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UPCOMING EVENTS
  • Mar 16 - Sunday Sessions 1
  • Mar 22/23 - Ballarat Open (incl Country Championship)
  • Apr 06 - April Full Day
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Another Friday Night Scrabble has been run and won! Congratulations to Paula Messer for going undefeated in the event to claim her maiden FNS Title. We hope everyone who attended, included our newer players, had an enjoyable time in this relaxed competition format.

Paula wins the prize at FNS
Hayden's first event


We returned to Mordy HQ for the first time in 2025 for the latest edition of the Bayside Open – thank you to the 20 players who played our event. Prizes were awarded today for 1st place, 2nd place, Best Rating Gain, Runner-Up Rating Gain, 3rd Place Rating Gain, and High Word/Game. This format allows us to give multiple prizes out no matter how people performed on the day 😊

1st Place – Nick Ivanovski
2nd Place – Alan Burn
Best Rating Gain – Frank Csarics
Runner-Up Rating Gain – Mardi Healy
3rd Place Rating Gain – Carol Mascitti
High Word – Frank Csarics
High Game – Peter Kougi


Nick secured the win today
Alan was runner up only by a very small margin! 35 spread points
Mardi took out one of the rating gain prizes. Frank and Carol took the other two
Peter's 623 was the high score of the day
The prizes on offer today


Friday Night Scrabble returned for 2025 and it was our best attended event in this format. In an excellent start to the year, Rob York went undefeated, taking out the top seed (Fadlan) in the final round of the night. It was great to see three new players take part and we hoped they enjoyed their night. Friday Night Scrabble returns on March 7 in Doncaster.


Rob takes the prize after winning all 4 games
The players on the night


32 players helped us celebrate our 40th Birthday with a 3 Division event in Balwyn today. Our event was opened by Barry Harridge, the first President of ASPA and was a great chance for players to remember the early days. Trophies were provided to commemorate the winners – and it was very appropriate that Barry was able to secure a trophy with a stellar performance in B. Trevor and Annette received trophies in their respective divisions and we congratulate all our prize winners today (including our two youngest players who secured prizes as well).


Barry opened proceedings with a wonderful speech
Prizes on offer at today's event
The first Across The Boards from 1985
Trevor's first domestic event for some time saw him emerge victorious
Prize winners in A (minus Nick for High Game and Chris for High Word)
Barry reigned supreme in B Division
Prize winners in B
Annette won a very competitive C Division
Prize winners in C
Nick's 637 the high score for the event.


The weather may have been rainy and made it perfect for Scrabble! This was our biggest Aestival since COVID ended and exceeded last year’s attendance by 2. We welcomed Julie, Caroline, and Finley for their first events – with further welcomes to Jane Taylor (SA) and for Sylvia and Alistair, who travelled from the east of the state to play today.

There were five divisions, played to a round robin format. David, Alistair, Jenny, Bobby, and Annette took the honours in a competitive field that featured three new players!


David and Andrew shared the prizes in a very competitive A Division!
Alistair played his first event in 12 months and won in B
Jenny won the Division but Rex and Kris took out the other prizes
Bobby takes out his first division win with Rob and Glen featuring in prizes.
Annette, Julie, and Eileen: prize winners in E


Thank you to all of you who supported our final event of 2024, the Decathon! It was our first event to use the new word list and it was great to see sightings of OWO, UWU, INT, BAW, and DUR amongst other words. Congratulations to Andrew for playing what was voted the most popular new word, which was VAQUITAS (a type of porpoise).

We had interstate and international presence at our event, which was wonderful to see. We welcomed Sumbul to our event circuit; like Fadlan and Bobby who came to our previous event, she is an international player who is based here for an extended period of time. In addition, Bill played his first in person event today, having been playing our online matches for the last couple of years.

Congratulations to David and all the other prize winners; we ended 2024 with the best attended Scrabble Victoria run event in 5 years and 2025 has so much more to promise!


The final prize winners of 2024
Welcome Bill to his first in-person event.
Welcome Sumbul to our events
176 for REEFIEST. 651 score. Rob's High Game masterclass.

Other news items from 2024 have been moved to the Archive