Undercover Scrabble GM DESTROYS everyone!

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Josh Sokol, this year's Scrabble Players Champion and my good friend, runs and streams a weekly online Scrabble tournament on woogles.io every Monday night. I've never played it before, and still haven't. Or, so everyone thought until now...
Last night, I played under an anoynmous account that I've used a few times before but nobody would've ever suspected was me. As "Fabio" continued to take down other experts and climb up the leaderboard, the identity of this mysterious genius was a hot topic in Josh's stream chat. A GM named Mack Meller even joined the chat at some point after the tournament to admire how well Fabio played. Little did everyone know...

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@youtubecomments2740 8 ай бұрын

From 15:55 to 18:40, a play of "Cringe" was available. While tactically it would be a bad play, the morale blow to your opponent would grant you a decisive edge.

@axcertypo 8 ай бұрын

The timing of this video is interesting, as I was moments away from suspending Fabio from rated games on Woogles due to his suspicious accuracy ;)

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Plot twist: what if I'm not actually Fabio and whoever really is Fabio hired me to edit this video and perfectly synchronize it so it looked like I was actually playing as Fabio

@cukka99 8 ай бұрын

If you say so, Signor Caruana @@mackmeller

@domino14 8 ай бұрын

I was about to ban Fabio lol. Josh pointed me at him and I ran our scripts on him, and was like yup, instaban, this guy plays as well as Mack but I have no idea who he is.

@whitesoxMLB 8 ай бұрын

@@domino14 I'd just go ahead and ban him anyway. Just looking at these games, it's pretty clear that Mack has learned from BestBot how to rig his draws.

@Goryus 8 ай бұрын

Doesn't knowing that it was Mack make you want to ban him even more?

@king812345678 8 ай бұрын

once pyrexias came down i thought to myself "sheesh i'd ban this guy too"

@johnwilder4789 8 ай бұрын

Consistently impressed with the creativity of this channel, and coming up with so many different types of Scrabble content. This was awesome. Also, yes you drew like a fiend, but you played beautifully - the bingo bango with SLAPJACK / PROMULGE was crazy. I did see the unplayable 7 of KALPAcS, which I can never remember if it starts with the C or K due to all the alternate spellings.

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much John, really appreciate it! KALPAC KALPAK CALPAC CALPACK CALPAK* KALPACK* Another set where there's seemingly no rhyme or reason haha

@hankhees8622 8 ай бұрын

This is good since it means Mack might have used up all his good tile draws before the woogles game he plays me during my lesson with him tomorrow :-)

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Haha we'll see... you did beat me last week, Hank, so I'll be coming for you!

@paulthompson7952 8 ай бұрын

Well played Fabio! Now I have to watch Josh's video to see what he made of this unknown formidable opponent. :)

@axcertypo 8 ай бұрын

www.twitch.tv/axcertypo/v/2021166756?sr=a&t=1370s this is the only game I remember playing against Fabio. Was a few days prior. Here's my reaction to Fabio winning the tourney. www.twitch.tv/axcertypo/v/2026953180?sr=a&t=5717s

@makromath 4 ай бұрын

11:45 You had "m(EN)OPAuSE" through the EN for 80. I am not sure if it is viable in the NWL dictionary since I mainly play Collins, but very good deck.

@SuperN57 17 күн бұрын

Isn't that a common word?

@harrisoncaldwell4541 8 ай бұрын

Love these kind of videos. Shows a lot of potential in scrabble content. Keep it up. Scrabble will grow a lot. It will make it into the public eye. Streamers will be playing this over chess in the future.

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, really appreciate your support and optimism! I certainly hope you're correct!

@aromeran 8 ай бұрын

Undercover GM plays not so undercover IM

@redreoicy6698 8 ай бұрын

Haha an Eric appearance

@sgrey9181 8 ай бұрын

We love Eric here 😂

@samakafrisco1759 8 ай бұрын

I have popped into the Mondaily tourneys a little bit as of late, NWL... very happy that I opted out this week, I would have been TROUNCED

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Haha, well at least you know Fabio won't be back now since his identity is spoiled!

@samakafrisco1759 8 ай бұрын

Who's to say you won't come back under a new alias? Who's to say I won't be trounced by Avery or Patrice, or God forbid... NATASHA?

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

@@samakafrisco1759 Can't make any promises there, though it'll be hard for any of my future aliases to be as absurdly lucky as Fabio was last night...

@chris18thseymour 8 ай бұрын

Best of 100 blitz match vs BestBot but you play as Fabio

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Thankfully Cesar did not ban Fabio (despite coming dangerously close -- see Josh's comment above) so this is potentially doable!

@JaretDawson 8 ай бұрын

This is hilarious, love the idea

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Might have to do it again with a new alias now that everyone knows who Fabio is haha

@-Mopo- 8 ай бұрын

@@mackmeller I think you are incapable of playing badly enough to not doxx yourself. But I would like to see you try.

@DadgeCity 8 ай бұрын

Nice to see you playing fast!

@flirora 8 ай бұрын

TFW you didn’t get a chance to appear in this video because you play with CSW.

@gana7206 3 ай бұрын

I saw Eric Rosen in person in Las Vegas at a chess tournament once

@9tydegreez 8 ай бұрын

I was one of the several people who suggested a countries-of-the-world sequel to the "smallest scrabble word containing all the letters in each US state" video, and just wanted to mention since I caught this video early that I got curious and spent an entire afternoon using the official Merriam-Webster Scrabble dictionary site and putting every country + up to 2 blanks in there and getting the words for around 2/3 of the countries. I have them listed in a document as well and can probably send them to you somehow if you'd like them. I do also have a question though, what did you use for the original video to get your words that allowed you to use more than 2 blanks?

@mackmeller 8 ай бұрын

That's awesome, yes please do send it to me! Might be a little while but I certainly hope to get to that video soon. I just used Zyzzyva (the word study) tool for the first video, it lets you put in any number of blanks (or an unspecified number)

@9tydegreez 8 ай бұрын

@@mackmeller Just sent it to you. I'll be sure to check out Zyzzyva even if just for this purpose!

@SG2048-meta 8 ай бұрын

⁠@@mackmellerwhen you get to Bosnia and Herzegovina, do them separately. Herzegovina doesn’t seem like it would make any words, but spoiler alert: It makes the 15 letter word of overemphasizing….