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Gafoor warms up for Caribbean Scrabble Championship with impressive win
With the Caribbean Scrabble Championships just a few weeks away, Guyana’s top seeded, Moen Gafoor proved his readiness when he amassed an impeccable 6 points with a positive spread of 292 to emerge victorious when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) hosted an Open tournament in the pavilion of the Maltenoes Sports Club on Sunday.
Fred Collins
Former national champion and current Caribbean Champion, Fred Collins finished second with 4 points and a positive spread of 579 while Colin Chichester amassed 4 points and a positive spread of 84 to close off the podium positions.
Julian Skeete scored 4 points with a positive spread of 62 to finish 4th, carting off the special prize for the best player outside the top ten rankings. National Champion Abigail McDonald experienced the worst day of her reign and eventually ended the tournament on 3 points and a positive spread of 299.
No one envisaged McDonald’s turn of fortune since she went to the lunch break with 3 points after winning all of her games. Gafoor also experienced similar pre-lunch fortunes and the post-lunch matchup between him and McDonald was highly anticipated and touted to produce the overall winner.
The game ebbed and flowed with both players scoring 3 bingos apiece with a negligible spread separating them as the tiles ran out. In a counterattacking game where both players scored 3 bingo’s apiece, Gafoor proved to be the more cunning and eventually prevailed by a slim margin of 8; the final score reading 453-461.
It seemed as though the tensions of that game had a negative impact on the local scrabble queen and she went on to drop her two successive encounters to Fred Collins and Julian Skeete and for the first time in a long time the local scrabble queen failed to ascend the podium after turning in a dismal performance with 3 points and a positive spread of 299.
Moen Gafoor
The players will convene once again at the Malteenoes Sports Club tomorrow in Emancipation Open Championships. The organisers are appealing to all players to make a special effort to attend in preparation for the Caribbean Championships slated for next month.
Players are also reminded to attend practice sessions at the very venue on Wednesday evenings starting at 10am.
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