120 young players from across the continent competed in the North American School Scrabble Championship this past weekend at D.C.’s Planet Word Museum.

We first learned about it via Twitter this morning: “Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice,” one friend updated, and then another, and another, each expressing escalating amounts of dread. Now, The New York Times tech blog Bits confirms it: Facebook has had to shut down Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game that’s become wildly popular over the last couple of years. Scrabble maker Hasbro filed suit against the makers of Scrabulous in…