18th All India Open Scrabble Championships, Goa

Congratulations Madhav on winning your first (of many more to come!) major Scrabble title with 3 games to spare in tough field including 6 of the top 10 in India!

Results from round 24

Bye treatment explained in brackets

Stats (after removing the Dummy Player):

Stats for Tournament: 19.04.2024 GoaApr2024 generated by Linrat (linear) 2.30
Prior data from A (14).RT2 after a (20240414)

+————————–+———–+———+———–+—————-+
| State Name | National | State | Wins | Rating Points |
| | Old New | Old New | Exp Act | Old Change New |
+Section A + + + 24 games + +
+————————–+———–+———+———–+—————-+
| MUM Sherwin Rodrigues | 1 2 | 1 1 | 21.0 16.0 | 1856 -99 1757 |
| HYD Rajeev Menon | 26 19 | 1 1 | 10.8 16.0 | 1327 +104 1431 |
| PUN Aditya Iyengar | 3 4 | 1 1 | 18.4 15.0 | 1765 -68 1697 |
| BLR Sanjoy Gupta | 6 5 | 1 1 | 16.3 15.0 | 1628 -26 1602 |
| DEL Sunny Bhatia | 15 13 | 2 2 | 12.9 15.0 | 1470 +41 1511 |
| OSI Charles Carneiro | 9 9 | 3 3 | 15.1 15.0 | 1533 -1 1532 |
| BLR Sujana Somasekar | 19 22 | 4 6 | 15.5 14.0 | 1419 -30 1389 |
| PUN Udayan Grover | 4 6 | 2 2 | 19.2 14.0 | 1684 -105 1579 |
| BLR Siddharth Nithyanand | 34 25 | 9 7 | 10.0 14.0 | 1268 +80 1348 |
| GOA Pramit Kamath | 45 34 | 6 4 | 9.3 14.0 | 1155 +94 1249 |
| BLR Radhika Mahalingaiah | 51 44 | 15 13 | 11.2 14.0 | 1104 +57 1161 |
| DEL Sudhir Kamath | 29 30 | 3 3 | 13.8 14.0 | 1289 +4 1293 |
| KER Asha Namdev Kamath | 93 77 | 2 2 | 8.5 13.0 | 846 +91 937 |
| MUM Kala Ganesh | 56 45 | 14 10 | 8.8 13.0 | 1075 +84 1159 |
| GOA Jacky Fernandes | 55 52 | 3 3 | 12.2 13.0 | 1082 +15 1097 |
| DEL Ekansh Arora | 36 35 | 4 5 | 12.9 13.0 | 1234 +3 1237 |
| OSI Selwyn Lobo | 20 29 | 6 7 | 17.0 12.0 | 1403 -100 1303 |
| BLR Manju Sood | 31 27 | 8 8 | 9.8 12.0 | 1279 +44 1323 |
| GOA Sudharsha Subbiah | 124 115 | 6 6 | 8.5 12.0 | 676 +70 746 |
| GOA Anthony Gomes | 64 62 | 5 5 | 10.9 12.0 | 1029 +22 1051 |
| GOA Joe Rodrigues | 63 61 | 4 4 | 11.4 12.0 | 1041 +13 1054 |
| MUM Bhushan Pradhan | 33 37 | 7 8 | 13.3 11.0 | 1268 -46 1222 |
| BLR Vignesh S | 48 56 | 14 15 | 13.1 11.0 | 1121 -42 1079 |
| PUN Mangala Bhandarkar | 39 42 | 4 4 | 11.9 11.0 | 1189 -19 1170 |
| GOA Rajiv Antao | 37 49 | 2 2 | 15.4 11.0 | 1207 -88 1119 |
| BLR Gaurav Bhargava | 106 99 | 29 28 | 9.0 11.0 | 778 +39 817 |
| DEL Sushanto Bhattachary | 61 69 | 8 8 | 13.8 10.0 | 1054 -76 978 |
+————————–+———–+———+-23 games -+—————-+
| MUM Patrick Pereira | 68 65 | 15 15 | 11.3 12.0 | 988 +13 1001 |
| KOL Arindam Basu | 32 36 | 1 1 | 13.7 12.0 | 1269 -33 1236 |
| DEL Ela Ghose | 58 57 | 7 7 | 11.8 12.0 | 1069 +5 1074 |
|xMUM Ritu Chadha | 85 81 | 20 18 | 9.9 11.0 | 883 +21 904 |
| MUM Rekha Sanzgiri | 98 98 | 23 23 | 11.0 11.0 | 818 +0 818 |
| GOA Ronilla Kataria | 112 105 | 6 6 | 7.9 10.0 | 757 +42 799 |
| PUN Aruna Grover | 120 121 | 12 12 | 9.0 9.0 | 704 -1 703 |
|BLR Nirupama Sivaraman | 133 | 8 | 9.0 | 609 |
|BLR Bhuvanesh Satla | 203 | 13 | 9.0 | 500 |
|^PUN Caroline Coelho | 168 169 | 14 14 | 9.7 7.0 | 500 500 |
+————————–+———–+———+-22 games -+—————-+
| GOA Sylvia Coelho | 157 162 | 9 10 | 10.8 7.5 | 511 500 |
| ASM Madhulekha Hazarika | 131 142 | 1 1 | 9.2 7.0 | 623 -44 579 |
| MUM Bhushan Sarmalkar | 161 158 | 36 35 | 6.4 7.0 | 500 +13 513 |
|GOA Freddie D’Souza | 204 | 14 | 7.0 | 500 |
+————————–+———–+———+-21 games -+—————-+
| DEL Madhav Gopal Kamath | 5 3 | 1 1 | 15.1 19.0 | 1660 +79 1739 |
+————————–+———–+———+-19 games -+—————-+
|BLR Jayakishore Satla | 205 | 15 | 0.0 | 500 |
+————————–+———–+———+———–+—————-+

Notes:
Tournament placings by wins and margins.

• denotes a previously unrated player
  ^ denotes a player with fewer than 50 rated games
  x denotes a player who forfeited
  The floor of 500 was imposed in section A

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The 18th All India Open Scrabble Championships, Goa will be held in the Terminal Banquets Hall, Caculo Mall, St. Inez, Goa from 19th – 21st April 2024. Details will be announced soon, but you can register early and book your tickets and stay!

Registrations: https://forms.gle/P2VBgWh6t3beksWq9

Registration fee: An entry fee will be charged – lunch, morning and evening tea/coffee and light snack on all 3 days will be provided within this fee.

Timings:

Friday 19th April: 9am Registration 9.45am – 6.30pm 9 games

Saturday 20th April: 9am to 6pm 9 games

Sunday 21st April: 9am to 4.15 pm 6 games 4.30pm Prize Distriubution

Current Registrations (updated15/4/2024):