scrambling over
3days for scrabble competition sounds agonising for most of da human beings…"hey,18 games are played,isnt that sounds a fatigue activity to do???"38 players gathered at equatorial cameron high’s for tis annual comp.phew…am i lucky!!!i juz arrived in da nick of time right b4 da comp starts..i wuz totally in awe looking at da players themself…DUH!!!they r masters&im ony a rookie in this whole new atmosphere.i thought in my heart"im a dead man walking by 3rd day i presume,get trashed by 200 to 300 in spreads"after a while,i scrambled to my respective room with my fren,kUHAN.hehe…im being sponsored to go there,how GREAT!!!!!!&i hitchED a ride with his dad,get da tings needed 4our 1st game tourney…i dint even get a chance to catch a breath!!!
result for 1st game???i got thrashed by a singaporean by 207spread..OMG!!!a disaster in my scrabble circuit…worse is hes about my age only!!!again,i whispered to myself "im going back empty handed tis time with point deductions 4my rankings in malaysia"SIGH!!!!
2ND GAME im paired with a representative from MAS airlines…i played with my tempo at 1st but then i screwed it afta a few turns…makes no point!!!out of nowhere,i had a fruitful of alphabets on my rack&there i went…BANG!!!A BINGO!!!!!!!!im in the lead now…YAHOO!now i got da adreneline pumping…i kept scoring with high scores on triple word score,double word score&etc….i cant remember wheater ive played a phoney for my turn,OOPS…LUCKILY SHE DID NOT CHALLENGED OFF THE WORDS.final score,a hapless score of 204 against an astonishing 495 for myself..guess my BIGGEST ever winning spread i achived…the most unexpected one happened..id won da spot prize for highest winning spread.two day 1nite stay at allson klana with breakfast for two.ok la….
otha games wuz nearly da same exept i lost more games that i won…hahahaha……otha funny ting is that i actually lost 4game streak afta i took my shower during da break on the afternoon.maybe i shud not in the 1st place coz i wuz winning before that!!!!DANG IT!!!!!!MY biggest ever lost wud be against an old lady tat i heard before,more than 230 plus if im nto mistaken..still a promising position in top 16 dint last for long cz at this stage,it is da king of the hill stage…i may meet same player for da 2nd consecutive play…its really pathetic especially when da person id beaten previously met me back but this time da otha way around,i LOST!!!
in the end,i finished 32nd out of 38 players…kien hung said i shud have played better moves(hes da guy tat got me da sponsorship)&i could finished in top 25..&tat wud earn me yet another prize,2nd runner up for ratings below 1350.anyway,past is past….
in two days time,im competing in open division 4national closed scrabble championship at times square…hope i will do better though tis time around….wish me luck k…..adieu….
