Tracking Our Kids at the World Youth Scrabble Championships

The World Youth Scrabble Championship has concluded in Lille France. India had 8 participants this time around. Big congratulations to all the kids. Here's how they finished from the coverage from Lille:

Player	Win	Loss	Spread	Rank
Aditya Iyengar	16	8	1705	5
Vraj Jain	15	9	69	17
Samrath Singh Bhatia	14.5	9.5	903	18
Yash Potnis	13	11	267	41
Vedika Hingorani	11	13	-178	74
Vihaan Hingorani	10	14	110	84
Aishwarya Naidu	9.5	14.5	-907	95
Udey Singh	8	16	-1222	103

Some Handy Animal Words in Scrabble

Here is a visual representation of some useful animal words that can be played in Scrabble from word buff author Derek Mckenzie:

Useful Scrabble Score Sheet

Here is a very useful scrabble scoring/tile tracking sheet from one of my colleagues Shankar in the Bangalore Scrabble Club. I often struggle with tile tracking and it has cost me games. Hope this one does the trick.

Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 - Standings as on August 15

The Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 is reaching its climax with just under a month to go. Here are the updated standings. Nupur has won it and Manju is guaranteed second place:

Standings	Player	Handicap	Win	Loss	Spread	Average Game Score
1	NUPUR	-20	33	9	2030	401
2	MANJU	-45	33	11	2257	404
3	SANJOY	-65	31	13	2102	393
4	RAJVEER	-55	28	12	1656	397
5	MOHSIN	-60	25	15	2139	414
6	LENNIE	-35	23	18	405	382
7	SHANKAR	25	23	20	36	390
8	NALINI	-20	22	21	484	392
9	HEMANTH	0	21	19	1186	397
10	SARAS	0	21	21	321	400
11	YASH	0	20	19	423	393
12	DIPANKAR	-35	20	22	-947	370
13	VIDYA	15	19	23	-225	378
14	RADHIKA	-35	19	17	-280	390
15	CHRIS	10	17	27	-686	376
16	REX	-10	16	22	-535	369
17	HARSH	45	14	22	-990	395
18	SHAILAJA	15	13	21	-1257	377
19	ARVIND	10	12	26	-1779	379
20	AUBREY	0	12	24	-1404	353
21	NEELAM	10	10	23	-1171	368
22	DEEPA	40	9	28	-1925	367
23	VASAVA	45	1	5	-550	343
24	GIRISH	40	0	4	-617	309
25	SHILPA	45	0	1	-296	284

Pune Scrabble Tournament this Week End

Another fun filled tournament awaits Scrabblers this week end in Pune.

Venue: Poona Club
Date: 12-14 August
Registration: Between 9 AM and 9:30 on August 12
Games Start: 10 AM

Word Source: Collins Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List 2015 

Low Probable but Handy Scrabble Play - OPGEFOK

This is courtesy Nick Ivanovski via Facebook in a real game at the Trans Tasman challenge in Australia. When you are on the verge of a comeback and have a RETAIN rack, you could still end up Opgefok.