2014 Press Archive

These press articles and releases appeared in 2014.

• December 29, 2014: [The Montreal Gazette] interviews Cote St. Luc NASPA Club #83 director Bernard Gotlieb.
• 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship
  • December 9, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe interviewed in Rome Sentinel.
  • November 24, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe mentioned in Business Insider.
  • November 23, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe mentioned in The Telegraph.
  • November 23, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe mentioned in The Independent.
  • November 22, 2014: John Chew leads off a BBC News story about the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship.
  • November 21, 2014: Jesse Matthews, John Chew, Adam Logan and others featured in a story about the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship on AlJazeera.com.
  • November 21, 2014: John Chew quotes briefly in a BBC News story about the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship.
  • November 20, 2014: Conrad Bassett-Bouchard gives SCRABBLE tips to OPB leading up to the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship.
  • November 10, 2014: Evan Berofsky featured in an article in the Oakland Press.
• 2014 National SCRABBLE Championship
  • August 10, 2014: Several players interviewed in a feature article about the 2014 National SCRABBLE Championship in the Buffalo news.
  • August 8, 2014: Oliver Roeder reports on the Nigel Richards phenomenon on fivethirtyeight.com.
• 2015 Changes to OSPD and OTCWL
  • August 27, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quoted about the new words on the Colbert Report.
  • August 5, 2014: Chris Cree and John Chew help MentalFloss with some fun facts about our game.
  • August 5, 2014: John Chew gives the Canadian perspective on the new words in the National Post
  • August 5, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quoted at length in an article about the new words in the Globe and Mail
  • August 5, 2014: John Chew quoted in an article about the new words at Forbes.
  • August 5, 2014: Chris Cree quoted in a Reuters article about the new words.
  • August 5, 2014: 18-minute interview with Simi Sara on CKNW 980 with John Chew about the new words.
  • August 5, 2014: ABC News talks about our new words.
  • August 4, 2014: John Chew quoted briefly in the New York Daily News on the new edition of OSPD.
  • August 4, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quoted in an AP story about new words coming into OSPD.
  • August 4, 2014: Chris Cree and John Chew quoted by CNN (Spanish translation) on the new words.
• 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
  • April 22, 2014: John Chew on CTV National News with members of the Toronto Scrabble Club talking about GEOCACHE.
  • April 10, 2014: Stefan Fatsis quotes John Chew and Chris Cree at Slate in The Word That Won Scrabble’s New-Word Contest Is Totally Useless in Scrabble
  • March 14, 2014: Stefan Fatsis writes on Slate.com about the 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
  • March 14, 2014: John Chew on CTV News Channel talking about the 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
  • March 13, 2014: John Chew on NPR’s Here and Now to talk about the 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
• March 16, 2014: John Chew mentioned in the Wall Street Journal article “This Scrabble-Playing Robot Is a Sore Loser”
• March 12, 2014: 2014 NSSC Hasbro Press Release‎