IGATE International Scrabble Tournament 2016

Here are the details of the Upcoming IGATE International Scrabble Tournament scheduled for January 2016 from the Scrabble Association of India:

Venue: IGATE campus,Whitefield, Bangalore, India

Date: January 14, 15, 16 & 17, 2016


Divisions:
No of Divisions:3
Division A: Premier Division, WESPA Rating 1500 and above, Lower rated players may also opt to play in the premier division

Division B: WESPA rating 1499 and below

Division C: For Newbies

Format: 

A minimum of 35 games of 50 minutes each will be played over four days. 

Word source will be the latest Collins Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List 2015. 

Challenge: 5-point penalty per word, the player does not lose turn.

Registration Fee:

Division A: 100$

Division B: 50$

Division C: 15$

Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided on all four days of the tournament.

Contact: Radhika Mahalingaiah - spica57@yahoo.com 

Accommodation:

Discounted Accommodation is available for participants at the following hotels:

1)MGM Mark Hotel Whitefield Bangalore

Reservations: reservations@mgmmarkwhitefield.com 

2) Ginger Bangalore - Whitefield

Reservations:   www.gingerhotels.com

3) The Park Residency

Reservations: theparkresidency@gmail.com

Prize Money:

Total Prize Money of $13,000

IGATE Scrabble Tournament 2016 http://t.co/FXGl2Ahb7U pic.twitter.com/gJ6zVzqMtt

— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 26, 2015

Second Edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble League this November

The organizers of the Wordaholix league have announced that the second edition of the Wordaholix scrabble league will take place this November. Here are the details:

Dates: Nov 20,21 & 22, 2015.

Venue:  
HOTEL TUNGA INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD,
B-11, MIDC , CENTRAL ROAD,
ANDHERI EAST, MUMBAI - 400 093.

Timings:
Day 1- 9a.m- 6p.m
Day 2- 8a.m- 6p.m
Day 3- 8a.m- 6p.m

Fees:

Cheques for ₹5000/- to be made out to Wordaholix Mindfield LLP.
Alternately direct transfers can be made to Wordaholix Mindfield LLP,
ICICI Bank,
Account no: 036605001359
IFSC code is ICIC0000366
Last date for payment is September 30th,2015.

Tournament Details:
Dictionary-CSW 15
Number of games and teams will be announced once all  entries are confirmed.

Players registered so far:
1) Ritu Chadha
2) Carol Pais
3) Sylvia Coelho
4) Kala Ganesh
5) Parvathy Raghunathan
6) Rekha Sanzgiri 
7) Caryl Gonsalvez
8) Nikheel Ruparel
9) Radhika Mahalingaiah
10) R. Nalini
11) Sherwin Rodrigues 
12) Varisht Hingorani 
13) Rehet Singh Bhatia 
14) Vedika Hingorani 
15) Vraj Jain
16) Sudhir Kamath
17) Rajeev Menon
18) Nakul Prabhu
19) Manju Pai
20) Romilla Thakur
21) Saraswati Ramanohar
22)Mangala Bhandarkar 
23) Sridhar Paidikondala 
24)Dhyan Gandhi 
25) Prateek Wadhavkar 
26)Meena Kalyan
27) Sunny Bhatia
28) Bhushan Pradhan 
29) Abhijit Pradhan 
30) P.C. Jose
31) Ramchandran 
32) Viji Ramchandran 
33) Priya Karkhanis 
34) Lennie D'Souza
35) Rex D'Souza
36) Shaikh Ahmed
37) M.H. Quraishi 
38) Neena Shahani
39) Zeba Sultan
40) Meena Bakhru 
41) Krtin Juneja
42) Sanjay Bijlani 
43) Ramchandran Chidambaram
44) Udayan Grover
45) Aruna Grover

Second Edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble League this November http://t.co/gLSrIir11x pic.twitter.com/ptD6YSxgRw

— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 6, 2015

High Probable 7 Letter Words Added in CSW15 - Part 1

Here is the first installment of high probable seven letter words that have been added to the CSW15 dictionary that can be found in WESPA's Collins Scrabble Words 2015 initiation kit. Older CSW12 anagrams are also mentioned.

Anagram	CSW 15 Addition	CSW 12 Anagrams
AAAGINR	NIAGARA	ANGARIA
AABDIRS	BAIDARS	ABRAIDS
AABORST	ROBATAS	ABATORS, RABATOS
AACDETU	ACUATED	CAUDATE
AACERTV	CRAVATE
AACESTU	ACUATES
AADEGOT	GEODATA
AADEGST	AGASTED
AADEILS	ALIASED
AADEIOR	AERADIO
AADERST	ADRATES
AADINST	AIDANTS
AADNOOT	ODONATA
AADNOPR	PADRONA	PANDORA
AAEELMN	MELAENA
AAEGMRT	MARGATE	REGMATA
AAEGNRW	NAGWARE
AAEIMRR	ARMERIA
AAEISTT	AETATIS	SATIATE
AAGILNR	LARIGAN
AAGILRT	RAGTAIL
AAIIMNT	ANIMATI
AAILNOP	PIANOLA
AAIMSTU	AMAUTIS
ABDEERS	REBASED	BEADERS, DEBASER, SABERED
ABDEINV	BAVINED
ABDEISY	BAYSIDE
ABDEOST	SABOTED	BOASTED
ABEEMRT	BEERMAT
ABEENNO	NANOBEE
ABEERTU	BEAUTER
ABEGILN	BEALING
ABEGILR	BERGALI
ABELORT	RETABLO

The new 3 letter words added in CSW15 can be found here.

High Probable 7's in CSW15 - Part1 http://t.co/UfKE63O3vM pic.twitter.com/sVF0fA37WZ

— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 6, 2015

Pyramid Words - A Handy Way to Increase Your Scrabble Vocabulary

Pyramid words are words which start at 2 letters but can be extended to 7 letters and beyond. For example take the word loofahs, we start with lo, next we get to loo, followed by loof, loofa, loofah and loofahs. Thus by knowing loofahs we get to know a total of 6 words. 

Other examples include:

Abasers, Amenders, Amusers, Barbers, Bingers, Chained,

Chiasmal, Daledhs, Divests, Erasers, Fasties, Godsons, Hookahs, Jambees, Jamboks, Kaingas, Kinases, Lapsers, Maliced, Mentors, Nursery, Parkiest, Poleyns, Reeders, Reposes, Singers, Skaters,Tapetis, Teasers, Ureases, and Woosells.

There are some reverse pyramid words too. Take the word drooped for example, we start with ed, then ped, then oped, then ooped, rooped and finally drooped. Other examples include:

Aemules, Afeared, Borates, Cleared, Demures, Escapes, Glaired, Hamates, Lemures, Mananas, Penates, Retapes, Scraped, Testates, Upreach, Vacates, Whooped, Yslaked and Zananas.

Sherwin Wins Pune Scrabble Championship 2015

Sherwin Rodrigues has won the Pune Scrabble championship. The tournament that featured 15 rounds of competition had a record turnout of 60 participants. Here are the complete standings:

Pune Scrabble Championship, July 2015

Final Standings

Rank	Won-Lost	Spread	Player
1	12½–2½	1299	Sherwin Rodrigues (#1)
2	11–4	818	Varisht Hingorani (#3)
3	11–4	699	Nakul Prabhu (#5)
4	11–4	228	Samrath Bhatia (#15)
5	10–5	1025	Ramchandran Chidambaram (#14)
6	10–5	461	Udayan Grover (#2)
7	10–5	407	Sunny Bhatia (#19)
8	10–5	269	Sudhir Kamath (#21)
9	9½–5½	808	Shaik Ahmed (#8)
10	9–6	728	Carolann Pais (#6)
11	9–6	720	Irfan Siddiqui (#4)
12	9–6	621	Mangala Bhandarkar (#9)
13	9–6	207	Hyder Quraishi (#26)
14	9–6	132	Pramit Kamath (#7)
15	9–6	125	PC Jose (#18)
16	9–6	124	Nidhi Singhvi (#13)
17	9–6	−95	Ruparel,Nikheel (#37)
18	8½–6½	−19	Chatterjee,Dipankar (#20)
19	8½–6½	−183	Subodh Tripathi (#28)
20	8–7	653	Lennie D'Souza (#11)
21	8–7	513	Zeba Sultan (#35)
22	8–7	378	Hriday Samtani (#29)
23	8–7	362	Neena Shahani (#25)
24	8–7	356	Sanjay Bijlani (#16)
25	8–7	−29	Manju Pai (#22)
26	8–7	−40	Rehet Bhatia (#43)
27	8–7	−83	Priya Karkhanis (#17)
28	8–7	−88	Dhyan Gandhi (#52)
29	8–7	−192	Romilla Thakur (#27)
30	8–7	−218	V Ramachandran (#10)
31	7½–7½	339	Meena Bakhru (#24)
32	7½–7½	85	Sylvia Coelho (#42)
33	7–8	267	Kala Ganesh (#33)
34	7–8	189	Vraj Jain (#38)
35	7–8	164	Eeshan Malhotra (#58)
36	7–8	104	Satish Srinivasan (#32)
37	7–8	74	Rex D'Souza (#23)
38	7–8	35	Rajeev Menon (#40)
39	7–8	−12	R Nalini (#12)
40	7–8	−291	Caryl Gonsalves (#39)
41	7–8	−316	Viji Ramachandran (#48)
42	7–8	−452	Meena Kalyan (#44)
43	7–8	−690	Milon Nag (#36)
44	6–9	97	Sridhar Paidikondala (#34)
45	6–9	74	Viren Braganza (#41)
46	6–9	4	Vedika Hingorani (#47)
47	6–9	−23	Saraswati R (#30)
48	6–9	−129	Aruna Grover (#46)
49	6–9	−275	Gaurav Bhargava (#31)
50	6–9	−405	Priya Kshirsagar (#49)
51	6–9	−721	Prateek Wadhavkar (#50)
52	5–10	234	Rekha Sanzgiri (#45)
53	5–10	12	Arindam Basu (#55)
54	5–10	−197	Supriti Malhotra (#60)
55	5–10	−259	Laura Braganza (#53)
56	5–10	−386	Krtin Juneja (#51)
57	5–10	−933	Sushanto Bhattacharya (#54)
58	4–11	−1188	Nandita Sarkar (#56)
59	4–11	−1633	Sian Virani (#57)
60	0–15	−3754	Atharshsiddharth Umapathy (#59)