Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2011

The 2011 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in December 2011. 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 the Council of Australian Scrabble Players Association. The rules for selection for 2011 are:

• You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2011.
• You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2011
• You must be born 1 Jan 1994 or later
• The qualifying period is 01.08.2010 to 31.07.2011.
• 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 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 04.08.2011

CONTENDERS	Games before 01.08.2010	Games in period	Peak	Status
1 Michael McKenna (NSW)	803	304	1859
2 Anand Bharadwaj (VIC)	281	99	1686
3 Kitty-Jean Laginha (NSW)	508	59	1525
4 Jayden Kuhne (VIC)	88	47	1430
Isaac Kan (NSW)	131	92	1057	Needs to get a rating of at least 1200.
Marvi Delfin (WA)	28	104	953	Needs to get a rating of at least 1200.
Robert Blunt (VIC)	125	0	914?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Rangi Collins (SA)	24	63	536	Needs to get a rating of at least 1200.
Bela Laginha (NSW)	83	0	527?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Nathan Seeto (NSW)	51	0	512?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Aaron Kan (NSW)	50	0	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), Sam van Vliet(31), Laura Dimento(27), Chengyi Han(24), Jordan Sun(23), Ruth Hamilton(23), Reece McKenzie(22), Morgan McKenzie(22), Anscar Densley(15), Steven Chan(14), Isabella Torcasio(14), Sol Dasika(13), Haritha Gunasekera(11), Tim Mason(8), Nethmi Ratnayake(8), Prakesh Vaheisvaran(7), Brandon Arthur(5), Sarah Brown(2)

Recently processed:
17.07.2011 Winter Masters (NSW) , Michael (+28)
23.07.2011 ACT AGM TOURNAMENT (ACT)
23.07.2011 July Extra (QLD)
24.07.2011 Launceeston (TAS)
24.07.2011 Nunawading (VIC) , Anand (+15)
30.07.2011 Townsville (QLD)
31.07.2011 11TOWNSSUN (QLD)
31.07.2011 BASSENDEAN 2011 (WA) , Marvi (+26)
31.07.2011 July Pub Tourney (SA) , Rangi (-10)