Some of you gave some feedback that the paid version of the game was out of sync with the word validator on this site. Thanks to some help from David, the list should now be fully up-to-date. Thanks for your patience.
This is what we we’ve looked forward to for a month–the two top players battling it out for first place.
This time it’s PSNAX versus rfar45.
Please email screen shots, players. We love to analyze them here!
A new controversy has surfaced around the discovery that a player entered the tourney with multiple screen names. I don’t need to say which player, but I do wish to address the subject in general.
Having multiple screen names in the tournament is an unfair advantage, for you have twice as many chances to win (and lose), and if you’re an especially strong player, you might just face yourself for a virtual free-bee round.
That said, I have never promulgated a rule against duplicate entry (or any limit on # of sock puppets). So, I am reluctant to treat it as an automatic disqualification.
From this point forward, a new rule: 1 player, 1 screen name in the tournament. Any player in the final 8 who is running multiple screen names needs to self-identify now or face disqualification.
I’ve updated the tournament rules to support this rule going forward.
Down to the final 8. Last round was pretty crazy. Again, more upsets, two stunning forfeitures, and more than enough drama.
Here are the remaining competitors: rokwilder | wildonrio | PSNAX | rfar45 | fongster | 2tuff | Scotty Poo Poo | _22_
My prediction (a female champ) won’t come true because my pick is now out. (Drats!) I’m picking a new horse: rokwilder will repeat! (Also, good chance _22_ will be in the final if he doesn’t face Rok first.)
Congrats to everyone in the final 8. Give it everything you’ve got!
Dear Friends,
As much as I enjoy facilitating and competing in these tournaments, there is a great deal of effort that goes into maintaining the site, and sometimes I fall behind in making updates. I’m going to take August as a breather, and I hope to do some more streamlining and automation on the PHP/MySQL side. We’ll come back in September better than ever. By then, if it goes according to plan, maintaining the site will be even easier for me.
In the meantime, the blog remains open for comments, and I’ll post articles of interest from time to time. People can still register for the tournaments at any time via the MyTourney tab.
If you’re itching to compete in August, please link over to http://wordswithfriendstournaments.com. My good friend Marcus runs that tournament, and I’m sure you’ll have a great experience.
Thank you for all the support and kind words as we’ve grown this community over the last few months.
Funny how fast 1,902 becomes just 16, but we’re here. These are the elites!
There were so many upsets in Rounds 6 and 7 for me (comedypace, sajeel, zdoyle, grizzgrazz, dave.foxx — all worthy players whom I expected to be in the final 16), so it’s hard for me to predict a winner. We have a crop of new players or perhaps old players who have really stepped it up.
This is all I’m going to say: I predict the winner of the July Tournament will be a woman! I won’t say which one, but I think you’re all in for a shock, because she’s pretty “slick” (and I don’t mean cheating).
I’m sure all the other players in the final 16 are excellent, too. I just don’t have as much exposure to them, but they’re certainly making their marks now.
Can’t wait to see who makes it to the final 8!
Here’s the breakdown on winners. A negative score means the player won 2 of 3 but was outscored for all three games combined.
Players awarded a “bye” for Round 7 are indicated in GREEN. Since there was a 3-way tie for the 7th and 8th slots, I looked at the previous round (Round 5) to determine which players should advance.
Veetus over fly by 123 (Previous Round = 62)
2tuff – no score (bye)
RockRockwell over brycekris2 by 63
cruisindee over dave.foxx by -68
Scotty Poo Poo over DavidM7501 by 328
the rlck over elistar by 32
rokwilder over eyespy31 by 62
golfnphil – no score (bye)
grizzgrazz over Ewmello – no score (forfeit)
idjd over dsyao by 123 (Previous Round = 53)
Jesse Davis over Vemuri by 116
hawksball over kevingibbs1 by 48
maz316 over cdh79 by -114
Meshell333 over claytonmathis by -20
fongster over Michelechell by 206
noela67 over comedypace by 31
PSNAX over zdoyle by 1
rfar45 over Opus61 by 15
WWF Lover over Sajeel by 261
myrna17 over sdicko by -128
cowstein over Vyper911 by 123 (Previous Round = 26)
wildonrio over kbowen25 by 165
zlamder over Kueeny by 190
_22_ over JNR82 by 201
