Moen Gafoor ruled the roost in the first scrabble tournament of the year winning all six of his games and accumulating a positive spread 527 points to dominate the Phagwah Open hosted by the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Monday at the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas Lands.
Ewart Adams, with four wins and a positive spread of 440, taking the third and fourth places respectively were Leon Deloney, with a positive spread of 395, and Ulric Harris, with a positive spread of 301, both managed to put together four wins from the six round tournament.
Also having four wins were Winslow Jacobs (+244), Orlando Michael (+186) and Colin Chichester (+54).
Gafoor opened his winning streak by first defeating Ruby Cummings by 153 points. Gafoor next disposed of Ulric Harris to gain an additional 50 points, before moving onto a win against Morris Munroe (222) and then Yvonne Murray (17).
Gafoor earned another 63 points from defeating second place winner, Adams and ended with his match against Deloney where he gained his last 22 points.
Adams’ wins came from matches against Rudolph Michael (234), Wakefield Skeete (161), Harris (87) and Orlando Michael (65) respectively. He, however lost to Munroe (44) and Gafoor in the second and fifth rounds respectively.
Meanwhile, the issues surrounding the Association’s incomplete election of office bearers was also discussed at a meeting prior to the tournament, according to committee member Chichester, however not much has changed.
Chichester said that following the discussions persons have now indicated their willingness to contemplate taking up the vacant positions.
As at current the executive body of the association is without a president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer, with the body currently including only the PRO Yvonne Murray, assistant secretary/treasurer Rudolph Michael, organising secretary Orlando Michael and three committee members, two of whom are Julian Skeete and Chichester.
The vacant positions were left open when GASP held its Annual General Meeting which included the election of office bearers on March 6 at the MSC.
According to reports, those nominated for the vacant positions indicated their reluctance to serve, while President of body, Gafoor, has chosen not to seek re-election for the post.
Chichester said that the next tournament is expected to be the Courts Open at which time it is hoped that the positions would be filled.
