This wordsmith guy who called himself the "Phenomenon" ecstatic about his Scrabble achievement after beating Vannitha Balasingam of Malaysia at the 10th World Scrabble Championship 2009 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Phillip Edwin-Mugisha who hails from Uganda smashed two nine timers ADENINeS (131) and AERIFIES (183) in this game, including two more bingos REBUILT (74) and READIEST (63), while Vannitha had three bingos, DEMOING (71), GETABLE (70) and rEENACTS (80) coupled with high scoring moves as you would witness in their record-breaking combined high scoring game, at that time!
This 1,157 combined scores stood nearly one decade as number 1 before, until it was broken by David Webb and Bob Violett according to WESPA Rated Tournament Records. There was another record of 1,210 points set in Australia in 2014 but their organizer did not apply to WESPA for their tournament to be rated, so it was not included in the WESPA list.
(Apparently, this game between Vannitha and Phillip appeared in John Chew's poslfit website, but when you click on the game itself, it is no longer available now. Good thing that yours truly was able to save that game, and I am sharing it for us to see once again this memorable game in our lifetime.)
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