Competition category sorts athletes by the level they actually competed at, such as national team, club or youth level. Wikipedia notes Pele played "for the Brazil national team at 16" while also starring "at club level" for Santos, two distinct categories at once. This dimension groups athletes who competed at the same category of competition.
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1. Wikipedia: Scrabble
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In 1931 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented, called Lexiko.
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Why does this atlas treat Scrabble champions as athletes?
Scrabble champions and professional competitors are carried as athlete entities, matching this atlas's treatment of mind sports generally.
This subcategory groups athletes who competed in Scrabble, the word-formation tile game, including Scrabble champions and professional competitors. Players of other tile or board games are grouped under their own categories, since this atlas treats each mind sport's top competitors as athlete entities in their own right.