World Scrabble Championship 2005

World Scrabble Championship 2005

The World Scrabble Championship 2005 was held in the [http://marriott.com/property/propertypage.mi?marshaCode=LONRP Marriott Regent's Park Hotel] , London, England between 16 November and 20 November. As in previous years, the tournament began with a 24-round Swiss tournament over three days. The top two players from this phase contested a best-of-five final.

Results

The preliminary stage involved 102 players over 24 rounds, using the "Chew Pairing" system to select the draw for each round.

The winner was Adam Logan of Canada, who beat Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand 3-0 in the final. Notably, Nemitrmansuk was also the runner-up finalist at WSC 2003.

Adam won the first game 524-409. Pakorn bingoed , GRINDER and VALETiNG while Adam could only manage one (STATURE) until he ended the game with a rare triple-triple TWISTIeR, which clinched it for him as Pakorn ran out of time.

Adam won the second game 520-316 with bingoes RIBANDS, , and while Pakorn managed and , and lost points on letters and time once again.

Adam won the third, closer, game 465-426 to clinch the title. Bingoes from Adam were , REcOINED, and from Pakorn were TEAMING and .

This was the fourth time in eight events that a Canadian had won, including one year in which a Canadian played for the United States.

Complete results

*FINALS:
*Game 1: Adam 524 - Pakorn 409
*Game 2: Adam 520 - Pakorn 316
*Game 3: Adam 465 - Pakorn 426

Participants

Places were allocated by country. The number of places per country was:

*U.S., 15 places
*England, 10 places
*Canada, 7 places
*New Zealand, 5 places
*Australia, 4 places
*Kenya, 4 places
*Thailand, 4 places
*Ghana, 3 places
*Philippines, 3 places
*Nigeria, 3 places
*Singapore, 3 places
*Sri Lanka, 3 places
*Bahrain, 2 places
*India, 2 places
*Israel, 2 places
*Japan, 2 places
*Malaysia, 2 places
*Malta, 2 places
*Oman, 2 places
*Pakistan, 2 places
*Scotland, 2 places
*South Africa, 2 places
*Wales, 2 places
*Cameroon, 1 place
*France, 1 place
*Gibraltar, 1 place
*Guyana, 1 place
*Indonesia, 1 place
*Ireland, 1 place
*Kurdistan-Iraq, 1 place
*Kuwait, 1 place
*Poland, 1 place
*Romania, 1 place
*Saudi Arabia, 1 place
*Seychelles, 1 place
*Sweden, 1 place
*Tanzania, 1 place
*Trinidad, 1 place
*U.A.E., 1 place
*Uganda, 1 place
*Zambia, 1 place

Panupol Sujjayakorn qualified automatically as defending World Champion, and so did not count towards Thailand's quota.

External links

* [http://www.wscgames.com/2005/ Official site]


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