Mohan Wins Bayer National Scrabble Championship 2015

Longtime scrabble stalwart of India Mohan Chunkath has won the Bayer National Scrabble Championship held in Mumbai. He finished ahead of defending champion Sherwin Rodrigues and Sanjoy Gupta  and has clinched his place in the Scrabble Champions Tourney to be held later this year in Australia. The top 10 finishers are shown below:

Player	Standing	Win-Loss	Spread
Mohan Chunkath	1	18-6	1030
Sherwin Rodrigues	2	17-8	1412
Sanjoy Gupta	3	16-9	474
Varisht Hingorani	4	16-9	459
Udayan Grover	5	15-10	418
Irineu Gonsalves	6	15-10	340
Carolann Pais	7	14.5-10.5	694
Ranganathan Chakravarthy	8	14-11	603
Mangala Bhandarkar	9	14-11	161
Nakul Prabhu	10	13.5-11.5	1260

Bayer National Scrabble Championships Standings after Round 10

The Nationals have kicked off. Here is an update of the standing after round 10 from the Scrabble Association of India:

Premier Division:

1        Mohan Chunkath    8    +366
2        Varisht Hingorani    8    +331
3        Sherwin Rodrigues    7    +721
4        Sanjoy Gupta    7    +652
5        Ranganathan Chakrav    7    +408
6        Kurian Tp    7    +280
7        Nakul Prabhu    6    +1051
8        Sunny Bhatia    6    +68
9        Udayan Grover    6    +67
10        Mangala Bhandarkar    6    -10
11        Shaikh Ahmed    6    -139
12        Carolann Pais    5    +216
13        Irineu Gonsalves    5    +192
14        Manju Pai    5    +47
15        V Ramachandran    5    -36
16        Douglas Lobo    5    -58
17        Priya Karkhanis    5    -167
18        A Krishnan    5    -323
19        Ramchandran Chidamba    4    +206
20        Aditya Iyengar    4    +91
21        Manju Sood    4    -126
22        Bhushan Pradhan    4    -153
23        Anthony Gomes    4    -288
24        Nidhi Singhvi    3    -350
25        Samrath Singh Bhatia    3    -376
26        Romilla Thakur    3    -497
27        Sudhir Kamath    3    -523
28        Pc Jose    3    -528
29        Neena Shahani    3    -554
30        Joe Rodrigues    3    -568

High game:    Nakul Prabhu    627

Open Division:

1        Brian D'Souza    8    +733
2        Sridhar Paidikondala    8    +548
3        Nupur Sood    8    +409
4        Subodh Tripathi    7    +663
5        Zeba Sultan    7    +622
6        Vraj Jain    7    +340
7        Meena Kalyan    7    +287
8        Phil Paes    6.5    +409
9        Hyder Quraishi    6    +342
10        Kala Ganesh    6    +321
11        Satish Srinivasan    6    +320
12        Meena Bakhru    6    +266
13        Viji Ramachandran    6    +145
14        Yash Potnis    6    +103
15        Virendra Braganza    6    +31
16        Prashant Venkatraman    6    +16
17        Rehet Singh Bhatia    6    -22
18        Sylvia Coelho    5.5    +257
19        Ritu Chadha    5    +247
20        Rekha Sanzgiri    5    +168
21        Purshottam Keswani    5    +131
22        Gaurav Bhargava    5    +51
23        Nikheel Ruparel    5    +46
24        Vedika Hingorani    5    +2
25        Gover Mubarakai    5    -7
26        Meena Thakker    5    -24
27        Vaibava Kamalasanan    5    -101
28        Solai Adithya    5    -321
29        Mehul Arora    5    -497
30        Vidya Goggi    4    +385
31        Aruna Grover    4    +87
32        Rajeev Menon    4    +70
33        Kreishna Parmar    4    +29
34        Mehjabeen Peeradina    4    -74
35        Prateek Wadhavkar    4    -85
36        Sai Shiv    4    -139
37        Laura Braganza    4    -140
38        Creswell D'Souza    4    -188
39        Shaurya Puri    4    -413
40        Sai Vignesh    4    -665
41        Aravind    4    -958
42        Asha Namdev Kamath    3    +374
43        Ganesh    3    -47
44        Bharath    2    -1012
45        Krishna Vora    1    -1959
46        Dummy    0    -750

High game:    Sai Vignesh    629

The National Scrabble Championship is here

Finally the much awaited Nationals is here. The event taking place over 3 days in Mumbai over the next week from May 29-may 31 holds particular significance as Scrabble Champions Tourney places are up for grabs. Here are the details: