Another great performance by Nigel Richards winning the 11th IGATE International Scrabble Tournament 2015 for the 6th time, besting the other 24 players in the 35 rounds, four-day battle of word power! Richards was Gibsonized before the start of day 4 or as early as round 29. He finished with a 32-3 win-loss record and a whopping +3873 points spread. Douglas Lobo and Lakshan Wanniarachchi took the 2nd and 3rd spot, respectively.
Final Standing (After 35 Rounds)
Rank
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Player (Seed No.)
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Won-Lost
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Spread
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1
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Nigel Richards (A1)
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32–3
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+3873
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2
|
Douglas Lobo (A10)
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23–12
|
+996
|
3
|
Lakshan Wanniarachchi (A8)
|
21–14
|
+589
|
4
|
Sherwin Rodrigues (A2)
|
20½–14½
|
+1348
|
5
|
Rasheed Balogun (A3)
|
20–15
|
+1223
|
6
|
Sanjoy Gupta (A13)
|
20–15
|
+1076
|
7
|
Goutham Jayaraman (A4)
|
19½–15½
|
−182
|
8
|
Udayan Grover (A9)
|
19–16
|
+162
|
9
|
Mohan Chunkath (A17)
|
19–16
|
−190
|
10
|
Varisht Hingorani (A5)
|
18–17
|
+694
|
11
|
Michael Tang (A11)
|
18–17
|
+343
|
12
|
Alex Tan (A15)
|
18–17
|
+45
|
13
|
Tony Sim (A7)
|
17–18
|
−131
|
14
|
Mohsin Ahmed (A18)
|
17–18
|
−855
|
15
|
Nakul Prabhu (A6)
|
16–19
|
+678
|
16
|
Shaila Amalean (A19)
|
16–19
|
−559
|
17
|
Shaikh Ahmed (A12)
|
16–19
|
−613
|
18
|
Jose de Abreu (A14)
|
16–19
|
−745
|
19
|
V Ramachandran (A21)
|
15½–19½
|
−415
|
20
|
Olajide Akinyemi (A22)
|
15–20
|
+264
|
21
|
Suthiraphan Assarat (A23)
|
14–21
|
−264
|
22
|
Bhushan Pradhan (A20)
|
14–21
|
−1753
|
23
|
Charles Carneiro (A16)
|
13½–21½
|
−1003
|
24
|
Cecil Fernandes (A26)
|
13–22
|
−1156
|
25
|
Radhika Mahalingaiah (A25)
|
12–23
|
−1071
|
The talks of the event were the two great plays by Nigel Richards. Here it goes:
The final board position below showed a nine-letter word, ASAFETIDA. It was nicely fitted by Nigel from the rack of AAAEIST through separate F and D on the board.
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| (Final Board Position of Nigel's game with the 9-letter word, ASAFETIDA) |
Another jaw-dropping move was an awesome bingo, but an extension play, this time. Take a look at the board position after his opponent played ZAP.
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| (It's Nigel's turn) |
Find out what Nigel did
IGATE International Scrabble Tournament has been held every year in India since 2005, and has attracted Scrabble players around the world.
The winners of the event from 2005 up to the present are updated below:
Year
|
Champion
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Runner-up
|
2005
|
Ganesh Asirvatham (1)
|
Akshay Bhandarkar
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2006
|
Varisht Hingorani (1)
|
Ralph Lobo
|
2007
|
Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (1)
|
Akshay Bhandarkar
|
2008
|
Ganesh Asirvatham (2)
|
Ayorinde Saidu
|
2009
|
Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (2)
|
Nigel Richards
|
2010
|
Nigel Richards (1)
|
Sherwin Rodrigues
|
2011
|
Nigel Richards (2)
|
Sherwin Rodrigues
|
2012
|
Nigel Richards (3)
|
Akshay Bhandarkar
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2013
|
Nigel Richards (4)
|
Olaiya Kabir
|
2014
|
Nigel Richards (5)
|
Alastair Richards
|
2015
|
Nigel Richards (6)
|
Douglas Lobo
|
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| (Nice hilarious pose of Nigel at the 11th IGATE) |
2 comments:
BRAVO, HURRAY MAY KASAMANG PALAKPAK NG KAMAY AT PAA AT SIGAW NA MALAKAS! FOR POSTING THIS INFO.
Truly amazing was there, Zapateados was fantastic.
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