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

Breaking News

Congratulations to Joel Wapnick of Canada, who defeated Mark Nyman of the U.K. three games to one to become the new World SCRABBLE^® Champion.

In addition to the official ShockWave coverage, and for those viewers who do not use ShockWave, the final games were replayed live on MarlDOoM (telnet brauer.math.utoronto.ca 7777), and viewable in HTML form on the web. Game logs and analyses are now available at:

Final Round 1 (Wapnick wins 624-307)
Final Round 2 (Nyman wins 444-330)
Final Round 3 (Wapnick wins 462-339)
Final Round 4 (Wapnick wins 403-402)

Results and Color Commentary for each Team Member

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Team USA

Joel Sherman
Brian Cappelletto
Ron Tiekert
Jim Geary
Lester Schonbrun
Robert Felt
Paul Epstein
David Wiegand
Joe Edley
Lisa Odom
John Luebkemann
Bob Lipton
Randy Hersom
Steve Polatnick

Team Canada

Joel Wapnick
David Boys
Adam Logan
Jim Nanavati
James Cherry
Albert Hahn

Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999

Notes from the Opening Reception

Thursday, November 4th, 1999

Eight games were played, beginning at 07:50 local time (15:50 Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday in North America).

Friday, November 5th, 1999

Eight more games of the preliminary were played this day.

Saturday, November 6th, 1999

The last eight games of the preliminary were played today.

Sunday, November 7th, 1999

The top two finalists of the first twenty-four rounds, Joel Wapnick of Canada and Mark Nyman of the U.K., played a best-of-five match beginning at 9 A.M local time (5 P.M. Saturday EST). Wapnick won games 1, 3 and 4 to become the new World Champion.

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