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FTS: Hasbro Crowns It's North American Scrabble Champions!

HASBRO CROWNS NORTH AMERICAN SCHOOL SCRABBLE CHAMPIONS AFTER TWO DAYS OF HEATED WORD PLAY

NATHANAEL CAMPOS, WALDEN GIEZENTANNER AND RUTH LI WON THE BATTLE OF WORDS AND WITS AT THE ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN SCHOOL SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP IN WASHINGTON D.C.

PAWTUCKET, RI – April 3, 2023 – C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N-S. After two days of heated play, champions were crowned at the annual North America School SCRABBLE Championship! Nathanael Campos, a 7^th-grader from Ridgefield, CT, Walden Giezentanner, an 8^th-grader from Webster Groves, MO, and Ruth Li, a 12^th-grader from Toronto, Canada won the high-stakes competition hosted at the Planet Word Museum in Washington D.C yesterday.

Sponsored by Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), a global branded entertainment leader, and the Word Game Players’ Organization, the 2023 the North America School SCRABBLE Championship welcomed more than 100 players from across the United States and Canada to the nation’s capital for the spirited, high-stakes SCRABBLE play. The event, which featured 105 players total from all over North America across 42 teams in the Championship Division (elementary and middle school) and 27 players in the High School Division, was live-streamed in full and presented by Scopely on Twitch TV.

All of the students played eight games, followed by one-game championship finals in both divisions. In the younger age bracket, Campos of Scotts Ridge Middle School and Giezentanner of Hixson Middle School won with a final score of 463-266, finishing the tournament undefeated. In the high school division, Li of Bloor Collegiate Institute came in first place with a final score of 408-348, capping off an undefeated tournament to become the first female to win the high-school division of the North American School Scrabble Championship, and just the second female to win a division since the event began in 2003. Some of the championship-winning words included GUINEAS (a formerly used British coin), ATELIER (a workshop or studio) and HARTS (adult male deer). The highest scoring word of the event was CHARLOCK (194 points), a wild mustard with yellow flowers, commonly found as a weed in fields and along roadsides.

“The North America School SCRABBLE Championship is an event we can’t get enough of,” said Adam Biehl, SVP & General Manager, Hasbro Gaming. “We love seeing the next generation of wordsmiths showcase their skills as they add to SCRABBLE’s enduring legacy as an all-time favorite game that helps showcase and build one’s vocabulary.”

For 75 years, SCRABBLE has been a favorite with friends and families across the globe whether it be for a family game night, a night out with friends, or as an indoor activity. With different ways to play and strategies according to skill level, SCRABBLE helps people bring back cherished memories and create new ones. SCRABBLE is a fun game for ages 8 and up and is available for purchase at Amazon and most major retailers!

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FTS: NORTH AMERICAN SCHOOL SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP SPONSORED BY HASBRO RETURNS APRIL 1-2, 2023

FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION ON TWITCH.TV/SCRABBLE BEGINNING AT 10AM ET / 7AM PT AS NEW CHAMPIONS ARE CROWNED

The time has come once again to crown the latest SCRABBLE champions! On April 1^st and 2^nd the annual North American School SCRABBLE Championship, sponsored by Hasbro, Inc. and the Word Game Players’ Organization, returns for two days of ambitious word-based play. Taking place at the Planet Word Museum in Washington D.C., the event will be streamed by Scopely on twitch.tv/scrabble so fans don’t miss a second – or word – of the action!

The North American School SCRABBLE Championship will welcome more than 100 players from across the U.S. and Canada to compete in two divisions – the Championship Division and High School Division. The Championship Division consists of 42 teams of elementary and middle school players and the High School Division where players individually compete to win the title. All players and teams will play eight games over two days, with the top two finishers in each division advancing to one-game championship finals.

The event will be livestreamed on Twitch TV from 10am ET – 5pm ET on Saturday April 1^st and 9am ET - 3pm ET on Sunday, April 2^nd. Viewers who tune in will be able to watch live gameplay with expert commentary from Will Anderson, Hannah Lieberman, Jackson Smylie, Chloe Fatsis and Nits Chagti, along with player interviews and more!

For 75 years, the SCRABBLE board has been a place for friends and family to gather, play, learn, and reconnect. This classic crossword game continues to be a crowd favorite and is available for purchase at most major retailers nationwide including Amazon.

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Time to get the hate out of... tech!

If you haven't heard, 13 innocent people were shot in Buffalo, NY with 10 of those people losing their life. Most if not all were Black citizens of the area and could have been the mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and so on... to even members of our audience. They were attacked for their race because someone felt a hatred so deeply for Black people, that he planned, and made the desired purchases for the evil act he pulled off that day at the Tops Supermarket.

We agree with Toronto's own, Brendan Sinclair when he said, "Racists are comfortable in gaming communities because platforms haven't done enough to get rid of them". I won't put it all on gaming, but the tech industry overall hasn't been as effective as it could be in terms of getting rid of them.

You have the racists in gaming that will shout stuff or make comments to pump out their daily dose of hatred during online sessions, which needs not only more of a crackdown, but also more actual reporting of it. Ultimately, it doesn't help them if they mess up a gaming community by attacking other gamers supporting it, but studios who sit back and let abuse occur... deserve to lose their online community. The racists don't care, they simply destroy one online community and go to the next.

At times they get brushed off as just being a racist idiot waiting in a queue to be blocked, but others look to take action in a deadly way. I don't want to minimize the ones who merely use their words online, because sometimes those words are followed by the actions of others.

This terror attack again revealed the depths and dangers of these platforms that spread and promote hate without consequence. The fact that an individual can post detailed plans to commit such an act of hate without consequence, and then stream it for the world to see is bone-chilling and unfathomable. - New York Attorney General Letitia James

The New York Attorney General also announced that her office will be investigating the role Twitch, Discord, and other sites played in the planning + the streaming of the shooting. He didn't just travel 100's of miles and randomly begin to shoot his victims, he had a plan in place. This is bigger than gaming, but violent White Supremacist + use social media + send an email, and the list goes on. If you see something say something (this is for everyone) and if there is something else that can be linked to the case of this shooter, may it be uncovered.

The President has yet to announce anything along the lines of an Anti-Black Hate Crime Bill, as seen with the overwhelming approval for the previously signed Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill. It's worth an inquiry, but... regardless of what he decides, we all must do our part to combat terrorism... which should be a bit easier to do domestically. The shooter literally threatened to commit a mass shooting at a graduation or do something afterward. He was not only released but wasn't seen as a threat when he purchased the guns ahead of the shooting (a year later). If you're thinking "WTF?!", then you're thinking the same thing that crossed my mind. Whoever made that decision deserves part of the blame.

Overall, our country could be even better if more people actually leveled up to become better and less hateful. The shooter is facing life in prison, as he deserves, and I hope it's a message to others that they should really consider being better humans. The wrong decision is all it takes to send you in the wrong direction, and his friends + family won't be in the cell with him. The only thing that may be accompanying him during the rest of his existence... is regret. I've seen racists in televised prison features who said they're reformed racists, defaced ink, and everything else. They realized they were alone and life changed in the blink of an eye, and it's very different living than you and I have access to.

Don't allow hate to ruin your life and rob you of Joy... for the sake of racism. Think of all the things you can do with the time you invested in hate, and when you look back, ask yourself was it worth it. There are elderly people living with regret as we speak, and I've worked in health care (imagine seeing someone with an illness wishing they lived life better). Will that be you? Doesn't have to be.

Tech gives us access to some pretty cool experiences and options to do a variety of things with, but... accountability is still a thing for end-users and developers. As for the average person, we definitely recommend some type of self-defense because we have the right to be safe. Live and let live!

Update:

After this post, another mass shooting occurred in Uvalde (Texas) where 2 teachers and 18 Elementary students were killed. The motives of this shooter were unclear, but he reportedly shot his grandmother before driving to the school to carry out the mass murder. One thing remains the same, he posted online. His post showed guns, but he also messaged someone who was allegedly a complete stranger to him on Instagram. He didn't come out and say directly that he was going to commit a mass shooting, but that's exactly what he did.

We can look at Tech for sure, there should be more done to make sure that precautions are taken in terms of gun pics being posted online. Maybe there needs to be some sort of phone notification that shares location if gun pics are to be posted. I don't know, but fingers can't only be posted in the direction of the tech industry or the average Joe who saw something and said nothing, we need the Government to be a bit more proactive. You never want to get that call that something like this happened and your little one might be harmed, ever. I wish this monster would've said more to warrant the IG user to report him, but who knows if it would've been taken seriously as it should? The same applies to the monster mentioned above. What safeguards can be put in place for schools, that make them a place safer to actually attend? So many questions, but with precious lives on the line, they're worth answering.

I know that tech company have setups that don't allow certain entry into the buildings, and one person can't just follow behind someone else to gain entry in some cases (aka no piggybacking). So there are options, and I hope to see more of them put into practice. Be safe out there, and (again) if you see something, say something.

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