for the summer, namely the Director, we will be having a meeting hiatus.

I hope to participate in the Scrabble in Clarksburg smackdown July 18th and am looking forward to facing Terry once again seeing that we dodged each other at the most recent tournament.

The Mountain State Open in Huntington scheduled for September 11-13th is going well and we have 14 participants entered at this time.

Our NASPA information and club fee has been submitted and we should have our official designation switch soon.

Meeting #7

Four of us enjoyed a beautiful day at the Java Joint this past Saturday.

Results:
Aaron 2-1 +162
Brad 2-1 +81
Shelley 1-2 -123
Rafael 1-2 -126

BINGOS:
Aaron: NASTIER 78, CASTING 69, NATTIEST 68
Brad: INSTATE 80, PUNIEST 80, LAZIEST 82, DOMAINS 70
Shelley: BRAINER* 74
Rafael: HOTLINE 69

Next meeting will be April 18th!

Meeting #6

We had four out today for a quick two games.

We met and played with Judy, Rob's daughter, who reaped the benefits of $20 for coming.

Results:
Shelley 1-0 +141
Rob 1-0 +15
Aaron 0-1 -15
Judy 0-1 -141

Bingo
SCOOTED Rob for 77