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#player2 Jackie_Camper Jackie Camper
>Avery: ?EEILOQ H7 QI +22 22
>Jackie_Camper: ?DEINSW I4 rEWINDS +77 77
>Avery: ?EEEELO -EEEO +0 22
>Jackie_Camper: BORY 10F BRO.Y +24 101
>Avery: ?ELORTT 5E dOTT.REL +78 100
>Jackie_Camper: HOP 6D POH +30 131
>Avery: CEIKRSU 11B SUCKIER +84 184
>Jackie_Camper: EEILOT 12G ETOILE +21 152
>Avery: AABINVX D8 VIN.A +28 212
>Jackie_Camper: ALW 11K AWL +21 173
>Avery: AAABEIX 13K ABA +21 233
#note Wasn't sure of ALEXIA.
>Jackie_Camper: DEGU L4 G.UED +18 191
>Avery: AEIJMPX 4D JAPE +38 271
#note Missed ADMIX. I inferred a good leave for her after GLUED, probably with 3 one pointers including 2 consonants and an E. As a result, I opted not to expose an E with H1 EXPAT.
>Jackie_Camper: ITTY E11 .ITTY +14 205
>Avery: AFIMNTX 15A NIFT. +36 307
#note I saw IXNAY, but didn't like the high scoring spot it gave her to fish. I chose this to give myself 14A AX and keep M7 MAX.
>Jackie_Camper: ACNU 8K A.UNC +24 229
>Avery: AEMRVXZ 7L .X +34 341
>Jackie_Camper: MOO M2 MOO +13 242
>Avery: AEMRRVZ 8A VAR.E +33 374
#note Finally blocking the S.
>Jackie_Camper: EFGINOS N2 OF +23 265
>Avery: AHIMRSZ O1 ZA +38 412
>Jackie_Camper: AEGINNS 14B GI +17 282
>Avery: AHIMRSU O6 MU.H +11 423
#note Wasn't sure of HUMIC, but I felt the case I could be useful with the pool. I imagined her being very close to a bingo, so I blocked things like CONDENSE.
>Jackie_Camper: DEG 14M GED +13 295
>Avery: AILNORS B2 ORINAS.L +70 493
#note So many basic mistakes keep popping up in my games and I feel like I don't really know how to improve upon them. I'm hoping I can find a way to get more over-the-board practice, but there just aren't that many ways to do that against similarly rated people where I live. I can forgive myself for things like VEERIES since I haven't been studying as much as I'd like to, but to keep misscoring plays (LAWSUIT), to mess up basic endgames (WINCE), to mistrack (AIRING), and to overlook scoring spots (QI against Joe, the X against Lee) is really frustrating and it makes it hard for me to feel like I really earned a result like this. Maybe I'm being too hard on myself, but I know I'm better than this. Not sure how to improve all this yet, but my next tournament in Boston (as of posting these games right after this tournament) is a significant step up from this field, and I hope I'll be ready.
Thanks to everyone who's helped me get this far. Both those who support me and those who wish I would stop playing help me mature as a person and a player and motivate me to do my best with this game that I can do. I'm sure there's a number of people in both camps. But at the end of the day, I remember what Patty Camp told me on Saturday night of this tournament. "Scrabble's just about the fun. If you were going to these tournaments just for the rating, you would be going for the wrong reason."
>Avery: (DEEENRS) +16 509
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