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词条 French World Scrabble Championships
释义

  1. List of tournaments

     World Championships  Other tournaments 

  2. History of the Championships

  3. List of winners of the Elite (duplicate individual) tournament

  4. List of winners of the Classique (matchplay) tournament

  5. References

  6. External links

The French World Scrabble Championships ({{lang-fr|Championnats du monde de Scrabble francophone}}) is an annual Scrabble tournament that takes place in a different French-speaking country every year. Created in 1972 by Hippolyte Wouters, it was the first of the three World Scrabble Championships to be created, with the English version being created in 1991 and the Spanish version being created in 1997.

Unlike the English and Spanish versions, the French World Championships are made up of various tournaments, somewhat like the World Series of Poker. The "Main Event" is the Elite tournament which has existed since 1972, and was first won by the tournament's creator Hippolyte Wouters.

List of tournaments

World Championships

{{see also|Duplicate Scrabble|Francophone Scrabble}}
  • Elite: Each national federation has a specified number of places in the Elite division in different age categories: Up to 16, 16-18, 18-25, 25-62, 62-72 and 72+. Each of these age categories has its own World Champion, but the individual World Champion is the player that wins the tournament. The tournament is a duplicate tournament where players do not play matches, but play every move with the same letters and board configuration as every other player and try to get the maximum score by playing the highest scoring move every time. Players play 7 games of 2 minutes per move.
  • Paires: Duplicate Scrabble in pairs, with two players discussing and submitting their solution together. 4 games are played with two minutes per move, followed by 2 games with just one minute per move. Players can form mixed pair, i.e. not both from the same country.
  • Blitz: A normal duplicate tournament but with 4 games with just one minute per move for all four games.
  • Classique (match play): Players play 17 games, two players to a board with the final standings being judged by games won and total points scored minus the total number of points scored by the player's opponents. The top two players in the standings play a best-of-three final to determine the World Champion. The tournament is very popular with African players as Duplicate Scrabble is less popular in Africa than it is in Europe.

Other tournaments

Some other tournaments are organised during the week which do not crown a World Champion but do have a winner:

  • Open classique: a matchplay Scrabble tournament open to players who have not already qualified for the Elite world championship. The winner qualifies for the Elite.
  • Open duplicate: an open duplicate tournament which anyone can compete in. Players who are qualified for the Elite are barred from competing in the Open under the rules of the International Federation.
  • Défi mondial: A duplicate game reserved for qualified players. The game is a normal duplicate game, apart from any player who misses the highest scoring solution is eliminated. This process continues until there is only one player remaining. To make things harder, the game starts at 80 seconds per move and goes down to 60 then 40 seconds per move.
  • Défi des jeunes: the same as the Défi mondial but for players aged under 18. Another notable difference is that each player can miss the highest scoring move once before being eliminated.

History of the Championships

The French World Scrabble Championships started off as a small tournament in Cannes with just 7 players, and at the time, was not considered to be a World Championship. The tournament moved each year and more and more players which led to other tournaments being created at the same venue. The Elite tournament was at first dominated by Belgian players, with 5 of the first 7 championships being won by Belgian players. After three French winners in 1979, 80 and 81 the tournament was taken over by Michel Duguet of France who won the tournament 5 times in 7 years, while finishing second twice in that period. Duguet also set various championship records by dropping just 12 points in 5 games, which is 99.71%. After winning the Elite World Championship for a 5th time he retired from Scrabble and took up contract bridge and became one of the best players in the world, competing in both the French national championships and the European team championships.

After Duguet's retirement the French domination of the championships continued, with in total 12 championships in a row being won by France. Indeed, France also took second place every year during that ran, apart from in 1990 when Christian Pierre of Belgium finished second. In 1991 it was Christian Pierre who won Belgium's first title since 1978 and continued to win the title a total of 5 times in 8 years, matching what Duguet did in the 1980s. In 2002 and 2003 Jean Pierre Hellebaut became the first Swiss winner of the tournament. In fact he was born in Belgium and had previously finished second in the Belgian national championship in 1991 but after moving to Switzerland, won the World Championship 2 years in a row, a feat only accomplished before that by Duguet and Pierre. Antonin Michel has since dominated the Elite World Championships, having won the tournament twice in 2005 and 2007 and having finished second in 2001 and 2006.

The pairs event has been mainly dominated by France; Michel Duguet holds the record with five titles while Antonin Michel and Franck Maniquant (also of France) are just behind with 4 titles. Two African players have won the title - Ndongo Samba Sylla and Mactar Sylla of Senegal - these two are in fact brothers.

The blitz is a relatively recent event, added in 2001 and 5 of the 8 championships have been won by Antonin Michel. The four other winners and Florian Lévy and Franck Maniquant of France, and Ndongo Samba Sylla and Mactar Sylla of Senegal.

The match play tournament known as le Championnat du monde de Scrabble classique was brought in in 2006 and has been systematically dominated by African players, showing that the traditional form of Scrabble is more popular in Africa than the duplicate one. In 2008 in Dakar, 7 of the top 10 players were African, the three exceptions being Pascal Astresses, Antonin Michel and Hervé Bohbot all from France. More recently, the 2015 event saw Africans claim six of the top 10 places, and in 2016 the top three players and seven of the top 10 were Africans.[1]

List of winners of the Elite (duplicate individual) tournament

YearHost CityWinnerNationalityRunner-upNationality
1972France}} CannesHippolyte Wouters{{BEL}}Sarah Wolfowitz{{BEL}}
1973Belgium}} LiègeAgnès Lempereur{{BEL}}Dominique Darmstaedter{{BEL}}
1974Monaco}} MonacoMarc Selis{{BEL}}Dominique Darmstaedter{{BEL}}
1975Spain}} EsteponaMichel Charlemagne{{FRA}}Marc Selis{{BEL}}
1976Tunisia}} DjerbaMarc Selis{{BEL}}Michel Charlemagne{{FRA}}
1977France}} Aix-les-BainsJean-Marc Bellot{{FRA}}Michel Pialat{{FRA}}
1978Belgium}} BrusselsYvon Duval{{BEL}}Claude Del{{FRA}}
1979France}} VichyBenjamin Hannuna{{FRA}}Vincent Labbé{{FRA}}
1980Belgium}} LiègeVincent Labbé{{FRA}}Robert Laïk{{FRA}}
1981Switzerland}} MontreuxJacques-Henri Muracciole{{FRA}}Marc Esquerré{{FRA}}
1982Tunisia}} HammametMichel Duguet{{FRA}}Benjamin Hannuna{{FRA}}
1983France}} GrenobleMichel Duguet{{FRA}}Frank Pluven{{FRA}}
1984Canada}} MontrealBenjamin Hannuna{{FRA}}Michel Duguet{{FRA}}
1985Belgium}} BrusselsMichel Duguet{{FRA}}Claude Del{{FRA}}
1986Switzerland}} LausannePhilippe Bellosta{{FRA}}Michel Duguet{{FRA}}
1987France}} MetzMichel Duguet{{FRA}}Philippe Lorenzo{{FRA}}
1988Canada}} QuebecMichel Duguet{{FRA}}Jean-Louis Pallavicini{{FRA}}
1989Belgium}} NamurPaul Levart{{FRA}}Marc Treiber{{FRA}}
1990Senegal}} DakarMarc Treiber{{FRA}}Christian Pierre{{BEL}}
1991Switzerland}} FleurierChristian Pierre{{BEL}}Paul Levart{{FRA}}
1992Canada}} HullChristian Pierre{{BEL}}Emmanuel Rivalan{{FRA}}
1993France}} Saint-MaloEmmanuel Rivalan{{FRA}}Franck Maniquant{{FRA}}
1994Belgium}} LibramontChristian Pierre{{BEL}}Eddy Clauwaert{{BEL}}
1995Switzerland}} OvronnazJean-François Lachaud{{FRA}}Franck Maniquant{{FRA}}
1996France}} Aix-les-BainsChristian Pierre{{BEL}}Nicolas Grellet{{FRA}}
1997Canada}} Saint-HyacintheAurélien Kermarrec{{FRA}}Emmanuel Rivalan{{FRA}}
1998Belgium}} BrusselsChristian Pierre{{BEL}}Franck Maniquant{{FRA}}
1999Switzerland}} BulleEmmanuel Rivalan{{FRA}}Jean-François Lachaud{{FRA}}
2000France}} ParisFlorian Lévy{{FRA}}Gérard Boccon{{FRA}}
2001France}} La RochelleFranck Maniquant{{FRA}}Antonin Michel and Emmanuel Rivalan{{FRA}}
2002Canada}} MontrealJean Pierre Hellebaut{{SUI}}Thierry Chincholle{{FRA}}
2003Belgium}} LiègeJean Pierre Hellebaut{{SUI}}Christian Pierre{{BEL}}
2004Morocco}} MarrakechGermain Boulianne{{CAN}}Franck Maniquant{{FRA}}
2005Switzerland}} NeuchâtelAntonin Michel{{FRA}}Jean Pierre Hellebaut{{SUI}}
2006France}} ToursPascal Fritsch{{FRA}}Antonin Michel{{FRA}}
2007Canada}} QuebecAntonin Michel{{FRA}}Christian Pierre{{BEL}}
2008Senegal}} DakarÉric Vennin{{BEL}}Aurélien Delaruelle{{FRA}}
2009Belgium}} MonsHugo Delafontaine{{SUI}}Christian Pierre{{BEL}}
2010France}} MontpellierAntonin Michel{{FRA}}Didier Roques{{FRA}}
2011Switzerland}} MontreuxFrancis Desjardins{{CAN}} Antonin Michel {{FRA}}
2012France}} MontaubanDavid Bovet{{SWI}} Étienne Budry {{FRA}}
2013Canada}} RimouskiAntonin Michel{{FRA}} David Bovet {{SWI}}
2014France}} Aix-les-BainsHugo Delafontaine{{SWI}} Francis Desjardins {{CAN}}
2015Belgium}} Louvain-la-NeuveDavid Bovet{{SWI}} Nigel Richards {{NZL}}
2016Morocco}} AgadirHugo Delafontaine{{SWI}} Arnaud Mulonda Democratic Republic of the Congo}} Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017Switzerland}} Martigny Nigel Richards {{NZL}} Thierry Chincholle {{FRA}}
2018Canada}} Tremblant Nigel Richards {{NZL}} Arnaud MulondaDemocratic Republic of the Congo}} Democratic Republic of the Congo [2]

List of winners of the Classique (matchplay) tournament

YearHost CityWinnerNationalityRunner-upNationality
2006France}} ToursParfait Mouanda{{CGO}}Henry-Marcel Engonge{{COD}}
2007Canada}} QuebecAmar Diokh{{SEN}}Edouard Lebeau{{FRA}}
2008Senegal}} DakarÉlisée Poka{{CIV}}Pascal Astresses{{FRA}}
2009Belgium}} MonsBenjamin Valour{{FRA}}Pierre-Olivier Georget{{FRA}}
2010France}} MontpellierChristian Coustillas {{FRA}}Gille Sauze{{FRA}}
2011Switzerland}} MontreuxJean-François Ramel{{FRA}} Julien Affaton {{BEN}}
2012France}} MontaubanPierre-Olivier Georget{{FRA}} Julien Affaton {{BEN}}
2013Canada}} RimouskiChristian Coustillas{{FRA}} Julien Affaton {{BEN}}
2014France}} Aix-les-BainsJulien Affaton{{BEN}} Schélick Ilagou Rekawe {{GAB}}
2015Belgium}} Louvain-la-NeuveNigel Richards{{NZL}} Schélick Ilagou Rekawe {{GAB}}
2016 MAR}} Agadir Abib Alabi {{CIV}} Gildas Ingrid Madela {{GAB}}
2017 FRA}} Agadir Benjamin Valour {{FRA}} Belphégore Mpaga Réténo {{GAB}}
2018 Canada}} Tremblant Nigel Richards {{NZL}} Gueu Mathieu Zingbe {{CIV}}[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unz.com/article/scrabble-spells-doom-for-the-racial-hypothesis-of-intelligence/ |title=Scrabble Spells Doom for the Racial Hypothesis of Intelligence |first=Chanda |last=Chisala |publisher=Unz Review |date=October 31, 2016 |accessdate=December 9, 2016}}
2. ^http://www.ffsc.fr/endirect/endirect.php?tournoi_id=cdm2018elite&page=resultats&code=C07
3. ^https://www.fisf.net/competitions/scrabble-classique.html

External links

  • {{en icon}} Article about the 2008 World Championships on bbc.co.uk
  • {{fr icon}} FISF.net the site of the International French language Federation.
  • {{fr icon}} Montpellier 2010 Official site of the world championships in Montpellier, includes a list of all previous winners 1972-2010.
  • {{fr icon}} FFSC en direct retransmission via the Internet of major French language tournaments.
  • {{fr icon}} French World Scrabble Championships on the French Wikipedia.

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