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John Chew is a cochair of the Steering Committee, an ex officio member of all NSA [[committees]] and
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webmaster for the NSA.
 
  
He is also the director of Club #3 in Toronto, Ontario, and helps run events each month ranging from the World
 
SCRABBLE Championship to local school tournaments.  He is a software developer, best known in the SCRABBLE community
 
for his
 
[http://tsh.poslfit.com tsh tournament management program].
 
  
He can be reached by e-mail at jjchew@math.utoronto.ca or by phone between 9:30 A.M and 9:30 P.M. ET
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He is also:
at 416-876-7675.
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* chief executive officer of NASPA (since 2019-07-22)
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* past copresident of NASPA (until 2019-07-22)
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* director of the oldest sanctioned SCRABBLE [[clubs|club]] in North America, NASPA Club #3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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* director of the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
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* director and webmaster of the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]]
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* a software developer, best known in the SCRABBLE community for his [http://tsh.poslfit.com tsh tournament management program]
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* coholder of the North American record for highest-scoring tied tournament game (502–502)
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* past webmaster for the [[NSA]]
  
== Recent activity ==
 
  
* 2009-02-14: installed and configured NASPAWiki
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He lives with his family in Toronto, ON, where he develops electoral data
* 2009-02-13: designed initial version of NASPA home page
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distribution and visualisation software, and occasionally still performs
* 2009-02-12: designed provisional NASPA logo
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research in discrete mathematics.
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<!-- where he is working on the defence of
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his PhD thesis in mathematics at the University of Toronto. -->
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He can be reached by email at
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[mailto:info@scrabbleplayers.org info@scrabbleplayers.org]
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or by phone
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between 9:30 A.M and 8:30 P.M. ET (or at any hour during major championships) at +1 214 810 2439 (U.S.) or +1 416 876 7675 (Canada).
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You can also send him chat messages on Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, LINE, Skype or WhatsApp; email him for account information.

Latest revision as of 10:32, 12 August 2022

[photo of John Chew] John Chew is a Certified Tournament Director from Toronto, ON, CAN.


He has received the following awards:
Year Award
2006 Michael R. Wise Memorial Person of the Year


He has had the following most recent tournament wins:
  • 2019-10-25 09:00~2019-10-25 18:00: Toronto, ON, CAN (7.0–0.0 +1048)
  • 2018-08-03 09:00~2018-08-03 18:00: NASC Early Bird (4.0–0.0 +408)
  • 2014-08-08 09:00~2014-08-08 18:00: National SCRABBLE Championship EB (4.0–0.0 +461)


He is a current member of the following committee(s):


He has served past terms on the following committee(s):


He is also:

  • chief executive officer of NASPA (since 2019-07-22)
  • past copresident of NASPA (until 2019-07-22)
  • director of the oldest sanctioned SCRABBLE club in North America, NASPA Club #3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • director of the Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship
  • director and webmaster of the World SCRABBLE Championship
  • a software developer, best known in the SCRABBLE community for his tsh tournament management program
  • coholder of the North American record for highest-scoring tied tournament game (502–502)
  • past webmaster for the NSA


He lives with his family in Toronto, ON, where he develops electoral data distribution and visualisation software, and occasionally still performs research in discrete mathematics. He can be reached by email at info@scrabbleplayers.org or by phone between 9:30 A.M and 8:30 P.M. ET (or at any hour during major championships) at +1 214 810 2439 (U.S.) or +1 416 876 7675 (Canada). You can also send him chat messages on Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, LINE, Skype or WhatsApp; email him for account information.