Scrabble Champions Tournament 2014 464. In the final game, Craig had bingos VENTROUS, GAIETIEs, DIORItE while Chris had DIRECTER and a 60-point XENIC but Craig sealed the win with a 42-point TALAQ to take the game 438 - 414 and the title of World Champion. Beevers, whose prize was £3,000, has been playing for 12 years and was the 2009 UK champion. Third and fourth were Dave Wiegand and Adam Logan respectively. The weekend following the championship there was a consolation tournament which was won by 2013 champion Nigel Richards. Scrabble Champions Tournament 2014 The World Scrabble Championship 2014, renamed by Mattel to Scrabble
Nigel Richards (Scrabble player) French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary and despite not being a Francophone. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016. Renowned for his eidetic and mathematical abilities, Richards has been described as a reclusive personality and is rarely interviewed. Richards started playing competitive Scrabble at New Zealand's Christchurch Scrabble Club. Since beginning his competitive career in 1997, he has won about 75% of his tournament games, collecting an estimated USD200,000 in prize money. In 2000 Richards moved to Malaysia. Richards won the World Scrabble Championship and earned USD 15,000