World Scrabble Championship 2016

The MSI World Scrabble Championship 2016 was held from 31 August to 4 September 2016 under the auspices of Mindsports International and sponsored by Mattel and HarperCollins (the publisher of the official lexicon used in play), as part of the Mindsports International 2016 Championships.

[3] Source:[3] Source:[4][5] Semi-finals losers Lewis MacKay and 2005 World Champion Adam Logan were scheduled to play a best-of-three third-place playoff, but Logan forfeited and MacKay automatically clinched the title of second runner-up.

[6] Source:[9] UK-based recruitment consultant Brett Smitheram beat fellow Englishman and writer Mark Nyman, the 1993 World Scrabble Champion, 3–0 in the best-of-five finals, and became the 2016 World Scrabble Champion and won €7,000.

[12] Incidentally, Smitheram was a former contestant on the television programme Countdown, and Nyman was one of its producers.

[12] In the second division, Jack Mpakaboari beat Sandy Nang 3–0 in a best-of-five finals.