 | Fi Thorne Thanks for organising such a brilliant tourney Dave, I really appreciate all your hard work. I am sad that it's over! |
 | Dave Kempshall No probs Fiona. Glad you enjoyed it. It's actually the tournament I enjoy running the most, so doesn't feel like hard work at all. |
 | Dan Southwell Thanks Dave. Good tourney, definitely one of the fun ones!! Look forward to the next :) |
 | Fiona T Not my finest performance, but good fun as always - thanks Dave! |
 | Richard Decker Bake off screwed me over there - can't believe there's no 'yeasted'!
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 | Ben Bazzard Thanks Dave!!! |
 | Sean D cheers Dave, great concept, well run. GG WP |
 | Mark Jeary-Fairbairn Thanks Dave!! |
 | Trevor MacEoin This is a great tournament Dave. Love the unique challenges it provides. Thanks for putting it together. |
| Sarah Binns Thank you for organising. Had lots of fun |
| Tom B Some v interesting variants. Difficult on some, but enjoyed the variations |
 | Jon Stammers Yay, I managed to not mess up final round!! Hard luck, Adam, that's a tough way to lose it. Thanks so much Dave for this, really enjoyed it. |
| Jon Stammers And massive congrats to TCap of course for the new high score to clinch the championship! |
 | Adam Latchford Although looking very specifically at the criteria... I did declare a valid word? It was at least 4 letters long and it had a unique letter :p. Looks like me and t cap draw! |
| Dave Kempshall After a quick VAR referral I'm afraid the original decision stands (please don't make me make these round notes any longer than they already are) ;) |
 | David Holmes Great and hugely inventive tournament, thanks for organising |
| David Holmes Great and hugely inventive tournament, thanks for organising Dave. Still baffled and annoyed about LIMBIC. |
| Adam Latchford Don't worry Dave, was being facetious, which you explicitly told us not to be in an earlier round. Cheers for the tourney :) |
 | Roger Peak Great tourney Dave and thanks for organising it ! I'm looking forward to the summer edition now ! |
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| Ravi Choudhary Really great tournament. Each round challenging in their own unique way, involving a bit of forethought (if necessary). Thank you Dave for organising this tournament. |
 | Andres S. Damn, I really thought MENSURATE was still in. Ah well, thank you for the tounrey Dave! |
 | Keith C Williams Thanks for a really fun tournament, Dave! I'm curious — do you have to calculate the scores for each round by hand, or do you have something like an Excel calculator? I imagine that would be fun to build :) |
| Dave Kempshall Keith - this year I've calculated by hand. Last year Trevor Potts, who is an excel wizard, fed me some amazing templates where I just pasted the game URL and the score populated for me - it was amazing, but sadly the templates no longer work and Trevor not been around this year, so it's been a manual process. Doesn't take long though, but it does mean it's always worth double-checking I've marked your score correctly :) |
| Wesley Barton Thanks for hosting Dave, happy with my performance but wish I could have passed 1000! |
Tourney round: Alphabetti Spaghetti 2025: Round 10: Alphabetti Spaghetti
Notes from the organizer: As we enter the final round, the top of table sees three become one. Slightly lower scores from Stu in Round 8 and 9 sees him fall into the chasing pack, as does Miriam after going out early in Round 8.
So, it’s Adam out ahead on his own with Tom C and Mike L up to 2nd and 3rd respectively. It’s in Adam’s hands, but the gap is bridgeable with Tom only 31 points behind. Mike, Stu and Miriam will be hoping to capitalise if both Adam and Tom have lacklustre finishes.
Leaderboard - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YSYOdmZKGElwGkMRG89M4PBvmvH6vu-9/edit?gid=1911279472#gid=1911279472&range=A1:M1
Our titular finale see us return to a Goat Attack where your 20 declarations must meet the following criteria:
1. Be a valid word
2. Be at least 4 letters long
3. Each begin with a unique / different letter (i.e. if you’ve played RELATION already, no other declaration should begin with an R).
If you fail to meet all of the above criteria in any round, you will ‘bomb out early’ and your game scoring will end. To be clear you DON’T have to play your words in alphabetical order, just 20 words that each begin with a unique, different letter of the alphabet.
There is a 10 point bonus for anyone playing valid words beginning with each of the five different vowels (whilst your scoring is still active).
There is another 10 point bonus if you declare valid words beginning with both Q and Z (again, whilst still active).
With it being Goatdown, you may have to be strategic and try and use the less common letters early in order to see yourself all the way through to the end.
Equally, you may have to do much of the bonus legwork on your own selected rounds as you can’t control Prune’s 9th letter selection.
Matthew B holds the current high score for this round with 191.
Good luck to our title challengers and thanks to everyone for taking part this year.
Ran from: 1 – 4 December 2025. Format: Goat Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 49. Completed: 42.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)
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