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
North American Scrabble Championship the Presidential Suite of the Loews Summit Hotel in New York City. Joel Skolnick and Carol Felstein, as usual, served as the tournament director and word judge, respectively. David Prinz took the $1,500 first prize, followed by Dan Pratt and Mike Senkiewicz. In 1980, soon after the publication of the first Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, control of the national tournament passed to the National Scrabble Association. They continued to organize the tournament until 2008. The official name of the tournament has been "National SCRABBLE Championship" in recent years, except in 2006 when it was named "US SCRABBLE Open". In 2015,