'''2017 National SCRABBLE Championship'''<brembedvideo service="youtube">July 22&ndash;26, 2017, New Orleans, LA [[File:NSC2017-will-happy.jpg|link=2017_North_American_SCRABBLE_Championship]] Congratulations to the 2017 North American SCRABBLE Champion, '''Will Anderson'''! [httphttps://bitwww.lyyoutube.com/nsc17 LIVE COVERAGE]watch?v=uhO8SQP3WBM</embedvideo>

* 2017-08-01 [https://scrabble.formstack.com/forms/nasc2017_evaluation_form NASC 2017 Survey[IContact |NASPA News]] Share your opinions about this and future North American SCRABBLE Championships - open &mdash; subscribe to all NASPA members, not just NASC competitors.our weekly email message* 2017-07-26 [https://www.facebook/NASPAScrabble/ NASC 2017 on Facebook] Relive the action in New Orleans - pix, videos, and more!* 2017-07-15 [[Player Titles |Titles]] NASPA creates &mdash; players awarded the new titles title of SCRABBLE Expert, SCRABBLE Master and SCRABBLE Grandmaster to recognize player excellence.* 2017-07-01 [[2017 Advisory Board ElectionsRecords|AB Elections ResultsOfficial records]] are available: congratulations to &mdash; highest-scoring play, game, or other superlative achievements* [[Josh GreenwayAwards]]&mdash; Person of the Year, most games played, most wins, Rose Award, ...* [[Mike Willis]{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/wotd.pl Word of the Day] &mdash; learn a new word each day and up your game* [[Bruce D AmbrosioBreaking news]].&mdash; every major and minor news item gets posted here first

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