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This page contains current and recent breaking news about NASPA.

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Current news

=== July 31, 2009: National SCRABBLE Championship

The event registration has started in Dayton, OH, Convention Center. Games start tomorrow morning. Stay tuned for nesr-realtime online coverage.

July 21, 2009: the first NASPA Newsletter

The first issue of NASPA Tournament SCRABBLE Newsletter is ready and available online, thanks to the efforts of Newsletter Committee and approximately 50 other volunteers.

July 10, 2009: tournament results and ratings online

The new tournament data submission application is online.

We have a new tournament results page that has the official results of the first NASPA-rated tourneys (Albany, Reno, Charleston, Laguna Woods) as well as copies of NSA results for the first half of 2009.

The ratings page has been updated with a link to the current official NASPA ratings and an archive of historical monthly NSA ratings.

July 1, 2009: official NSA-NASPA transition date

On July 1, the coordination of tournaments and clubs was officially transitioned from the NSA to NASPA. All tournament participants are required to be NASPA members.

June 2009

June 22, 2009: New committee established

A new committee, NASPA-WESPA Liaison Committee, has been established to coordinate communication with WESPA.

June 19, 2009: Rules revision announced

John Luebkemann (chair of the Rules Committee) announces some minor changes to the Official Tournament Rules to become effective August 1, 2009.

June 18, 2009: Tournament types explained

New table on Tournaments page highlights the difference between Local Club Tournaments (LCT) and the more typical Open Rated Tournaments (ORT).

June 18, 2009: Trial memberships

Trial membership information for first-time tournament players added to the Tournaments page.

June 17, 2009: News page created

This page was created today (some earlier recent items are included for convenience).

June 15, 2009: PayPal unavailable

Payments to NASPA can no longer be made through PayPal, as PayPal has determined that Scrabble is a form of illegal gambling. The manual payment fee for NSC registration has been waived.

June 5, 2009: New committee established

A new committee, Director’s Manual Committee, has been established to update the Director’s Manual.

June 5, 2009: Reno sanctioned

The Reno tournaments starting July 1, 2009 are going to be NASPA events.

June 3, 2009: New Bulletin available

The newest bulletin can be downloaded here.

Archived news

None at this time.