Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2009

The fourth WYSC will be held in 2009.
Australia is entitled to send seven young players.

For more information about Youth Scrabble in the international context, including reports of the previous WYSC events 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 2009 are:

• You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2009.
• You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2009
• You must be born 1 Jan 1992 or later
• The qualifying period is 01.08.2008 to 31.07.2009.
• Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
• There are three rating hurdles :
  1. You must have played 50 games within the Australian rating system before any peak.
  2. You must play at least 25 games during the qualification period.
  3. The peak rating must be at least 1000.

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 02.09.2008

CONTENDERS	Games before 01.08.2008	Games in period	Peak	Status
Alastair Richards (NSW)	2323	0	1749?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Natasha Podesser (VIC)	570	0	1391?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Michael McKenna (NSW)	286	7	1382?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Kitty-Jean Laginha (NSW)	239	24	1378?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Matthew Selvanera (SA)	146	6	1337?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Grant Breadsell (QLD)	188	0	1251?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Phillip Hamilton (NSW)	144	9	1108?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Anand Bharadwaj (VIC)	85	6	1029?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Alwin So (NSW)	36	0	750?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Steven Chan (NSW)	14	0	706?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Reece McKenzie (NSW)	14	0	619?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Ruby-Rose Laginha (NSW)	7	9	570?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Bela Laginha (NSW)	51	12	503?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jordan Sun (WA)	15	8	500?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Morgan McKenzie (NSW)	22	0	500?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Sathey Vaheisvaran (NSW)	7	0	500?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Prakesh Vaheisvaran (NSW)	7	0	500?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.
Haritha Gunasekera (NSW)	3	0	500?	Needs to have 50 games before peak.

Recently processed:
17.08.2008 GWEN CHADWICK (VIC) , Anand (+61)
17.08.2008 Townsville2 (QLD)
17.08.2008 Wollongong WY Fundrais (NSW) , Phillip (+53), Ruby-Rose (+38), Kitty-Jean (+18), Bela (+3)
23.08.2008 Revesby (NSW) , Kitty-Jean (+34)
24.08.2008 ROCKINGHAM 2008 (WA)
24.08.2008 SA AUGUST (SA) , Matthew (+21)
30.08.2008 Claytons Saturday (QLD)
30.08.2008 Oatlands (NSW) , Kitty-Jean (+23), Michael (+27), Bela (-2)
31.08.2008 Claytons Sunday (QLD)

Upcoming tournaments:
06.09.2008 Hills Junior Tournament (NSW), 06.09.2008 Ballarat Spring (VIC), 06.09.2008 Toowoomba (QLD), 13.09.2008 Sydney Club Tournament (NSW), 13.09.2008 Australian Masters and State Challenge (!Special), 21.09.2008 September Tournament (SA), 20.09.2008 Glenorchy (TAS), 28.09.2008 Michael's Youth Fundraiser (NSW)