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The 4th Canadian SCRABBLE Championship is being held at the Ontario Club, on the 5th floor of Commerce Court South, at 30 Wellington Street West, between Bay and Yonge. The event begins with a reception from 6:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Friday, December 5th, 2003, runs until 10:30 Friday night, continues from 8:30 A.M. to about 6:30 P.M. Saturday and Sunday, and finishes with a best-of-five finals which starts at 08:30 Monday morning and will finish with the ceremonial awarding of a prize cheque to the new Canadian champion around lunchtime. The exact end time is uncertain, because of the best-of-five format.

We welcome enquiries and visits from the media. Much more information about the event can be found at this site, including biographical information about the participants, statistics that will be continuously updated throughout the event, photographs, and annotated games that you can step through one turn at a time. All photographs are available upon request at print resolutions.

For information about tournament SCRABBLE in Canada, the Toronto SCRABBLE club, or the Canadian SCRABBLE Championship, please call tournament director John Chew at (416) 876-7675 between 7:00 A.M. and 11:00 P.M.

For information about the event sponsor, Hasbro Canada, and other Hasbro games, please call Hasbro marketing services specialist Marisa Pedatella at (905) 238-3374.

For information about the event co-organizer, The Toronto Games, and their not-for-profit efforts to make Toronto "the place where the world comes to play", please call (416) 955-1551.

For information about the American National Championship, the World Championship, School SCRABBLE, or SCRABBLE in North America, please call the National SCRABBLE Association at (631) 477-0033.

HASBRO is the owner of the registered SCRABBLE^® trademark in the United States and Canada. © 2008 HASBRO. All rights reserved. "SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game" is the proper way to refer to this unique group of word games and related properties marketed by HASBRO. "SCRABBLE" is not a generic term. To use it as such is not only misleading but also does injustice to the company responsible for the trademark's longtime popularity. All we ask is that when you mean SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game, you say so.

The SCRABBLE^® trademark is owned by J.W. Spear and Sons, PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. outside of the United States and Canada.

For more information about SCRABBLE or the NSA, or to comment on or correct the contents of this page, please e-mail: info@scrabble-assoc.com
To report technical difficulties in reading this page, please contact webmaster John Chew at: jjchew@math.utoronto.ca