ESPN Coverage of World Scrabble Championship
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Hector Gone Novation Zonk Just some of the words on display at the Iskandar Malaysia World Festival of Scrabble in Johore Baru with over 50,000 American dollars prize money. This year's event also featured a world first, according to organizer Michael Tang. So, as part of this Iskan Immolation war festival Scrabble, we brought into 10 world Scrabble champions to play in this tournament what we call the first of his kind the tournament of champions. So in this room you can see that 10 world Scrabble champions playing off over 27 rounds to determine who is the champion of champions. So we have the champions from the United States, from Canada, from Australia, from Thailand and from New Zealand. The winner, nicknamed the Tiger Woods of World Scrabble, was Nigel Richards of New Zealand. We decided to catch up with the new champion and find out more about his way with words training I studied with words must maybe an hour a day studying. You need to learn the words, but the most important thing is to enjoy yourself. A man with a big vocabulary deserves a big check. Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Johore graced the event to present the prizes. The successful festival, the ninth of its kind, furthers Joho Boro's goal to be a world Scrabble capital, and that can only be a triple word score for ages. Dictionary, Dynamos for ESPN, This is Rohan, belly up.