The annual Ibadan Open Scrabble Championships will come up between April 21 and 22, 2012.
There will be a total of 14 games in two categories, the Masters and Open.
The event will be holding at the Liberty Stadium Indoor Sports Hall, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Games shall commence at 8am daily.
To qualify for the categories, players who are having 1,400+ rating will slug it out in the Masters while those with 1,399 rating and below will play in the Opens category.
Registration for players in the Masters is fixed at N5,000 while players in the Intermediate and Opens categories will register with N4,000 and ladies will pay 50 per cent of the registration fees to play in the tournament.
Registration closes on April 17, 2012.
The prize regime for the Masters is N150,000 for the first placed.
The runner-up gets N100,000.
The third placed players gets N50,000, fourth N30,000 and fifth to 10th N10,000 each
In the intermediate and Open categories, the winner goes home N75,000, second gets N40,000, third gets N20,000 while fourth gets N15,000.
The fifth to 10th positions get N5,000 each just as the 11th-15th get N4,000 each.