Patna: Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman from Mumbai and Mohsin Ahmed from Bangalore each occupying the first two positions, respectively, on board ranking 4 at the end of the fourth online weekly round of the global puzzle contest, India Crossword League 2021 (IXL).
Both are former champions of the contest.
Mohsin was followed by Arvind Ramaswamy from Pune in the 3rd position.
Philip Coote from Canberra, Australia, and Ramki Krisnan from Chennai, who have occupied the top slot in the previous round each in number 4 and 5.
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Three contestants – Samit Kallianpur from Secunderabad, Sureeash Dorbala from Visakhapatnam and Himanshu Rajurkar from London – have for the first time was broken into 10 brackets.
In addition to Philip and Himanshu, Koh Teen Sween Kenny from Singapore is another foreign contestant in the bracket.
Pilip and Ramkey, however, are the first and second, respectively, on a cumulative ranking board with Venkatraghavan in number 3 followed by Koh.
With Sowmya Ramakumar from Manama, Bahrain, at number 13; Anicha Reuben from Juelich, Germany, at the age of 16; Himanshu from London in 19; And Vasant Srinivasan from Rayong Province, Thailand, at the age of 20, the cumulative rank witnessed six foreign players in the top 20.
“There will be six rounds online weekly before the top 30 in the cumulative rank will be called for the Grand Finale of Offline in Bangalore.
The fifth weekly online round will begin at 11am on October 17,” Amitabh Ranjan, Chief Operating Officer (COO) from the organization EXTRA-C-based Patna which organizes contests, to TOI on Saturday.
“Participants can enter the contest at any stage and the free registration of fees will remain open until the beginning of the last 10th and weekly online rounds.
Participants that come 1 in each weekly round are automatically qualified for the Grand Finale,” said Ranjan.
Previously, the contest was launched on September 19 by the Director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBsnaa) Srinivas Katikthala.
“Every Sunday, the new Grid instructions uploaded on the website at 11am (ist).
Submission of answers to open until 11.59 a.m.
(ist) the following Wednesday.
The sign is allocated good for the correct number of answers and submission time.
Round ranking board And the cumulative ranking board formed at the end of each round, “said Ranjan.