Luck, etc.

[Noctiluca]

This thread stopped at 99 posts for the longest time. This is because Dave Wiegand has trademarked the number 100 since he regularly plays all 100 tiles during a game. I'm only allowed to post this by giving Dave Wiegand royalties.

Dave Wiegand can divide by zero. This is the only way he can determine his opponents' average score per turn.

When Dave Wiegand feels the outside of the tile bag to "count" the tiles that are left, don't be fooled. He can actually braille the letters that way, even if the tiles are facedown.

[bnjy99]

Actually, yours was the 101st post, It was the 100th response. David Weigand found that last point on a recount... even though he was up by 200.

[millcake16]

Actually, yours was the 101st post, It was the 100th response. David Weigand found that last point on a recount... even though he was up by 200.

Who is David Weigand?

[Noctiluca]

Everyone knows that the NSC is held to determine the best player who isn't Dave Wiegand. Somehow, in 2005, Dave Wiegand still managed to win.

NASPA was created as a separate entity in order to break away from Dave Wiegand and give everyone else a chance. But shh... nobody has told him yet.

It's always a bad idea to grant Dave Wiegand a recount. He can recount the game 20 times and find 12 new points every time. He once recounted a game against Kenji for an entire week and found 26,381 extra points. Kenji, on the other hand, lost over two thousand points, 13 wins, 4 Reno early birds, and a National championship he hasn't even won yet, all in that same week of recounts.

Actually, yours was the 101st post, It was the 100th response. David Weigand found that last point on a recount... even though he was up by 200.

Who is David Weigand?

David Weigand is Dave Wiegand's long lost evil twin. His rating is a mere 14. He once opened a game with sATIrE for 7 after miscounting the score. One time Davd Weigand's opponent didn't show up and had to forfeit. David Weigand still lost the game. When you play against David Weigand, a challenge computer is set up at your table just for convenience. David Weigand typically loses 200+ points per game in overtime penalties because he can't find the game room between bathroom breaks. David Weigand doesn't play OT, OB, and QN because he's in time trouble; he plays them because he thinks they're good.

I can't believe you haven't heard of David Weigand. . .

[TheLamb]

We need to get this thread going again.

[Noctiluca]

Dave Wiegand once defeated Nigel Richards in a come-from-behind, best of 3 showdown to win his second National Scrabble Championship.

And you people think I'm making these up...

[cesar]

Can't think of anything funny to say, but huge congrats to Dave Wiegand!

[bnjy99]

I bought a Chuck Norris poster for my dorm room. I taped a pic of Wiegand over it and replaced all "Chuck Norris" words with "Dave Wiegand." That about sums it up.

[joshcalomel]

Dave Wiegand once played U(N)AU for 82 points, keeping ERS?

I think he missed AUtEURS for 100-something (?)

EDIT: also bUREAUS

[joshcalomel]

WIEGAND anagrams to AWESOME. Seriously, check it out in Zyzzyva.

I checked. WINDAGE. Not AWESOME.

[Yarn Chief Sr]

*facepalm*

[whatnoloan]

Facepalm seconded. Dear lord.

[squamae brown]

I'm pretty sure he has to be joking at this point, in which case I commend the exceedingly dry humor. If not, yes, dear lord.

Dave Wiegand once beat Kim Jong Il in a game of Scrabble. Kim blamed the loss on exhaustion, since he had spent the morning bowling eight straight 300 games and shooting eighteen over a round of golf... using little Kim.

[joshcalomel]

Sorry, which comment were you "face-palm"-ing?

[kev10293]

You should really only expect to win games that you are lucky in - that is, unless you have no respect for your opponent. You really can't expect to win just because you are the better player either.

Luck is major, but the amount of time I actually spend on assessing my luck is about 0. I don't track my blanks, my s's, etc. It's a complete and utter waste of time.

[squamae brown]

There is no valid steal up to fifteen letters for FACEPALM, but Dave Wiegand very cleverly found one for PALMFACE (details left to the reader, one reader in particular).

[kev10293]

There is no valid steal up to fifteen letters for FACEPALM, but Dave Wiegand very cleverly found one for PALMFACE (details left to the reader, one reader in particular).

I don't really get how this is funny. Either the original poster was joking in which case we are all being idiots or he wasn't joking in which case we are all being jerks. Either way, not very funny.

Back to the original topic, luck is big but over 30 games it tends to even out usually. Having said that, I have tied quackle in a 100 game stretch so it is not so cut and dry. It is possible to have a very bad luck stretch for 30 games... with tiles that even Richards might not win with.

[Tiansa]

Jesse Day tried to phony against Dave Wiegand. He lost by 237 points.

[joshcalomel]

Yeah, like David Wiegand challenges exchanges and wins...
There are other things I could write, but I don't want to lie.