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Quick hits...
-Will know for sure if I can go to Albany this week. I'm so excited ... hopefully there won't be a letdown if the schedule doesn't work out.
-Wish I was in Mumbai right now. Unlike the Phoenix USSO, though, it's not schedule/work why I'm not there, it's level of play. I'm definitely motivated to improve. New goal: Make it to the Worlds once before I die. (And if I couldn't make it to Mumbai, I wish I was in South Lyon...)
-On a related note, I see the scores aren't that different from expert scores in OWL. Still anti-SOWPODS, still in favor of purging the word list, but I think, if SOWPODS came into being, the difference wouldn't be as big as I thought.
-I have a random Saturday night off this week, and no one-dayer to go to. Grrr...
-If Navy hadn't beaten Notre Dame last Saturday, I don't think the Battle Creek Enquirer would have had a sports section. I wouldn't have been able to move for hours. What a great game.
-Steelers-Browns today was awesome, too. First time I've been able to watch a football game start-to-finish like that (usually I'm working and glancing up when the TV guy raises his voice). Wish I still had NFL Network so I could see the replay.
-Work continues to be meh. I've started to accept the fact that the paper isn't of the quality of GR, that the co-workers aren't as cool as my deskmates in GR, but it's not bad. Went to my first ever high-school volleyball match Friday, first time I've written something on the sports cover in ... ever.
-The good news is that almost all of my stuff is out of boxes. The bad news is that my apartment is still a disorganized mess; stuff on the floor, stuff leaning against walls. *sigh*
Jason
-Wish I was in Mumbai right now. Unlike the Phoenix USSO, though, it's not schedule/work why I'm not there, it's level of play. I'm definitely motivated to improve. New goal: Make it to the Worlds once before I die. (And if I couldn't make it to Mumbai, I wish I was in South Lyon...)
-On a related note, I see the scores aren't that different from expert scores in OWL. Still anti-SOWPODS, still in favor of purging the word list, but I think, if SOWPODS came into being, the difference wouldn't be as big as I thought.
-I have a random Saturday night off this week, and no one-dayer to go to. Grrr...
-If Navy hadn't beaten Notre Dame last Saturday, I don't think the Battle Creek Enquirer would have had a sports section. I wouldn't have been able to move for hours. What a great game.
-Steelers-Browns today was awesome, too. First time I've been able to watch a football game start-to-finish like that (usually I'm working and glancing up when the TV guy raises his voice). Wish I still had NFL Network so I could see the replay.
-Work continues to be meh. I've started to accept the fact that the paper isn't of the quality of GR, that the co-workers aren't as cool as my deskmates in GR, but it's not bad. Went to my first ever high-school volleyball match Friday, first time I've written something on the sports cover in ... ever.
-The good news is that almost all of my stuff is out of boxes. The bad news is that my apartment is still a disorganized mess; stuff on the floor, stuff leaning against walls. *sigh*
Jason
I got just the opposite impression.....that the scores were almost ridiculously high when compared with the average OSPD tourney. Nigel averaged 462 per game, Joel Wapnick 459, and Ganesh a whopping 479 (including 11 500+ games out of 24). Even looking further down the list, Sherwin Rodrigues put up 429 per game, and all that got him was a 10-14 record and 78th place, because his opponents also averaged 429. I'd bet that the average game score was 20-25 points higher than in division 1 of the PC.
(Me = pro-SOWPODS despite never having attempted a game of it)
Hmmm...
WSC: 479 (Ganesh), 462 (Nigel, and still laughing at the beard comment), 459, 456, 438, 437, 434, 434, 423, 421; average = 444.3
PC: 442, 438 (Lerman), 429, 425, 424, 422, 420 (Leong, oddly enough), 420, 419, 417; average = 425.6, difference of 18.7
If you'd compare across the board, I think you'd find the averages of the WSC and D1 of the PC would get closer, if only because the Dans/Catas of the WSC are averaging 350 or so.
And by "that different," I got the impression SOWPODS scores were, on average, about 50 points per person higher. So, I guess we're both right. Just a matter of perspective.
Jason, not as anti-SOWPODS as he was last week