all things considered, huge props to Chris for fighting back after getting hit with 400 points in consecutive turns

@bloodeyes1690

Ай бұрын

Feels like all these high scoring games the opponent does well to guess it makes sense if one persons getting like 600+ their not blocking much if anything

Not going to talk about the 11-letter DIRECTORIAL on the SQUAREd board?

@galoomba5559

Ай бұрын

probably (DIRECTOR)IAL but still funny how it was just ignored

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

You know, I intended to and somehow just forgot. Pretty incredible board there all around!

Tbf the thing I love the most in this game is CORONAE hooking KRONEN, with both words being related to crown

@TheEpicReach

Ай бұрын

I once S-hooked HAPLOSES onto MEIOSES and felt like the biggest science nerd of all time in a casual scrabble game with me friends B-)

A lot of competitive games tend to be very centred around Europe and North America so I’m glad that not only is high level play found around the globe but also that Will takes the time to point it out

@x14550x

Ай бұрын

not everything in the universe has to eventuate in a talking-point for your inane justice crusade

@AlexDings

Ай бұрын

​@@x14550x I beg you to touch some grass

@x14550x

Ай бұрын

@@AlexDings i'm afraid europeans are not legally permitted to respond to my comments; i have contacted your local authorities

@lifesarisk9086

Ай бұрын

​@@x14550x go back to crying over scrabble dawg 💀 💀

@x14550x

Ай бұрын

@@lifesarisk9086 you will be hearing from my lawyer

Tiles played progress bar is a good idea! It's a good casual spectator feature.

For those of you coming to this video after the fact, Will ended up winning this exhibition set 4 games to 2, but Wellington ended up winning the actual full tournament.

My jaw actually, literally dropped at AFFIXABLE. That is ridiculous. Would love to see more videos about the African Scrabble scene, seems like there are so many strong players. Good luck against Wellington! (You'll need it 😝)

Awesome video. Possible followups: highest scoring nonbingo; montage of 7-overlaps; biggest out-bingo comebacks.

not only is this play insane, the announcement at the end had me popping off, LET'S GO WILL!!!! we believe in you, best of luck in both competitions!!!! 😤

Teacher: Will that's not how "candy" is spelled Will: This is an arcane spelling from 11th century Mongolia Teacher: 🙄

@jellomochas

Ай бұрын

CANDIE: (Tamil) a South Indian weight, approximately 500 lb. Imperial, also CANDY, KANDY [n -S]

@Cheasle2

Ай бұрын

archaic

Whenever you show the player's rack pre-bingo I always pause for a couple of seconds to try to find it myself but never accomplish in doing so. Affixable especially was a great find! Excited for the Will vs Wellington matchup. You know, they don't call you the Dick Fosbury of chess for nothing.

LOVE the tiles played bar at the bottom! I haven't noticed it before and it really helps show the game progress.

He was so insightful on commentary in the last World Championship Final too! Super excited for the set, and hopefully for some deep post-game commentary :)

Crazy to see you go from under 10K and thinking “wow this guy deserves way more subs and attention his videos are so entertaining!” To today where I’m saying the same thing despite a massive milestone of 40K in the near future. I hope you continue to grow in popularity as you inspire others to play this game!

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

congrats on 40k!! i never knew about the scrabble championships (and the general competitive sport) but now I'm deeply invested in this amazing sport :D and your narration and explanations really make this that much more entertaining and fun to watch!

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, this comment means a lot to me.

Sounds like Rachel's play still the highest scoring play to have a total word multiplier of under 3?

Gazumpers should be an interjection.

@alexpotts6520

Ай бұрын

Sounds like something Shaggy from Scooby Doo would say.

Will vs Wellington.. Such a legendary head-to-head.

40k subs well deserved! Every time you upload I watch it asap and recommend your channel highly to my friends. We dont even play scrabble LMFAO Your videos are just the right length and palatable enough to the layman to be worth a watch every time it comes up in my feed. Keep doing what youre doing man

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

I really appreciate this, thank you

oh god, I can't imagine putting together a video about how someone set a record-breaking scoring play with the context that I was going to go up against them soon 😅

Thank you for the progress bar!! It's a huge help to a scrabble noob like me, especially when I cant see all the tiles the players have.

Will, In a world filled with justice, you would have 400,000 subs or maybe 400 million. Alas, we are in a world that favors watching cats play the piano. Hey, wait a minute, could you teach your cats to play the piano?

I literally opened up youtube hoping for a new will Anderson vid and it was my first recommendation.

Love the new tiles played bar. Very helpful

what an amazing achievement! thanks as always for showcasing, Will. looking forward to the match

Heck yeah, good luck! Your first time competing in a live event since I discovered the channel, subscribed, and watched most of your videos

His photo looks just as threatening as he was in this game.

@debrisfromtheplanet

Ай бұрын

Wellington has such a good smile!His photo should reflect that, I think 😃

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

He’s focused over the board but is always smiling and a total gentleman otherwise.

@orager1

Ай бұрын

@@wanderer15 He probably is, I was just complementing his skills.

Congrats on 40k subs! It's the least you deserve with all your high quality entertaining scrabble content

Can you please upload more scrabble videos like this. I don’t care how old they are I just like watching the scrabble games and breakdowns

Your content smacks of intelligence in such an entertaining way, Will. Thank you!

Great video. Cant wait to see you back in action. Good luck!

It's hard not to be hard when making hard plays the hard way.

@0Architectdude0

Ай бұрын

Hard pause

@AngelShrimpChips

Ай бұрын

What if instead of Scrabble Champions it was called Scrabble Freakions and instead of playing hard words, you got hard to words.

@Cats83747

Ай бұрын

@@AngelShrimpChips 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓫𝓫𝓵𝓮 👅

Good luck at the regional! Awesome video once again =)

Great video as always with some excellent play and historical context! I noticed in this video there are more word challenges than I'm used to seeing - are these done purely from a defensive standpoint, like on the off chance it's not a valid play, it's worth sacrificing five points to challenge them off? Good luck this week as well!

@skedfinger

Ай бұрын

The first one most probably, the other ones seem more salty than anything though…

@Dashie-

Ай бұрын

Challening eaved seems like just throwing 5 spread points away haha

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, 3 challenges is a lot, but internationally, the 5-point rule makes it much less damaging to challenge a valid word, so you’ll see a few more “just making sure” type of challenges than usual, which is what I think these were.

@SaraGrossbarth

Ай бұрын

@@wanderer15 totally makes sense - thank you for the clarity!

Looking forward to a great tournament. All the best Will 🙌🏽

i liked the tiles played bar at the bottom :)

Wonderful video. Can't wait to see the legends play on stream

There's a Collins division of the North American championship?

4:38 small correction: "kronen" is actually not plural but the definite form of krone in danish, norwegian and swedish, equivolant of saying "the krone"😊

@mwickholm

Ай бұрын

Not in Swedish, where it's krona and kronan.

@powt0wn

Ай бұрын

kronen is the plural of the austrian krone

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

Oops. Noted!

I really respect your efforts to bring awareness to competitive scrabble. And of course, the videos are good fun too ;) edit : And good luck, too !

Congrats on 40000 subscribers!

Couple years ago I hit a double double bingo for 150 pts with hydrazine

6:17 plural of tzaddik

So we're just glossing over the hilarity of BEJEEZUS being a valid word?

@alexpotts6520

Ай бұрын

The dictionary does have some very silly high-scoring bingoes. I think my favourite (because I actually got to play it in an online game once and spent the entire rest of the game giggling about it) is VAJAZZLE, which Collins defines as "to decorate the female genitals with jewellery". Sadly, VAJAYJAY is not yet valid. Please get on that, Scrabble lexicographers.

@PokerJoker811

Ай бұрын

@@alexpotts6520 Now that is one hell of a use of a blank.

I'm probably the scrabble player that got the easiest 700 pt+ game in a tournament

Congrats on 40k!!!

Willington will be epic!!!

Good skill and good,luck in Albany!

Will, is it possible for you to show every tile on a player's rack during these recap videos? Surely it must be possible to reverse engineer which tiles they had on each turn by starting at the end of the game and going backwards? It could probably even be automated via code. Unless there's a detail I'm overlooking :)

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

I think normally I do this! This game wasn’t live streamed and the players didn’t record every rack for posterity, so I was working with Wellington’s year-old memories. Normally, the games I pick for videos do have full racks for both players.

Can’t wait to watch the big upcoming Albany tournament.

Wellington plays scrabble like Scrabble Go in mini-scrabble mode

gl will!

Fun video! It'd be interesting to know what are the highest scoring non-bingo plays, as well as the highest scoring games with zero bingos in professional play.

Good luck bro!

Goodluck Will!

1:38 Who else thought of that one song when he said "zebu"?

Will has there ever been a time when someone had a BINGO available to play, but the smarter move was actually NOT to play it?

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

Yes, this isn’t common, but it definitely happens. There was one such situation in my previous video about a game between Josh Sokol and Jackson Smylie. In most cases, passing up a bingo involves holding the blank tile and having a strong scoring play that saves the blank for next move, giving you a better 2-turn sequence than taking the immediate bingo.

@JoshBreakdowns

Ай бұрын

@@wanderer15 cant believe I missed that!! I watch every one of your videos. Thank you for the reply 🙏🙏👍👍

I watched this 7 times lol

he may not even know he set this record 😭

Dang. And good luck.

Forget wishing Will or Wellington luck I wish for the show match to go the full 7 games. Also looking forward to watching all participants in the main event do you know who will be casting?

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

Josh Sokol and Matt Canik. Quite the casting duo.

2:58 i actually shouted "WHAT" at my computer

President’s Cup? Just change the name to Wellington’s Cup already.

When you said he won the worlds in 2015 I looked it up on Wikipedia, I noticed the last entry was 2019 but then no winners after that, did the world championship discontinue or something?

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

It’s mostly because of Mattel - they have the right to designate the event as the official championship, which they had done every other year for a while. but the players have held an event called the WESPA Championship during the off years, and I don’t think we see any distinction between those two things in our community.

Good luck!

EE? GU? IO? JA? What are these 2-letter words?

@ianp1745

Ай бұрын

Those are CSW exclusive 2s

Good luck in Albany, Will!!!

i had a 724:437 game this year but this is next-level

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

700+ is always an incredible accomplishment, nice one!

Today I learned that GAZUMPER is a word. And such a fantastic definition, too.

3:39 why didn’t chris lose his turn by challenging the valid word? (Apologies if its a dumb question)

@zekdee

Ай бұрын

North American rules versus international rules differ in that way - same as the distinction between Collins dictionary and Merriam-Webster

I was present in this tournament

ik this is mostly unrelated to the video, but one time i almost had anxious, but there wasnt an s on the board, and i didnt have one myself(btw this was on an online game)

GAME OF THE GODS V2?

Why is Wellington's photo so intimidating?

0:48 I thought it was common practice to always start horizontally 

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

It is, but the only actual rule is that the word touch the center star. It’s actually kind of a funny faux debate within our scene and maybe worth a video someday.

Someone help please! I've tried so hard to find the highest scoring single scrabble move *Actually Played In A Tournament* and I haven't been able to at all as every search result is just the theoretical best --- looks like cross-tables as used by will here would be helpful but I can't figure out how to search single moves let alone order by highest scoring. If anyone could help find a list I would appreciate it so much!!!!

@AlexDings

Ай бұрын

392 points for CAZIQUES by a player called Karl Khoshnaw

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

To find stuff like that on cross-tables you need somebody with a higher level of access to the game database than is publicly available, so don’t worry! You’re not missing anything. This page has at least some good info: www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Records

i wonder what the highest score possible w/o using a triple

@alexpotts6520

Ай бұрын

Presumably it's still OXYPHENBUTAZONE, but just not in the triple lane.

@xwddydfy_3

Ай бұрын

​@@alexpotts6520we'd also have to account for the premium squares that could affect the score

let’s go 0s

I will be there no matter what

Why would it be a good idea to challenge the word affixable? We know it's a valid word, right?

@wanderer15

Ай бұрын

For 178 points, I’d challenge almost anything! The Scrabble dictionary can be inconsistent, so given the move’s score and game situation (Chris essentially loses on the spot if the word is valid, so he needs it to somehow not be valid despite common sense), I think his decision was wise.

@richards31415

26 күн бұрын

It's 5-point challenge; definitely challenge unless you've studied all the 9-letter -ABLE words

😯😲🤯

hamburger!

I have no idea what 2/3 of the shorter words even mean. I think this game has become a bit of a joke and unwelcoming for new players.

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