Los Angeles Students Take Home the W-I-N at the 2017 North American School SCRABBLE Championship
April 23 2017 - 8:28PM
Business Wire
After a weekend filled with unscrambling dozens of letters and
locating coveted vowels, the student SCRABBLE team of Jem Burch and
Zach Ansell, from Los Angeles, Calif. took home the title of 2017
North American School SCRABBLE Champions. More than 150 top School
SCRABBLE players in grades 4 through 12 competed in the 15th annual
North American School SCRABBLE Championship at Gillette Stadium in
Foxborough, Mass. The winning duo was awarded a prestigious $10,000
grand prize after defeating dozens of enthusiastic teams.
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Jem Burch and Zach Ansell, from Los
Angeles, Calif. took home the title of 2017 North American School
SCRABBLE Champions at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. (Photo:
Business Wire)
“The number of bright and talented SCRABBLE players we see every
year never fails to impress me,” said Jonathan Berkowitz, senior
vice president of marketing, Hasbro Gaming. “The competition in the
15th annual North American School SCRABBLE Championship was fierce
– but fun – and we want to thank all of the participants, coaches,
families, and friends who joined Hasbro for a weekend filled with
extraordinary SCRABBLE gameplay.”
Eighth-grader Jem Burch and seventh-grader Zach Ansell, also
known by their SCRABBLE team name Random Word Generators are both
former School SCRABBLE Champions. The duo played eight tournament
rounds throughout the weekend, out-spelling their final opponents
374-349 with high-scoring words such as EUGENIA, INFARES, ENTRESOL
and STEEPING.
The winners of the newly-formed Challenge Division, geared
towards newer SCRABBLE players and first time competitors in grades
4 through 12 was won by teammates Audrey Benford from Potomac, Md.
and Dina Lacugna from Fairfield, Conn. The winner of the newly
formed High School Division was Kevin Bowerman from Chapel Hill,
NC.
This year, the North American School SCRABBLE Championship was
officiated by Mindsports International. To learn more about playing
competitively as part of the community of School SCRABBLE players,
visit schoolscrabble.us. For more information on the SCRABBLE
brand, visit Hasbro.com/SCRABBLE and follow @HasbroNews on
Twitter.
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