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Notes from the organizer: It's Christmas, so time to dust off the board game!

In scrabble you have seven tiles to play with, so the format will be a junior letters attack, but the scoring will have a scrabbly difference!

The apterous game score will be ignored and the score calculated from the scrabble value of the letters played - so OX will score you 9 points but IRONS will only score you 5.

Please read carefully! - Where you can really get an advantage over your opponent is the judicious use of bonus squares - in this game the 2nd letter of every third round (R3,6,9,12,15,18) will be a double letter score. The fifth letter on every fifth round (R5,10,15,20) will be a triple letter score. R15 will have both a double letter on tile 2, and a triple letter on tile 5.

Point value is as follows:

(1 point)-A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T, R
(2 points)-D, G
(3 points)-B, C, M, P
(4 points)-F, H, V, W, Y
(5 points)-K
(8 points)- J, X
(10 points)-Q, Z

Please see https://i.ibb.co/5RWRmSF/Scrabble-Score-Apto.png for a scored example.

In apterous, it's considerably easier to play out all your letters, so for this tournament the bonus for a seven letter word will be ten points.

Note that both players will score for their word, regardless of who wins the round. I will also manually check any disallowed words against the CSW dictionary and score them if allowed there (sadly CSW junior LA for a tourney is not a thing)

Signups are open for two weeks. Games will be head to head in a straight knockout. You'll have two weeks to play each game. The number of rounds will depend on the number of signups!

Ran from: 7 – 21 December 2021. Format: Junior Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Signed up: Jason Larsen, Ian Volante, Tom Cappleman, Matthew Tassier, Jason Turner, Marcus Hares, Johnny Canuck, Thomas Carey, Mike Lee, Anthony Endsor, Andy SC, Hazel Drury, Steven Oldham, Jonny D, Mich R, Martin Thomas, Edward Ashcroft, Zohaib Rehan, Ronan M Higginson, Dave Robjohns, M S R, Dave Kempshall, Darren Godfrey, James Burley, Dan Spinks, Wesley Barton, Stu Harkness, J Bartram, Florence C-L, Piaras Last-Name, Mark O'Regan, Jason C..

Fixtures: 0. Completed: 0.