in modern "match play scrabble" tournaments, players dispute a fixed number of games. in most major tournaments, for example the world scrabble championship and the national scrabble championship the players are sorted by number of games won and to break ties between players with the same number of wins, the total of the player's scores minus the total of his opponent's score (known as the spread) is calculated. for example a game won 500 – 350 would give a spread of +150.