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Tournament Results A summary of the major event winners can be found at the bottom of this page.
2006 --
2007
(Money List)
The National Scrabble Championships is organised by Mattel, the Scrabble trademark owners, and has had a variety of formats over its years of existence. The current format involves six regional stages where players play over 7 games in one day; the number of qualifying places available varies according to the number and strength of players in the region. The 60 qualifiers then play a 14-game semi-final stage, with the top two finishers qualifying for a best-of-five head to head final in London towards the end of the year.
The British Matchplay Scrabble Championships (BMSC) is the flagship event of the ABSP. Consisting of 19 games played over the August Bank Holiday weekend, it was held in Nottingham until 2001, moved to Birmingham for 2002-2004 but has more recently found a home at Yarnfield Conference Centre in Staffordshire.
The ABSP Masters is an elite invitational event for the 16 best players in the UK. It is usually a 'round robin' event (i.e. everyone plays everyone else once), currently held on the first weekend in July in Staffordshire.
Other Major Events
The first five tournaments below are considered to be the 'Majors' of Scrabble.
The UK Open was introduced in 2008 and is the longest event of the year, comprising a mammoth 38 games over 5 days in early January. The Spring Matchplay was originally held at Durham University but moved to Daventry in 2008, also increasing from 13 to 25 rounds over the early May Bank Holiday weekend. The Easter Matchplay is held in Exeter over the Easter weekend and comprises 19 rounds, as does the Festival of Scrabble (formerly known as Summer Matchplay) in Edinburgh in June. The Winter Matchplay is 12 rounds played in Milton Keynes in late November each year. The British Elimination Scrabble Tournament (BEST) is a knockout competition which lasts over six months. Played as a series of face-to-face knockout matches at regional and then national level, the winner typically plays more than 70 games over six months to lift the trophy. The event has its own website with past results. It start off as an annual event but has become biannual in recent years due to the long time period over which it is played. |
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