National School Scrabble Championship who had earlier that year scored a record 749 points in one game, came second two consecutive years. National School Scrabble Championship The National School Scrabble Championship, now called the North American School SCRABBLE® Championship, is a Scrabble tournament for 3rd-8th graders held annually in North America since 2003. In 2018, 3rd graders were allowed to compete for the first time; prior to 2012, 5th graders were the youngest grade allowed to compete. The School Scrabble Championship uses the SSWL dictionary, which has offensive words such as "lez" or "jew" omitted. The competition is tournament Scrabble play, in which teams
Scrabble letter distributions not allowed. Official rules treat the "Q" tile as just one letter, but usually Catalan players use the "Q" tile like the "QU" digraph and all Catalan Scrabble Clubs use this "de facto" rule. "K", "W", and "Y" are absent because they are only used in loanwords or, in the case of "Y", the digraph "NY". Blanks cannot be used to represent "K", "W", or "Y". There is a Catalan Scrabble clone which uses the same 21x21 board as Super Scrabble. Croatian-language Scrabble sets use the following 103 tiles: "Q", "W", "X" and "Y" are not included, as Croatian does