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Revision as of 19:38, 24 June 2010
The National Scrabble Championship is the largest Scrabble competition in the United States. The event is held every one or two years, and from 2004 through 2006 the finals were aired on ESPN and ESPN2. The current National Scrabble Champion is Dave Wiegand, winner of the 2009 event.[1]
NSC history
The first officially sanctioned Scrabble tournaments in the U.S. were spearheaded, organized and run by Joel Skolnick in the mid-1970s. Skolnick was a recreation director for the New York City Parks and Recreation Department. He approached Selchow and Righter in late 1972, and the first tournament, open to Brooklyn residents only, commenced on March 18, 1973. The Funk and Wagnalls Collegiate Dictionary was used to rule on challenges, and the official word judge was Skolnick's then-wife Carol. Carol's sister, Shazzi Felstein, who would later finish in ninth place at the first North American Invitational tournament, won the first preliminary round with 1,321 points over three games. The final round took place on April 15, and Jonathan Hatch was the winner of the first official Scrabble tournament.
The summer of 1973 saw two more tournaments, held respectively at Grossingers (won by Minerva Kasowitz) and the Concord hotel (won by Harriet Zucker) in New York's Catskill region. Another two tournaments quickly followed in November that same year: in Baltimore, Gordon Shapiro topped approximately 400 contestants; and at the Brooklyn War Memorial approximately 2,000 people entered the nine weekly preliminary rounds of the first all–New York City Scrabble Championship. It was won by Bernie Wishengrad. The New York City Championship was thereafter held annually, jointly sponsored by Selchow and Righter and the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.
The first national tournament was the North American Invitational, held May 19–21, 1978, in the Presidential Suite of the Loews Summit Hotel in New York City. Joel Skolnick and Carol Felstein, as usual, served as the tournament director and word judge, respectively. David Prinz took the $1,500 first prize, followed by Dan Pratt and Mike Senkiewicz.
In 1980, soon after the publication of the first Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, control of the national tournament passed to the National Scrabble Association. They continued to organize the tournament until 2008.
The official name of the tournament has been National SCRABBLE Championship in recent years, except in 2006 when it was named US SCRABBLE Open. [2]
Starting in 2009, the tournament is organized annually by the newly formed North American SCRABBLE Players Association. The 2009 event was held in Dayton, Ohio in August, 2009. The 2010 and 2011 events will be held in Dallas, Texas[3] [4]
NSC events and winners
Year | Winner | Location | Entrants | Winner's Prize | Total Prize Pool |
2010 | Dallas | ||||
2009 | Dave Wiegand (2)[5] | Dayton | 486 | USD 10,000 | USD 43,175[6] |
2008 | Nigel Richards[7] | Orlando | 662 | USD 25,000 | USD 85,385[8] |
2006 | Jim Kramer | Phoenix | 625 | USD 25,000 | USD 85,385[9] |
2005 | Dave Wiegand (1) | Reno | 682 | USD 25,000 | USD 85,415[10] |
2004 | Trey Wright | New Orleans | 837 | USD 25,000 | USD 92,805[11] |
2002 | Joel Sherman | San Diego | 696 | USD 25,000 | USD 89,290[12] |
2000 | Joe Edley (3) | Providence | 598 | USD 25,000 | USD 89,290[13] |
1998 | Brian Cappelletto | Chicago | 535 | USD 25,000 | USD 82,200[14] |
1996 | Adam Logan | Dallas | 412 | USD 25,000 | USD 75,485[15] |
1994 | David Gibson | Los Angeles | 294 | USD 15,000 | USD 50,585[16] |
1992 | Joe Edley (2) | Atlanta | 315 | USD 10,000 | USD 35,910[17] |
1990 | Robert Felt | Washington | 282 | USD 10,000 | USD 37,400[18] |
1989 | Peter Morris | New York | 221 | USD 5,000 | USD 24,425[19] |
1988 | Robert Watson | Reno | 315 | USD 5,000 | USD 23,100[20] |
1987 | Rita Norr | Las Vegas | 327 | USD 5,000 | USD 16,850[21] |
1985 | Ron Tiekert | Boston | 302 | USD 10,000 | USD 52,370[22] |
1983 | Joel Wapnick | Chicago | 32 | USD 5,000 | USD 13,600[23] |
1980 | Joe Edley (1) | Santa Monica | 32 | USD 5,000 | USD 10,100[24] |
1978 | David Prinz | New York | 65 (invitational) | USD 1,500 | USD 8,400[25] |
See also
- World Scrabble Championship
- World Youth Scrabble Championships
- Canadian Scrabble Championship
- Brand's Crossword Game King's Cup
- National School Scrabble Championship
References
- ^ North American SCRABBLE Players Association: Breaking news: August 5, 2009: Dave Wiegand wins National SCRABBLE Championship
- ^ National SCRABBLE Association: Championship Archive
- ^ North American SCRABBLE Players Association: NASPA
- ^ North American SCRABBLE Players Association: National SCRABBLE Championship
- ^ NSC 2009 Players: Alphabetical Listing
- ^ 2009 National SCRABBLE Championship prizes
- ^ 2008 NSC Standings
- ^ 2008 NSC Prizes
- ^ 2006 USSO Prizes
- ^ 2005 NSC Prizes
- ^ 2004 NSC Prizes
- ^ 2002 NSC Prizes
- ^ 2000 NSC Prizes
- ^ 1998 NSC Prizes
- ^ NSC 1996
- ^ NSC 1994
- ^ NSC 1992
- ^ NSC 1990
- ^ NSC 1989
- ^ NSC 1988
- ^ NSC 1987
- ^ NSC 1985
- ^ NSC 1983
- ^ NSC 1980
- ^ NSC 1978