The biggest scrabble tournament in Pakistan’s history “14th Inter school scrabble championship” came to an end at Beach Luxury Hotel Karachi. 680 players from around 100 schools colleges and universities from all over Pakistan participated.
According to the tournament director Tariq Pervez this was the 3rd largest scrabble tournament in the world and the largest indoor sport tournament in Pakistan where 680 players participated at one time under one roof.
This is an astonishing achievement especially when this tournament was organized on a mere two week’s notice.
The results were as follows:-
Category A (under 11 age category)
- Mirza Taha Hasan (BVS Parsi School)
- Aleeza Ahmad (Little Folk’s Paradise)
- Hasham Hadi Khan (BVS Parsi School)
Category B (11-14 age group)
- Ahmad Abdullah Abbasi (City School Westridge, Rawalpindi)
- Mohammad Hassaan (Army Burn Hall college
- Mariam Nadeem (Mama Parsi school)
Category C (14-18 age group)
- Hammad Hadi Khan (BVS Parsi school)
- Hassan Hadi Khan (BVS Parsi school)
- Tasarunn Munir (Froebel Education Centre)
Note: Hammad and Hassan Hadi Khan are identical twins while their younger brother Hasham took 3rd position in A category !
Category D (18 plus age category)
- Mirza Waseem Baig (IBA)
- Safdal Ali Naqvi (UET, Taxila)
- Ashfaq Khatti ( MUET, Jamshoro)
International Masters Category
- Javeria Mirza (Karachi Grammar School)
- Muhammad Inshal (Agha Khan High school)
- Shahzaib Khatri ( Govt Commerce College)
The international master category players were the organizers of this tournament after having played their matches the previous weekend
Alam Maqsood
A great event, marvelous atmosphere you could just smell the competition between the players and the schools.
I would like to congratulate the organization on this achievement.
Just to point out and I don’t mean offence to anyone, the event was a bit disorganized, the volunteers were not performing their job upto the mark, I spectated the whole day and the tournament director of category A was doing a splendid job he was constantly moving around so he could help out everyone. Also another boy I can’t recall his name but he was from St Pat’s High School, what a well mannered decent kid he is, he was cooperating with everyone working hard as he could, he was so polite and mannered while talking to the parents and players. Some volunteers were just roaming around aimlessly getting their pictures taken, chit chatting with their acquaintances which wasn’t quite pleasing. But a Job well done to the organization and the Organizing committee.