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The Australian Scrabble Players Association (New South Wales Division) is an incorporated body, having achieved incorporation in June 1996. We also are known as Scrabble New South Wales, or Scrabble NSW. Scrabble NSW operates under a constitution which can only be changed by majority vote at an Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting is held each year on the Sunday of the October long weekend, during the New South Wales Championship. The committee for the following year is elected at each AGM. Scrabble NSW has a network of affiliated clubs. For a club to be affiliated it should ensure all of its regular players are either social members or full members of Scrabble NSW. Any club requiring evidence of Public Liability Insurance is required to be affiliated, and clubs with at least four members are deemed to be affiliated. Affiliated clubs receive a full listing in the quarterly magazine and the Club Directory on this website, and can receive replacement boards and tiles for each two members. Affiliated Clubs also have access the the Scrabble NSW tile bank of cream-coloured tiles. Scrabble NSW also maintains a listing of thought to be or once active groups that are not affiliated. This list can be found at the bottom of the Club Directory. The concept of Scrabble Leagues in the various regions has been put forward as means of getting the affiliated clubs and known groups in a region to interact with each other by way of unrated and untimed games on a regular basis. Scrabble NSW would supply each League with enough equipment to support these local events, as well as stage League events. Scrabble NSW conducts seven major tournaments each year. These are:
JANboree, first Saturday in January (9 game round robin in groups of 10; 22 minutes per player)Past placegetters and records from these events are continually collated. Winners and Runners Up of Matchplays since 2003 have also been collated. All tournament organised by Scrabble NSW are conducted with National Rules, with any Scrabble NSW Protocols in force. This also applies to tournament organised by affiliated clubs, sanctioned by Scrabble NSW for ratings purposes. Scrabble NSW maintains it's own Dispute Register to further assist Tournament Directors in making rulings at organised tournaments. A national Tournament Etiquette document is also maintained to cover mainly ethical situations not covered by the rules. Scrabble NSW confers a series of awards on it's tournament players. These are the Joan Rosental Ratings Award for the player who records the largest ratings increase in the previous 12 months and the Jan Serisier Tournament Medal for the qualifying contender who records the highest ratings increase at the NSW Championships. Details of past winners of these three awards can be viewed here. Scrabble NSW welcomes school-aged youth players at it competitions and in our online playing room. One of our members, Tony Hunt, is driving the involvement of youth and organises outdoor competitions during school vacations suitable for youth. For more information on youth matters, visit our Youth Page. In 2008 Scrabble NSW obtained an ABN. It is 78 027 997 161 |