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In an effort to internationalise the game, a group of nutcases periodically revise the allowed vocabulary. Scrabble vocabulary developed into a bizarre jargon claimed to cover words from other languages. If you only play with friends, use any dictionary without the word "Scrabble" on its cover. This blog is primarily concerned with competitive Scrabble and the incompetence of some of its custodians..

Thursday, May 2, 2019

DAVID MORE IN THE NEWS

Scrabble veteran banned from playing board game in Queensland



Yahoo News Australia12 April 2019

A die-hard Scrabble player has been banned from playing the board game in Queensland.

Gold Coast man David More, 65, has played Scrabble competitively for nearly two decades with 5000 tournament matches but cannot play the game in Queensland, A Current Affair reported.

Mr More, who has Asperger’s, recently received a letter from Scrabble Queensland banning him from any entry in state tournaments due to “unacceptable” behaviour.

But the 65-year-old claims he has not done anything wrong, or been violent or aggressive and is not aware of anyone else in Australia receiving a similar punishment.


“I’ve just got upset and it may have been misinterpreted by some people that don’t know me,” he told ACA.

He added he mainly plays with elderly women in their “70s and 80s” who might be scared of his Asperger’s.

He also says he has been antagonised with people “pressing his buttons”.

“They’d say something really nasty that they’d knew I would respond to,” Mr More told ACA.

Queensland Scrabble President Jane Brown did not give further details about Mr More’s ‘unacceptable behaviour’ to the Bulletin, but she said they did not have any personal problems with the 65-year-old.

However, a long-term Scrabble player, from the Queensland Association, told the Gold Coast Bulletin Mr More “can be a very difficult person at times”.


Scrabble’s Queensland Association handed the ban down due to what it said was “unacceptable” behaviour from Mr More. Mr More denies he has behaved badly.
(Source: A Current Affair)

More:
“(It got) to a point where his behaviour to other members was unacceptable,” the player told the Bulletin. But a Scrabble NSW player took no issue with the Gold Coast man and said while he was “a bit different” Mr More is “friendly”.

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