Bring on the words, bring on the world! The World English Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) Championships is scheduled to be held at the Peddem Indoor stadium in Goa (www.wespacgoa,com) between October 15th and 20th. With over 350 participants from 56 countries, its the largest event of its kind. Promoted by the Scrabble Association of India and by Singapore-based Goan Charles Carneiro's Qi at work consulting, the event will see the world's top rated players slug it out for top honours. Likened to a combination of bridge and chess, Scrabble is played by over 100 million people worldwide and is now poised to follow the same path as all three, in terms of popularity as a competitive sport internationally, attracting a largely well-educated profile of individuals. They range from businessmen to computer programmers, NASA scientists, doctors, educators, consultants, actors, journalists and diplomats. In addition to the main tournament there will a multi-division open tournament, an all India’s schools tournament, a corporate challenge and a first ever “computers v/s players” segment. Seven Indian resident players and several NRIs are eligible to play the main tournament. An additional 120-150 Indian resident players are expected to compete in the side tournaments and several thousand actively follow the tournament. Scrabble is at an interesting inflection point akin to chess in the early 80s and this tournament aims at providing it the impetus it needs.
If you would like to participate or are curious, visit wespacgoa.com If you would like to volunteer to help, email [email protected] If you would like to associate your brand with the tournament, email charles@qiatwork,com before 01 March 2019 SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the US by Hasbro Inc, in Canada by Hasbro Canada Inc and throughout the rest of the world by JW Spear & Sons Ltd of Maidenhead, SL6 4UB, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro or Hasbro Canada. This tournament is sanctioned by WESPA under a license agreement with the trademark holders.
