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]
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]
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]
Moiz won the World Youth Scrabble Championship held in Dubai, UAE, becoming the first Pakistani to do so. [3] [4] [5]
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]
Moiz finished runner-up at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship. [32]
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]
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]
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]
He was unsuccessful in defending his title at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship. [53] [54]
Moiz won the 10th Continental Scrabble Championship in Berlin, Germany. [55]
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