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

Altezas Win Inaugural Edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble League

The Altezas led right from the start to capture the title at the inaugural edition of the Wordaholix scrabble league. They did this winning 94 out of the 168 games played registering an impressive spread of 2094. Team Diadochi came in a close second with 90.5 wins. The final standings after 3 days of exhilarating competition are as follows:

Team	Standings	Win-Loss	Spread
Altezas	1	94-74	+2094
Diadochi	2	90.5-77.5	+920
Caziques	3	82.5-85.5	-457
Bashaws	4	69-99	-2557

Wordaholix Scrabble League - Altezas still on Top after Day 2

After the second day of proceedings at the Wordaholix Scrabble League the Altezas are still on top. However team Diadochi has made a nice run and is only 4 games away from the leaders. Some terrific individual performances from Udayan, Sherwin, Carol, Jose and Shaikh. Hear are the updated standings after day 2:

Team	Standings	Win-Loss	Spread
Altezas	1	65-54	+1886
Diadochi	2	61-58	+298
Caziques	3	58-61	-1233
Bashaws	4	54-65	-951

Wordaholix Scrabble League - Altezas on Top after Day 1

The Wordaholix Scrabble League kicked off yesterday. The Altezas are off to a quick start with 32 wins out of the 56 games played. Here are the complete standings:

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:

WORDAHOLIX SCRABBLE LEAGUE all set for Take Off

The inaugral edition of the WORDAHOLIX SCRABBLE LEAGUE, India's unique scrabble league is all set for kick off in Mumbai between the 25 th and 28 th of this month. The one of a kind team competition organized in a competitive league format will initially have 4 teams having 7 scrabblers apiece. The teams have been constituted based on the India ratings of each player and will have equal competitive strength. There will be 24 rounds of competition in all. The teams are as follows:

Team I – Altezas (Highnesses)

1. Sherwin Rodrigues
2. Shaikh Ahmed
3. Sanjay Bijlani
4. Sudhir Kamath
5. Kala Ganesh
6. Parvaty Raghunathan
7. Sridhar Paidikondala

Team II - Bashaws (High Ranking Military Officers)

1. Udayan Grover
2. Bhushan Pradhan
3. Samrath Bhatia
4. Hyder Quraishi
5. Vaibhava
6. Aruna Grover
7. Rehet Bhatia

Team III – Caziques (Chiefs)

1. Varisht Hingorani
2. Radhika Mahalingaiah

3. R. Nalini
4. Aditya Iyengar
5. Sunny Bhatia
6. Rekha Sanzgiri
7. Vedika Hingorani

Team IV – Diadochi (Monarchs)

1. Jose De Abreu
2. Carolann Pais
3. Mangala Bhandarkar
4. Priya Karkhanis
5. Phil Paes
6. Yash Potnis
7. Ritu Chadha

Co-sponsored by Wordaholix Mindfield LLP Indus Ind. Bank and JVPG, a total prize money of 1.96 lakhs is on offer, with the winners set to take home a cool Rs 70,000.

Malta International Scrabble Open Results

David Webb has won the main event of the Malta International Scrabble Open held between May 2 and May 4. The full standings are available from poslfit.com:

Division 1 Standings: Round 28

[ Congratulations to our Champion: David Webb! ]

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1. David Webb

2. Austin Shin

3. Theresa Brousson

Rank	Name	Home	W-L	Spread
1	David Webb	England	22.0-6.0	+1799
2	Austin Shin	England	21.0-7.0	+2138
3	Theresa Brousson	Malta	18.0-10.0	+1078
4	David Delicata	Malta	18.0-10.0	+120
5	Simon Gillam	Scotland	17.0-11.0	+660
6	Vincent Boyle	Scotland	16.0-12.0	+981
7	Naomi Landau	Israel	16.0-12.0	+260
8	Charles Micallef	Malta	15.0-13.0	+476
9	Jayne Mackenzie	Northern Ireland	15.0-13.0	-206
10	Nicky Vella-Laurenti	Malta	14.0-14.0	+354
11	Bob Violett	England	14.0-14.0	+310
12	Kevin Synnott	England	14.0-14.0	-141
13	Ray Tate	Scotland	14.0-14.0	-395
14	Mario Saliba	Malta	14.0-14.0	-412
15	Phil Kelly	England	13.0-15.0	-299
16	Kay McColgan	Ireland	12.0-16.0	-290
17	Cecil Muscat	Malta	11.0-17.0	-304
18	John Hamilton	Australia	9.0-19.0	-794
19	John Barker	Australia	5.0-23.0	-2757
20	Pauline Russell	Ireland	2.0-26.0	-2578