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
World Scrabble Championship 2018 played a best-of-five final the day after for the top prize of €10,000. Richards beat Day 3–1, becoming world champion for an unprecedented fourth time. The main event was preceded by a Junior World Scrabble Championship that was won by Pakistani Moiz Ullah Baig. The World Scrabble Championship 2018 took place at the Riveria International Centre in Torquay, Devon, England from 23 to 27 October, with the finals being held at a "clearview cube" in the Westfield Shopping Centre in London a day later, as part of Scrabble's 70th anniversary celebrations. The prize fund for the tournament was £15,500. There