[asaph]

E-Sports are a thing now.

[doodpants]

Er, the article isn't about e-sports, it's about the tabletop Scrabble tournament scene.

[cdelsolar]

SI has been writing about Scrabble since forever. It was a seminal 90s SI article that inspired the Word Freak writer (Stefan Fatsis) to write this book in the early 2000s (and give our community a brief, at the time highly promising, boost).