Thank you for the overwhelming response that we received to our call for entries to our Words With Friends Tournament, which starts Tuesday, June 1. We’ve got a great field of competitors, and that’s thanks to the huge number of you who applied. The youngest applicant was 12, the oldest was 71. And the InterWeb made it possible for people from as far away as the U.K. to ask to be part of our fun. In all, there were more than 400 hopefuls. For about 40 open slots in the tournament field.
That means, no matter how we decided who was in and who was out, 90 percent of you were going to be disappointed. Perhaps next time we do a Words With Friends cover story, we’ll create affiliations with small neighborhood tournaments and grant automatic berths to the winners of those. As it is, our tournament selection committee met late into the night to determine who would receive invitations.
If you hear from us sometime today, you’ll know that you’re in. If you hear nothing from us, you’re not. Regardless, you’ll be able to follow along every step of the action next week, through our tournament page (the full bracket will be posted there), and frequent updates on FrontBurner.
