2010 National SCRABBLE Championship

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The 2010 National SCRABBLE® Championship (NSC) will take place on August 7–11, 2010 at the Hotel InterContinental Dallas at 15201 Dallas Parkway in Addison, TX.

This page will be updated frequently before the championship. You can see what has changed recently by clicking on the “history” tab above.

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Registration

Online registration will be available on March 15th, 2010.

To play in the NSC, you must (1) be a NASPA member, and (2) have played in an officially sanctioned SCRABBLE tournament to earn an official tournament rating. If you live in the United States or Canada, that rating should be a NASPA rating; if you live elsewhere it may be a WESPA rating or other comparable national rating.

Registration closes on July 21st, 2010. After that date:

  • registrations will be accepted after that date only in order to make divisions even, and will incur a $75 surcharge
  • no requests for division changes will be accepted, except to make divisions even
  • no refunds will be issued

By registering for the NSC, you agree to abide by the NASPA Tournament Rules and Code of Conduct. In particular, some games at this tournament, probably the highest Division 1 board without a Gibsonized player, will be annotated live. If you refuse to play a designated game with annotation, you will forfeit it, and may at the director’s discretion be assigned a spread penalty of −200 points.

A Minor Release and Consent form can be downloaded for players who have not reached the legal age of majority. It can be mailed with your registration or alone if you have paid online to Chris Cree. Alternatively, it can be signed by the accompanying parent or guardian at the NSC in Addison (Dallas).

Before you register, please read our player bulletin, and check it again for last-minute updates before you travel to the event.

This year’s Championship has five divisions, split at ratings of 1700, 1500, 1300 and 1000. Entry fees are $175 for Division 1 and $150 for Divisions 2–5. Unlimited play up will be permitted: anyone can play in Division 1, but for example only players rated below 1000 can play in Division 5. As in past years, a peak rating system will be used to calculate the qualifying rating (QR) that determines the lowest division in which you can play. If your current rating at time of registration would place you in a lower division than your QR, then you may register in either your QR division or the next lower division. Ratings earned at any segment of a split-rated tournament count toward the QR. The qualification period began immediately after the 2009 NSC and ends on July 14th, 2009 (after the results from the past weekend are tabulated). You may change your division after you register, as long as you do so before July 21st; to do so, contact John Chew. If your QR rises above the limit for your division, you will automatically be moved to the lowest division for which you qualify.

Schedule

Here is an overview of events at the championship. For full details, please consult the 2010 NSC Schedule.

Friday, August 6, 2010
Registration, Staff Early Bird Tournament, Staff Dinner
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Rounds 1–7
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Rounds 8–14, Director Meeting, Advisory Board Meeting
Monday, August 9, 2010
Rounds 15–21, Steering Committee luncheon, Town Hall meeting
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Rounds 22–28
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Rounds 29–31, Prize Ceremony
Friday, August 13 – Monday, August 16, 2010
2010 World Players Championship

Prizes

First place in Division 1 will be $10,000. The formula to be used in determining the rest of the prizes will be posted here later.

Format

The NSC will be paired using tsh along the lines of past events. In each round, the top contenders are paired with each other, and everyone else is paired Swiss. These two groups, contenders and noncontenders, are paired with minimal repeats. For example, if there is no way to pair the contenders without at least one repeat, then they will be paired with one repeat.

The maximum number of contenders is 12 in Rounds 1-28, 8 in Round 29, 4 in Round 30 and 2 in Round 31. The contenders are further divided into a subgroup of leaders and non-leaders, if this can be done without increasing the number of required repeats while maintaining at least four players among the leaders. Leaders are paired by repeatedly having the top unpaired player play the lowest-ranked player that can catch up to them. Non-leaders are paired Swiss.

For further information about this pairing system, please refer to the section on Chew pairings in the tsh documentation. tsh configuration files for each division will be found at this website: Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, Division 4 and Division 5.

Staff

Organizer
Chris Cree
Director
Mary Rhoades
Division leaders
Division 1: John Robertson
Division 2: Bryan Pepper
Division 3: Dallas Johnson
Division 4: Judy Newhouse
Division 5: Dan Stock
Division assistants
Division 1:
Division 2: Lynn Sneed
Division 3:
Division 4:
Division 5: Amy Krafchick
Webmaster
John Chew
Internet reporter
Sherrie Saint John
Annotators
Kate Watson
Dee Segrest

Host city

The Town of Addison is located in the northern suburbs of Dallas, approximately 13 miles from the downtown area. Addison is regional business, shopping, and dining hub; it has several shopping centers, over 150 restaurants and one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country.

See also
(details will be added as they become available)
Links

Tournament venue

Hotel InterContinental Dallas offers both the meeting space and accommodations. The hotel is a member of the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) chain. When booking online, please use this link to obtain our group rate of US$129/night (plus taxes, for single or double accommodation). The rate is available for three days before and after the NSC and WPC, and includes complimentary Internet in guest rooms and playing rooms, and complimentary parking.

Tournament organizers negotiate fees for the use of playing rooms based on meeting guest night quotas. When you stay at the host hotel, you help support the NSC by helping us meet our quota. You may opt not do so by paying a facility fee instead when you register for our championship.

Address
15201 DALLAS PKWY
ADDISON TX  75001-4609
USA
Phone numbers
  • IHG reservations: +1 888 424 6835
  • Hotel front desk: +1 972 386 6000
  • Hotel fax: +1 972 991 6937
Links

Travel

Airports
  • Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW): 20 mi
    • American Airlines (main hub)
    • most major airlines
  • Dallas Love Field (DAL): 11 mi
    • Southwest Airlines (focus city)
    • Continental Express, Northwest Airlink
  • Addison Airport (ADS): 2 mi
    • no scheduled passenger service
Bus
  • The nearest Greyhound terminal is in downtown Dallas (the Greyhound building across the street has corporate offices but no bus terminal).
Links

Vendors

No vendors have registered yet for this event.

Further Information

For more information about the NSC or any other NASPA activity, please click on “Contact us” in the navigation bar at left.

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