{"id":7647,"date":"2013-10-14T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2015-06-18T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:35:44","slug":"congratulations-to-winner-of-the-2013-peru-tour-scrabble-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2013\/congratulations-to-winner-of-the-2013-peru-tour-scrabble-tournament\/7647\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to winner of the 2013 Peru Tour &#038; Scrabble Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Cree, of Dallas, Texas, was the winner of the 2013 Peru\u00a0Scrabble\u00ae Tour &amp; Tournament.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chris, who is co-president of the North American\u00a0Scrabble Players Association, took the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cross-tables.com\/tourney.php?t=8241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TWL prize<\/a> with 10 wins and 2 losses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7648 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Chris_Cree_winner_of_2013_Peru_Tour__Scrabble_Tournament.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Cree (center), co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association, was the winner of both the TWL and Collins SCRABBLE\u00ae competitions in the 2013 Peru Tour &amp; Tournament.\" width=\"353\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Chris_Cree_winner_of_2013_Peru_Tour__Scrabble_Tournament.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Chris_Cree_winner_of_2013_Peru_Tour__Scrabble_Tournament-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/>Stefan Rau, of Hudson, NY, won 2nd place in Division A with 8 wins and 4 losses.<\/p>\n<p>Chris went on to claim victory in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cross-tables.com\/tourney.php?t=8246&amp;div=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CSW Division A<\/a> competition, as well, with 8 wins and 4 losses. Bob Linn, of Potomac, MD., took 2nd place.<\/p>\n<p>Scrabble\u00ae Tour organizer Rich Baker, of\u00a0Eureka, CA., took 3rd place in the Collins competition with a 6-6 record.<\/p>\n<p>Division B of the TWL was particularly hard fought, with only two wins separating the top and bottom of the group.<\/p>\n<p>The Division B winner was Robert Wayne Scruggs of Stockbridge, GA.<\/p>\n<p>The competitions were interspersed with tours of Lima, Cusco, the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Scrabble Tour &amp; Tournament group at Sacsayhuaman\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scrabble_tour__tournament_group_at_sacsayhuaman1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scrabble_tour__tournament_group_at_sacsayhuaman.jpg\" alt=\"The Scrabble tour group visiting Sacsayhuaman. They pondered the titanic feat of megalithic Inca architecture ahead of the final round of the tournament.\" width=\"490\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scrabble_tour__tournament_group_at_sacsayhuaman.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scrabble_tour__tournament_group_at_sacsayhuaman-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>If you like this post, please remember to share on Facebook, Twitter or Google+<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Cree, of Dallas, Texas, was the winner of the 2013 Peru\u00a0Scrabble\u00ae Tour &amp; Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,28,5,8,27],"tags":[604,605,606],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archaeology_sites","category-cusco","category-events","category-lima","category-machu-picchu","category-news","tag-board-games","tag-niche-travel","tag-speciality-tours","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}