Nigeria wins 13th title to maintain dominance of African scrabble
Nigeria has again re-asserted her dominance of African scrabble as Enoch Nwali won the 14th edition of the African Scrabble Championship (ASC) which ended on Monday, October 24 in Lusaka, Zambia. The victory was the icing on the cake as earlier on, Adekoyejo Adegbesan, was elected as the president of the Pan Africa Scrabble Association […]
Nigeria has again re-asserted her dominance of African scrabble as Enoch Nwali won the 14th edition of the African Scrabble Championship (ASC) which ended on Monday, October 24 in Lusaka, Zambia.
The victory was the icing on the cake as earlier on, Adekoyejo Adegbesan, was elected as the president of the Pan Africa Scrabble Association (PANASA).
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Nwali, who is winning the title for the first time, defeated his closest rival and compatriot Wellington Jighere in a tightly contested round 31.
Wellington, a dogged master of the game, trailed the young gun from day two closely expecting some slip-up from the frontrunner.
But round 31 became a threshold for both players as Jighere who won the African title back-to-back in 2008 and 2010 knew a defeat would be fatal to his ambition of becoming the first player to win the championship three times.
At the end, Nwali won the tie by a point as the final score stood at 514-513 after Jighere did some reconciliation for a possible scoring error which could have dragged the game further.
After the result was confirmed, the score pushed Nwali’s overall result to 25½ wins and 6½ losses with a monstrous 2,023 cumulative points and stamped his new status as the 11th Nigerian to have his name etched in history as a winner at the championship.
This victory in Zambia has now extended Nigeria’s dominance on the African scene to 13 wins from the 14 editions held since 1994.