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The final: Claudia Amaral vrs. Luis Picciochi.

The final will be Claudia Amaral vrs. Luis Picciochi, 3 rounds, the winner should win 2 of 3.


Here a view of the public room:




The new World Champion of Scrabble in Spanish is Luis Picciochi... CONGRATULATIONS!

And congratulations Claudia! Great Tourney!

Final Classification:






Group pics:

Scrabble in Spanish World Championship. Final Day.

Yesterday night most of us were at the karaoke ;D

Partida 16



Round 17



Round 18



The Spanish Team classification:

Position Name Won Games

3 Ayala 13,5
5 Topo 12
9 Manchado 11,5
11 Patxi 11
14 Montse 11
21 Carlos 10
23 Antonio 10
25 Alvaro 10
47 Ivette 9
58 Santi 8
71 Esther 7

Congratulations to all of us! ;P

Final Classification:

Duplicates World Championship 2009. Final Day.

Final classification:



CONGRATULATIONS PATXI!!!!

Scrabble in Spanish World Championship. Third Day.

Round 11



Round 12



Round 13



15 Round


Classfication list till Rond 15:

Duplicates World Championship 2009. Second Day.

Here the second day classification list:

Scrabble in Spanish World Championship. Second Day

7th. Round


8th. Round



9th. Round






Round 10

6 people of the Spanish team playing against each other!



Here the classification list till Round 10:

PLACE/PLAYER Country Points Average Ranking
1º AMARAL, Claudia Argentina 9 2,9º 90,0%
2º GONZALEZ, Diego Argentina 8,5 6,0º 85,0%
3º PICCIOCHI, Luis Argentina 8 5,2º 80,0%
4º AYALA, Juan Carlos España 8 15,7º 80,0%
5º OLAIZOLA, Benjamín Venezuela 7 6,3º 70,0%
6º PEREZ, Airán Venezuela 7 12,7º 70,0%
7º SANCHEZ, Montse España 7 15,1º 70,0%
8º MOAVRO, Horacio Argentina 7 18,4º 70,0%
9º GONZALEZ, Graciela Argentina 7 22,2º 70,0%
10º OLMOS, Hector Argentina 7 23,9º 70,0%
11º MILLAN, Eufrasio España 7 24,7º 70,0%
12º NAVARRO, Patxi España 7 26,0º 70,0%
13º LAGUZZI, Rocco Argentina 7 26,4º 70,0%
14º MANCHADO, Joan Ramon España 6,5 9,2º 65,0%
15º GONZALEZ, Carlos Venezuela 6 20,3º 60,0%
16º OLAIZOLA, Carlos Venezuela 6 20,9º 60,0%
17º MARTINEZ, Carlos Venezuela 6 22,3º 60,0%
18º NOGUER, Álvaro España 6 22,7º 60,0%
19º GEICHER, Adriana Uruguay 6 22,8º 60,0%
20º PEROZO, Diana Argentina 6 23,5º 60,0%
21º PUENTE, Carlos España 6 26,1º 60,0%
22º CONSTANTIN, Aglaía Colombia 6 26,5º 60,0%
23º KLIE, Héctor Estados Unidos 6 26,7º 60,0%
24º LUGO, Valeska Venezuela 6 31,5º 60,0%
25º MERDINGER, Victoria Argentina 6 31,9º 60,0%
26º MORRIS, Enma México 6 32,7º 60,0%
27º WINIARSKI, Sabrina Uruguay 6 33,9º 60,0%
28º ALVAREZ, Antonio España 6 34,6º 60,0%
29º URDANETA, Johnny Venezuela 6 37,7º 60,0%
30º VALLECILLO, Carmen Argentina 6 45,2º 60,0%
31º CARRIZO, Kelo Argentina 6 53,7º 60,0%
32º GARCIA, Cristian Chile 5 19,2º 50,0%
33º GUZMAN, Héctor México 5 20,8º 50,0%
34º TERENZANI, Alejandro Venezuela 5 21,0º 50,0%
35º OSPINA, Daniel Colombia 5 23,1º 50,0%
36º GARCIA, Carlos Venezuela 5 29,2º 50,0%
37º ESPINOSA, Carlos México 5 33,2º 50,0%
38º HARRISON, Sylvia Colombia 5 33,5º 50,0%
39º FERNANDEZ, Damian Venezuela 5 35,5º 50,0%
40º GUERRERO, Francisco Javier México 5 37,3º 50,0%
41º DELGADO, Selene Uruguay 5 37,8º 50,0%
42º MÜLLER, Marta Virginia Costa Rica 5 40,0º 50,0%
43º PEROZO, Jairo Venezuela 5 40,5º 50,0%
44º RUIZ JUVERA, Jorge México 5 41,0º 50,0%
45º PARRA, José Venezuela 5 41,2º 50,0%
46º ACEVEDO, Luis Argentina 5 43,8º 50,0%
47º OCIO, Gonzalo Uruguay 5 48,7º 50,0%
48º TRAJKOVIC, Aurora Estados Unidos 5 55,4º 50,0%
49º GONZALEZ, Ivette España 5 58,9º 50,0%
50º CARDILLO, Analia Argentina 5 62,6º 50,0%
51º EMIG, Serge Francia 4 35,8º 40,0%
52º RIBAS, Rogelio Argentina 4 40,6º 40,0%
53º LATTUF, Javier Venezuela 4 41,4º 40,0%
54º CARRILLO, Raúl Venezuela 4 41,4º 40,0%
55º SALAZAR, Octavio México 4 42,4º 40,0%
56º GARZA, Norma México 4 43,0º 40,0%
57º ROJAS, Daniel Venezuela 4 44,2º 40,0%
58º MAYNARD, Francis Costa Rica 4 47,7º 40,0%
59º MORA, Alberto Colombia 4 47,9º 40,0%
60º PESCE, Andrea Uruguay 4 49,5º 40,0%
61º RODRIGUEZ, José Luis Venezuela 4 52,7º 40,0%
62º ABADI, Irene Uruguay 4 59,1º 40,0%
63º CAVERO, Miguel Perú 4 60,0º 40,0%
64º RODRIGUEZ, Esther España 4 61,6º 40,0%
65º BIELBA, Lorena Costa Rica 4 65,9º 33,3%
66º GAMOU, Franklin Uruguay 4 67,3º 40,0%
67º MOSCOSO, Alfonso Perú 4 71,8º 40,0%
68º CHACON, Constanza Colombia 4 73,1º 40,0%
69º GONZALEZ, Alejandro México 3,5 47,2º 35,0%
70º GIL, María Victoria Chile 3,5 71,5º 38,9%
71º GARCIA, Carolina Uruguay 3 60,5º 30,0%
72º ROSALES, Santiago España 3 62,1º 30,0%
73º GARCIA, Virginia México 3 65,2º 30,0%
74º BOBADILLA, Jorge Colombia 3 69,5º 30,0%
75º FRITZ, Valerie Colombia 3 70,2º 30,0%
76º GIANELLA, Patricia Perú 3 72,6º 30,0%
77º SANHUEZA, Víctor Chile 3 73,1º 30,0%
78º TEJEIRA, Dulce Estados Unidos 3 77,1º 30,0%
79º WHEATON, Merry Estados Unidos 3 78,7º 30,0%
80º MONDRUS, Ana Costa Rica 2 75,3º 20,0%
81º BOBADILLA, Luz Estados Unidos 1 80,9º 10,0%
82º GALINDO, Hilda Colombia 1 81,3º 10,0%

Duplicates World Championship 2009. First Day.

Here the first day classification list:

Scrabble in Spanish World Championship. First Day.

The Venezuelan team has done something so original: they play part of Rocky team to announce the round will start, so, nobody has to be jelling out. :D

My first round with Héctor Klíe:



Second Round





Third Round





4th. Round



5th. Round

Scrabble World Championship: Extra Tourney and Nations Cup

Today 2 Tourneys of the World Championship had been played: the Extra Tourney and the Nations Cup.

The Extra Tourney is an open tourney that gives 5 entrances to play the World Championship. Congratulations to the winners!

The Nations Cup is a team’s mode (by countries). This time we have 8 teams playing. In each round play 3 players by team. Each team has 5 players (2 supplies). For Spain are playing: Antonio Alvarez as captain, Patxi Navarro, Montse Sánchez, Eufrasio Millán and Carlos Puente.





The winner was Argentina… Congratulations Argentina!!

Inauguration of the Scrabble in Spanish World Championship 2009

On November 2 took place the inauguration of the Scrabble in Spanish World Championship 2009. Definitely the Venezuelan team is giving all with their heart and soul for the organization of this event. Starting with the location: Isla Margarita, continuing with the Hotel: Hotel Dunes, the attention gave to each participant since several months before the event, giving us a lot of clear information about how to come, touristic activities… and the inauguration… really great one!!!

The presentation has been done by Karere and Alejandro Terenzani, a very pleasant one. They also done a Power Point presentation quite professional but funny at the same time, with the schedule, sponsors and players.

About the delegations presentation, what was normal till now, was to say the name of the country and the players stood up with the public cheering... but this year the Venezuelan team did a presentation with each player containing our name, picture, in how many World Championships we had been and annotations with relevant participation in relevant tourneys. In this space they also placed some jokes, for example, at the presentation of Diego González from Argentina and Emma Morris from México, the also placed that they had been elected as Mister and Miss Margarita 2009!!! :D btw: no body complained! Hehehe, I think most of us were agree with the election! ;P They also placed at the presentation of Virginia from México “she placed a Scrabble once” hehehehe this lady has a great sense of humor, if you go to her side in a World Championship, be sure you´ll hear at least one of her jokes! And you´ll like to hear more for sure! :D They also added China as participant… with Jacky Chang and… “Komo Ding” (Comodín = joker). At the French team they also included Zidane… hehehe! We all would like him to be there!!! Hahahaha.

Here the video when the Spanish team was presented:

Aquí una cuando presentaron a la delegación española.

At the end we had a cake and coffee with the legend with Scrabble letters, just that I wasn´t on time to read it!
Congratulations to the Venezuelan team! You are doing it so great! It will be so difficult for the future hosts to beat this incredible work!

Margarita Island! Here we are!

This year the Scrabble in Spanish World Championship (SWCh) will be in Margarita Island, Venezuela. As usual, around the SWCh are taking place other tourneys, that far the activities here had started today, November 1st. 2009.

In my case, I´ll participate just in 2 tourneys, the SWCh and the Duplicated mode as well. Both of them will take place from Nov. 4th. to 7th. but I decided to come earlier to enjoy the Island itself a bit.

Coming here was an exhausted journey and you should take into account that I already have the custom to have long journeys for going to Guatemala from Madrid, but today it was exhausted.

We took an offer with Santa Barbara airline (Curro is traveling with me for the first time to a SWCh). We had the good luck to find Carlos Puente at the airport in Madrid, by coincidence he was in the same flight as us, but as far as we haven´t preview that, we had separated sits, so no chance to play.

The flight was in general ok, not a great plane, not a great food, but well, I´d traveled in American Airlines just few days ago and it wasn´t exactly much better, so… Maybe the only one point to remark is about people travelling with big bags as hand luggage, it was terrible for the crew to make them fit but actually the worst part was when we were almost landing, this people pretended to have their bags with them “to go out faster of the plane”… :( First they tried to place them at the aisle, then at the place you should put your foot (and they didn´t fit there). I started to be nervous because it was obvious it was dangerous for all of us in case of whatever that could happen while landing. Thanks of God the crew checked it (as usual) and they made them to put all again in the places they were, but they did it trying not to (as a kid when you make them to do something they don´t want) and the crew said we won´t do the landing till they place everything at their place. Finally they kept all!

I liked a lot the view while landing. Very different from other airports I know. The airport was ok, not so nice but not ugly… ok. :) The bags came slowly, but actually it was the normal speed of everything at the airport (I even though several times about that add where they say “you are stressing me!” like in the Malibu add) ;P but the really worst part was to cross the customs… a biggggg line wolking so slow where they were checking with scanners.



We had to go to the national departures part of the airport, a new part so it´s nice, walking for going there we met Juan Carlos Ayala, Serge and Florence, but we all had different flights to Margarita. Being there we had to go out of the airport, to go to our different airlines to do the check in, to pay taxes and to go inside again. Our flight to Margarita was programmed to be 5 hours after our landing from Madrid in Maiquetia and I thought it would be so long waiting… but with all what I mentioned and the slow speed of everything, it was actually the perfect time (thank you Raúl!) :) Btw and just for mention it, was impressive to hear someone of the airport staff to offer us to exchange us money (that supposed to be illegal…).

I was really willing to finally be in Venezuela to try the arepas… so we did at the airport… but the ones I tried in Madrid were much better! :/ and even less expensive! :(

Some of us even had time to play a bit at the airport, just I´m afraid all the pics and videos should wait to appear here, as far as I forgot the cable and I need to see if I found one here! :/ (or another way to read the card!).

To take our flight to Margarita was a bit chaotic. At the desk they told us about a gate, that gate number was at the card. When we went to that gate, the name of the destination at the screen was different. We went to check out at the tvs, but our flight didn´t even appear. There wasn´t an information desk, so we should search at the gates people of the airline… but finally the flight was announced in a different gate before we found out staff of the airline. Ok, we went to the new gate and wait… and wait… and wait… it was already half of hour after the departure time and no one of the airline there neither any information at all. Suddenly they said at the speakers the flight´s gate will be again the first one they gave us… ok, we all going back to that gate… where we wait, and wait and wait with no information at all till finally, an hour later, they called us.

In Porlamar airport everything was ok. Not too much waiting for the bags, no lines, people of the shuttle were there waiting us, everybody so kind (but that was since we touched Venezuelan floor). The problem was when we were at the hotel… they didn´t have my reserve!!! :((( But Yuly, the person from the Venezuelan Scrabble Association in charge of our reception fixed it in less than 3 minutes! :)))

So, here finally we are! At the Hotel Dunes in Margarita Island! Waiting for a week full of emotions! I´ll try to actualize my blog at least once per day and during the Championship, but that part maybe I´ll do just in Spanish.