Recently updated on July 23rd, 2020 at 03:34 pm
Jighere Wellington has emerged the new Scrabble champion of the world after defeating Lewis Mackay 4-0 in a Best of Seven series in Perth Australia.
Jighere Wellington, who had already finished first in a 32-Game Scrabble marathon to qualify for the two-man finals, defeated his English opponent in just four games (out of seven) and thus, becomes the new World Scrabble Champion.
Wellington also placed 3rd at the World Scrabble Championship in 2007.
Nigeria also emerged as the best team of the championship as five of its six representatives finished in top 50 players of the tournament with Ayorinde Saidu and Emmanuel Umujose placing 16th and 17th, respectively.
With this victory, Nigeria will gain more slots in terms of representations at subsequent world tournaments.
“It is a testimony of the potential of Nigeria as a country and the sacrifice and hard work of the board under my leadership.
We started preparation about a year ago with seven camps which we christened Scrabble Meets to put our team in shape for the world championship and it has paid off.
I am very proud of the Nigerian team and very proud to be Nigerian.
I hope this victory will be made complete when our Golden Eaglets wins the World Cup later today.”
