Cuba and Argentina monopolized the main prizes of the CubaScrabble 2023 International Tournament, which ended this Saturday at the Tuxpan hotel, in Varadero.
Argentine Horacio Moavro, world runner-up and number 3 in the World ELO Ranking of scrabble in Spanish, confirmed his pre-competition favoritism and triumphed in the Classic Tournament, followed by Cuban Arturo Alonso and Costa Rican José González, champion of the previous edition.
In addition, Moavro finished second in the Duplicates Tournament, ahead of Rolando Guadalupe, five-time Cuban champion, and ahead of fellow host Alejandro Porto on the podium.
Regarding the individual prizes of this thirteenth edition of CubaScrabble, the Cuban Richard Velázquez achieved the highest score in a word (ZAFADO, 131 points) and also the highest score in a game (669), as reported on Facebook by Scrabble Promotion Group in Cuba.
For his part, Moavro had the best average points per game (530); Rodrigo Hinojosa, from Cuba, made the biggest scrabble (ACOSARAS, 149); the Costa Rican González, achieved the best scrabble average per game (3.42) and the Cuban Alonso, put together the highest word with Q (AZOQUEN, 112).
By teams, in the so-called Friendship Cup, the Asere Team from Cuba dominated, led by Richard Velázquez on the first board. The winners were followed by the Tuxpanchos and De la Patagonia al Caribe teams.
Meanwhile, in the Tuxpan Cup in the children’s category, the boy Marcos Pantoja Llizo won, followed on the podium by César Sifontes and Kevin Pérez, all from Cuba.
CubaScrabble 2023 brought together 26 participants from four countries in the famous resort of Varadero.
In addition to putting the best exponents of the island on the board with prominent foreign players, the event also aimed to make visible and promote the practice of a board game that “becomes an excellent challenge to connect letters, words and develop strategies in a simple and fun dynamics”, As reported Latin Press (PL).
In scrabble each player tries to earn more points by building words on a board of 15×15 square boxes. Words can be formed, as long as they appear in the standard dictionary, horizontally or vertically and can be crossed.
Some sources place it as the second best-selling board game in the world, only behind the famous Monopoly (Monopoly).
