Sherwin Wins Pune Scrabble Championship 2015

Sherwin Rodrigues has won the Pune Scrabble championship. The tournament that featured 15 rounds of competition had a record turnout of 60 participants. Here are the complete standings:

Pune Scrabble Championship, July 2015

Final Standings

Rank	Won-Lost	Spread	Player
1	12½–2½	1299	Sherwin Rodrigues (#1)
2	11–4	818	Varisht Hingorani (#3)
3	11–4	699	Nakul Prabhu (#5)
4	11–4	228	Samrath Bhatia (#15)
5	10–5	1025	Ramchandran Chidambaram (#14)
6	10–5	461	Udayan Grover (#2)
7	10–5	407	Sunny Bhatia (#19)
8	10–5	269	Sudhir Kamath (#21)
9	9½–5½	808	Shaik Ahmed (#8)
10	9–6	728	Carolann Pais (#6)
11	9–6	720	Irfan Siddiqui (#4)
12	9–6	621	Mangala Bhandarkar (#9)
13	9–6	207	Hyder Quraishi (#26)
14	9–6	132	Pramit Kamath (#7)
15	9–6	125	PC Jose (#18)
16	9–6	124	Nidhi Singhvi (#13)
17	9–6	−95	Ruparel,Nikheel (#37)
18	8½–6½	−19	Chatterjee,Dipankar (#20)
19	8½–6½	−183	Subodh Tripathi (#28)
20	8–7	653	Lennie D'Souza (#11)
21	8–7	513	Zeba Sultan (#35)
22	8–7	378	Hriday Samtani (#29)
23	8–7	362	Neena Shahani (#25)
24	8–7	356	Sanjay Bijlani (#16)
25	8–7	−29	Manju Pai (#22)
26	8–7	−40	Rehet Bhatia (#43)
27	8–7	−83	Priya Karkhanis (#17)
28	8–7	−88	Dhyan Gandhi (#52)
29	8–7	−192	Romilla Thakur (#27)
30	8–7	−218	V Ramachandran (#10)
31	7½–7½	339	Meena Bakhru (#24)
32	7½–7½	85	Sylvia Coelho (#42)
33	7–8	267	Kala Ganesh (#33)
34	7–8	189	Vraj Jain (#38)
35	7–8	164	Eeshan Malhotra (#58)
36	7–8	104	Satish Srinivasan (#32)
37	7–8	74	Rex D'Souza (#23)
38	7–8	35	Rajeev Menon (#40)
39	7–8	−12	R Nalini (#12)
40	7–8	−291	Caryl Gonsalves (#39)
41	7–8	−316	Viji Ramachandran (#48)
42	7–8	−452	Meena Kalyan (#44)
43	7–8	−690	Milon Nag (#36)
44	6–9	97	Sridhar Paidikondala (#34)
45	6–9	74	Viren Braganza (#41)
46	6–9	4	Vedika Hingorani (#47)
47	6–9	−23	Saraswati R (#30)
48	6–9	−129	Aruna Grover (#46)
49	6–9	−275	Gaurav Bhargava (#31)
50	6–9	−405	Priya Kshirsagar (#49)
51	6–9	−721	Prateek Wadhavkar (#50)
52	5–10	234	Rekha Sanzgiri (#45)
53	5–10	12	Arindam Basu (#55)
54	5–10	−197	Supriti Malhotra (#60)
55	5–10	−259	Laura Braganza (#53)
56	5–10	−386	Krtin Juneja (#51)
57	5–10	−933	Sushanto Bhattacharya (#54)
58	4–11	−1188	Nandita Sarkar (#56)
59	4–11	−1633	Sian Virani (#57)
60	0–15	−3754	Atharshsiddharth Umapathy (#59)

Pune Scrabble Tournament - Top 20 after Day 1

Rank	Player	Win-Loss	Spread
1	Nakul Prabhu	7–0	+798
2	Sherwin Rodrigues	6½–½	+720
3	Meena Bakhru	5½–1½	+441
4	Varisht Hingorani	5–2	+575
5	Irfan Siddiqui	5–2	+556
6	Carolann Pais	5–2	+502
7	Priya Karkhanis	5–2	+317
8	Pramit Kamath	5–2	+310
9	Udayan Grover	5–2	+278
10	Sunny Bhatia	5–2	+215
11	V Ramachandran	5–2	+165
12	PC Jose	5–2	+99
13	Samrath Bhatia	5–2	+81
14	Nidhi Singhvi	5–2	−37
15	Zeba Sultan	4–3	+559
16	Lennie D'Souza	4–3	+486
17	Shaik Ahmed	4–3	+365
18	Mangala Bhandarkar	4–3	+365
19	Hriday Samtani	4–3	+246
20	Sanjay Bijlani	4–3	+239

New 4 Letter Words Added in CSW15 - Part 3

Here is the final installment of 33 new four letter words with meanings that have been added to the CSW15 dictionary. The entire list of the 99 new 4 letter words that have been added in CSW15 can be found in WESPA's Collins Scrabble Words 2015 initiation kit.

Word	Meaning	Word	Meaning
PERC	perchloride, a chemical used in dry cleaning	TASE	to stun with a gun that fires electrified darts
POHS	POH, to reject contemptuously	TIYN	a monetary unit of Kazakhstan
PWNS	PWN, to dominate or humiliate an opponent	TREM	an electric guitar lever for producing a tremolo atomic or molecular scale
REFI	refinancing	TROU	trousers
RENO	a renovated house	TURR	a Newfoundland name for the guillemot
ROID	angry and aggressive behaviour caused by the use of anabolic steroids	VAPE	to inhale nicotine vapour
RUDI	(In Jamaica) a member of a group of lower- or working-class teenagers in the 1960s	VIFF	to change direction abruptly of a VTOL aircraft
RUDY	(In Jamaica) a member of a group of lower- or working-class teenagers in the 1960s	VOGS	VOG, air pollution caused by volcanic dust
RYUS	RYU, a school of Japanese martial arts	VOMS	VOM, to vomit
SEVS	SEV, an Indian food of deep-fried strands of flour	WAAH	an interjection used to express wailing
SHEN	the spiritual element of a person's psyche.	WASM	an obsolete belief
SHHH	an interjection requesting quietness	WAZZ	to urinate
SIGS	SIG, a short personalized message at the end of an email	WOAH	a call to stop
SKED	to schedule	YAGE	a tropical vine of the Amazon regioncomputer image
SKOG	to shelter	YEOW	an interjection used to express pain or shock
SOJU	a Korean vodka distilled from rice or sweet potato	ZEDA	(Yiddish) a grandfather
SUMI	a type of black Japanese ink

The first set of 33, 4 letter words added can be found here. The second set of 33 new 4 letter words added can be found here. The new 3 letter words added can be found here.

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— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 7, 2015