Panupol Sujjayakorn
Encyclopedia
Panupol Sujjayakorn is a Thai
Scrabble
player, an economics
student at university and anlyst at Exxon Mobile. He won the Thailand Matchplay Championship 2002, World Scrabble Championship 2003
, Thailand
King's Cup 2005 and was runner-up in the American National Scrabble Championship 2005 to David Wiegand
. He is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of words despite having only conversational English.
In the World Scrabble Championship 2003
, Sujjayakorn won his first 8 games and 18 of his first 21 before losing the final three games to finish with 18 wins, 6 losses, first place. He then played fellow countryman Pakorn Nemitrmansuk
in the best-of-five final. The final was tied at two wins each before Sujjayakorn won the final game 444-387 to be crowned World Scrabble champion in his first appearance at the tournament. In the 2005 National Scrabble Championship Sujjayakorn won his first 9 consecutive games and 14 of his first 15, but won just 7 of his final 13 games. He qualified in second place for the final where he played David Wiegand, and led 2-0 in the final before Wiegand won all of the final three games to win the tournament.
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
Scrabble
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
player, an economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
student at university and anlyst at Exxon Mobile. He won the Thailand Matchplay Championship 2002, World Scrabble Championship 2003
World Scrabble Championship 2003
The World Scrabble Championship 2003 was held in the , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The winner was Panupol Sujjayakorn of Thailand.The format was notably different from previous WSCs. The tournament began with the Australian Draw system, with each player playing sixteen games over two days. On the third...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
King's Cup 2005 and was runner-up in the American National Scrabble Championship 2005 to David Wiegand
David Wiegand
Dave Wiegand is a top American Scrabble expert who won the National Scrabble Championship in 2005 and 2009.Wiegand placed second in the same event in 1994 and third in 2000. He also finished eighth in the World Scrabble Championship in 2005...
. He is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of words despite having only conversational English.
In the World Scrabble Championship 2003
World Scrabble Championship 2003
The World Scrabble Championship 2003 was held in the , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The winner was Panupol Sujjayakorn of Thailand.The format was notably different from previous WSCs. The tournament began with the Australian Draw system, with each player playing sixteen games over two days. On the third...
, Sujjayakorn won his first 8 games and 18 of his first 21 before losing the final three games to finish with 18 wins, 6 losses, first place. He then played fellow countryman Pakorn Nemitrmansuk
Pakorn Nemitrmansuk
Pakorn Nemitrmansuk is one of Thailand's top Scrabble players and the 2009 World Scrabble Champion. An architect and resident of Bangkok, Thailand, Nemitrmansuk has competed at World Scrabble Championship six times between 1999–2011 and was the runner-up in 2003 and 2005.At World Scrabble...
in the best-of-five final. The final was tied at two wins each before Sujjayakorn won the final game 444-387 to be crowned World Scrabble champion in his first appearance at the tournament. In the 2005 National Scrabble Championship Sujjayakorn won his first 9 consecutive games and 14 of his first 15, but won just 7 of his final 13 games. He qualified in second place for the final where he played David Wiegand, and led 2-0 in the final before Wiegand won all of the final three games to win the tournament.
Achievements
- 2002 Thailand Match Play Champion
- 2003 World Scrabble champion
- 2005 US Scrabble Open runner up