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We welcome inquiries from the media concerning our association, its clubs and tournaments and its players.

For further information, please contact NASPA copresidents Chris Cree in Dallas, TX or John Chew in Toronto, ON.

Recent Mention

May 23, 2016: / ABC15 Arizona interviewed 2016 North American School SCRABBLE champion Cooper Komatsu who will be competing in 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
May 21, 2016: News-Sentinel and WOWO coverage of Fort Wayne (IN) tournament.
May 19, 2016: Wall Street Journal interviews 2015 world champion Wellington Jighere. Features photos of 2015 North American SCRABBLE Championship and Chris Lipe who is quoted along with Stefan Fatsis.
- May 23, 2016: Stefan Fatsis and Oliver Roeder respond to the article in Slate. Chris Lipe, Jesse Day, and Evans Clinchy are quoted.
2016 Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship
- May 27, 2016: Adam Logan interviewed by CTV Morning Live
- May 22, 2016: Adam Logan interviewed by CBC News
- May 16, 2016: Oklahoma's NewsOn6 and other sources quote from the event final press release.
- May 16, 2016: Adam Logan interviewed on 1310 News talk radio.
- May 16, 2016: Lengthy interview with John Chew at Torontoist.
- May 15, 2016: News segment on CityNews evening programme.
- May 13, 2016: Two-minute segment on Global News evening programme, featuring Matthew Tunnicliffe and several School SCRABBLE participants.

Older Mention

2016 North American School SCRABBLE Championship
- April 24, 2016: Los Angeles Wave reports on final results
- April 13, 2016: Westhampton-Hampton Bays Patch reports on local students participating in the NASSC.
- April 10, 2016: The Sun Chronicle reports on the NASSC as a local news item.
February 3, 2016: The Oklahoman interviews members of the Oklahoma City club for a lengthy feature article.
January 21, 2016: Newsworks interview John Green about the ASAP School SCRABBLE Program in Philadelphia.
January 14, 2016: Omaha.com reports on George Asaka and the Omaha Scrabble Club.
November 22, 2015: The Lexington Herald Leader reports on the Bluegrass Scrabble Fall Classic, interviewing Lindsey Dimmick, Steve Bush, Jeff Clark, Joey Krafchick and others.
2015 North American SCRABBLE Championship
- August 6, 2015: Ottawa Sun interviews Matthew Tunnicliffe.
- August 6, 2015: Ottawa Citizen interviews Matthew Tunnicliffe, mentions Adam Logan, quotes John Chew.
- August 5, 2015: KOLO-TV reports on Matthew Tunnicliffe beating Jesse Day for the win.
- August 4, 2015: Reno Gazette-Journal interviews John Chew and Conrad Bassett-Bouchard
July 23, 2015: Chris Cree talks about Nigel Richards winning the French WSC on The Daily Beast.
May 25, 2015: John Chew interviewed by CTV News Channel about the new words in the Collins word list.
May 21, 2015: John Chew interviewed by NPR and Reuters about the new words in the Collins word list.
May 17, 2015: Noah Kalus and Zach Ansel's win at the 2015 North American School SCRABBLE Championship and subsequent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel reported on by the Times Herald-Record (of Middletown, NY), the Poughkeepsie Journal, Oneida Dispatch, Ridgefield Press, Toy News, and others.
April 21, 2015: 2014 National SCRABBLE Champion Conrad Bassett-Bouchard and others mentioned in an article entitled “Winning SCRABBLE and the Nature of Expertise” in Scientific American.
2014 World SCRABBLE Championship
- December 9, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe interviewed in Rome Sentinel.
- November 24, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe mentioned in Business Insider.
- November 23, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe mentioned in The Telegraph.
- November 23, 2014: 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship runner-up Chris Lipe mentioned in The Independent.
- November 22, 2014: John Chew leads off a BBC News story about the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship.
- November 21, 2014: Jesse Matthews, John Chew, Adam Logan and others featured in a story about the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship on AlJazeera.com.
- November 21, 2014: John Chew quotes briefly in a BBC News story about the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship.
- November 20, 2014: Conrad Bassett-Bouchard gives SCRABBLE tips to OPB leading up to the 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship.
- November 10, 2014: Evan Berofsky featured in an article in the Oakland Press.
2014 National SCRABBLE Championship
- August 10, 2014: Several players interviewed in a feature article about the 2014 National SCRABBLE Championship in the Buffalo news.
- August 8, 2014: Oliver Roeder reports on the Nigel Richards phenomenon on fivethirtyeight.com.
2015 Changes to OSPD and OTCWL
- August 27, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quotes about the new words on the Colbert Report.
- August 5, 2014: Chris Cree and John Chew help MentalFloss with some fun facts about our game.
- August 5, 2014: John Chew gives the Canadian perspective on the new words in the National Post
- August 5, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quoted at length in an article about the new words in the Globe and Mail
- August 5, 2014: John Chew quoted in an article about the new words at Forbes.
- August 5, 2014: Chris Cree quoted in a Reuters article about the new words.
- August 5, 2014: 18-minute interview with Simi Sara on CKNW 980 with John Chew about the new words.
- August 5, 2014: ABC News talks about our new words.
- August 4, 2014: John Chew quoted briefly in the New York Daily News on the new edition of OSPD.
- August 4, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quoted in an AP story about new words coming into OSPD.
- August 4, 2014: Chris Cree and John Chew quoted by CNN (Spanish translation) on the new words.
March 16, 2014: John Chew mentioned in the Wall Street Journal article “This Scrabble-Playing Robot Is a Sore Loser”
2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
- April 22, 2014: John Chew on CTV National News with members of the Toronto SCRABBLE Club talking about GEOCACHE.
- April 10, 2014: Stefan Fatsis quotes John Chew and Chris Cree at Slate in The Word That Won Scrabble’s New-Word Contest Is Totally Useless in Scrabble
- March 14, 2014: Stefan Fatsis writes on Slate.com about the 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
- March 14, 2014: John Chew on CTV News Channel talking about the 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
- March 13, 2014: John Chew on NPR’s Here and Now to talk about the 2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown
2010 National SCRABBLE Championship

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 ** May 23, 2016: [[Stefan Fatsis]] and Oliver Roeder respond to the article in [http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2016/05/have_nigerian_players_developed_an_amazing_new_scrabble_strategy_don_t_believe.html/ Slate]. [[Chris Lipe]], [[Jesse Day]], and [[Evans Clinchy]] are quoted.
 * [[2016 Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
+** May 27, 2016: [[Adam Logan]] interviewed by [http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=877769&binId=1.1164511&playlistPageNum=1/ CTV Morning Live]
 ** May 22, 2016: [[Adam Logan]] interviewed by [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/adam-logan-canadian-scrabble-champ-1.3587427/ CBC News]
 ** May 16, 2016: Oklahoma's [http://www.newson6.com/story/31992630/adam-logan-racks-up-high-score-to-become-2016-canadian-national-scrabble-champion NewsOn6] and other sources quote from the event final press release.

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