Scrabble: Moses Emerges National Champion

NSF boss, Toke Aka

•NSF boss, Toke Aka

Peter Moses of Akwa Ibom State has emerged the new national scrabble champion after winning the just concluded National Scrabble Championship (NSC) held in Abuja.

•NSF boss, Toke Aka

This year’s edition of the tourney is the 2nd edition of the National Scrabble Championship. It started on Friday and ended on Sunday, with over sixty players who competed for the national title.

After a total of 24 games in the master category, Moses won 19 with a cumulative points of 1,288 to beat his closest rival, Saheed Tayo from Ogun State, who had 17 wins and 467 points. While Balogun Rasheed from Oyo State had 16 wins with cumulative points of 841 to finish third.

For his effort, Moses, who dedicated his new title to Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, has become the new national champion and earned himself an automatic call-up into the Nigerian camp for the Africa scrabble championship, holding later in the year.

He also carted away a top prize of N150,000 apart from a giant trophy he got in Abuja.

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Team Kano emerged the overall best team of the tournament after they tied on 35 points with Team Rivers State, but Kano had superiority advantage in Muhammed Aminu, who came 4th on the overall table with a total of 15 wins and 712 cumulative points.

Speaking at the closing ceremoney of the tourney, President of Nigeria Scrabble Federation, Engineer Toke Aka, promised all scrabble fans and players that the national championship will become an annual event, saying he was satisfied with the quality of upsets and the outcome of the tournament.

Speaking on the forthcoming National Sports Festival holding later in the year in Lagos, Aka said: “Players must work hard to be rated. We are using the July 2012 rating for the festival. Those who had played in three sports festivals are welcome as spectators, as we are waiting for a harvest of young and good players.”

—Bamidele Olowosagba

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