Robin John for World Scrabble Championships

The seventh World Scrabble Championship is being held in Kuala Lumpur from October 19 to 24 at the Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur.

The tournament is organised by Scrabble Masters Malaysia in collaboration with the Malaysian Scrabble Association (MSA). This prestigious event, held biannually and for the first time since its inception in 1991, is being held in Asia. There are 102 players from 45 countries expected this year. There will be 24 rounds of regular play following which the top two players will compete in the best of five games. The World Scrabble Cham-pion will be the first person to win three games.

Robin John, the current Trinidad and Tobago, will participate in the tournament. John has been in devastating form since winning the National Champion-ship in December with an unprecedented hat-trick — Trincity Monthly Open Tour-nament (February, March and April). He also ran away with the inaugural staging of the Point Fortin Borough Tournament winning seven out of seven games.