Welcome to Indian Scrabble
Whether you are a beginner or a serious Scrabble player, this is the starting point for all you need to know about Scrabble in India. The Scrabble Association of India unites Scrabble players across the country and conducts regular events and tournaments in different cities.
At present, we have our members concentrated in centres such as Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Goa, Vadodara and Kolkata. However, we are always looking at spreading across different cities in India through promotion and events.
If you are a Scrabble enthusiast, we invite you to join the Scrabble Association of India. be part of the Association.
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1 Day Tournament on 19-Dec-2021 in Delhi:
1 Day online tournament 7th November 2021
INR 800,000 guaranteed Prize Purse When: Jan 20th-23rd 2022. The tournaments will start at 8:30am on Jan 20, and conclude by 5pm on Sunday.
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INR 800,000 guaranteed Prize Purse
When: Jan 20th-23rd 2022.
The tournaments will start at 8:30am on Jan 20, and conclude by 5pm on Sunday.
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*Sujana wins iCare Scrabble Cup, Hyderabad*![]()
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The iCare Scrabble Cup was held at Hotel Radisson, Hitec City in Hyderabad from 3rd to 5th December. This was the first rated tournament to be played in Hyderabad in over a decade. ![]()
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A total of 30 players from across India participated, with some of them returning to live Scrabble after nearly two years. The tournament also marked the return of everyone's favourite Tournament Director, Ashok Bhandarkar.![]()
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Congratulations to Sujana Somasekar of Bangalore Scrabble Club for winning her first SAI-rated tournament after a gripping final day. Needing to win the last two games to clinch the title, she did just that, finishing with 16.5 wins from 24 games with a spread of +680. ![]()
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Falling just short in second place was Sanjoy Gupta with 16 wins (+1472), followed by Shaik Ahmed with 15.5 wins (+1014) in third place. Ishika Shivalingaiah and Dipankar Chatterjee rounded off the top five with 15 wins each.![]()
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Thanks to Danish Shahna, Vimisha Patel, Ashok Bhandarkar and all other prize sponsors and volunteers for making this tournament a success.
*Sherwin stars at WESPAC 2021*![]()
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Congrats to Sherwin Rodrigues, India’s top-ranked Scrabbler, who finished a highly commendable sixth out of 105 players at the recently concluded 2021 edition of the biennial World English-Language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA) Championship (WESPAC), the effective World Championship of Scrabble, which was held from 20th November to 5th December. ![]()
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This was the first time that the tournament was held online, considering the exceptional global circumstances, and was brilliantly organised by the Pakistan Scrabble Association on the Woogles platform.![]()
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The 32-year-old from Mumbai, who is also the reigning national champion, made it to the quarterfinals by virtue of finishing eighth in a hard-fought group stage, where each player played 32 games across two weekends. Rodrigues collected 21 wins with an impressive spread of +1477, and though he lost his final game by 53 points to Will Anderson of the United States, his compatriot Udayan Grover ensured his passage into the knockouts by beating his nearest challenger, Dave Wiegand of the United States, in his corresponding last game.![]()
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The quarterfinal stage saw Rodrigues play group stage topper Peter Kougi of Australia. He started off with a 479-398 win in the first game, but the Australian came back to take the series 3-1 and ensure the semifinal spot. A narrow defeat in the third game was particularly agonising, as reflected in a scoreline of 437-431. Rodrigues’ final position of sixth was decided by his quarterfinal performance.![]()
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Besides Rodrigues and Grover, who finished 17th, there were six other Indian players in action at the WESPAC 2021: Madhav Gopal Kamath (40th), Mohan Chunkath (55th), Suyash Manchali (62nd), Nakul Prabhu (64th), Sanjoy Gupta (78th) and Kala Ganesh (91st). Madhav and Suyash are juniors, aged 11 and 12 respectively, but they more than held their own in remarkable fashion.![]()
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The WESPAC 2021 featured players from close to 30 countries including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The final ended up being a Trans-Tasman affair, with Alastair Richards of New Zealand edging out Australia’s David Eldar 4-3 in an exciting best-of-seven contest.![]()
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The previous edition of the WESPAC in 2019 was hosted by India at the Peddem Sports Complex in Goa. The 2017 edition in Nairobi was won by Non-Resident Indian Akshay Bhandarkar (representing Bahrain), who beat Nigeria’s Moses Peter in the finals.![]()
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Rodrigues’ sixth position is India’s best ever finish at Scrabble’s world championships and comes a little over three months after youngsters Madhav and Suyash produced India’s best ever finish at the WESPA Youth Cup – looks like ‘‘achhe din’’ are definitely here for Indian Scrabble!
Sherwin RodriguesUdayan Grover@Nakul Prabhu@Mohan Mohan Chunkath@Sanjoy Gupta Kala Ganesh @Sudhir Kamath Shubha ShivashankarSuyash Manchali Scrabble Association of IndiaWorld English-Language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA)
Happy Diwali, everyone! We're celebrating with a brilliant Diwali themed board created by scrabbler Rustom Deboo.. And all these words can be validly played in scrabble!
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