19th All India Scrabble Open, Goa - Scrabble Association of India

Start date: April 25, 2025

End date: April 27, 2025

All-day event

Location: Terminal Banquets Hall, Caculo Mall, St.Inez, Panaji, Goa

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Congrats Sunny for winning the Championship, Aditya and Goutham 2nd and 3rd! Results and stats are below:

Results from round 24

1	Sunny Bhatia	18⁽⁺¹⁾	+995⁽⁺¹⁾
2	Aditya Iyengar	17	+1992
3	Goutham Jayaraman	16	+1050
4	Rajeev Menon	16	+754
5	Sujana Somasekar	16	+482
6	Nidhi Singhvi	15	+1140
7	Sudhir Kamath	15	+473
8	Suyash Manchali	15	+375
9	Ishika Shivalingaiah	14	+1085
10	Nakul Prabhu	14	+845
11	Jacky fernandes	14	+710
12	Rustom Deboo	14	+323
13	Udayan Grover	14	+309
14	Vignesh S	14	+242
15	Ela Ghose	14	+166
16	Mangala Bhandarkar	13	+706
17	Bhushan Pradhan	13	+664
18	Samarth Manchali	13	+522
19	Pramit Kamath	13	+395
20	Douglas Lobo	13	+173
21	Siddharth Nithyanand	12⁽⁺¹⁾	+93⁽⁺¹⁾
22	Sushanto Bhattachary	13	-47
23	Shubha S	13	-135
24	Komal rg	13	-324
25	Sanjoy Gupta	12	+580
26	Selwyn Lobo	12	+266
27	Rajiv Antao	11⁽⁺¹⁾	+91⁽⁺¹⁾
28	Kala Ganesh	12	+87
29	Saraswathi Ramm	12	+74
30	Danish Shahna	12	-58
31	Lennie D’Souza	12	-203
32	Abel George Mathew	12	-306
33	Vimisha Patel	12	-897
34	Gajanan Patil	11	+33
35	Radhika Mahalingaiah	11	-32
36	Abhijit Shilotri	10⁽⁺¹⁾	-114⁽⁺¹⁾
37	Ritu Chadha	10⁽⁺¹⁾	-349⁽⁺¹⁾
38	Joe Rodrigues	11	-390
39	Asha Namdev Kamath	11	-397
40	Gaurav Bhargava	11	-504
41	Monica Agarwala	9⁽⁺¹⁾	+153⁽⁺¹⁾
42	Lucy Thomas Thannick	10	-147
43	Bhushan Sarmalkar	10	-260
44	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	10	-406
45	Nirupama Sivaraman	9⁽⁺¹⁾	-639⁽⁺¹⁾
46	Vimarsh Pandita	8⁽⁺²⁾	-1086⁽⁺²⁾
47	Viji Ramachandran	10	-1102
48	Aruna Grover	7⁽⁺²⁾	-570⁽⁺²⁾
49	Sudharsha Subbiah	8⁽⁺¹⁾	-622⁽⁺¹⁾
50	Suguna Dandi	6.5⁽⁺²⁾	-1240⁽⁺²⁾
51	Sylvia Coelho	4⁽⁺⁴⁾	-1289⁽⁺⁴⁾
52	Oliver John Mathew	3.5⁽⁺⁴⁾	-2051⁽⁺⁴⁾
53	Bhanumathi Ganesh	5⁽⁺²⁾	-1610⁽⁺²⁾

Bye treatment explained in brackets

High game:

Aditya Iyengar

716

Stats for Tournament: 25.04.2025 Goa2025 generated by Linrat (linear) 2.30
Prior data from Swordplay.RT2 after swordplay.tou (20250406)

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| State Name | National | State | Wins | Rating Points |
| | Old New | Old New | Exp Act | Old Change New |
+Section AAA + + + 24 games + +
+————————–+———–+———+———–+—————-+
| PUN Aditya Iyengar | 5 4 | 1 1 | 16.2 17.0 | 1612 +20 1632 |
| OSI Goutham Jayaraman | 7 7 | 2 2 | 17.1 16.0 | 1598 -21 1577 |
| HYD Rajeev Menon | 18 15 | 1 1 | 13.7 16.0 | 1414 +48 1462 |
| BLR Sujana Somasekar | 34 20 | 9 4 | 9.7 16.0 | 1273 +132 1405 |
| OSI Nidhi Singhvi | 20 24 | 5 5 | 15.4 15.0 | 1396 -7 1389 |
| DEL Sudhir Kamath | 33 30 | 3 3 | 12.9 15.0 | 1275 +44 1319 |
| BLR Suyash Manchali | 11 11 | 2 2 | 16.0 15.0 | 1549 -20 1529 |
| BLR Ishika Shivalingaiah | 9 9 | 1 1 | 15.8 14.0 | 1572 -35 1537 |
| MUM Nakul Prabhu | 4 12 | 2 4 | 18.6 14.0 | 1617 -92 1525 |
| GOA Jacky Fernandes | 51 46 | 5 4 | 12.1 14.0 | 1161 +39 1200 |
| MUM Rustom Deboo | 24 26 | 6 6 | 15.0 14.0 | 1367 -20 1347 |
| PUN Udayan Grover | 12 14 | 2 2 | 17.2 14.0 | 1537 -63 1474 |
| BLR Vignesh S | 38 37 | 10 11 | 13.9 14.0 | 1249 +3 1252 |
| DEL Ela Ghose | 53 40 | 5 5 | 10.6 14.0 | 1157 +69 1226 |
| PUN Mangala Bhandarkar | 32 32 | 4 4 | 12.4 13.0 | 1285 +12 1297 |
| MUM Bhushan Pradhan | 46 41 | 8 7 | 11.7 13.0 | 1194 +26 1220 |
| BLR Samarth Manchali | 40 34 | 11 9 | 10.0 13.0 | 1220 +59 1279 |
| GOA Pramit Kamath | 39 33 | 4 2 | 11.3 13.0 | 1249 +35 1284 |
| GOA Douglas Lobo | 17 18 | 1 1 | 13.3 13.0 | 1432 -6 1426 |
| DEL Sushanto Bhattachary | 54 53 | 6 6 | 11.2 13.0 | 1122 +36 1158 |
| BLR Shubha S | 29 35 | 8 10 | 15.1 13.0 | 1319 -42 1277 |
| DEL Komal RG | 61 55 | 7 7 | 10.2 13.0 | 1071 +55 1126 |
| BLR Sanjoy Gupta | 16 23 | 3 6 | 14.6 12.0 | 1443 -52 1391 |
| GOA Selwyn Lobo | 35 39 | 3 3 | 13.8 12.0 | 1268 -37 1231 |
| MUM Kala Ganesh | 41 54 | 7 10 | 15.2 12.0 | 1219 -64 1155 |
| BLR Saraswathi Ramm | 83 80 | 23 24 | 10.5 12.0 | 902 +30 932 |
| BLR Danish Shahna | 42 47 | 12 14 | 13.3 12.0 | 1219 -27 1192 |
| BLR Lennie D’Souza | 81 78 | 22 22 | 10.6 12.0 | 917 +29 946 |
|BLR Abel George Mathew | 67 | 20 | 12.0 | 1034 |
| GUJ Vimisha Patel | 49 44 | 1 1 | 10.4 12.0 | 1178 +33 1211 |
| BLR Gajanan Patil | 60 60 | 19 18 | 10.5 11.0 | 1094 +10 1104 |
| BLR Radhika Mahalingaiah | 57 62 | 18 19 | 13.4 11.0 | 1114 -47 1067 |
| GOA Joe Rodrigues | 78 81 | 6 6 | 13.0 11.0 | 961 -40 921 |
| KER Asha Namdev Kamath | 84 84 | 2 2 | 10.6 11.0 | 895 +8 903 |
| BLR Gaurav Bhargava | 102 105 | 29 30 | 11.1 11.0 | 775 -3 772 |
|^KER Lucy Thomas Thannick | 123 112 | 4 3 | 6.4 10.0 | 630 +107 737 |
| MUM Bhushan Sarmalkar | 145 136 | 28 28 | 6.3 10.0 | 500 +73 573 |
| MUM Ganesh Ramakrishnan | 115 102 | 27 23 | 7.3 10.0 | 727 +54 781 |
| MUM Viji Ramachandran | 80 85 | 18 19 | 11.5 10.0 | 924 -29 895 | +————————–+———–+———+-23 games -+—————-+
| DEL Sunny Bhatia | 23 10 | 2 2 | 11.2 18.0 | 1380 +149 1529 |
| BLR Siddharth Nithyanand | 27 28 | 7 8 | 12.5 12.0 | 1337 -11 1326 |
| GOA Rajiv Antao | 31 49 | 2 5 | 16.3 11.0 | 1286 -106 1180 |
| BLR Abhijit Shilotri | 67 79 | 20 23 | 13.3 10.0 | 1012 -66 946 |
| MUM Ritu Chadha | 79 83 | 17 18 | 12.1 10.0 | 948 -43 905 |
| BLR Monica Agarwala | 88 96 | 25 29 | 10.7 9.0 | 877 -34 843 |
| BLR Nirupama Sivaraman | 98 94 | 28 28 | 6.5 9.0 | 799 +49 848 |
| GOA Sudharsha Subbiah | 104 106 | 7 7 | 8.0 8.0 | 773 -1 772 |
+————————–+———–+———+-22 games -+—————-+
|DEL Vimarsh Pandita | 131 | 18 | 8.0 | 597 |
| PUN Aruna Grover | 116 120 | 10 11 | 10.2 7.0 | 723 -63 660 |
| BLR Suguna Dandi | 140 145 | 40 41 | 7.3 6.5 | 534 -16 518 |
|^BLR Bhanumathi Ganesh | 157 159 | 43 44 | 7.7 5.0 | 500 500 |
+————————–+———–+———+-20 games -+—————-+
| GOA Sylvia Coelho | 144 147 | 8 8 | 6.4 4.0 | 502 500 |
|*BLR Oliver John Mathew | 181 | 47 | 3.5 | 500 |
+————————–+———–+———+———–+—————-+

Notes:
Tournament placings by wins and margins.

denotes a previously unrated player
^ denotes a player with fewer than 50 rated games
The floor of 500 was imposed in section AAA

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Link to gallery: Goa 2025 – Scrabble Association of India

The 19th edition of the Goa Open will be held from 25th to 27th April 2025.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/rr9q9NasVrmcrZ228

24 rounds, CSW 24

Prizes for top 10 + Band prizes for ratings below 1200, below 1000 and newbie / below 600

Registered Participants:

Updated 17/04/2025

Sr	Name	Rating	Location
1	Abel George Mathew	–	BLR
2	Abhijit Shilotri	1012	BLR
3	Bhanumathi Ganesh	500	BLR
4	Danish Shahna	1219	BLR
5	Gajanan Patil	1094	BLR
6	Gaurav Bhargava	775	BLR
7	Ishika Shivalingaiah	1572	BLR
8	Lennie D’Souza	917	BLR
9	Monica Agarwala	877	BLR
10	Nirupama Sivaraman	799	BLR
11	Oliver John Mathew	–	BLR
12	Radhika Mahalingaiah	1114	BLR
13	Samarth Manchali	1220	BLR
14	Sanjoy Gupta	1443	BLR
15	Saraswathi Ramm	902	BLR
16	Shubha S	1319	BLR
17	Siddharth Nithyanand	1307	BLR
18	Suguna Dandi	534	BLR
19	Sujana Somasekar	1273	BLR
20	Suyash Manchali	1549	BLR
21	Tabish Ubair Sayed	–	BLR
22	Vignesh S	1249	BLR
23	Ela Ghose	1141	DEL
24	Komal rg	1076	DEL
25	Sudhir Kamath	1261	DEL
26	Sunny Bhatia	1380	DEL
27	Sushanto Bhattachary	1122	DEL
28	Jacky fernandes	1161	GOA
29	Joe Rodrigues	961	GOA
30	Pramit Kamath	1249	GOA
31	Rajiv Antao	1286	GOA
32	Sanaya Bharucha	–	GOA
33	Selwyn Lobo	1268	GOA
34	Sudharsha Subbiah	773	GOA
35	Sylvia Coelho	502	GOA
36	Vimisha Patel	1178	GUJ
37	Rajeev Menon	1414	HYD
38	Asha Namdev Kamath	895	KER
39	Lucy Thomas Thannick	630	KER
40	Pallavi Praveen	734	KER
41	Bhushan Pradhan	1194	MUM
42	Bhushan Sarmalkar	500	MUM
43	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	727	MUM
44	Kala Ganesh	1219	MUM
45	Nakul Prabhu	1617	MUM
46	Rustom Deboo	1367	MUM
47	Viji Ramachandran	924	MUM
48	Goutham Jayaraman	1598	OSI
49	Aruna Grover	723	PUN
50	Mangala Bhandarkar	1285	PUN
51	Nidhi Singhvi	1396	PUN
52	Udayan Grover	1537	PUN
53	Vimarsh Pandita	–	UTK