Now a user-experience designer at Google and a co-founder of an online word games startup, he said the community is what keeps him coming back - along with enjoying the game’s particular strategy. Seasoned player Conrad Bassett-Bouchard, 33, of Portland, Ore., has played competitively since he was 14, and even won the 2014 U.S.
“There is great joy to be found in just getting to compete in a game that you love and meet up with old friends, make new friends,” Lezin said.
“For the more experienced players it seems like they can bingo whenever they want,” they said, referring to when a player uses all seven tiles on a word.įor mother and daughter Katya Lezin, 58, and Hannah Lieberman, 27, who have been playing since Lieberman was a child, the championship is less about competition and more about the experience. Lezin lives in North Carolina and Lieberman in New York City, but they meet to compete in tournaments across the country. (Some words you might not know that Scrabble players do? Here are just a few: xylyl, qi, caziques. Sessions were held at an area church, where they learned basic rules and strategies, such as memorizing all usable two-letter words, though a favorite of theirs is building larger words. Vaasu Taneja, a 27-year-old graduate student at the University at Albany, found a local club through a posting at Colonie’s William K. There are also shorter “warm-up” introductory rounds for new players. Greenway also encourages amateur players to find local clubs near them. Each day averages about eight games per player, with 31 games in total.
Around 250 people from across the globe signed up to play in the four-day tournament, some competitors from as far away as Ireland and Nigeria. The Albany area has hosted Scrabble championships for decades, but this is the first national championship it’s hosted, Greenway, 50, of Toronto, said. “People get a little better at Scrabble, and then their friends and family don’t want to play them anymore,” event director Josh Greenway said.
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