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S C R A B B L E I N T H E N E W SMaine Event coverageThe Maine Event SCRABBLE® Tournament got a nice write-up in the Portland Press Herald/Maine SunTelegram: http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=281582&ac=PHnwsOklahoma Tourney in the newsA short piece in the October 7 Oklahoma Gazette featured the SoonerSCRABBLE® SCRABBLE®Tournament in Oklahoma City Tournament and Oklahoma City Club #631: http://www.okgazette.com/p/12776/a/4780/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=LwBEAGUAZgBhAHUAbAB0AC4AYQBzAHAAeAAslashAHAAPQAxADIANwAyADkA. (Pleanote that Matthew Hodge was misquoted “a lot” in the article.)A very large game of SCRABBLE®Primary and Intermediate school students flocked to Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium November 2nd towitness New Zealand’s largest game of SCRABBLE®: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00006.h28
Player Profile: HeatherSteffy and Michael Bassettby Katya LezinLook aroundthe room atanySCRABBLE®tournament,and you’relikely to spot afew couples.Heather Steffyand MichaelBassett areone such couple, but unlike so many of theother SCRABBLE® sweethearts, they did notmeet at a tournament or at a club or online.Well, that’s not actually true. They did meetonline, but it was not through an onlineSCRABBLE® game. SCRABBLE® does get alot of the credit, though, for their relationship.Heather, who was living in Ann Arbor, Michiganat the time, decided to give online dating a try.Wanting to make clear that she enjoyed thegame of SCRABBLE® but wasn’t particularlygood at it, she included in her Match.comprofile, “I’m trying to learn my 2-letter words tobe better at SCRABBLE®.” Michael, who lived2 hours away in Port Clinton, OH, respondedwithin six hours. “I’m not any good either,” heassured her. They agreed to meet. For theirthird date, they went to a bubble tea café andplayed their first SCRABBLE® game. Heatherwon.P L A Y E R P R O F I L Eweekend, however, Michael decided they wereup to the challenge. “Let’s do this,” he said,and Heather agreed. They treated it liketraining for a marathon, playing 7 games in oneday to see if they could handle it.Their first tournament was a 7-gametournament in Battle Creek, Michigan inSeptember 2007. They each won two games.Since then, they’ve often had to face eachother across a SCRABBLE® board at atournament. Heather usually prevails in casualgames, but Michael is usually the victor intournament games. “Michael is mySCRABBLE® Daddy,” Heather notes,chuckling. She has lost more rating points tohim than anyone else, but she is actually ratedhigher.Asked if SCRABBLE® ever causes any frictionin their relationship, they both insist it actuallybrings them closer together. “WithSCRABBLE® to discuss,” Heather says, “wenever run out of things to talk about.” Michaeladds that they haven’t gone to the moviestogether in a very long time because “we’drather play SCRABBLE® or talk about it or dostems or check out words on our Franklins.”Heather’s best SCRABBLE® moment is herfirst triple triple, a Hail Mary that waschallenged and stayed on the board:DUETTING with 2 T’s for 158 points. Michael’sfavorite SCRABBLE® moment is when he wonthe door prize at the Albany, NY New Year’stournament last year. The prize? A free hotelstay for this year’s tournament.As their relationship developed, so did theirSCRABBLE playing skills. They played gamesin coffee shops just so they’d get out of theirrespective apartments, which has its perkssince they are both now relatively immune tonoise levels around them. Heather, who hadread Word Freak, gave a copy to Michael.They both agreed that the world of competitiveSCRABBLE®, which they had not even knownexisted, was too daunting and scary. OneAnd just in case you see Heather and Michaelat the Albany New Year’s tournament, or anyother tournaments where they happen to bestrolling together hand in hand, try to refrainfrom asking the inevitable question, “So whenare you two getting married?” Michael wouldlike it duly noted that it’s not that he hasn’tbroached the subject. Heather, a speechlanguage pathologist who works with kids, isstill trying to figure out her career. She has 29
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