World Scrabble Championship 2007

The World Scrabble Championship 2007 was held in the [http://www.tajhotels.com/Business/Taj%20President%20Hotel,MUMBAI/ Taj President Hotel] , Mumbai, India between 9 November and 12 November. The tournament began with a 24-round Swiss tournament, whose top two players contested a best-of-five final.

Results

The preliminary stage involved 104 players, the largest number of players in WSC history, over 24 rounds, using the "Chew Pairing" system to select the draw for each round.

The winner was Nigel Richards of New Zealand, who beat Ganesh Asirvatham of Malaysia 3-0 in the final. This was the first time either of them had reached the final. Ganesh was the number 1 rated player in the world at the time, and Nigel the form player had always been knocking on the door in majors and was a multiple winner of the Thailand International including 2007.

Nigel won the first game 412-316. He bingoed ; Ganesh bingoed . Nigel's opening placement was , and Ganesh missed a bingo .

Nigel won the second game 400-371. Ganesh took an early lead with but had to exchange tiles twice, and although he caught up again with ANTIENTS and a late-game bingo , and Nigel only bingoed once with , Nigel won on the strength of the value he got out of the J, Q and X with , and FAX.

Nigel wins 499-470 and becomes New Zealand's first world champion. This game was a bingo-fest with Nigel's , and OVERAPT to Ganesh's , , DIrTIEST and brilliant triple-triple . However, once again, Nigel's luck with drawing the high scoring letters saw him have the edge in a fitting finale.

Complete Results

*FINALS:
*Game 1: Nigel 412 - Ganesh 316
*Game 2: Nigel 400 - Ganesh 371
*Game 3: Nigel 499 - Ganesh 470

External links

* [http://www.wscgames.com/2007/ Official site]