Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2012
The 2012 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in December 2012. Australia is entitled to send 7 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
For news about the Youth Scrabble happenings in Victoria (and often news about Youth Scrabble in a wider context), have a look at http://www.scrabble.org.au/victoria/youthscrabble.htm
Selection process
This is an invitational event where players are selected by each participating country. For Australia the selection is done by the Council of Australian Scrabble Players Association. The rules for selection for 2012 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2012.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2012
- You must be born 1 Jan 1995 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.08.2011 to 31.07.2012.
- Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
- There are three rating hurdles :
- You must have played 50 games within the Australian rating system before any peak.
- You must play at least 25 games during the qualification period.
- The peak rating must be at least 1200.
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
Qualification status at 22.02.2012
| CONTENDERS | Games before 01.08.2011 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Michael McKenna (NSW) | 106 | 89 | 1850 |  |
| 2 Anand Bharadwaj (VIC) | 380 | 45 | 1798 | |
| Marvi Delfin (WA) | 132 | 76 | 1083 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Isaac Kan (NSW) | 223 | 7 | 1025 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Sam van Vliet (NSW) | 30 | 153 | 819 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Maree Farlow (QLD) | 7 | 47 | 692 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Tim Mason (WA) | 8 | 47 | 579 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Rangi Collins (SA) | 82 | 10 | 518 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Isabella Torcasio (TAS) | 14 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Sol Dasika (VIC) | 13 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
Recently processed:
29.01.2012 CITY OF SYDNEY MASTERS (NSW)
05.02.2012 FREMANTLE (WA) , Marvi
(+18), Tim (+34)
05.02.2012 Kempsey (NSW)
05.02.2012 Ulverstone (TAS)
11.02.2012 WORDS SUMMER (NSW) , Sam (-49)
12.02.2012 AGM Tournament (QLD)
12.02.2012 CAMBERWELL (VIC) , Anand (+25)
12.02.2012 SA February (SA)
19.02.2012 Townsville Summer (QLD)
Upcoming tournaments:
26.02.2012 Brunswick Valley (QLD),
26.02.2012 Pub Tourney (SA),
26.02.2012 Summer Trisection (WA),
04.03.2012 BUGS (NSW),
04.03.2012 Melbourne Team Challenge (VIC),
10.03.2012 Bomaderry (NSW),
10.03.2012 Redland Bay (NSW),
17.03.2012 Matchplay Qualifier (NSW)