Xishan emerged as Super Zonal Champions!

After a grueling 5 rounds of Scrabble, our Xishanites did the school proud by bagging quite a number of awards in the tournament.

The awards are:
1. Super Zonal 3rd and 4th placing (Junior teams)
2. North Zone Champion (Senior team)
3. Super Zonal Champion (Senior team)

Though one of the senior teams did not win any award, they played an important role in supporting our winning team to achieve the championship.  Kudos to all senior and junior teams.

Jurong Green 2014

Results out for Jurong Green Scrabble Open Championship! We managed to bag 9 out of 10 prizes. This is an excellent feat, Xishanites!

The prize winners are Jimmy, Alex, Wen Jie, Eason, Evan, Ris, Keanen, Ethan and Ming Xian. Continue to hone your skills for upcoming competitions.

Results @ Super Zonal Series Scrabble Championship

This year, we sent in the most number of teams, totalling 4 senior teams and 2 junior teams. Following is the accomplishment of Xishan Scrabblers:

For Senior teams, we clinched the 2nd and 3rd position in the Cup Category and Top position in North Zone.

For our Junior teams, one of our teams clinched the 4th Position in the Cup Category.

This has more or less ended our 2013 tournaments. For 2014, let's set our sights on at least one champion. All the best for your upcoming examinations. 

Some Photos from Our Competitions

Updates for Our Accomplishment thus far

Dear all, I'm sure everyone noticed how quiet the blog is recently. Well...... I must apologise for this because I was handling quite a number of stuff over the past few months. Let's share some results we got from Jurong Green Scrabble Championship and 12th ISNSC.

Jurong Green Scrabble Championship
We managed to bag 8 out of the 10 prizes. Well done, Xishan Scrabblers! I shall announce the top 3 prize winners and names of the other winners:
1st: Dai Fei
2nd: Pradeep
3rd: Jimmy
The other winners: Shu Hui, Evan, Wen Jie, Piraphon.

12th ISNSC
For Individual Category, we managed to achieve better results compared to 2012. This time round, we have a winner for 1st in plate category (senior) and 2nd in plate category (junior). The winners are Pradeep and Yi Ann respectively.

For team category, we have improved slightly too. Both senior team (S1) and junior team (J1) clinched the Third position in the Cup Category. Well done, Scrabblers!!! You have done the school proud.

Senior Team 1: Jimmy (Captain), Wen Jie, Wei Long, Dai Fei, Pradeep, Eason and Piraphon.

Junior Team 1: Yi Ann (Captain), Shouhe, Eunice, Qinzhong, Wen Hao, Kayle and  Daniel.

Competitions and Participants

12th ISNSC (Individual Category)
Date: 23rd March 2013
Time: 7.30 am to 6.00 pm
Participants:
Junior
Chu Yi Ann
Zhuang Shouhe
Kayle Poon
Daniel Tay
Liao Qinzhong

Senior
Lee Suphagrid
Huang Wen Jie
Eason Poon
Koh Wei Long
Manimaran Pradeep

12th ISNSC Preliminaries (Team Category)
Date: 6th April 2013
Time: TBC

Team S1
Lee Suphagrid (Captain)
Huang Wen Jie
Eason Poon
Piraphon
Koh Wei Long
Manimaran Pradeep
Dai Fei

Team S2
Law Shu Hui (Captain)
Patricica Mae
Clara Teo
Ethan Wong
Evan Aloysius
Keanen Poon
Jade Yee

Team J1
Chu Yi Ann (Captain)
Zhuang Shouhe
Kayle Poon
Daniel Tay
Liao Qinzhong

Christopher Chia

Eunice Yong

Scrabble Camp 2013

Wow! The camp just ended in a breeze. I really hope everyone had a great time learning and sharpening your skills. I really enjoyed the part when the seniors are training together with the juniors and I observed that the juniors are humble and willing to learn.

Juniors, this camp is exceptionally important for preparing you for the upcoming competitions and I think all of you have done well. Please ensure that you are familiar with your word lists as they are crucial tools to victory. After playing with the seniors, I'm sure you have learnt more new words. Learning is simply not enough, you need to use them and practise.

Seniors, thanks for being such good trainers for the juniors. I even saw dome of you stopping the timer to guide them and explain the rationale of some moves. I am so proud of all of you. However,  you need more practices among yourselves and some of you seemed to have slacken a wee bit. Well... that can be undone with more practices. Work hard with lots of determination,  I'm sure you will see fruits of success.

As the Scrabble teacher in-charge, together with Ms Devi and Ms Farah, we would like to thank all the parents for supporting our programmes and trainings. The club would not have achieved so much accolades without support from all of you. Thank you.

Last but not least, millions of thanks to our school leaders for supporting our activities.

Let's hope our competitions have a good start. The first one will be on 23rd March, it's the 12TH INTER-SCHOOL NATIONAL SCRABBLE COMPETITION (individual category)!!!