World Seniors
Seven Little Australians played at the World Seniors Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka. The event was won by Mark Nyman from England. Karen Richards won her age category.
Here is a summary of the event.
Seven Little Australians played at the World Seniors Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka. The event was won by Mark Nyman from England. Karen Richards won her age category.
Here is a summary of the event.
The Australian Masters and State Challenge Trophy was held in Canberra. This is a selective event comprising twenty top players as Masters and twenty-one players representing seven states in the State Challenge Trophy. This was the twentieth incarnation of this event whose format was devised by Andrew Fisher in 2005. Two players have competed in all twenty, Carmel Dodd and Rod Talbot.
The Masters winner was Edward Okulicz. The winning state was New South Wales and the best individual player was Dianne Brumby.
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The winner is unsurprisingly Cameron Farlow. This the 9th Queensland Championship in a row Cameron has won and 12th of the last 14 championships.
1 14 +1620 Cameron Farlow
2 14 +1150 Ryan Anderson
3 12 +218 Karen Richards
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This event has concluded in Kenya.
The winner is Dineth Fernando representing Australia. Dineth is attending school in Melbourne and has done very well in our Australian tournaments since he arrived.
Winning WYSC is a superb achievement, as he battled it out over 24 rounds, and in the third day playing against top players repeatedly. Australia can be very proud of the way that Dineth played for us and we extend our congratulations to him. Well done all the young players from around the world. Samuel Crispin from England and Suyash Manchali from India came second and thurd.
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This is the fourth time that WYSC has been won by an Australian.
This year the format was open to all youth on Saturday, then the top eight played a round robin on Sunday. 25 players took part and NSW, ACT, QLD and VIC took part. Prizes were awarded thus:
New Zealand and Australia used to get together on Norfolk Island for friendly Scrabble competition. Later there was the ongoing Trans Tasman competition which in 2026 is in Brisbane.
2026 saw the inaugural tournament of what will become an ongoing tradition. 2026 was the turn for New Zealand to host it and 11½ Australian players took part and were very appreciative of the hospitable and welcoming NZ Scrabble community. The event was won by Howard Warner who is well known here in Australia. Adam Kretschmer was Australia's top placed player, coming third.
Play from a featured table most rounds were streamed on the Scrabble NZ YouTube Channel and the event was WESPA rated.
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The Victorian Championship had a substantial prize pool and was held at Novotel Preston. 40 players took part including visitors from New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland See Results
The Causeway Challenge came back bigger and better, in Thailand for the first time. There were 440 players who played 36 rounds over four days. Australians love this event and so we had 34 players there. The Causeway Champion was our own David Eldar, who has now got on top of the formidable Nigel Richards to become the number one rated Scrabble player in the world.
Premier Champion
Other prizewinners:
8th, D division
6th, D division
5th, E division
You can see full details at causeway-challenge.com
The Trans Tasman is a biennial event where an Australian team plays a New Zealand team. In 2026 12 Australians will play 12 New Zealand players over 24 games and this will be hosted in Australia, in Queensland.
For the first time there will be a Youth Trans Tasman alongside the adult event. Nine young Australians will play three New Zealand players over three days. There will be 22 rounds in all which is a double round robin of all 12 players, where the games of Australia vs New Zealand will count for team tallies.
See selection processes for Trans Tasman and Youth Trans Tasman