Scrabble Australia
International: WSC Team

Selecting Australia's WSC team for 2007

A team of six Australians has been selected to play in the 2007 World Scrabble Championships.

David Eldar

Edward Okulicz

Andrew Fisher

Chris May

Naween Fernando

Bob Jackman

The qualifying period was Good Friday 2006 to Easter Monday 2007 (thus including two national championships).
Eligibility: All team members must be Australian citizens or permanent residents on Easter Tuesday 2007, be a financial member of ASPA on Easter Tuesday 2007 and must have played 100 rated games in the qualifying period.

Players who win major titles

A maximum of two eligible players are selected by winning a prestige tournament, namely

(1) The winner of the 2006 Australian Masters (Bob Jackman)
(2) The winner of the 2007 Australian Championships

If either of these berths is unfilled for any reason, the place is taken by another player selected via ratings.
In addition, David Eldar qualifies as the Winner of the 2006 World Youth Scrabble Championships. David also won the Australian Championships, so the extra spot is filled by rating.

Players who qualify via ratings

All remaining eligible places will be determined by ratings as follows

• The qualifying statistic is Q = (P1 + P2 + 2 x P3)/4 , which is a weighted average of peak ratings in three trimesters (subperiods of the qualifying period).
• Trimesters start 14 Apr 2006, 1 Aug 2006 and 1 Dec 2006
• You must have an all time rating history of at least 150 games before peak 1.
• A trimester peak is counted when you have played 12 games in the trimester
• A peak is zero if you play fewer than 12 games in a trimester
• You must have played at least 90 games in the qualifying period before the last peak.
• You must have played at least 100 games in the whole period

The secondary criterion is number of rated games within the qualification period. If two players have the same Q statistic, the one with the greater number of games in the qualification period is ranked higher.

THE TEAM	Status at 11.04.2007	Games	Q Stat	Peak (games) Apr-Jul	Peak (games) Aug-Nov	Peak (games) Dec-Apr
1. David Eldar (VIC)	QUALIFIER: WYSC WINNER QUALIFIER: WINNER AUST CHAMPS	170	1923.25	1828 (60)	1873 (45)	1996 (65)
2. Edward Okulicz (NSW)	QUALIFIER	313	1922.00	1835 (104)	1857 (107)	1998 (102)
3. Andrew Fisher (VIC)	QUALIFIER	157	1895.50	1935 (58)	1857 (26)	1895 (73)
4. Chris May (NSW)	QUALIFIER	268	1892.50	1810 (52)	1830 (64)	1965 (152)
5. Naween Fernando (VIC)	QUALIFIER	182	1863.50	1856 (59)	1842 (32)	1878 (91)
6. Bob Jackman (NSW)	QUALIFIER: MASTERS WINNER	308	1851.25	1779 (111)	1886 (85)	1870 (112)
RUNNERS UP
7. Julian McKail (VIC)	RESERVE	139	1842.50	1793 (40)	1807 (19)	1885 (80)
8. David Lowden (SA)	RESERVE	155	1821.50	1750 (49)	1790 (43)	1873 (63)
9. Trevor Halsall (VIC)		223	1780.25	1777 (77)	1788 (45)	1778 (101)
10. Michael Hornung (VIC)		217	1755.25	1732 (57)	1695 (69)	1797 (91)
11. Rod Talbot (NSW)		266	1754.25	1773 (69)	1712 (81)	1766 (116)
12. Esther Perrins (NSW)		123	1753.50	1772 (27)	1780 (43)	1731 (53)
13. Joanne Craig (NSW)		234	1746.00	1728 (76)	1748 (64)	1754 (94)
14. Joan Rosenthal (NSW)		112	1704.50	1660 (28)	1748 (35)	1705 (49)
15. Alistair Kane (VIC)		201	1704.00	1768 (70)	1610 (38)	1719 (93)
16. Richard Jeremy (ACT)		115	1698.25	1671 (38)	1684 (33)	1719 (44)
17. John Holgate (NSW)		143	1689.25	1687 (27)	1590 (39)	1740 (77)
18. Anne Drew (QLD)		282	1682.25	1605 (90)	1660 (104)	1732 (88)
19. Carmel Dodd (SA)		191	1663.50	1652 (89)	1680 (43)	1661 (59)
20. Glenys Lawrie (WA)		179	1662.50	1660 (65)	1666 (54)	1662 (60)

Paul Cleary (currently rated 1832) is out, 0 games in period 1 so no peak.
Michael Cameron (currently rated 1795) is out, 39 games in period 3 so no peak.
Jimmy Scarff (currently rated 1713) is out, 0 games in period 1 so no peak.