National Scrabble Returns to Bangalore

We are all set for the Phoenix One Bangalore West All India Open Scrabble Tournament scheduled to take place from October 12th to October 14th. The tournament will be at an attractive location free from all the traffic and will be SAI and WESPA rated. The details are below for both the rated and the corporate tournament:

Around 3 weeks to go for the tournament and we have 50 players registered for Rated division and 22 for Newbie division. 30th Sept is the last date for registration!

The details of the Phoenix tournament along with bank account details are on SAI WEBSITE too.

I request everyone doing the online transfer of entry fee to kindly mention your name in remarks/comments and send us the screenshot of transaction details at shubhayess@gmail.comand/or m.shankarprasad@gmail.com

Please find the names of the people registered for Phoenix One Bangalore West all India open Scrabble tournament in Bangalore.   

People with a dollar bag against their names have paid the entry fee!💰😉

Rated Division - 50

Abdul Waheed  

Abhijit Shilotri 💰

Abid Hussain 💰

Aditya Iyengar

Akhilesh Balachandder💰

Anuj Shetty 💰

Arvind Lath

Danish Shahna

Dipankar Chatterjee 💰

Douglas Lobo

Eeshan Malhotra 💰

Ganesh Ram💰

Gaurav Bhargava

Goutham Jayaraman

Harivinderjit Bhatia

Hyder Quraishi 💰

Leonie D'souza 💰

Madhav Gopal Kamath💰

Mangala Bhandarkar 💰 

Manju Sood  💰

Mohan Chunkath 

Nalini Bhat 💰

Neelam Agrawal 💰

Neeta Bhatia

Nikheel Ruparel 💰

Pankaj Bolaki 💰

Radhika Mahalingaiah 💰

Rahil Parkar 💰

Rajeev Menon 💰

Rajiv Antao  

Rajveer Rawlin 💰

Rustom Deboo 💰

Ranganathan Chakravarthy  💰

Sanjoy Gupta  💰

Saraswathi Rammanohar💰

Shaik Ahmed 💰

Shailaja Nadig 💰

Shankar Prasad💰

Shubha S 💰

Sridhar Paidikondala 💰

Sriya Ganesh Aiyer 💰

Suchindra Potnis💰

Sudhir Kamath💰

Sunny Bhatia 💰

Sushanto Bhattacharya💰

Suyash Manchali 💰

Varisht Hingorani

Vidya Goggi💰

Vignesh S 💰

Yash Potnis 💰

Unrated Division/Newbies - 22

Akshata Prabhu 💰

Dinesh Chopra

Dhanush Bharadwaj 💰

Dhruv Kamath💰

Farin Hajra Shaffi 💰

Hafiya Shaffi 💰

Ishika S 💰

Jayashree Nagaraj 💰

Joseph Tharun💰

Manisha Mohite 💰

Mayura Gnaneshwar 💰

Neel Navin 💰

Pallavi Navin 💰

Rani Pathak 💰

Sankaran Iyer  💰

Sujana Somasundar 💰

Sujata B Keni 💰

Taramani 💰

Tata Ganesh 💰

Triambak Eashwar 💰

Usha Chandrashekar 💰

Yamuna KS 💰

Happy tiling!!

Cheers,

Shubha

Bangalore Scrabble Club has negotiated with one particular Minla hotel closer to the venue with a good deal. 

Please mention 'Scrabble tournament' while booking the hotel and let me know after you have booked it.

Hotel details after the registration list. Other hotels document and tournament flyer also attached. 

But now that there are various apps which provide discounted rates, please check them too. 

MINLA HOTEL details

Luxury room :SGL 5500+Taxes and DBL 5900+Taxes

Premium suite:SGL 7000+Taxes and DBL 7400+Taxes

Special rates OFFERED for The Bangalore Scrabble Association

SGL/DBL 3500 with taxes and without breakfast

15 Luxury Rooms 6 suite Rooms

Maximum Occupants 2 in each room

Note:All rooms are king size bed GST @ 18% includes breakfast and minibar 

For confirmation 50% advance balance 50% one month before check in date

any cancellations after September 11th 2018 one day retention charge will be applicable for all rooms

Bank Details

Name: MINLA HOTELS PVT LTD

Bank: INDUSIND BANK LTD.

SADASHIVNAGAR BRANCH, BANGALORE 

A/c No: 200012475511

Type: CURRENT

IFSC Code: INDB0000333

Contact : Shivaprasad

9945074053

7816877545

       

MINLA HOTEL

150, West Of Chord Road, Yeshwantpur - Rajajinagar,

( Near ISKCON Temple ) Bengaluru 560010.

Front Desk +917816877541

Reservations+917816877545

www.minlahotels.com

stay@minlahotels.com

The Shantha Viswanathan Memorial Scrabble Tournament 2018

A fantastic one day tournament was organized by the family of the late Mrs Shantha Viswanathan, an avid scrabbler, with two divisions a rated and an unrated one, on Sunday May 6. Mrs Viswanathan's blessings were with us on this day and it transpired into an amazing tournament with Yash winning the rated tournament, Eeshan in second, yours truly in third, Nalini in fourth and Lennie in fifth. Here are some game boards from the day's action:

Bangalore Scrabble Club - Activities

Loads of stuff happening at the Bangalore Scrabble Club off late. Before I get into it the two major upcoming events:

1) The Shantha Vishwanathan memorial tournament - May 6
This has become an annual feature thanks to the family of the late Mrs Shantha Viswanathan who was an avid scrabbler and had a passion for the game. The tournament over the years has helped several aspiring players in Bangalore to take up the game.
2) A 3 day rated tournament from October 12-14 - This will be our first major national tournament and we hope to make this a regular feature going forward.

As far as the activities go, the league is in full swing and here are some game boards from regular league play:


We also completed a 2 day rated tournament that Eeshan won, followed by Leny and Yash. Here are some game boards from the fun filled tourney and Eeshan's 11 game streak:

We also had a 1 day tourney that Nalini won. With the tournament calendar heating up now lots of scrabble to look forward to in the upcoming months. Follow us by liking our Facebook page.

The Bangalore Scrabble Club has New Office Bearers

The Bangalore Scrabble club has constituted a 5 member working committee to oversee its affairs. The newly elected members who were elected unopposed are:

 Shankar Prasad - President 

Vidya Goggi - Secretary

Chris Immison - Treasurer

Sushanto Bhattachaya - Member Technical Support

Shubha S. - Member Operations

The agenda is as follows:

1. Conducting local league games, local one day tournaments and zonal/ national level          tournaments
2. Continuing to host the international tournament
3. Providing training and promoting scrabble across Bangalore
4. Developing the scrabble skills of its members
5. Developing a technical team to master TSH / rating software and other relevant technical skills required for hosting tournaments and promoting the game.
6. Increasing membership of the club with regular meetings covering all of the above

Game Boards from Wordaholix Scrabble League III

Here are some game boards from the third edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble League team tournament that took place over the week end courtesy Prashanth and Yash:

Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 - Final Standings

The Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 has concluded. Here are the final standings. Nupur has won it, Manju is in second place, yours truly finished third. Congratulations to all the participants who made this a grand success and a big thank you to Chris for reviving Bangalore Scrabble. Here are the final standings:

Standings	Player	Handicap	Win	Loss	Spread
1	NUPUR	-20	33	9	2030
2	MANJU	-45	31	11.0	2001
3	RAJVEER	-55	30	12.0	1915
4	SANJOY	-65	29	13.0	1659
5	MOHSIN	-60	26	16.0	2331
6	LENNIE	-35	25	17.0	659
7	RADHIKA	-35	22.5	19.5	-179
8	YASH	0	22	20.0	547
9	SHANKAR	25	22	20.0	-11
10	HEMANTH	0	21	21.0	597
11	SARAS	0	21	21.0	321
12	NALINI	-20	21	21.0	188
13	DIPANKAR	-35	20	22.0	-947
14	VIDYA	15	19	23.0	-225
15	REX	-10	19	23.0	-353
16	HARSH	45	19	23.0	-774
17	NEELAM	10	16	26.0	-918
18	CHRIS	10	15.5	26.5	-1079
19	SHAILAJA	15	15	27.0	-1578
20	ARVIND	10	14	27.9	-1876
21	AUBREY	0	12	30.0	-1710
22	DEEPA	40	9	33.0	-2598