Scrabble Champions Tourney Berths from India

As per the Scrabble Association of India here are the standings for the Scrabble Champions Tourney qualification:

Rank	Location	Nick	Name	Games	Old Rating	New Rating
1	MUM	SROD	Sherwin Rodrigues	795	1824	1838
2	CHN	MCHU	Mohan Chunkath	628	1662	1774
3	PUN	UGRO	Udayan Grover	990	1745	1756
4	MUM	VHIN	Varisht Hingorani	437	1716	1736
5	CHN	RCHA	Ranganathan Chakrav	582	1735	1702
6	BLR	SGUP	Sanjoy Gupta	856	1611	1692
7	BLR	PSEE	Prashanth Seetharam	310	1640	1640
8	GOA	IGON	Irineu Gonsalves	912	1616	1621
9	GOA	DLOB	Douglas Lobo	859	1721	1615
10	MUM	JDE	Jose de Abreu	715	1593	1593

The top two Sherwin and Mohan have qualified. Mohan has confirmed he will be there in Australia representing India in the Scrabble Champions Tourney. Sherwin has declined so Udayan will be joining Mohan in Perth on behalf of India.

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

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: