This epic battle took place when I was living in Orlando at the time. I remember the craziness of the finals… if you don’t know the story, whew baby, you’re in for a treat. RIP David Gibson. ❤️
these hit my recommends today... I have never watched a scrabble video before but have played since I was old enough to read. If your video popped up on my feed I think you'll probably be seeing many more views as these things usually blow up on everybody at the same time. Oh and I cant stop watching! Thanks for the content
Finally someone is making videos like this - fantastic! 73 tournament wins in 120 starts is bizarre, I didn't know that about Gibson. It basically means that he won some tournaments where he had worse luck than most of the field...
Great point, it sure does.... Capitalizing on and flushing out well-scoring plays from seeming drek is the only way to get a W sometimes ~ turning garbage into gold !
Good cliffhanger, can't wait for the next one! I'm glad I found your channel today, and I hope I'm not the only one mindlessly clicking on a scrabble video in my recommended for the first time. Honestly, you could probably spice up the title and thumbnail on your best performing videos and draw even more of us in. You could borrow some effective thumbnail ideas (e.g. !!) from the chess community and probably benefit from a likely untapped potential in audience overlap at the same time.
Why was jew removed? I'm not a native speaker and to me it isn't a slur but the normal name given to people following judaism. Can someone elaborate for me? Thanks! EDIT : found the info. Capitalized words are forbidden in scrabble, and thus "Jew" wouldnt be a noun, as "a Jew", but instead a verb, "to jew" - I understood that it meant bargaining or something - which is very offensive since it is based on a racist/antisemit clichés presenting Jews as greedy.
4:32 if david did have the last S wouldn't it make much more sense to hook off of Joe to block Y hook ? To me this looks like a bad play by nigel comapared to just playing JOY as you suggested, please enlighten me
Good point, but from David’s perspective, Nigel could just be struggling with vowels, as opposed to setting up a Y that he already holds…also, a lot of good S plays will end in S as opposed to start with S, so blocking by playing JOES could be less flexible with certain racks.
David never played tournaments that used the "international" lexicon (which contains more words). To make a very loose analogy to golf, it's sort of like how an LIV pro would only face off against a PGA pro at a major (provided both play at that major!).
I think it’s also that Nigel lives in Malaysia and competes only once or twice a year in the US, whereas as David got older, he rarely traveled anywhere he couldn’t drive to. So David’s participation in the Nationals was not guaranteed. Agree with Ryan as well.
On your video learning scrabble words. You recommended three vowel 4s q words with no U. Where can I get all the word lists. Because in some lists most words arent valid.
Great video like all the others, but one thing I'll say as a recording engineer is that you should make sure to keep your recordings from having really harsh amplitude dynamics in your audio levels. Maybe some slightly better mic placement, or eq/dynamic eq, or some light compression or something. There are parts where your audio levels get a little harsh on the ears, especially on sibilants. So using a de-esser would probably be the easiest to implement and the most advisable. Just dont accidentally turn up the de-esser so much that you accidentally give yourself a lisp lol. Keep up the great work tho!
I wondered what happened to the word Jew, and wondered if we always had it wrong... when I played as a child Jew jam jeer and jo were about the most common uses of j on our board... definitely used to be in our oxford dictionary, my father also used to play if you challenged, and were wrong person who played it got double points, or if it wasn’t a word the challenger got the points, and the player had to pick it back up and miss turn, don’t know if they were the UK rules, or his own, the rule booklet had long been lost, possibly intentionally by him, maybe to force us to learn to spell properly
"David has just played the now-expurgated 'jew'" Wait, is "jew" not a legal word in scrabble? That's... certainly *A* decision. I hope they had a really good reason for that.
Proper nouns don't normally appear in the Scrabble dictionary. JEW appeared in the Scrabble dictionary only because of its derogatory usage alluding to a stereotype, so it was removed.
@@wanderer15 i do see the thread of logic there, but that raises the question of if you even should remove an offensive word for being offensive - which jew objectively isn't, since it alone just _isn't_ a derogatory term - and if so, whether or not all offensive words should be treated alike. It's definitely thought provoking, IMO the error is with having classified "jew" as a derogatory term in the first place - since if that WAS the case, it would be _fine_ as a Scrabble word and shouldn't be removed, and that's coming from a jew. It's like the word "Mexican". Some people say it vitriolically, but that does not a derogatory term make. It reminds me of that early Office episode (i think the pilot?) where they have the cards on their heads and Michael thinks "Mexican" is a slur, but everyone else is telling him that's just the name of the people.
@@wanderer15 (That said, who you are and whether or not you have Jewish ancestry doesn't have anything to do with how valid your opinion is. It gets annoying seeing people say "I don't feel qualified to speak on this" like mf that's _everyone else's_ ad hominem seeping into _your_ self image gtfo here lol)
@@Just.Kidding This issue has been quite the hot-button topic in the Scrabble world since it came up a couple years back (Hasbro and Mattel insisted that a subset of words with discriminatory definitions be removed). Much (but not all) of the Scrabble world has now moved on and adjusted to the new normal, but it does seem to be an issue with reasonable points of view on both sides.
@@Just.Kidding Jew was included in the scrabble dictionary as the derogatory verb meaning 'to bargain with'. As it was only valid under the offensive definition, I can understand their removing of the word alongside others. The argument for including derogatory terms is definitely an interesting conversation, though. I've heard both sides, and can understand both. However, something a professional player once said has stuck with me - that putting a word down on the board seems to them no different than stating it aloud. After it's been played, both players also have to view it for the rest of the game.
because scrabble doesn't allow nouns. Seems jew was defined as a verb being an offensive term for "to bargain with". The scrabble dictionary doesn't usually include hateful words so having straight antisemitism doesn't really fit the vibe.
:29 how is the word Jew expurgated? The implication that the name of the people following the Jewish religion is offensive in and of itself is offensive
Proper nouns (people, places, titles, things that get capitalized) are not allowed in Scrabble, so a word needs to have a meaning beyond that to be in the Scrabble dictionary. In this case, the word was defined in a way that perpetuated an offensive stereotype, so the word was removed.
Jew and Jews were only included in the Scrabble dictionary because they have alternate usage as verbs ("to jew" someone, meaning to haggle a price down). If you strike out that definition because it's offensive, the only remaining meaning of Jew is as a proper noun. This makes it unplayable in Scrabble, just the same as Muslim, Christian, Hindu, etc. which have never been playable words. Other words that only have offensive definitions (mostly slurs) were removed, but potentially offensive words (like retard and queer) that have benign definitions were kept.
Im completely entertained by this. I humbly have a IQ of 132...not profound at all, but higher than some. Its amazing how the human brain can function in so many different ways. They guy that details my car probably makes 200k a year...never underestimate the value of hard work! I always make time for my family and money is not important! I know if I lost everything that I would still have a beautiful wife and children that adore me because i found them before I found money!
Any word that looks like a proper noun is in the Scrabble dictionary because it has another definition - JEW was removed because that definition pertained to an offensive stereotype.
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If you're watching this video and you'd heard of only one Scrabble player before, it's probably Will Anderson.
I have only heard of jellomochas
@@eric-smith-egg Who’s that, and does he know fj00?
@@joshuadorsam4619 who is j00
@@eric-smith-egg who is jellomochas
@@joshuadorsam4619 Josh Calomel
Will starting a series on Scrabble history is excellent. This kind of stuff gets people excited to watch and play your game, keep it up
This epic battle took place when I was living in Orlando at the time. I remember the craziness of the finals… if you don’t know the story, whew baby, you’re in for a treat. RIP David Gibson. ❤️
I’ve been playing casually for 15 years and been looking for a channel like this for a LONG time. Keep up the uploads and you will go FAR on youtube!
I’ve been playing since the late 1920s and I’ve been hoping for a dedicated scrabble am radio channel but I guess this will have to do.
these hit my recommends today... I have never watched a scrabble video before but have played since I was old enough to read. If your video popped up on my feed I think you'll probably be seeing many more views as these things usually blow up on everybody at the same time.
Oh and I cant stop watching! Thanks for the content
Thanks for watching & for the kind words!
Finally someone is making videos like this - fantastic! 73 tournament wins in 120 starts is bizarre, I didn't know that about Gibson. It basically means that he won some tournaments where he had worse luck than most of the field...
Great point, it sure does.... Capitalizing on and flushing out well-scoring plays from seeming drek is the only way to get a W sometimes ~ turning garbage into gold !
Gibsonized was the word I remember for a player who already won the tourney with round/s to spare. I think it was coined from Gibson.
I read Word Freak a while ago and I was hoping there was this type of content on RUclips! Instant subscribe.
I was lucky enough to play David (dont call him Dave..!) twice, even chatted for a bit - he pulled out "the book"!!
Good cliffhanger, can't wait for the next one! I'm glad I found your channel today, and I hope I'm not the only one mindlessly clicking on a scrabble video in my recommended for the first time.
Honestly, you could probably spice up the title and thumbnail on your best performing videos and draw even more of us in. You could borrow some effective thumbnail ideas (e.g. !!) from the chess community and probably benefit from a likely untapped potential in audience overlap at the same time.
something tells me you also watch trackmania, which somehow also managed to overlap with those communities
Fantastic anecdote Will, love this!
Lol huggbees reference immediately has me hooked
This is RUclips at its best. Thank you algorithm
Fantastic! I'm chomping at the bit for Vols. 2-100 !
Beautiful video, as always
Need more scrabble history
I have subbed and am ready to devour everything you can put out!!!
Great video! And is that the narrator in the background of the still shot at 6:40?
Wow, good catch! :)
Nice... keep them coming Will!!!
Great video Will!
Amazing! 0:50
Why was jew removed? I'm not a native speaker and to me it isn't a slur but the normal name given to people following judaism. Can someone elaborate for me? Thanks!
EDIT : found the info. Capitalized words are forbidden in scrabble, and thus "Jew" wouldnt be a noun, as "a Jew", but instead a verb, "to jew" - I understood that it meant bargaining or something - which is very offensive since it is based on a racist/antisemit clichés presenting Jews as greedy.
Thanks for the info!
Incredible video, thank you
Okay, well done. You got me on the edge of my seat. I wanna know what happened.
Good video, Will!
part 2 better be out soon
This channel is worth ruining my algorithm to sub to 👍
Cheers Will - nice one
I don’t play Scrabble, but these videos are interesting. What does expurgated mean?
Thanks for watching! It means the word was removed from the dictionary, which is rare. Typically, updates always consist of more words being added.
Great video!
it would be cool if you accounted inflation to show how much he earned
Is David Gibson the Ken Climo of scrabble?
6:22, *351/353
I was there
Cool
YES
4:32 if david did have the last S wouldn't it make much more sense to hook off of Joe to block Y hook ?
To me this looks like a bad play by nigel comapared to just playing JOY as you suggested, please enlighten me
Good point, but from David’s perspective, Nigel could just be struggling with vowels, as opposed to setting up a Y that he already holds…also, a lot of good S plays will end in S as opposed to start with S, so blocking by playing JOES could be less flexible with certain racks.
i haev zero clue whats going on, but god do i love board competition
how come these guys played each other so little if they were so dominant?
David never played tournaments that used the "international" lexicon (which contains more words). To make a very loose analogy to golf, it's sort of like how an LIV pro would only face off against a PGA pro at a major (provided both play at that major!).
I think it’s also that Nigel lives in Malaysia and competes only once or twice a year in the US, whereas as David got older, he rarely traveled anywhere he couldn’t drive to. So David’s participation in the Nationals was not guaranteed. Agree with Ryan as well.
On your video learning scrabble words. You recommended three vowel 4s q words with no U. Where can I get all the word lists. Because in some lists most words arent valid.
there is a program called Zyzzyva or a website called aerolith. that's where you'd start.
Great video like all the others, but one thing I'll say as a recording engineer is that you should make sure to keep your recordings from having really harsh amplitude dynamics in your audio levels. Maybe some slightly better mic placement, or eq/dynamic eq, or some light compression or something. There are parts where your audio levels get a little harsh on the ears, especially on sibilants. So using a de-esser would probably be the easiest to implement and the most advisable. Just dont accidentally turn up the de-esser so much that you accidentally give yourself a lisp lol. Keep up the great work tho!
Nigel had airthed ,using the d to for di.For 88 point
Has nigel got social media ?
Legend has it he doesn’t even own a computer!
I wondered what happened to the word Jew, and wondered if we always had it wrong... when I played as a child Jew jam jeer and jo were about the most common uses of j on our board... definitely used to be in our oxford dictionary, my father also used to play if you challenged, and were wrong person who played it got double points, or if it wasn’t a word the challenger got the points, and the player had to pick it back up and miss turn, don’t know if they were the UK rules, or his own, the rule booklet had long been lost, possibly intentionally by him, maybe to force us to learn to spell properly
:) :) :)
"David has just played the now-expurgated 'jew'"
Wait, is "jew" not a legal word in scrabble? That's... certainly *A* decision. I hope they had a really good reason for that.
Proper nouns don't normally appear in the Scrabble dictionary. JEW appeared in the Scrabble dictionary only because of its derogatory usage alluding to a stereotype, so it was removed.
@@wanderer15 i do see the thread of logic there, but that raises the question of if you even should remove an offensive word for being offensive - which jew objectively isn't, since it alone just _isn't_ a derogatory term - and if so, whether or not all offensive words should be treated alike. It's definitely thought provoking, IMO the error is with having classified "jew" as a derogatory term in the first place - since if that WAS the case, it would be _fine_ as a Scrabble word and shouldn't be removed, and that's coming from a jew.
It's like the word "Mexican". Some people say it vitriolically, but that does not a derogatory term make. It reminds me of that early Office episode (i think the pilot?) where they have the cards on their heads and Michael thinks "Mexican" is a slur, but everyone else is telling him that's just the name of the people.
@@wanderer15 (That said, who you are and whether or not you have Jewish ancestry doesn't have anything to do with how valid your opinion is. It gets annoying seeing people say "I don't feel qualified to speak on this" like mf that's _everyone else's_ ad hominem seeping into _your_ self image gtfo here lol)
@@Just.Kidding This issue has been quite the hot-button topic in the Scrabble world since it came up a couple years back (Hasbro and Mattel insisted that a subset of words with discriminatory definitions be removed). Much (but not all) of the Scrabble world has now moved on and adjusted to the new normal, but it does seem to be an issue with reasonable points of view on both sides.
@@Just.Kidding Jew was included in the scrabble dictionary as the derogatory verb meaning 'to bargain with'. As it was only valid under the offensive definition, I can understand their removing of the word alongside others. The argument for including derogatory terms is definitely an interesting conversation, though. I've heard both sides, and can understand both. However, something a professional player once said has stuck with me - that putting a word down on the board seems to them no different than stating it aloud. After it's been played, both players also have to view it for the rest of the game.
Why can’t you play jews
Jew is a proper noun. You can fill in the rest
JEWIE
Is jew no longer allowed? I just checked the online scrabble dictionary and it shows it as being valid
Why did Jew get removed?
because scrabble doesn't allow nouns. Seems jew was defined as a verb being an offensive term for "to bargain with". The scrabble dictionary doesn't usually include hateful words so having straight antisemitism doesn't really fit the vibe.
@@mnm1273 Through watching those Videos i didn't even notice that there were no nouns. Makes sense, then.
@@Michael_800 Sorry I realize I misspoke. No proper nouns. Jew is a proper noun.
@@mnm1273 Ah. That checks out. Thanks :)
Scrabble expurgated Jew? Can we count this as 110?
This just American scrabble history yeah?
Many plans to do international Scrabble History episodes!
:29 how is the word Jew expurgated? The implication that the name of the people following the Jewish religion is offensive in and of itself is offensive
3:29
Proper nouns (people, places, titles, things that get capitalized) are not allowed in Scrabble, so a word needs to have a meaning beyond that to be in the Scrabble dictionary. In this case, the word was defined in a way that perpetuated an offensive stereotype, so the word was removed.
@@wanderer15 ohhhh i see ty
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"jew" is a word you cant play anymore?
Jew and Jews were only included in the Scrabble dictionary because they have alternate usage as verbs ("to jew" someone, meaning to haggle a price down). If you strike out that definition because it's offensive, the only remaining meaning of Jew is as a proper noun. This makes it unplayable in Scrabble, just the same as Muslim, Christian, Hindu, etc. which have never been playable words. Other words that only have offensive definitions (mostly slurs) were removed, but potentially offensive words (like retard and queer) that have benign definitions were kept.
@@DueySR thank you
Im completely entertained by this. I humbly have a IQ of 132...not profound at all, but higher than some. Its amazing how the human brain can function in so many different ways. They guy that details my car probably makes 200k a year...never underestimate the value of hard work! I always make time for my family and money is not important! I know if I lost everything that I would still have a beautiful wife and children that adore me because i found them before I found money!
Why was Jew expurgated? Because it's a proper noun...?
Any word that looks like a proper noun is in the Scrabble dictionary because it has another definition - JEW was removed because that definition pertained to an offensive stereotype.