Mr. Tariq Pervez, Director Youth Program of Pakistan Scrabble Association addressing a crowded press conference here today announced that WESPA Youth Cup, formerly known as World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held over three weekends starting January 22nd and ending on February 7th 2021.

The global regulatory body of scrabble, WESPA has chosen Pakistan as the host for the championship being played online for the first time due to the COVID situation

Renowned cricket franchise Quetta Gladiators will sponsor the championship which will be named the Gladiators WESPA Youth Cup.

A team of highly qualified experts led by the Technical Director Vali Muhammad Khubaib will organize the championship. Young Hassan Hadi Khan is chosen as the Tournament Director by WESPA. The entire management team will be from Pakistan

16 countries across five continents will take part in the championship with each team consisting of six players. All players are under 18 years of age. For the first time this championship is being played on a team format instead of individual

The teams are divided into four groups of four teams each who will play the group stages on round robin league basis. Top two teams from each group will qualify for the quarter finals

The organizing team will be hosted at the PharmEvo Guest house where special arrangements have been made including a playing room, a commentary box and a control room equipped with high speed internet and online monitoring equipment for the organizing team

All games will be completely surveilled by the technical team through webcams. Selected matches will be live streamed with running commentary by world’s leading commentators Will Anderson and Jesse Day of USA. Waseem Khatri and Daniyal Sanaullah will be doing the Urdu commentary for Pakistani viewers

Pakistan is considered one of the favorite teams to win the championship. The Pakistan team will be announced at the end of the qualifying tournament on January 17th