Chris Lipe

Chris Lipe is an American Scrabble player and tournament director. The wiki of the North American Scrabble players association lists him as a SCRABBLE Master and Certified Tournament Director from Saint Louis, Missouri. He reached the final of the 2014 World Scrabble Championship, held at the ExCeL London centre in November 2014, and lost three games to one to Craig Beevers, who took the title. He was again among the top eight after the preliminary rounds of the 2018 championship. In Scrabble administration he served on the association Rules Committee from 2009 to 2015 and co-chaired its International Committee from 2013 to 2015, and the wiki credits him with awards for the largest total spread in 2013 and, in the CSW word list, in 2014 and 2015.