The World Scrabble Championship 2003 was held in the Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The tournament began with the Australian Draw system, with each player playing sixteen games over two days.
On the third day the players played eight games in a King Of the Hill format.
After this, the top two players competed in a best-of-five final to decide who would be the seventh World Scrabble Champion.
This was the first time that a player won the WSC while representing a country for which English is not the first language.