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I have just added in and done pass number one of 15901-16000 8s.

One word of interest that came up was BARLEDUC - a fruit jam. This appears to be no ordinary fruit jam and having done a little research on the web I am afraid to announce that I will be sticking with plain redcurrant jelly. I don't own a goose quill for a start...

An email this morning announcing that the International ratings have now been updated - woohoo. I may well be the first female to have featured in the top ten. Phil Robertshaw has also cracked it for the first time, currently in ninth. The UK also has five more players - Craig Beevers, Harshan, Brett Smitheram, Mikki Nicholson and Austin Shin - in the top twenty. This is probably our best ever showing. Let's hope we can live up to it in the World Scrabble Championships that are still to be announced.

Almost On Top of the World

The WESPA International ratings were posted yesterday but with a couple of queries.

Are Philips Owolabi and Lukeman Owolabi the same person? After asking a couple of my Nigerian friends on ISC it appears that they are. Were Bob Lynn and Robert Linn the same person - no. So I had to wait a little longer. An email was waiting for me when I got up this morning - only a slight adjustment from the day before.

New Rating: 2115

Better than my wildest dreams, leaping into second place behind Ganesh. 

I doubt that I will stay there for long - Nigel was leading the iGate tourney in Bangalore when I last looked and the web site is not being updated until that is also rated. But, even if I am only there for just over a week I am still very happy :)

 

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