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So, onto the 2nd 2nd round game, which happens to be taking place in the 2nd month of the year.

It's another "past vs. present" match as Jon O'Neill takes on Darryl Francis for a place in next Friday's quarter-final.

Here are the stats:

Firstly, Series 53 Semi-Finalist & CoC XII Contestant Jon O'Neill - 12 Games, 10 Wins, 1,177 Points (Average: 98.08)
Highest Score: 114 vs. Theresa Turrell (7th Game)
Lowest Score: 87 vs. Steve Smith (1st Game)
9's Achieved: 2/8
Total Points/Max/%: 1177/1533 (77%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 772/1057 (73%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 335/356 (94%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 70/120 (58%)

Secondly, Series 6 Champion & CoC III Semi-Finalist Darryl Francis - 17 Games, 15 Wins, 986 Points (Average: 58) (All 9 rounder games, except one 14 and 15 rounder, and I've not included his Masters game)
Highest Score: 86 vs. David Webb (30BC Prelim) and 72 vs. Adam Gilinsky (Semi-Final)
Lowest Score: 24 vs. Allan Saldanha (Supreme Championship Group Semi-Final (that was Saldanha's record-breaking 9 rounder score of 83 in that game))
9's Achieved: 0/1
Total Points/Max/%: 986/1361 (72%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 630/804 (78%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 226/377 (60%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 130/180 (72%)

Join Jack for the recap later.

Well done Jon, some very nice spots in the letters in particular, and I think that's the third highest score of the championship if I remember right, so very well done to you. Unlucky Darryl, I think this arguably may have been your strongest performance in your three games, but Jon just happened to be a little bit better.

Another great game. 92 is a pretty good score considering the (presumably scrabble valid) words Darryl had disallowed.

DAPSONE as an ALT in r2, GIRASOLE as an ALT in r11.

Was that nearly a max game from Jon? Must have been 13 or 14? Good stuff.

Grant Waters wrote:
Was that nearly a max game from Jon? Must have been 13 or 14? Good stuff.

It was 13 maxes (he missed TOILET and OUTBIDS). Very strong performance from both of you, not sure about the shirt though, Jon.

Grant Waters wrote:Another great game. 92 is a pretty good score considering the (presumably scrabble valid) words Darryl had disallowed.
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Good try, Darryl but neither JOTTLE (a bottle of booze) nor PLEUROMA (a lung tumour) is valid in the current Scrabble wordlist, according to zyzzyva.

Jack Worsley wrote:

Grant Waters wrote:
Was that nearly a max game from Jon? Must have been 13 or 14? Good stuff.

It was 13 maxes (he missed TOILET and OUTBIDS). Very strong performance from both of you, not sure about the shirt though, Jon.

Indeed, a super good performance. I was well happy getting my 2nd MAX GAME of the series, even after almost messing up the first numbers..........

OPANCI in round 1.

2nd Numbers Alt.: ((75 - 9) x 5) - 7 = 323

Strong performance Jono. Also good to see Darryl get a 9 after only one nine was available in his previous 17 games.

Conor wrote:Strong performance Jono. Also good to see Darryl get a 9 after only one nine was available in his previous 17 games.

Indeed, it was also his highest ever score too Although, it was Jono's PB too.

Not really surprising that it was Darryl's highest score given that most of his games have been with nine rounds. But yeah, good game from Jono to make the quarters.

Super performance Jon! I stand by my previous statement in your first game!

And well played to Daryl too - was secretly hoping you'd get the conundrum for a double century!

Excellent stuff. 13 maxes? Nice. The 2 you missed I happened to pick up but you still beat me overall. Thumbs up to the shirt.

Great game that. Solid play from both contestants, Jono just that bit stronger overall. 122 is an excellent score.

Thank you guys. Congrats on the max game James. All of my family and friends seem to have got TOILET... maybe I should've worked on spotting everyday words!

TOILET is easy to miss, but you can usually blame it on the dog.

Jon O'Neill wrote:Thank you guys. Congrats on the max game James. All of my family and friends seem to have got TOILET... maybe I should've worked on spotting everyday words!

Well done Jono, try not to beat yourself up too much over missing two common, easy-to-spot words to deny yourself a televised max. NEGRONIS was excellent btw.

Jon Corby wrote:

Jon O'Neill wrote:Thank you guys. Congrats on the max game James. All of my family and friends seem to have got TOILET... maybe I should've worked on spotting everyday words!

Well done Jono, try not to beat yourself up too much over missing two common, easy-to-spot words to deny yourself a televised max. NEGRONIS was excellent btw.

GINNERS^ is a "7 that is never the maximum" as it takes all 5 vowels and only contains 2 vowels itself.

I didn't know that but thanks for the info!

No-one's mentioned the objectively best method for the second numbers yet: 5*7*9 + 6 + 2 = 323

Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 2:09 pm No-one's mentioned the objectively best method for the second numbers yet: 5*7*9 + 6 + 2 = 323

I did it James Robinson's way.

Second Round Game 2 2020 Word Update

The max would have increased by one (from 130 to 131), if played today, as there was a seven available in Round 1, that wasn't available in 2013.

New Words Now Allowed:

R1: APHONIC (increases MAX from 6 to 7)
R2: ADONISE, PANDIES, PANSIED, PEDIONS
R3: AGELAST, ALGATES, GALAXES, LASTAGE, SEXTULA
R6: PIGEONRY
R7: OCTILE
R8: LEPROMA, ROMULEA
R11: GASOLIER, RAGLORES
R13: RUINATES, TARTINES, URANITES