Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2009

This will be held at Johor Bahru, Malaysia, from 8th to 10th December 2009 for players born 1st January 1992 or later. 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 (karendrichards@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.

More information about Youth Scrabble at www.youthscrabble.org

The qualification period has now finished.

CONTENDERS	Games before 01.08.2008	Games in period	Peak	Status
1 Alastair Richards (NSW)	2323	213	1944
2 Michael McKenna (NSW)	286	217	1594
3 Kitty-Jean Laginha (NSW)	239	208	1538
4 Natasha Podesser (VIC)	577	163	1462
5 Phillip Hamilton (NSW)	144	150	1430
Matthew Selvanera (SA)	146	6	1337	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
6 Cameron Farlow (QLD)	0	96	1296
7 Anand Bharadwaj (VIC)	85	104	1237
Robert Blunt (VIC)	0	57	812	Needs to get a rating of at least 1000.
Ruby-Rose Laginha (NSW)	7	53	645	Needs to get a rating of at least 1000.
Bela Laginha (NSW)	51	32	527	Needs to get a rating of at least 1000.

Up and coming:
These players need to play 50 rated games first:
Will Jackson(45), Natasha Cininas(39), Alwin So(36), Nathan Seeto(30), Isaac Kan(29), Aaron Kan(29), Chengyi Han(24), Ruth Hamilton(23), Jordan Sun(23), Morgan McKenzie(22), Anscar Densley(15), Steven Chan(14), Reece McKenzie(14), Jayden Kuhne(13), Sathey Vaheisvaran(7), Prakesh Vaheisvaran(7), Haritha Gunasekera(3)