Bangalore Scrabble Club Team Tournament

The Bangalore scrabble club team tournament is underway. The 5 teams are as follows:
Team Stingers headed by Nupur
Team Formidables headed by Manju
Team Rack Stars headed by Sanjoy
Team Camelias headed by Mohsin
Team Czars headed by Lennie

The latest standings are below:

STINGERS	WINS	LOSSES	SPREAD
NUPUR	0	1	-93
RADHIKA	1	3	-218
YASH	2	0	42
VIDYA	0	2	-50
GAUTHAM	0	0	0
TOTAL	3	6	-319

FORMIDABLES	WINS	LOSSES	SPREAD
MANJU	7	1	830
DIPANKAR	0	1	-28
HEMANTH	0	0	0
CHRIS	1	2	-152
RACHEL	1	0	46
	9	4	696

THE RACK STARS	WINS	LOSSES	SPREAD
SANJOY	0	0	0
SHANKAR	2	0	69
AUBREY	0	0	0
SUSHANTO	0	1	-7
DEEPA	0	0	0
	2	1	62

CAMELIAS	WINS	LOSSES	SPREAD
MOHSIN	0	0	0
CECIL	3	0	279
SARAS	0	2	-310
ARVIND	1	1	-34
MOHAMMED	0	1	-46
	4	4	-111

CZARS	WINS	LOSSES	SPREAD
LENNIE	1	1	15
NALINI	1	1	-78
HARSH	0	1	-57
NEELAM	0	2	-208
SUCHINDRA	0	0	0
	2	5	-328

Chennai Open Scrabble Championship 2016

The recently held Chennai scrabble open championship proved to be a fantastically organised event thanks to a super venue SA engineering college and the Madras Scrabble Foundation:

With Ashok in town the tournament went as smoothly as you could expect:

The games were fun and it proved competitive till the very end:

In the end Mr. Ramachandran prevailed with a well deserved 7 game win streak and as you can see the trophies were fabulous:

However this was more than just us playing scrabble. Big congratulations to the Madras Scrabble Foundation for inviting 280 kids to compete across many divisions. While you may instantly recognise Solai Aditya winner of Division B at the Nationals there are many more stars in the making:

As you can see they are pretty good at it too:

Finally it was time for the prizes and here are some snapshots of some future super stars in the making:

All in all a terrific tournament with some great memories.

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

Brett Smitheram is the New World Scrabble Champion

Brett Smitheram won the world scrabble championship rather easily in the end winning the best of 5 3-0. Playing words like Braconid and Zorinos he won the much coveted title in style. Here is how the finals played out from the coverage out of Lille:

World Scrabble Championships Final Results

	Mark Nyman	Brett Smitheram
Game 1	323	583
Game 2	403	451
Game 3	351	638

World Scrabble Championship 2016 - Day 4

Well what a day 4 it was. After several rounds of quarter final play and two best of 5 semi finals that went the full distance the World Scrabble Championships will prove to be an all English affair. It is Brett Smitheram Vs Mark Nyman to decide the 2016 edition of the World Scrabble Championships.
Here's how the semi finals played out from the coverage out of Lille:

Semi Final 1	Mark Nyman	V	Adam Logan
Game 1	400		449
Game 2	465		394
Game 3	415		454
Game 4	453		367
Game 5	590		423
Semi Final 2	Brett Smitheram	V	Lewis MacKay
Game 1	410		431
Game 2	475		470
Game 3	329		494
Game 4	452		416
Game 5	531		488