Instead of meeting up in Seattle or Oakland or New York or St. Louis, we all got together on our computers this year. But nine tournaments is still nine tournaments, and we're proud of the year we had as an organization. Today, let's take a moment and recap the virtual events we ran in 2020.

This weekend brought the eighth installment of our Computer Users' Remote Event (CURE) series of online 1-day tournaments. It was a simple event - eight players, seven games, full round robin. Everyone played everyone once, and we streamed the whole event on Twitch for a live audience. Here's what went down.

While we haven't been able to direct many live tournaments in 2020, we've had plenty of time to work on building an infrastructure for the CoCo. We added a Board of Directors in October, and we've simultaneously been working to build five teams of people focused on five key strategic priorities.

It's been a rocky year for Scrabble. Tournaments all over North America and around the world have been cancelled. The community has been rattled by a series of off-the-board controversies. Despite all that, we're blessed as a community in a lot of ways.

We're super excited about Woogles, and we want to explore ways to make the most of this new platform that we possibly can. And to do that, we'd love to gather some feedback from all of you.

Last week, I had the privilege of chatting with the creators of Woogles, a new online platform for word gaming that went live to the public earlier in October. This week, I wanted to follow up with a perspective of my own. In short, I want to talk about how we grow the game.

This past week brought big news in the Scrabble community - Woogles.io, a revolutionary new platform for online word gaming, was officially released to the public. To get the inside scoop on Woogles, I sat down for an interview with... the entire team.

After a post-Virtual World Cup layoff to take stock of everything, we're now back to running 1-day tournaments again, and we got everything started on Saturday with our latest Computer Users' Remote Event. Here's what went down at the CURE6.

For the remainder of 2020, our plan is to run three more virtual 1-day tournaments. For those of you who played in our initial 1-days earlier this year, this will be more of the same. Back in the spring, we ran the first 5 Computer Users' Remote Event (CURE) tournaments; this fall, we'll be back with 3 more.