Majors

The National Scrabble Championship has had a variety of formats over its years of existence. The current format is an open event with a championship division and a plate side-event. This event is currently organised by the ABSP.

The British Matchplay Scrabble Championships (BMSC) is the flagship open event of the ABSP. Consisting of 25 games played, it takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

The ABSP Masters is an elite invitational event for the 16 best players in the UK. It is usually a 'round robin' event (i.e. everyone plays everyone else once), currently held in Spring or Summer, with the qualifying period lasting for a period of 12 months.

The UK Open was introduced in 2008, running each year in early January in Coventry until the 2020 edition, comprising a mammoth 48 games over 5 days. From 2025, the UK Open has been restarted in Reading, with a 27 game main event plus multiple side events, again in early January.

The four seasonal matchplay events complete the set of annual multi-day ABSP major events, although only the Easter and Winter events are currently running. the Easter Matchplay is held over the Easter weekend and comprises 19 rounds; and the Winter Matchplay is 17 rounds played in Milton Keynes in November.

The British Elimination Scrabble Tournament (BEST) is an annual knockout competition which lasts over nine months. Played as a series of face-to-face knockout matches at regional and then national level, the winner typically plays more than 70 games over nine months to lift the trophy.

Only one major, the UK Open, took place as scheduled during 2020 due to the pandemic, and none in 2021. However, the NSC and BMSC took place in June and August respectively as the tournament scene has been able to restart in 2022.