feel like you waste time on crappy words if you try to exhaust the board, altho that prob applies more to those with slow fingers like me

On my mobile so if somebody could add these finals..

SirRawrsAlot - 2676 <-----
ascohen11180 - 2585

SirRawrsALot - 2816
Bacon Sashimi - 3482 <-----

Alright I see. I don't know this for a fact but it seems like the boards are randomly generated with letters that are more common in English, ETNORIAS, appearing more often. There might be some rules on minimum numbers of consonants/vowels and maximum numbers of certain letters (I've never seen two Zs) but I think it's still pretty much random. A board with 0-1 vowels wouldn't be much fun to play.

Common words and letters come up often because they are common by definition. Finding them isn't that hard but to be competitive you have to get them quick and then identify the trickier and lesser known words as you said.

I guess e and d are really common in words in general but e and d show up next to each other so much. Could be my imagination though.

these three games have yet to be recorded on the spreadsheet.

deucedeuces 3034
Monkey!Knife!Fight! 2600

cnew27 2671
deucedeuces 2357

deucedeuces 2498
ascohen11180 2395

maybe someone could give a quick summary of how to update the spreadsheet so i could record future games myself.

This would make sense since you're actively looking for when e and d are next to each other since they make so many words. I just don't see why the developers would go to the trouble to rig the letters so they'd be next to each other especially often - it happens enough on its own and rigging adds unnecessary complexity. Kinda like how poker sites don't have to rig high pair over high pair preflop or flush draws getting there, it happens enough already. I could be wrong though.

I wouldn't be surprised if they just pick 16 letters from the set of letters in a game of Words With Friends, which would explain why you never see more than one X/J/Q/Z. It'd be pretty difficult to pick 16 letters randomly without getting at least one E and a neighboring R/T/S/D I think.

It does feel like I play TEA/EAT/ATE/ETA/TAE just about every game though...

TY for posting all your scores, I'll add them to the spreadsheet in a bit.

For future reference if you want to add them yourself, go to the 'Round Robin Results' page and locate the row with your name. Then find the cell that intersects with the column with your opponent's name and put your score in there. Do the same for your opponent's score, but that goes in his row and your column. An optional step that helps for readability but isn't necessary for the scorekeeping is bolding the winning score.

So if Player A beats Player B 2500-2000, the matrix would look like this:

	Player A	Player B
Player A		2500
Player B	2000

You can also just keep posting scores in here or PM me and I'll see that they get added to the spreadsheet.

yeah I didn't bold any, if anyone wants to clean that up that's fine, was way more concerned with getting my games up before they exit my history

Another final if nobody minds updating the document

sangaman 2489 <-----
SirRawrsALot 2239

Surprised how well I'm hanging in here. Judging by the screenshots I figured I'd get raped. Then again, the shots could have been taken as the best of the best type things.

were you guys just fast straight away (100+ words) or did it take time?

Took me awhile.

Well at first I thought you had to hit the check in the top right each time to submit a word...
Then I learned that you didn't have to individually click each tile, you could just drag your finger... literally took me 15-20 games to figure that out.
Then you learn the patterns that repeat and over time you learn new common words:

RET,RETS,RETE,SERA,RAS,RASE,TAO,TAOS,etc...

I'm sitting right about where I thought I would so far, I'm most games with the 2nd tier good people... Getting lessons from top half and beating those i expected .. Just hopin to pull off an upset in actual tourney

took me a ton of time to crack the 100+ word barrier, and i still probably only do it 10-15% of the time. then again i think i play a different style than just about anyone here

I've had some people just start games with me, I assume everyone is not counting games as for the tourney unless indicated in the chat

I'm assuming if they are in RR and you don't play them regularly that it's a tourney game... I'm really not playing anythin non tourney related aside from friends that I use as practice before I play our games..

You could also ask them in chat

Scores so far:

Monkey!Knife!Fight! : 1959
BigRock294: 2074

Monkey!Knife!Fight!: 2260
Sickre87: 2244

Monkey!Knife!Fight!: 2600
DeuceDeuces: 3034

Monkey!Knife!Fight!: 2521
thechronick: 2973

Monkey!Knife!Fight!: 2166
Dubness 1: 2536

Monkey!Knife!Fight!: 2276
TBann: 2199

Monkey!Knife!Fight!: 2087
sangaman: 2567

yeah i started a game with bacon sashimi without the intent of it being for the tournament, then i actually beat him

Perfect timing!

If someone starts a game with you and you're not sure if it's for the tourney, I'd ask in the chat if it's for the tournament before you proceed.

Speaking of which, burdzthewurd/monkeyknifefight I don't think our game you posted counts for the tournament. I think we had that one going for a few days. Start another with me or I will later tonight.

I'll make sure all the scores posted in this thread are in the spreadsheet.

Sick beat of defeating bacon sashimi and not having it count.

BigRock294 3217 <------
SirRawrsALot 3151

GG Rock, thought my 3rd round would be enough. Guess not.

yeah he even asked 'is this for the tournament'? and i said 'it can if you want it to be' since i've prob played 30 games against bacon without beating him once. so tilting.

The guys who weren't in the last tournament seem to forget to indicate a that the match is a tourney match in chat. So if they challenge you and you rarely play them it should just count as a tourney match. Just say it in chat even if they've already completed Round 1.

JamesonPainter - 2431 <-------
SirRawrsALot - 2413

I hate my life right now.

Can't open the document but I'm free right now if anybody is looking for a tourney match.

I figured I was helping you out by saying not to count it as the tournament, since you had already played your first round, and I thought maybe you wouldn't have taken it as seriously.

And it's not the first time you beat me, because you beat me in the round robin phase of the first tournament (in similar fashion as I recall, coming from behind with a great round 3).

Look at the bright side -- at least it didn't happen in the knockout round.

lol just broke 100 words yesterday and did it like 3x today, nothing like competition to push yourself