Any person who has only played their immediate family really has no idea how good they are at scrabble until they go out into the wide world and meet other players.
I've recently moved to Cheyenne, and since there was no scrabble club at the library (they've got a chess clb, funnily enough, but no scrabble) I started one. Only 3 people, besides myself, showed up to the first meeting, but I think, and hope, it went well.
2 of the people were beginners and I had them play together, and I played a guy who destroyed me by 200 points, 300-something to 100-something.
I'm not sure - after just one game - if he is a level higher than I am, or what. I kept pulling lousy tiles... I pulled the J, but other than that was gettings Is, Os and Us, and a lot of them. Whereas he had the Q, the Z and the X - and scored really well on the X in an excellent play, so much so that I wished I'd thought to bring my camera along to record such brilliances. The tiles were aligned just right for him to spell axed twice at the same time, so it was a whole aquare of 4 tiles. He made a lot of points on that!
Anyway, supposedly - from what I've read of other scrabble clubs - members often show up for one meeting and then never come again. I'm reasonably sure that my opponent and one of the two beginners will come again, and hopefully the second beginner will also. We will see.
But I want a rematch! A match of 2 out of 3 is really the only way to judge someone's scrabble abilities. So my competitive juices are fired up!
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