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Moiz Ullah Baig
Pakistani Scrabble player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Moiz Ullah Baig (born April 1997[1] in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani Scrabble player[2] who won the World Youth Scrabble Championship 2013[3][4][5] and the World Junior Scrabble Championship 2018, becoming the first player ever to win both.[6][7][8] He won the Pakistan Scrabble Championship in 2018[9][10] and is currently the number 1 player of the country.[11][12] In December 2018, with a WESPA rating of 1921, he climbed up to the 71st place in the world rankings – his career highest.[13]
Moiz was conferred with a gold medal by Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust in 2014 for his achievements in Scrabble.[14] He was mentioned alongside Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, Asma Jahangir, and several others in the Newsline Magazine, on being one of the Pakistanis who have made a prominent mark internationally.[15] He is referred to as the "giant of scrabble" in Pakistan.[16] Moiz was appointed as a coach of Pakistan Scrabble Team in 2016.[17]
Moiz studied at Technische Universität Darmstadt, NED University of Engineering and Technology, DJ Science College, and Falconhouse Grammar School.[5][18][19][20][21][22]
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Moiz debuted the national circuit in 2012 at age 14 and beat several top-rated players in his first tournament.[23][24] He joined the international scene in 2013.[25]
2012
Moiz won the All-Pakistan Inter-School Scrabble Championship.[19][20] Later in the year, he was selected to represent Pakistan at the World Youth Scrabble Championship in the UK,[26][27] but he couldn't get the visa.[5]
2013
Moiz won the World Youth Scrabble Championship held in Dubai, UAE, becoming the first Pakistani to do so.[3][4][5]
2014
Moiz finished 3rd at the Mind Sports International Youth Cup held in London, UK.[28][29] He was unsuccessful in defending his title at the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[30][31]
2015
Moiz finished runner-up at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship.[32]
2016
Moiz missed the quarter-finals of the World Scrabble Championship 2016 in Lille, France, after losing his last match to the former World Champion Adam Logan by 1 point, finishing 15th.[33][34] He was the runner-up at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship for the second time in a row.[35]
2017
Moiz finished runner-up at both, the World Junior Scrabble Championship held in Nottingham, UK,[36][37][38] and the Princess Youth Scrabble Cup held in Bangkok, Thailand.[39][40][41]
2018
Moiz won the World Junior Scrabble Championship held in Torquay, UK,[6][7][42][43][44] the Pakistan Scrabble Championship,[9][10] and the Pakistan Scrabble Champions Trophy.[16][45][46] He rose to the number 1 spot in national rankings ending Waseem Khatri's decade-long supremacy.[11] He was selected to represent ‘Team Rest of Asia’ at the Alchemist Cup – World Team Challenge in Penang, Malaysia,[47][48][49][50][51] where he ended up 16th among the top 50 players of the world.[52]
2019
He was unsuccessful in defending his title at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship.[53][54]
2022
Moiz won the 10th Continental Scrabble Championship in Berlin, Germany.[55]
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