WAGGA was overwhelmed by Scrabble royalty yesterday, with two-time Australian champion Bob Jackman stealing the show at the hotly contested Threeway Interstate Tournament.The Threeway Interstate Tournament, hosted by the Wagga Scrabble Club, was held at the Wagga Commercial Club over the weekend with 45 contestants from NSW, Victoria and the ACT.For the first time in the history of the competition, the ACT participants contested the competition as a separate entity instead of partnering with NSW.According to Wagga Scrabble Club president Norm Byng the decision has paid immediate dividends for the ACT."In the main event between states, ACT competed for the first time as an individually recognised team," Mr Byng said."Usually their games either didn't count toward the competition or their points went to NSW."They competed as their own entity this weekend and they have actually taken out the tournament by defeating Victoria who finished second and NSW who finished a disappointing third."The local talent harshly scrutinised his performance in the tournament, admitting he was less than pleased with his results over the two days of competition."I was terrible," he said. "On Saturday I played seven games and only managed to draw one but I redeemed myself a little bit today (Sunday) by winning two of my games."It really is a game of luck, if you don't get the right letters you can't win and luck just wasn't on my side."Wagga Scrabble Club's youngest player and rising star Ben Munson was the best-performing local player in the Threeway Interstate tournament with three wins from 10 games."Helen Povey who is a member of our club and a Junee resident won the recreational section which was open to members and non-members," Mr Byng said."The whole tournament was really well organised, ran very smoothly and was enjoyable."Competing in a Scrabble tournament really is a hard day's work."Mr Byng admitted competitor numbers were down on previous years, but attributed the decrease to the unfortunate clash with Mother's Day.