World Scrabble Championship 2005
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The World Scrabble Championship 2005 was held in the Marriott Regent's Park Hotel, London, England between 16 November and 20 November. The winner was Adam Logan
of Canada
.
As in previous years, the tournament began with a 24-round Swiss tournament over three days. The top two players from this phase contested a best-of-five final.
Adam Logan beat Pakorn Nemitrmansuk
of Thailand
3-0 in the final. Notably, Nemitrmansuk was also the runner-up finalist at WSC 2003
.
Adam won the first game 524-409. Pakorn bingoed
EDACIOUS, GRINDER and VALETiNG while Adam could only manage one (STATURE) until he ended the game with a rare triple-triple TWISTIeR, which clinched it for him as Pakorn ran out of time.
Adam won the second game 520-316 with bingoes RIBANDS, GNaRRED, CLOGGER and ELODEAS while Pakorn managed CATTAILS and VAUNTIER, and lost points on letters and time once again.
Adam won the third game 465-426 to clinch the title. Bingoes from Adam were AURATES, REcOINED, ANCOnES and from Pakorn were TEAMING and BIRSLED.
This was the fourth time in eight events that a Canadian had won, including one year
in which a Canadian played for the United States.
Panupol Sujjayakorn
qualified automatically as defending World Champion, and so did not count towards Thailand's quota.
Adam Logan
Adam Logan is a research mathematician and a top Canadian Scrabble player. He won the World Scrabble Championship in 2005, beating Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand 3-0 in the final. He is the only player to have won the Canadian Scrabble Championship three times...
of Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
As in previous years, the tournament began with a 24-round Swiss tournament over three days. The top two players from this phase contested a best-of-five final.
Results
The preliminary stage involved 102 players over 24 rounds, using the "Chew Pairing" system to select the draw for each round.Adam Logan beat 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...
of 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...
3-0 in the final. Notably, Nemitrmansuk was also the runner-up finalist at WSC 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...
.
Adam won the first game 524-409. Pakorn bingoed
Bingo (Scrabble)
Bingo is a slang term used in Scrabble when a player uses all seven of their own letters in one play. This also applies to use 8 or 9 tiles in a turn of 9-tile scrabble. Any player who does this receives an extra 50 points on top of what the word would normally score...
EDACIOUS, GRINDER and VALETiNG while Adam could only manage one (STATURE) until he ended the game with a rare triple-triple TWISTIeR, which clinched it for him as Pakorn ran out of time.
Adam won the second game 520-316 with bingoes RIBANDS, GNaRRED, CLOGGER and ELODEAS while Pakorn managed CATTAILS and VAUNTIER, and lost points on letters and time once again.
Adam won the third game 465-426 to clinch the title. Bingoes from Adam were AURATES, REcOINED, ANCOnES and from Pakorn were TEAMING and BIRSLED.
This was the fourth time in eight events that a Canadian had won, including one year
World Scrabble Championship 1991
The World Scrabble Championship 1991 was the first World Scrabble Championship. The winner was Peter Morris, a Canadian, representing the United States....
in which a Canadian played for the United States.
Complete results
| Position | Name | Country | Win-Loss | Spread | Prize (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logan, Adam | Canada | 20-4 | +1613 | 15,000 |
| 2 | Nemitrmansuk, Pakorn | Thailand | 18-6 | +678 | 6,000 |
| 3 | Fernando, Naween Tharanga | Australia | 17-7 | +741 | 3,000 |
| 4 | Asirvatham, Ganesh | Malaysia | 16-8 | +690 | 2,000 |
| 5 | Williams, Gareth | Wales | 16-8 | +664 | 1,000 |
| 6 | Cleary, Paul Stephen | Australia | 16-8 | +643 | 900 |
| 7 | Boys, David | Canada | 16-8 | +612 | 800 |
| 8 | Wiegand, David | United States | 16-8 | +599 | 700 |
| 9 | Owolabi, Lukeman | Nigeria | 15-9 | +832 | 600 |
| 10 | Cheah, Siu Hean | Singapore | 15-9 | +776 | 500 |
| 11 | Eldar, David | Australia | 15-9 | +672 | |
| 12 | Allan, Paul | Scotland | 15-9 | +591 | |
| 13 | Saldanha, Dean | Canada | 15-9 | +414 | |
| 14 | O'Laughlin, John | United States | 15-9 | +367 | |
| 15 | Quao, Michael Arthur | Ghana | 14½-9½ | +725 | |
| 16 | Sujjayakorn, Panupol | World Champion | 14½-9½ | +422 | |
| 17 | Lamabadusuriya, Harshan | England | 14-10 | +1209 | |
| 18 | Warner, Howard | New Zealand | 14-10 | +894 | |
| 19 | Sherman, Joel | United States | 14-10 | +847 | |
| 20 | Kirk, Terry | England | 14-10 | +770 | |
| 21 | Fisher, Andrew | Australia | 14-10 | +724 | |
| 22 | Placca, Chrys | Ghana | 14-10 | +437 | |
| 23 | Rivera, Oscar T. | Philippines | 14-10 | +254 | |
| 24 | Martin, Edward | England | 14-10 | +210 | |
| 25 | Adamson, Tim | United States | 14-10 | +166 | |
| 26 | Bhandarkar, Akshay | India | 14-10 | +127 | |
| 27 | Phiphatboonserm, Manop | Thailand | 14-10 | -553 | |
| 28 | Armstrong, Peter | United States | 14-10 | -815 | |
| 29 | Gipson, Helen | England | 13-11 | +736 | |
| 30 | Polatnick, Steve | United States | 13-11 | +492 | |
| 31 | Ball, Nick | England | 13-11 | +407 | |
| 32 | Hahn, Albert | Canada | 13-11 | +405 | |
| 33 | Wapnick, Joel | Canada | 13-11 | +395 | |
| 34 | Luebkemann, John | United States | 13-11 | +392 | |
| 35 | Brousson, Theresa | Malta | 13-11 | +349 | |
| 36 | Awowade, Femi | England | 13-11 | +332 | |
| 37 | Hirai, Keiichiro | Japan | 13-11 | +330 | |
| 38 | Odom, Lisa | United States | 13-11 | +272 | |
| 39 | Delia, Jojo | Malta | 13-11 | +260 | |
| 40 | Ananga, Yawo Takyi | Ghana | 13-11 | +183 | |
| 41 | Appleby, Phil | England | 13-11 | +167 | |
| 42 | Carter, Gerald | Thailand | 12½-11½ | +249 | |
| 43 | Smitheram, Brett | England | 12½-11½ | +117 | |
| 44 | Davis, Andrew | England | 12-12 | +808 | |
| 45 | Byers, Russell | England | 12-12 | +469 | |
| 46 | Mallick, Joey | United States | 12-12 | +361 | |
| 47 | Richards, Nigel | New Zealand | 12-12 | +294 | |
| 48 | Tabasa, John Edward | Philippines | 12-12 | +289 | |
| 49 | Lerman, Jerry | United States | 12-12 | +246 | |
| 50 | Hoekstra, Ron | Canada | 12-12 | +200 | |
| 51 | Kenas, Mark | United States | 12-12 | +196 | |
| 52 | Nyman, Mark | England | 12-12 | +193 | |
| 53 | Poder, David | United States | 12-12 | +60 | |
| 54 | Goh, Jiang Pern | Singapore | 12-12 | -159 | |
| 55 | Talosig, Rogelio | New Zealand | 12-12 | -376 | |
| 56 | Ul-Haq, Assad | Qatar | 12-12 | -386 | |
| 57 | Litunya, Patrick | Kenya | 12-12 | -452 | |
| 58 | Kaufman, Zev | Canada | 12-12 | -507 | |
| 59 | Grant, Jeff | New Zealand | 11½-12½ | -553 | |
| 60 | Katz-Brown, Jason | United States | 11-13 | +663 | |
| 61 | Kramer, Jim | United States | 11-13 | +318 | |
| 62 | Finley, Peter | England | 11-13 | +257 | |
| 63 | Charles, Leslie | Trinidad and Tobago | 11-13 | +179 | |
| 64 | Oduwole, Olatunde | Nigeria | 11-13 | +136 | |
| 65 | Capuno, Leonardo | United Arab Emirates | 11-13 | +132 | |
| 66 | Khoshnaw, Karl | Kurdistan-Iraq | 11-13 | -9 | |
| 67 | Lobo, Ralph | Oman | 11-13 | -27 | |
| 68 | Kurnia, Andy | Singapore | 11-13 | -48 | |
| 69 | Hersom, Randy | United States | 11-13 | -367 | |
| 70 | Rodrigues, Sherwin | India | 11-13 | -487 | |
| 71 | Kalumba, Paul Yandisha | Zambia | 11-13 | -667 | |
| 72 | Early, Dylan | South Africa | 11-13 | -813 | |
| 73 | Ikolo, Anthony | Nigeria | 11-13 | -981 | |
| 74 | Yeo, Kien Hung | Malaysia | 10½-13½ | +95 | |
| 75 | Simmons, Allan | Scotland | 10-14 | +416 | |
| 76 | Jabbar, Abdul | Pakistan | 10-14 | +221 | |
| 77 | Sayavesa, Navapadol | Thailand | 10-14 | +48 | |
| 78 | Sinton, Peter | New Zealand | 10-14 | -208 | |
| 79 | Amalean, Shaila | Sri Lanka | 10-14 | -518 | |
| 80 | Wanniarachchi, Lakshan | Sri Lanka | 10-14 | -532 | |
| 81 | Cohen, Evan | Israel | 10-14 | -615 | |
| 82 | Prabhu, Cecil Fernandes | Oman | 10-14 | -623 | |
| 83 | Khan, Rashid Ateeq | Pakistan | 10-14 | -625 | |
| 84 | Fomum, Samuel Tanee | Cameroon | 10-14 | -665 | |
| 85 | Green, Neil | Wales | 10-14 | -698 | |
| 86 | Buddhdev, Anand | Netherlands | 10-14 | -1399 | |
| 87 | Hovelmeier, Trevor Mark | South Africa | 9½-14½ | +581 | |
| 88 | Bwire, Matayo | Kenya | 9-15 | +65 | |
| 89 | Raychbart, Paloma | Israel | 9-15 | -398 | |
| 90 | McDonnell, Brendan | Ireland | 9-15 | -556 | |
| 91 | Filio, Ben | Bahrain | 9-15 | -806 | |
| 92 | Amarasinghe, Samitha | Sri Lanka | 9-15 | -900 | |
| 93 | Bohbot, Herve | France | 9-15 | -901 | |
| 94 | Ntege, Chris | Uganda | 9-15 | -1115 | |
| 95 | Ahmad, Adeeb | Bahrain | 9-15 | -1187 | |
| 96 | Zbikowski, Mateusz | Poland | 9-15 | -1652 | |
| 97 | Tanveer, Rohaina | Kuwait | 8½-15½ | -1061 | |
| 98 | Anthonius, Ferdy | Indonesia | 8-16 | -402 | |
| 99 | Esmail, Mushtak | Tanzania | 8-16 | -791 | |
| 100 | Sandu, Dan Laurentiu | Romania | 6-18 | -1413 | |
| 101 | Kuroda, Kunihiko | Japan | 6-18 | -1844 | |
| 102 | Bjorkman, Marten | Sweden | 5-19 | -1806 |
- FINALS:
- Game 1: Adam 524 - Pakorn 409
- Game 2: Adam 520 - Pakorn 316
- Game 3: Adam 465 - Pakorn 426
Participants
Places were allocated by country. The number of places per country was:- U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, 15 places - EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, 10 places - CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, 7 places - New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, 5 places - AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, 4 places - KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, 4 places - ThailandThailandThailand , 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...
, 4 places - GhanaGhanaGhana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
, 3 places - PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, 3 places - NigeriaNigeriaNigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
, 3 places - SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, 3 places - Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, 3 places - BahrainBahrain' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
, 2 places - IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, 2 places - IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, 2 places - JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, 2 places - Malaysia, 2 places
- MaltaMaltaMalta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
, 2 places - OmanOmanOman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...
, 2 places - PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, 2 places - ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, 2 places - South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, 2 places - WalesWalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
, 2 places - CameroonCameroonCameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
, 1 place - FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, 1 place - GibraltarGibraltarGibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
, 1 place - GuyanaGuyanaGuyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
, 1 place - IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, 1 place - IrelandIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, 1 place - Kurdistan-IraqIraqIraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, 1 place - KuwaitKuwaitThe State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
, 1 place - PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, 1 place - RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, 1 place - Saudi ArabiaSaudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, 1 place - SeychellesSeychellesSeychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
, 1 place - SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, 1 place - TanzaniaTanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, 1 place - TrinidadTrinidadTrinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
, 1 place - U.A.E.United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
, 1 place - UgandaUgandaUganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
, 1 place - ZambiaZambiaZambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
, 1 place
Panupol Sujjayakorn
Panupol Sujjayakorn
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...
qualified automatically as defending World Champion, and so did not count towards Thailand's quota.