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2013 Articles

Moizullah Baig crowned World Youth Scrabble Champion in Dubai — 136 participants from 17 countries compete in biggest WYSC ever.
Nigel completes hat-trick — Richards wins third world title at theScrabble Champions Tournament.
UK v US on ISC and Dweebovision — Three high calibre players from either side of the pond do battle.
MSI Las Vegas — Las Vegas to host the first US Mind Sports Festival.
Scrabble Champions Tournament announcement — The media release for the event succeeding the World Scrabble Championships.
WESPA View: A new era begins! — WESPA's perspective on the Scrabble Champions Tournament
Scrabble Player's Handbook released — Announcing the release of a major new Scrabble resource.

2012 Articles

Lakshan and Yeshan attempt world record — Sri Lanka pair take on 24 hour challenge.
Pakorn reigns supreme at 6th Godswill Akpabio Scrabble Classics — Report on Nigeria's big event.
MSI Prague 1-4 December — Details on the inaugural 10,000 euros tournament.
Preview - 2012 UK National Championships final — We look forward to the best-of-5 shootout.
Collins debuts at 2012 US Nationals — CSW12 heads west.
A player's perspective: 'CSW is growing within this country' — Dave Koenig writes on the US Nationals.
New WESPA ratings system launched — The world rankings get a revamp.
Records tumble at Northern Ireland Scrabble Championship 2012 — Details of the dramatic event.
Meet 'Mr. 850' Toh Weibin — Find out more about the man behind the new world records.

2011 Articles

Share your WSC experience — The winner of the competition is revealed, plus all of the submitted reports.
WESPA Biennial General Meeting 2011 — Minutes and chairman's report.
Sammy Okosagah wins Godswill Akpabio Classics — Tournament agreed for 2012.
Prizemoney galore on offer — Three more big tournaments coming up in the next few months.
On the podium — Mid-year tournament results.
Sulaiman clinches Gulf double — Veteran Mohammad Sulaiman (UAE) clinches his second Gulf Championships in a row.
Nigel makes it 3 from 4 at Nationals — Richards wins the North American Scrabble Championships.
WESPA wiki-fied — WESPA now has its own wiki in Wikipedia.
Countdown to Warsaw — The latest developments with less than two months to go to the 2011 WSC.
Toronto showdown - humans also welcome — Canada is gearing up for the premier Collins tournament in North America.
Star-watching in North America's 'WESPA-Collins' — Nick Ball reports on Collins stateside.
End of Causeway era — The upcoming Causeway 2011, in Johor Bahru, is to be the last.
SA Scrabble site gets makeover — South African Scrabble has relaunched its website.
Toronto to launch first international open — Canada announces its first international open tournament played to WESPA rules.
Human vs Computer, Mark II — The first took place in 2006. Now a second showdown has been organised.
iPhone app for Zyzzyva — Michael Thelen is overwhelmed at the response to his call for financial help.
Malta double act — "Scintillating spectacle" just under a month away.
An app-ropriate gift — WESPA has donated US$250 to Zyzzyva owner Michael Thelen.
Causeway spreads to four corners — Concept spread across the year to four regional franchises.
WSC goes to the Poles — Extended World Championships moves to eastern Europe.
Lack of the Irish — Northern Irish world No 2 Paul Gallen doesn't get everything his own way.
World flock to Germany — The first ever German Open, held in mid-March, was a truly international affair.
2010 Report to WESPA members — A compilation of reports from the various committees.
WYSC shifts from Mid East — World Youth Scrabble Champs moves back to Malaysia.
Revised word list nearly there — New tome to arrive in a matter of months.
Kindling interest — Scrabble dictionary e-book arrives.
A Pakistani purple patch — Youth triumphs over champions.
Causeway 2011 announcement — Michael Tang's announcement concerning the 2011 event.
Prize pool to end all prize pools — US$180,000 up for grabs at Causeway.

2010 Articles

Causeway top 10 in photos — Photos of the top 10 from the Causeway Challenge 2010 event.
Nigel takes the Champion of Champions — New Zealander Richards triumphs in the star studded field.
A worthy Causeway — Michael Tang's pet project, the Causeway Challenge, just keeps getting bigger.
Collins taking off on TWL turf — CSW tournaments or grades are on the rise in North America.
Nigerians dominate — Wellington Jighere wins the African Championships crown in Accra.
Youth taking over — The 5th World Youth Scrabble Champs, to be held in Manila in December, is bigger than ever.
Dictionary update — New edition of CSW expected in 2011, with 2809 additional entries and 413 deletions.
More thorough but shorter — Rules Committee releases long-awaited version 2 of complete rules, plus a summary of changes.
Who's in the money? — Nearly half the total prizemoney for 2009 went to just two players. Guess who?
Reversal of fortune — Sam Kantimathi bounces back to win the 3rd Israeli Open.
Ratings movements — Edward Okulicz replaces Stewart Holden as head of the WESPA Ratings Committee.
In the studio — Top Scrabblers do rather nicely in Australia's new 'Letters and Numbers' TV quiz show, based on the UK's 'Countdown'
A close-run thing — Nigel Richards wins the Sri Lanka International Open — but only just.
NZ gets one back — The Kiwis finally conquer their Aussie counterparts in the biannual trans-Tasman showdown. Joanne Craig is top finisher.
Zyzzyva jazzed up — Michael Thelen releases a new version of his word-search software, with some cute new features.
Moving On(Words) — The end of an era for the fabulous, long-running UK Scrabble magazine.
Either dictionary — makes no difference — Nigel Richards powers to back-to-back wins in America, pausing briefly to switch word sources.
Like another champion — Book of champion tips by former world champ Joel Wapnick released in North America.
Like a champion — Allan Simmons offers up analysis of his title-winning UK Masters 2007 games, in book form.
The all-Nigel show — Nigel Richards makes no contest of it in Penang, despite the presence of current world champ Pakorn Nemitrmansuk.
Women make their mark — Helen Gipson (UK) and Joanne Craig (NZ) exercise 'girl power' at the European Open.
West Coast wizards — Wise Wiegand wins WCWCWC without wincing at weird wordlist.

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