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	1999 World SCRABBLE® Championship Melbourne, Australia November 3 - 7

1999 World SCRABBLE^® Champion Joel Wapnick

On Thursday, November 4, ninety-eight SCRABBLE^® players representing over thirty countries went head-to-head at the 1999 World SCRABBLE^® Championship held at the Carlton Crest Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Competitors competed for a total prize package of $35,000 (US). Play continued through November 6 with the best-of-five finals on Sunday, November 7.

Representing the United States were 1997 World SCRABBLE^® Champion Joel Sherman and a team of 13 American players. Team Canada had 6 representatives, including reigning Canadian National Champion Joel Wapnick.

Joel Wapnick won the preliminary round with a record of 18 wins and 6 losses, and faced Mark Nyman (U.K.) in a rematch of the 1993 New York City WSC. Four games into the best-of-five finals, Wapnick was the new World SCRABBLE^® Champion.

For the complete provisional allocation of contestants and the prizes awarded for the top 16 places, check out Issue 147 of the SCRABBLE News. Details of the event appeared round by round at this web site, and in Issue 152 of SCRABBLE News. If you're not a subscriber, find out how you can join the NSA and start receiving the newsletter. As of April 2001, online coverage has been temporarily archived as part of a move to a new ISP.

The WSC is held in odd-numbered years with sponsorship alternating between J.W. Spear/Mattel and the National SCRABBLE^® Association/Hasbro. The next World SCRABBLE^® Championship will be held in December 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada. For further information, please contact us at info@scrabble-assoc.com.

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