KARACHI: The 21st Inter-school Scrabble Championship will be played at the BVS Parsi School on Feb 8-9. This was announced by Pakistan Scrabble Association’s Director Youth Program Tariq Pervez in a press conference here the other day.
“We are very excited to announce this tournament which was a bumper success last year and turned out be the biggest scrabble event in the world with as many as 1800 students participating in it,” said Tariq. “And this year, we are expecting to create a new world record with over 2000 student likely to compete in the inter-school scrabble.”
“Invitations have been sent to more than 600 schools and colleges on our database but the championship, which will be sponsored by Quetta Gladiators, is open to all schools, colleges and universities,” he added. “We are grateful to Nadeem Omar, who is a founder member of PSA, for providing us this huge platform which will be a great boost for scrabble itself.”
The entry forms for registration in the championship is available at www.pakistanscrabble.org while online registration can be made at www.milgaya.pk.
Over 2000 students likely to compete
“Players aged 7-23 are eligble to take part in the championship. There are ten categories which give ample chance to the players to win trophies and medals while some attractive prizes are in store for top performers,” said Tariq.
“No less than 200 players will be picked for training by a professional coach and then a Pakistan team will be selected for the WESPA Cup and the Junior Scrabble Championship,” concluded Tariq.
Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2020
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