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22:59, 12 July 2009 The '''Causeway SCRABBLE Challenge''' is an annual international team event organized by Michael Tang of Singapore.
Ten five-player teams play a team round robin schedule over 45 rounds, where each player plays each player from an
opposing team once.
The 2009 Challenge is being held in the same location as the [[2009 World SCRABBLE Championship]] in the week following
that event, to make it as easy as possible for international players to play in both events.
[[NASPA]] is overseeing
the qualification system for the U.S. and Canadian Challenge teams.
Players will be chosen according to their qualification rank for their
respective WSC teams. If there are any players who want to play in the
Challenge but did not register for the WSC, they will be ranked below
all WSCQS registrants and in order of NASPA rating on 2009-08-01.
If at least five players register for their team
by 2009-08-01, the top five will constitute the team, with any additional
players being designated alternates.
If neither team registers five players
by 2009-08-01, but there are at least five players registered from Canada
and the United States, then we will apply to the organizer to have a
five-player North American team. When choosing from among more than five
players, positions will be assigned in alternation beginning with the
larger WSC team. So the U.S. will send the 1st, 3rd and 5th members,
and 2nd alternate, if up to four Americans register; and Canada will send
the 2nd and 4th members and 1st and 3rd alternates. (If the U.S. only sends
one or two players, then Canada may send four or three respectively.)
If it becomes necessary to rearrange teams after 2009-08-01 because of
cancellations or late registrants, priority will be given to players who
registered before the deadline, and among late registrants to those
who registered earlier than others.
Here are the registration statuses of all candidates. Please email
corrections and updates to [[John Chew]].
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!colspan=2|Team U.S.A.
!colspan=2|Team Canada
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|Dave Wiegand
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|Tony Leah
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|Jason Katz-Brown
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|Joel Wapnick
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|Sam Kantimathi
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|David Boys
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|John O'Laughlin
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|Max Panitch
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|Nathan Benedict
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|Dielle Saldanha
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|Jason Idalski
|rowspan=4|?
|rowspan=4|(order not yet determined)<br>Andrew Golding<br>Dean Saldanha<br>Mark Schellenberg<br>Ron Hoekstra
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|Geoff Thevenot
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|Jim Kramer
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|Marty Gabriel
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|John Luebkemann
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|Sam Rosin
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|Nick Ball
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|Robert Linn
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|Mark Kenas
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|Amit Chakrabarti
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|Brian Bowman
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|Puneet Sharma
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|Steve Polatnick
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|Stuart Goldman
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