Wednesday was a day of activities at the
Uyo airport and designated hotels in the Akwa Ibom State capital as
players and officials hit town.
A review of the players already in town
shows that 86 of them are in for the Masters category; 89 for
intermediate category and 171 are registered for the Open category.
The Veterans category has 53 players,
while Mr Larry Ojoko leads a 20-man team of Nigeria Scrabble Federation
technical officials made up of adjudicators, annotators, commentators
and web masters.
The Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State
Scrabble Association Pastor Umoh Bassey said he was grateful to the
national body for preparing his association for the influx of players
this year.
He said, “If we had planned based on the
figures last year, we would have run into problems as we have more than
80 players over last year’s figure. The Governor Godswill Akpabio
Classics has become so popular that no scrabble player all over the
world wants to miss out.”
Top on the list of players is the world champion Nigel Richards.
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