Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2010
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 2010 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2010.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2010
- You must be born 1 Jan 1993 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.08.2009 to 31.07.2010.
- 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 1100.
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 02.08.2010
| CONTENDERS | Games before 01.08.2009 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Michael McKenna (NSW) | 503 | 300 | 1671 |  |
| 2 Natasha Podesser (VIC) | 733 | 154 | 1596 | |
| 3 Anand Bharadwaj (VIC) | 189 | 92 | 1555 | |
| 4 Kitty-Jean Laginha (NSW) | 447 | 62 | 1480 | |
| 5 Jayden Kuhne (VIC) | 13 | 75 | 1412 | |
| 6 Phillip Hamilton (NSW) | 293 | 159 | 1402 | |
| Robert Blunt (VIC) | 56 | 69 | 920 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1100. |
| Isaac Kan (NSW) | 29 | 103 | 898 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1100. |
| Bela Laginha (NSW) | 83 | 0 | 527? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Nathan Seeto (NSW) | 30 | 21 | 512 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Aaron Kan (NSW) | 29 | 21 | 507 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
Up and coming:
These players need to play 50 rated games first:
Will Jackson(45), Natasha Cininas(38), Alwin So(36), Marvi Delfin(28), Rangi Collins(24), Chengyi Han(24), Jordan Sun(23), Ruth Hamilton(23), Reece McKenzie(22), Morgan McKenzie(22), Zavier Carr(15), Anscar Densley(15), Steven Chan(14), Haritha Gunasekera(11), Nethmi Ratnayake(8), Prakesh Vaheisvaran(7)
Recently processed:
24.07.2010 Launce Sat Div 2 (TAS)
24.07.2010 Launceston Div 1 (TAS)
24.07.2010 act fun raiser (ACT)
25.07.2010 BASSENDEAN 2010 (WA) , Marvi
(+72)
25.07.2010 July Pub Tourney (SA)
25.07.2010 Launceston Sunday (TAS)
25.07.2010 Nunawading Tournament (VIC) , Anand (+44)
31.07.2010 Narooma 2010 (NSW) , Michael (-23)
31.07.2010 TOWNSVILLE 2010 (QLD)