• @tal
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      33 months ago

      Well, now, tournaments are another matter.

      Hmm.

      http://scrabbleplayers.org/w/Official_Tournament_Rules

      NASPA sanctioned play in Canada and the United States must obey the Official Tournament Rules, edited by the Rules Committee.

      http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/rules/rules-20161201.pdf

      When playing using the international lexicon, the word reference is the third edition of Collins Official Scrabble Words, commonly referred to as CSW2015.

      https://scrabble.collinsdictionary.com/check/

      Hmm, yeah, they don’t allow PECKERWOOD.

      It sounds like Hasbro used to sponsor the tournaments. Then they stopped funding it, but officially-endorsed a player-organized league, NASPA, the people whose rules are given above. Then in 2021, they stopped any official endorsement.

      So with that exclusivity gone, I imagine that someone with sufficient savvy that could sell enough players on the need for PECKERWOOD could form a rival league.