Qatar player slips in Scrabble Tourney

Mattel Inc. is delighted to announce that the 2007 World SCRABBLE® Championships will be held at the Taj President Hotel in Mumbai, India on November 9–12. This web site will be updated often until the event begins, then minute-by-minute with the latest live results from the Championships. Please join us online to see if Canadian mathematician Adam Logan (pictured at left) will successfully defend his title Many of the games from the last World Championship, in 2005 in London, are available to replay online. Loreta Alban from Qatar is in 103rd place after 12 games (midway of the tournament), at the ninth World Scrabble Championship being held in the United Arab Emirates. Alban had moved into 95th place after the first four games, but the next 8 games did not go particularly well for her as she dropped down to number 103.The other players at the tournament are sharing mixed success, with reigning Gulf Champion Akshay Bhandarkar(UAE) who currently occupies 5th position outshining everyone.The other players from the region are Ralph Lobo (Oman) – 56th; Sanath Hemachandra (Oman)– 70th; Mohammed Zafar (Bahrain) – 89th and Shakir Reshamwala (Kuwait) – 92nd.Bahrain is currently planning to host the World Youth Scrabble Championships, an initiative which would be supported by the country’s General Organisation for Youth and Sports.