CSC2008 coverage

By sonicrick78

It’s the time of the year again, when I wake up to blogging. I am guessing some people may accidentally wind up here looking for coverage of Causeway Scrabble Challenge 2008, since as of just now, googling “causeway scrabble” brings this up as the first hit.

This year, Michael Tang has got himself the web domain and an official website for CSC. Browse over to http://www.causewayscrabble.com/ instead, if you arrived here with the intention of looking for the latest updates on the 2008 edition of the event.

This year I shall be playing in the Open Division instead of helping running the event. Hence I may not get to provide running commentary as I did last year. However Michael is looking into ways to get people on the ground to be able to contribute commentaries which the organizers may post up, so you may still get colour coverage yet, beside the stats and annotated games that are sure to be available. (FYI Michael is looking to put as many annotated games from Masters up for move-by-move viewing, so everyone should be in for a treat.)

If opportunity (and mood ; I foresee lots of downcast moments…) permits, I shall contribute at the official site. And there are a few other people who I know have in the past helped give instant news from tourneys they attend, people like Albert Hahn and Sam K, so there should be things to read besides stats.

I may still post the occasional comments in this blog, primarily on my own games. Not sure if anyone will read it anyway, so it shall be a bit lower on my priority list.

Now to revise my 3s. Sigh. Looking forward to Thursday when I won’t even bother thinking about revising and just enjoy playing.

10 Responses to “CSC2008 coverage”

  1. lakesidey Says:

    All the best for the open division….:)

  2. sonic Says:

    Thanks lakesidey :-) so far so good after 1st day, 7-2 and 3rd place. But there are 10 people all on 7-2 … and there are 24 more games to go…

    Top 10 in Open for CSC 2008

    Rank Player Wins Mar
    1 Karen Richards 7 769
    2 Chollapat Itthiaree 7 695
    3 Ricky Purnomo 7 644
    4 Alastair Richards 7 639
    5 Michael Laput 7 593
    6 Andy Kurnia 7 502
    7 Shim Yen Nee 7 468
    8 Suhaimi Khalil 7 346
    9 Paulette Yeoh 7 174
    10 Yeap Gim Sai 7 82

  3. jkqxz Says:

    Well done for maintaining 3rd place for round 18! Hmm, maybe we’ll have a top 3 Singaporean finish with you, Andy and Guo Cong!

  4. sonic Says:

    thanks jkqxz! i’d be happy enough to be in top 5!

  5. lakesidey Says:

    Leading after 20! Nice!

  6. jkqxz Says:

    Looking at the standings of round 35, I am predicting that Australia will win both the individual title as well as the team title of the Premier Cup!

  7. Toh Weibin Says:

    Hey there I won’t be here to catch the final results but I’m guessing you won :) . Well done whichever placing you got – in the competition you used to commentate on! (It’s not very easy to write such a generic message, you know, it’d be better if I could foretell your placing :D )

  8. jkqxz Says:

    Hmm, only 5 people in the running of the title as at round 31 and you are one of them! Congratulations of being confirmed top 5!

  9. jkqxz Says:

    Congrats for coming in 3rd!

  10. sonic Says:

    Thanks Weibin and jkqxz. Sorry was travelling immediately after Causeway, so didn’t get to reply.

    I’ll try to post some comments later on my games.

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