Sherwin Retains Gail Scrabble Cup

Sherwin retained his Gail Cup title by winning the 2016 edition winning just over 18 games out of the 23 played. Here are the top 10 in the final standings:

Rank	Player	Win	Loss	Spread
1	Sherwin Rodrigues	18.5	4.5	1453
2	Udayan Grover	17	6	1115
3	Goutham Jayaraman	16.5	6.5	883
4	Michael Tang	15	8	803
5	Varisht Hingorani	15	8	282
6	Douglas Lobo	14.5	8.5	541
7	Ranganathan Chakravarthy	14	9	1349
8	Charles Carneiro	14	9	544
9	A. Krishnan	14	9	437
10	Sudhir Kamath	14	9	345

Gail Scrabble Cup - Day 2

The Gail Scrabble cup is turning into a highly competitive affair. Goutham Jayaraman is on top. Here are the top 10 after day 2:

Rank	Player	Win	Loss	Spread
1	Goutham Jayaraman	13	3	935
2	Sherwin Rodrigues	13	3	835
3	Udayan Grover	12	4	1046
4	Alex Tan	11.5	4.5	1253
5	Michael Tang	11	5	630
6	Douglas Lobo	10.5	5.5	943
7	Javved Shamim	10	6	660
8	Aditya Iyengar	10	6	648
9	Varisht Hingorani	10	6	350
10	Mangala Bhandarkar	10	6	298

Gail Scrabble Cup - Day 1

The 3rd edition of the Gail Scrabble Cup has kicked off. This time around the tournament is WESPA rated and has a good bit of international participation. Udayan Grover is on top. Here are the standings after day 1:

Terrific Play from Sherwin at the Gail Cup in Delhi last week

This is one for the books. Have a look at this play. Vocab was on the board and Sherwin promptly extends it to Vocabularied (Courtesy Sanjoy).

Delhi Scrabble Tourney Gail Cup Results

Here are the Final Standings of the Gail Cup held the past week end (courtesy Sanjoy via facebook):

Rank         Player                          Wins   Spread
1 Sherwin RodriGUES                 18        1779
2 Varisht Hingorani                       16        1361
3 Sanjoy Gupta                              16         940
4 Sunny Bhatia                              15         703
5 Mohan Chunkath                       15         665
6 Lennie D'Souza                         15         184
7 Rajiv Antao                                 15         151
8 Shaikh Ahmed                           14.5      724
9 Pramit Kamath                           14         1092
10 Bhushan Pradhan                  14          487
11 Rex D'Souza                           14          343
12 Nidhi SInghvi                          14          334
13 Sudhir Kamath                       13.5       1044
14 Mangala Bhandarkar            13          623
15 Charles Carneiro                   13          582
16 Sanjay Bijlani                         13          367
17 Kala Ganesh                          13           253
18 Rajnikant Singh                     13          152
19 RajEEv Menon                      13           124
20 Sylvia cOELHO                     13          -126
21 Nikheel Ruparel                   13           -215
22 Neha Bihani                          13           -250
23 Karthik Ganesan                   12            147
24 Rekha Sanzgiri                     12              61
25 Caryl Gonsalvez                   12              26
26 Eeshan Malhotra                  12            -19
27 Anita Roy                                12           -407
28 Shaurya Puri                          12           -503
29 Mehul Arora                            11            458
30 Gaurav Bhargava                  11           143
31 Rehet SINGH Bhatia             11            50
32 Arindam Basu                         11           -22
33 Hyder Quraishi                        11           -59
34 Dev Garg                                  11         -1083
35 Ritu Chadha                             10          103
36 Sridhar Paidikondala              10           -86
37 Nures Sayeed                           10          -280
38 Parvathy RaghuNathan           10          -305
39 Ushmeet Kaur                            7.5         -1878
40 Akshay Hiremath                       6.5          -1585
41 Sushanto BHATTACHARA        6           -718
42 Vanita Jain                                    6           -2106
43 Manya Gupta                                4           -2287
44 Shabnam Gupta                           3            -961

HIGH GAME: Sherwin Rodrigues 631