Rod, Edward, Jane
36 players from NSW and interstate battled it out over three days. A side event on Sunday attracted a further 11 players. The top three:
Edward Okulicz: 17+1153
Jane Taylor: 17+567
Rod Talbot: 16+168
Edward successfully defended the title that he had won last year. Jane gained 109 ratings points and young Ryder Lo gained 120. Josh Watt set new records for 2024 (high game and high spread) with his score of 720 to 246. Few players ever get a score of over 700 and this is the first for several years.
Trans Tasman Team
The dates and venue for the 2024 Trans Tasman have been settled. Over three days, Friday 15 th to Sunday 17 th November 2024, twelve Aussies and twelve Kiwis will play 24 rounds at Mount Eden, a picturesque suburb of Auckland. The Australian team is Russell Honeybun, Esther Perrins, Victor Tung, Rod Talbot, Ryan Sutton, Bob Jackman, Karen Richards, Jane Taylor, Paul Richards, Rocky Sharma, Chris Ostrowski, Asanka Dissanayake The Australian team is selected by rating performance over 11½ months, see selection process.
ScrabbleNZ have plans to live stream games on
YouTube
World Youth Scrabble Championship
Ashwin, Danira and Oscar Three Australians competed in the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka. They achieved placings: Oscar 19th, Ashwin 74th, Danira 130th. A great experience for them all, meeting other youth from around the world. The overall winner was Affan Salman from Pakistan.
Australian Masters and State Challenge
David Eldar The Australian Masters has been won by David Eldar.
The State Challenge was won by team NSW.
Greg Pinchbeck, Jyoti Chandna, Tony Hunt
Inaugural Australian Junior Scrabble Championship
1st: Oscar Ivanovski, 7 wins +1563 margin
The inaugural Australian Junior Scrabble Championship took place in Sydney. 32 players took part. The first Australian Junior Scrabble Champion emerged as Oscar Ivanovski who won all 7 games.
Prizes were also given by age band.
Oscar will proceed to represent Australia at the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka. Ashwin Page and Danira da Silva will also be playing.
Queensland Championship
Cameron Farlow wins the Queensland Championship yet again.
Cameron Farlow, Karen Richards, Guy Newsham
CSW24
A new edition of Collins Scrabble Words has been published. It has 1816 additions, 847 of them being words of length 3 to 8. There are no new two letter words. Deletions include ALF (and ALFS). WESPA has endorsed its use from Jan 1 2025.OWO and UWU are expressions of surprise and cuteness respectively represented as emoticons. UWU will be a happy emotion for those trying to dump the awkward WU combination.
MPOX (formerly monkey pox) has been in the news recently and it is now in, as also is COVID. The Collins blog post is here
For updated word lists look at our word lists.
Events
Selective events
These events are invitational, based on rating.
2025
World Seniors Championship
Venue:gateway Shopping Mall Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Terminal 2 (KLIA2) Eligibility: A senior is classed as anyone born 1969 or earlier. Fee: 300 Malaysian ringgit payable on site Format: 25 games (9+10+6); WESPA Rules V4; 25-minute game; CSW21 dictionary; 5-point challenge
The 2025 WESPA Championship will be held at the Alisa Hotel, North Ridge, Accra, Ghana.
World Team Scrabble Championship
- World Team Scrabble Championship and Side Events. Sixteen teams of five players will play over three days. See who will play for us,
More details at the
WESPA Championship
November 11, 2025 - Last Chance Qualifier
November 12-15, 2025 - WESPA Championship and Side Events
November 16, 2025 - Best of 7 Final
Australia is entitled to send 14 players in addition to David Eldar who qualifies because he was World Champion. Selection is by ratings over a twelve month period ending May 31 2025. See full details
