It's been a busy night - Sherrie Saint John is sitting across from me
typing up a lengthier report.  I'll just say now that the tournament
room is looking almost ready for the start of tomorrow's play, that it
was a thrill to be in a room with a hundred Scrabble players from
around the world, and that I can't believe how hard everyone is working
at this.

Late changes to the roster: Amnuay "King of Thai Scrabble" Ploysangngam
failed to qualify, and has been replaced by Gerry "Don't call me
Gerald" Carter (THA); Salah Fadl Mohamed Salih replaces Gonzalez (SAU);
and Ifeanyi "Iffy" Onyeonnu replaces Olaleru (NGA).  James Flomo (LIB)
is still missing; if he arrives in the next six hours, he and Jim
Kramer will get to play.

Sherrie has been busy with her digital camera (a Casio QV-10A), some
early results of it can be found at the web site.  Many more to come,
still awaiting format conversion.

John
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John Chew (poslfit on MD/WD/PD)
WSC97 Word Judge and Internet Reporter
jjchew@math.utoronto.ca * http://www.math.utoronto.ca/~jjchew