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Over the first weekend of October, a group of Scrabble enthusiasts of varying ages (teenagers to septuagenarians) and professions (businessmen, academics, students, virologists and consultants) sat across their opponents in a hall in building number 3 of Dubai's Internet City. There were no voices to be heard. The only sound from the hall was the clack and shuffle of tiles.
Eighteen payers on nine tables - two players per table - were competing for the title of Gulf Scrabble Champion 2015. The people in the room were the best scrabble players of the region, having won rounds of matches, slaying opponents and emerging triumphant with massive scoring words.
The winners of this Gulf Scrabble Championship - in its 25th year - will be the UAE's qualifiers for the World Championship in Perth, Australia, in November.
And the winners are... Top 6 at the 25th Gulf Scrabble Championship > Akshay Bhandarkar (UAE) > Mohd Irfan Siddiqui (Bahrain) > Eric Kinderman (UAE) > Ronald Credo (UAE) > Selwyn Lobo (UAE) > Rohaina Tanveer (Kuwait) |
Did you know? A novel addition to this year's word face-off is that it marked the debut of a new list of words. The 2015 Collins Scrabble Words dictionary contains 6,500 new playable words, including several from the Internet and social media usage, such as emoji, facetime and hacktivist. |
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