Lyceum International School, Wattala, emerged Overall champions to clinch the Lyceum Challenge Trophy at the Inter-International Schools’ Scrabble Championships held at LIS Wattala on February 21.

Colombo International School and Gateway College, Kandy, were the first and second runners-up. The event was organized by Lyceum Wattala for the third consecutive year and was sponsored by VS Hydro (Pvt) Limited. Dr. Lalantha Amarasinghe, President of the Sri Lanka Scrabble League (SLSL) was the chief guest and Kandhan Mahendran, Treasurer, SLSL was the adjudicator.

Eight schools, namely Asian International School, Burhani Serendib School, Colombo International School, Gateway College, Kandy, Ikra International School, Leighton Park International School, Lyceum International School, Wattala and Stafford International School participated in this tournament. A total of 112 players participated in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior categories.

The champion team, Lyceum Wattala was trained by Malinda Gunawardena.

Junior Category: Migara Jayasinghe of Lyceum Wattala (Champion), Nusrath Sariffodeen of LIS, Wattala (1st Runner-up), Dinelka Perera of LIS, Wattala (2nd Runner-up).

Highest Game Score– Migara Jayasinghe of LIS, Wattala.

Highest Word Score- Nusrath Sariffodeen of LIS, Wattala.

Intermediate Category: Rushda Othman of LIS, Wattala (Champion), Nafise Ahmed of AIS- (1st Runner-up), Vishmika Fernando of LPIS- (2nd Runner-up).

Highest Game Score– Rushda Othman of LIS, Wattala.

Highest Word Score– Heshan Abeygunasekara of LIS, Wattala.

Senior Category: Murtaza Zohair of BSS - (Champion), Asvirndra Ravindra of CIS - (1st Runner-up), Khadija Zoeb of BSS - (2nd Runner-up).

Highest Game Score– Dinal Perera of LIS, Wattala.

Highest Word Score – Burhanuddin Hamza of LIS, Wattala.