Final 16 Authors after 3 Rounds & Parallel League Competition with total 311 authors. Unfortunately, no challenger from the parallel league won their qualifier to get into top 16.
Eesh Khan
Srishti Yash Mudaliar
Shivam Pandya
Deven Pandey
Prashant Vasava
Mohit Sharma
Soumendra Majumder
Kapil Chandak
Rishi Srivastava
Karan Virk
Youdhveer Singh
Ranjana Sharma
Siddhant Shekhar
Ravi Shankar
Mehfooz Ali
Rahul Ranjan
Match Schedule (Round 3) or Pre-Quarter Finals*
Based on mirrored pairing (sequencing - announcement of results,
qualifying round winners are serially placed after 11 Round 2 winners
who were not challenged in the qualifiers.)
Match 1 - Siddhant Shekhar vs. Srishti Yash Mudaliar
Match 2 - Shivam Pandya vs. Deven Pandey
Match 3 - Prashant Vasava vs. Mohit Sharma
Match 4 - Soumendra Majumder vs. Kapil Chandak
Match 5 - Rishi Srivastava vs. Karan Virk
Match 6 - Youdhveer Singh vs. Ranjana Sharma
Match 7 - Daud Zaidi (Replaces Eesh Khan) vs. Priyashrav Bhardwaj (Replaces Ravi Shankar)
Match 8 - Mehfooz Ali vs. Rahul Ranjan
[No walkover rule....if you are withdrawing your participation you can
nominate any other author in his/her place who participated in the
championship but was eliminated. (If the author goes on to win the match
to reaches next round....both the writers share credit of the title as
co-winners)]
* Eesh Khan nominated Daud Zaidi & Ravi Shankar nominated Priyashrav Bharadwaj which are now paired against each other.
*) - Theme : Mystery/Suspense
*) - Word Limit : 3500 Words (Penalty of minus 5 per 100 words)
