Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships

Selective events

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2008

The third WYSC will be held in Penang, Malaysia on December 9th to 11th, 2008.
Australia is entitled to send seven young players.

For more information about Youth Scrabble in the international context, including reports of the 2006 and 2007 WSC please visit http://www.youthscrabble.org

Selection process

This is an invitational event where players are selected by the Council of Australian Scrabble Players Association. The rules for selection for 2008 are:

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

Please inform Karen Richards (karenrichards@virginbroadband.com.au) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.

More information about Youth Scrabble at www.youthscrabble.org

Qualification status at 12.05.2008

CONTENDERS Games before
01.08.2007
Games
in period
Peak Status
1 Alastair Richards (NSW) 2075 186 1793
2 Natasha Podesser (VIC) 379 148 1403
   Grant Breadsell (QLD) 188 0 1251?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
3 Matthew Selvanera (SA) 84 48 1244
4 Michael McKenna (NSW) 53 146 1167
5 John Hamilton (NSW) 146 126 1142
6 Kitty-Jean Laginha (NSW) 14 154 1051
7 Phillip Hamilton (NSW) 22 107 1037
   James Gunner (SA) 99 86 990Needs to get a rating of at least 1000.
   Anand Bharadwaj (VIC) 0 61 884Needs to get a rating of at least 1000.
   Ganesh Vaheisvaran (NSW) 0 7 834?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Alwin So (NSW) 7 29 750?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Steven Chan (NSW) 0 7 706?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Reece McKenzie (NSW) 0 21 619?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Bela Laginha (NSW) 0 16 580?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Ruby-Rose Laginha (NSW) 0 6 532?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Shirin Heggie (NSW) 0 14 503?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Morgan McKenzie (NSW) 0 21 500?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Sathey Vaheisvaran (NSW) 0 7 500?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Prakesh Vaheisvaran (NSW) 0 7 500?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Jordynne Winsor (NSW) 0 6 500?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Daniel Buzalski (NSW) 0 5 500?Needs to have 50 games before peak.
   Haritha Gunasekera (NSW) 0 3 500?Needs to have 50 games before peak.

Recently processed:
12.04.2008 SA April (SA) , Matthew! (+15)
13.04.2008 Langwarrin (VIC) , Natasha! (+54)
19.04.2008 Blacktown (NSW) , Michael! (+12), Kitty-Jean! (+54), Phillip! (+30), John! (+4), Shirin! (+3)
26.04.2008 KALGOORLIE 2008 (WA)
27.04.2008 ANZAC Tournament (NSW)
27.04.2008 MATCHPLAY KICKOFF (VIC) , Natasha! (+4), Anand! (+42)
03.05.2008 Queensland Championships (QLD)
03.05.2008 Sydney West (NSW) , Michael! (+14)
12.05.2008 Xiao-ting Box (VIC)

Upcoming tournaments:
17.05.2008 Ulladulla Championships (NSW), 17.05.2008 East Coast (TAS), 18.05.2008 Melville (WA), 25.05.2008 Dandenong (VIC), 25.05.2008 May Tournament (SA), 27.05.2008 May Do Well (QLD), 31.05.2008 Woy Woy (NSW), 01.06.2008 WA State Championships (WA)