FOUR BAGGER
He did it again. Tyler Hinman steadily maneuvered the final puzzle by Bob Klahn and again took advantage of a competitor's misstep to capture his unprecedented fourth straight American Crossword Puzzle Tournament title.
This year, Tyler's victim was Trip Payne, who finished first, then realized his mistake and watched as Tyler slowly finished the puzzle. Some noted that Trip, with a little more careful checking, would have taken the title.
Howard Barkin, suddenly promoted to A division due to his top-3 finish, wound up in third.
Other major division winners:
B: Anne Erdmann (NOTE: John Beck awarded duplicate "B" prize money due to a scoring error)
C: Dan Feyer
D: Steve Poris
E: Patrick Blindauer
Rookie: Doug Peterson
Senior: Mimi Raphael
70's: Bob Rubin
60's: Doug Hoylman
50's: Ellen Ripstein
Juniors: Tyler Hinman
A complete list of winners and all rankings are now up at the tournament's website.
By the way, Bob finished 23rd, Dave finished 75th (I have an inquiry out to find out why I dropped).
1 comment:
Thank you guys for the great coverage and photos! One minor error in this wrapup: I don't think that Doug Peterson technically won the C division. :)
I love the comment in the C finals live-blog about "strategy". Is there such a thing? My strategy was: Fill in a gimme, use those letters to fill more stuff in, repeat until done...
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