I'm in Southie this week visiting my girlfriend who is, unfortunately, in class during the daytime. Anyone want to meet for some games? I'm carless but have easy access to the Red Line, fwiw.

Haven't done one of these in a while. Here goes. Also, if I played you and you're out there reading this, feel free to send me your racks and I'll add them to the Quackle files, if you so desire.

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Spring semester is over.
Pittsburgh tourney is in 1 month.
Nationals are 6 weeks after that.
It's time to start Scrabbling.

The second game in a series of 2 against chaithedog from right before Nationals '08. He mentions his opening rack of DEGPXZ? on his blog here.
The pre-endgame in this one is really intriguing and weird. I want to know what you folks would do when I played OR for 8, and when I played HAD to empty the bag.

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About a week before Nationals, I played a 2 game series against chaithedog. Here is the first of those games.

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Following Nationals was exciting, though not nearly as exciting/fun as being there! Congrats to everyone who played, regardless of your finish. Playing 28 full games of Scrabble in 4 days is a lot more than most human beings could accomplish.

Back to the ISC treasure trove for me. This one is from a couple weeks ago against orangejkel, aka sr_orangepants. And yes, I am blogging this.

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To all those Orlando-bound: I wish you happy Scrabbling and a joyous weekend. Although somehow, I think y'all will have plenty of fun without me wishing it for you :-D

A close game against fairway from 2 weeks ago.

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From about two weeks ago vs annagraham. It doesn't seem like I made any huge mistakes, but I think some small ones added up. However, he/she should have been ahead by 200 after the first 3 turns!

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Maybe it's a hole early, but after that second shot on 17, I have to say congrats to Padraig Harrington for winning his second straight British Open. I'll admit I was rooting for Greg Norman at first, but if someone else among the leaders had to win it, I'm glad it was Paddy. (Edit: he made the eagle putt! Now it's in the bag.)

OAC:

HARRINGTON* has 3 steals (all of length 5 tiles)

PADRAIG* has 3 one tile steals and 5 two tiles steals

GREGNORMAN* has 5 steals (of lengths 2, 3, 3, 4 and 5 tiles)

IANPOULTER* has 5 two tile steals

KJCHOI* has just 1 steal! (it's pretty short, too)

BIRKDALE* has 2 one tile steals and 2 two tile steals