 | Matthew Tassier In the case of tied scores in this round, the first player to complete his match will be awarded the higher seeding position. |
 | Callum Todd nice idea |
 | Sam Prouse lovin' it |
| Matthew Tassier Tom C-C is first to leap in, unfortunately probably without reading the rules! With rounds 9,10,12,13,15,16,19-26 disallowed, Tom scores 69. |
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 | Johnny Canuck After the fact for me now, but if your first use of a starting letter was on an invalid word, are subsequent uses treated as disallowed too? |
| Johnny Canuck (e.g., in Andy's game, will he be credited with 4 points for POUT, having previously used P on the invalid PUES?) |
| Matthew Tassier Yes, if you have already declared a word beginning with the letter, (whether it was valid or not), then the subsequent word is disallowed. Sorry, Andy. |
| Matthew Tassier With rounds 7 and 17 disallowed, Andy scores 91. Johnny sets a strong target with his 143. |
 | Ian Volante My letters didn't play ball. |
| Matthew Tassier Unlucky, with rounds 23, 24 & 26 disallowed that leaves you on 115. |
| Ian Volante Felt like the disconnect I had didn't help - less chance of gettting the remaining letters I needed. |
| Matthew Tassier Round 22 disallowed for Callum leaving a score of 119, and a lesson learnt in round 23! Enough scored for 2nd place at the moment. |
 | Zarte Siempre Damn you to hell, Tassier - this was on a list of my possibilities for Mole 8 :( |
| Matthew Tassier Sorry! With 26 rounds it was just asking for it. |
| Zarte Siempre I know! That's why it would have been a Mole task :P Stick to conventionals, you swine!!!
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| Matthew Tassier :)
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| Sam Prouse That was a lot tougher than imagined, but a very fun challenge |
| Matthew Tassier Glad you enjoyed it. Nothing to disallow from Sam or Bradley so the current standings are :
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| Matthew Tassier With disallowed words in rounds 15, 18, 19 and 24 John is left with a score of 111 in 5th place. |
 | John Beresford I wanted to give people a chance...... (cough) |
| Matthew Tassier Too sweet for your own good. |
| Ian Volante I think there's probably mileage in asking for this as a high-score format. |
 | Jason Larsen i probably didn't do very well at this |
| Matthew Tassier It's a tricky challenge, Jason. With rounds 9, 12 and 21 disallowed you have 54 points and are currently 10th. |
| Matthew Tassier 5 disallowed rounds leave Christy with 74 whilst Matty (R11 disallowed) and Jamie make their ways up into the top 4 with tidy efforts.
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 | Adam Gillard Fun! |
| Matthew Tassier After disallowing round 24 Jack scores 117 points and slots into 6th place. |
| Matthew Tassier 125 points sees Adam having fun and moving into third place. |
| Matthew Tassier With nothing to disallow, Martin's 110 sees him sneak into the top 10. |
| Matthew Tassier Brilliant game from Thomas Cap. scoring in 25/26 rounds to go top of the tree.
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| Matthew Tassier With round 9 disallowed 119 points gets me into 8th place. |
 | Tom Cappleman Really looking forward to seeing how this works as player vs player. Tactical play's going to be very important. |
| Matthew Tassier Sean F and Elliott successfully move into the top 16 with no deductions necessary.
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| Matthew Tassier A score of 134 from Frank leaves him looking safe up in 4th place. |
 | Bradley Horrocks Oh well, fun tourney Matthew! I enjoyed the challenge |
| Matthew Tassier Thanks for taking part! Marcus's 135 does push Bradley out of the top 16 and he replaces Frank in 4th place. |
| Adam Gillard Just realised that A Beanstalk Challenge has the initial letters ABC. Nice. |
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| Sam Prouse oh yeah..... |
| Matthew Tassier :)
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| Matthew Tassier With rounds 7, 19 and 24 disallowed Sean D finishes on 110, one agonising point behind 16th place. John will remain in the final qualification spot unless we get a late entrant in the half an hour between now and me going to bed. |
| Sean D Ah, didn't realise you couldn't reuse a starting letter from an incorrect declaration #readtherules |
| Matthew Tassier Afraid so, Sean. With 25 minutes to spare Herbert sneaks in a late game scoring 129 (R13 disallowed) and grabbing a last 16 place.
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Tourney round: A Beanstalk Challenge: Qualification Round
Notes from the organizer: This is a Beanstalk tournament with a twist.
If you wish to score in every round of each 26 round game then you must declare a word starting with each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. So, every time you declare a word starting with the same letter as a word you declared in a previous round, the second use of the single starting letter will be treated as a disallowed word with scores adjusted after the game.
I recommend writing out the alphabet and crossing out the letters as you use them to start a word.
In this qualification round you will play against Prune, and the top 16 scorers will progress to a seeded knockout tournament. If there are less than 16 entrants then everyone will go through.
Hopefully you will find this an interesting tactical challenge!
Ran from: 24 November – 1 December 2017. Format: Beanstalk Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 25. Completed: 25.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)
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