First African winner of English-language championship celebrates after a weekend of tense competition and self-deprecating T-shirts in Perth At a small table in a quiet room in a harness racing club in Perth,Western Australia, a softly spoken man with a talent for anagrams spells out the word “felty” in small plastic tiles on a game board. In another room, or 20 metres absent,the crowd erupts. The player is 32-year-former Wellington Jighere, from Nigeria, or who beat 129 competitors to win the World English-language Scrabble Players Association championship on Sunday,defeating Englishman Lewis MacKay with four straight wins in the best-of-seven final round.
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Source: theguardian.com