(2015)
"He competed in the French Championship and won his second Classique Championship" (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe...
There was even a brief HN comment thread about it 2 years ago.
"Fun fact: the current top player of French scrabble is from New Zealand and doesn’t speak a word of French. He just memorized all ~200k valid words in the OSD."
On the positive side, I think I have figured out a sequence of all my favorite tv series in a loop that should last me for the rest of my life.