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SCRABBLE CLUB #276CELEBRATES ITS 23RD ANNUAL AWARDS NIGHT!!!
Twenty-six of our Scrabble Club members in their leather jackets, sweaters and turtlenecks braved the "cold" 50's temperatures on Wednesday night, January 4, and congregated at their meeting place in Veterans Park, Lauderhill, Florida to attend our 23rd Annual Awards Night and to cheer on their fellow players as numerous awards were presented!
 Once again, DENA WEINSTEIN supplied an incredibly decadent, delicious and beautifully decorated cake for our Awards night festivities. This year she certainly "caught" our attention with her creative fishing theme, "What are you fishing for?" Not only was the cake amazing to see, but it was also delicious on the inside with a raspberry jam filling between the layers...and even the Scrabble tiles on the outside of the cake were deliciously edible!
 Thanks again Dena, for all the time, effort and thought you put into your beautiful and yummy creations!    After all of my thanks were expressed, SHEREEN WEINSTEIN took the floor and on behalf of the entire Scrabble Club #276 said some lovely words and also presented me with a gift of appreciation. I can't even begin to tell you have good it makes me feel to know that everyone enjoys our club and all the work that goes into making it fun all year long.
AND NOW FOR THE AWARDS!
Congratulations to all of our 2011 winners in the following categories: 2011 Good Sportsmanship Award (aka Mr. Congeniality) FRED WEINSTEIN  This prestigious award was voted upon by Fred's fellow club members. Every year since we've had this award and I receive the ballots back, there is a wide spread of everyone getting a few votes because we have so many helpful, pleasant, good sports in our club. The final count is always a very close call, usually decided upon by only one or two votes. That was not the case this year! Although Fred has only been a regularly-attending member of our club for two years, he certainly has made a wonderful impression on everyone. I've never seen so many votes for one person since I originated this category! Congratulations, Fred!!! It's unanimous...not only are you a good sport but you are also a wonderful addition to our club!
2011 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER HOWARD PISTOL - 19.23%!!!! 2nd Place - GEORGE ROGERS - 7.44% 3rd Place - ANGEL DUPREE - 6.93%  L-R: Angel Dupree, Howard Pistol, George Rogers 2011 HIGHEST WORD TRIP PAYNE BEDQUILT - 221 Points!!!! Sadly, this was the first Awards Night since he became a member of our club in 2003 that Trip could not attend . In August, Trip moved to Los Angeles. We miss you, Trip and hope that you'll be able to come back every so often for visits. In Trip's absence, I accepted his certificate and special t-shirt to acknowledge his amazing 221 point word! Trip, this shirt and a few other awards including your stats package and gift are now winging their way to you.
 3rd Place - ELAINE PATERSON - FORKLESS 185 Points  During 2011 there were 72 Bamdingers* scored! To see these 2011 Bamdingers and also the "Bamdinger Hall of Fame" since our records began, please click on this link: *A "Bamdinger" is a single word that scores 100 or more points. 2011 MOST BAMDINGERS 3-WAY TIE!!! EIGHT BAMDINGERS EACH! RANDY GREENSPAN, TRIP PAYNE AND IAN WEINSSTEIN 2nd Place: ELAINE PATTERSON - 7 BAMDINGERS 3rd Place: MARTY ROSEN - 6 BAMDINGERS  ALL 2011 BAMDINGER WINNERS Sandee Bloom-2, Mary Capalbi-2, Angel Dupree-1, Judy Ford-2, Jeff Garrett-3, Larry Gradus-3, Randy Greenspan-8, Paul Haynes-1, Robert Kahn-1, Carolyn Koslen-1, Cheryl Levin-1, Jed Martinez-1, Charles Merlis-1, Elaine Patterson-7, Trip Payne-8, Howard Pistol-4, Marla Riff-1, George Rogers-3, Marty Rosen-6, Maxine Saperstein-1, John Scalzo-3, Daniel Shapiro-1, Carl Stocker-1, John Thomason-1, Ian Weinstein-8, Fred Weinstein-1, Mike Wolfberg-1 Without statistics there would be no Awards Night. For this reason, it is so important for me to receive completed score sheets each week in a legible manner along with all the information listed correctly. Unfortunately, this is not always the way I receive some the score sheets. During the evening a few minutes (okay...maybe it was longer) were given to displaying some illustrations of score sheet "NO-NO's" along with the correct way in which one should fill out their sheets.  The award for the 2011 BEST LOOKING SCORE SHEET along with a personalized Scrabble Club #276 pen and my thanks was presented to JED MARTINEZ for making sure that each of his weekly score sheets was correctly filled in and legible!  2011 HIGHEST SCORING GAME TRIP PAYNE - 660 Points! 3rd Place: TRIP PAYNE - 600 Points PLATEAU CERTIFICATES OF WINNING GAMES AT SCRABBLE CLUB #276 This year TWELVE players have either reached the first plateau of have upped their levels to the next plateau. The levels are 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2000 and 3000. 1000 PLATEAU OF WINNING GAMES  500 PLATEAU OF WINNING GAMES MARY CAPALBI - 531.5 (not present) 250 PLATEAU OF WINNING GAMES  100 PLATEAU OF WINNING GAMES  MICHAEL VACIANNA-112, MICHAEL WOLFBERG-108 (not present) 50 PLATEAU OF WINNING GAMES  FRED WEINSTEIN-50.5 2011 BEST BINGO AVERAGE  RANDY GREENSPAN - 2.09 2nd Place: ROBERT KAHN - 2.078 3rd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - 1.867 2011 MOST BINGOS  RANDY GREENSPAN - 303! Highest record of bingos ever during one year period! 2nd Place: ROBERT KAHN - 266 3rd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - 252 2011 MOST 400+ GAMES  RANDY GREENSPAN - 103 2nd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - 93 3rd Place: ROBERT KAHN - 70 2011 HIGHEST % OF 400+ GAMES  RANDY GREENSPAN - .703 2nd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - .689 3rd Place: HOWARD PISTOL - .566 2011 MOST 500+ GAMES  RANDY GREENSPAN - 24 2nd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - 19 3rd Place: ROBERT KAHN - 13 2011 HIGHEST % OF 500+ GAMES  RANDY GREENSPAN - .166 2nd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - .141 3rd Place: ROBERT KAHN - .102 2011 BIGGEST WINNING STREAK  IAN WEINSTEIN - 13 2nd Place: RANDY GREENSPAN -10 3rd Place: SANDEE BLOOM - 9 2011 MOST WINS  RANDY GREENSPAN - 109.5 2nd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - 102.5 3rd Place: SANDEE BLOOM - 83.5 2011 HIGHEST AVERAGE  RANDY GREENSPAN - 435 2nd Place: IAN WEINSTEIN - 430 3rd Place: ROBERT KAHN - 417 2011 HIGHEST WINNING PERCENTAGE  IAN WEINSTEIN - .769! 2nd Place: RANDY GREENSPAN - .755 3rd Place: HOWARD PISTOL - .664 Our Awards ceremony was ended when I gave each of our members a stadium seat as a "thank you" gift for making our club such a fun place to attend all year. Packets of all the statistics were also handed out.  We were able to play two games after the presentations and as is our tradition, I give a money prize to the first person who scores a bamdinger in the new year. We didn't have to wait long when GEORGE ROGERS scored the first Bamdinger of 2012 in his second game when he played HAZIEST for 104 points!   Since we are all starting off with a "clean slate" for the new year, a Scrabble slate board was awarded to the person who scored the highest non-bingo word in our first game. A smiling SHEREEN WEINSTEIN claimed her prize when she scored 51 points for "FLAGS."          
                  
    Ft. Lauderdale Tournament Results  Congratulations to our following Scrabble Club 276 members who placed in the Jan 14-16, 2012 Ft. Lauderdale Tournament:
Division 1
1st Place: IAN WEINSTEIN 15/5 +1006
2nd Place: RANDY GREENSPAN 13/7 +465
3rd Place: ROBERT KAHN 12/8 +183 Division 2
3rd Place: MARLA RIFF 12/8 +52
Division 3
1st Place: SHEREEN WEINSTEIN 14/6 +614 2nd Place: REX OSBOURNE 12/8 +390 Please click on the following link for all scheduled upcoming tournaments in Ft. Lauderdale. http://www.ftlscrabbleclub384.com/tournament.html
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