Showdown in Melbourne sees a new single word record score of 194 as Naween Fernando sees off former world champion David Eldar
Upstairs at the Windy Hill bistro in Essendon, some of the world’s best Scrabble players have been battling it out in a three-day tournament for a $1,000 cash prize and a coveted spot in the world cup.
Unlike casual Scrabble matches, here every turn is timed with a chess clock. Each player has 25 minutes to make all their moves, with a 10-point penalty for every minute they run into over time.The other thing that sets this version of the game apart, is of course, the scores. While most would be happy with nine or ten points per word at a family board game night, here they can stretch into the hundreds.
But for 2017 world champion, and Australian Scrabble’s resident cool-guy, David Eldar, it’s been a frustrating weekend.On the first day he made the fatal error of playing a false word, losing him his turn and eventually the game.Eldar, who broke an Australian record when he cracked the country’s top ten players at just 14, is still among the youngest in the room at 32.
“The Scrabble community has been amazingly supportive,” Brice says. “I had a lot of friends in the background raising money to help me after my accident. I had a lot of wonderful people in Brisbane who used to come in and play Scrabble with me in hospital… they even set up some Scrabble tournaments for me there.”
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