Akpabio International Scrabble Classics pays the highest worldwide

by Olorunwa Lawal

The Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics pays the highest prize money in the world, the President of the Nigeria Scrabble Federation, Suleiman Gora, said on Wednesday in Abuja.

Despite a review of the Prize money for this year’s competition, the total prize money stood at N18,000,000, a prize which was described by Gora as being far above the World Championship that carries a total prize money of less than $30,000 (about $5,000,000).

Gora noted that the star prize of $20,000 dollars equaling about N3.3 million naira for the star winner in the Masters category was still intact.

The second placed winner in the Masters category will earn $10,000 while the third place winner earns $7,272 up to ten winners. In the Intermediate category, there will be ten winners with the first prize being $10,000, the second prize $5,454 and the third prize $3,030.

There are also ten winners in each of the Veterans and Open categories.

The Open winner will smile home with $6,667, runner-up $3,636 and the second runner-up $1,818, same as the Veterans winners.

It was also learnt that the competition also had gender friendly prizes set aside to the tune of about N400,000 – best female Masters player will earn N100,000; best female Intermediate player N80,000; and the best Open and Veterans female players will be paid N65,000 each, up to third places.

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