Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2014
The 2014 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Sri Lanka in August 2014. 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 2014 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2014.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2014
- You must be born 1 Jan 1997 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.08.2013 to 31.07.2014.
- 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.
- If you miss a game for any reason other than an assigned bye, you cannot count a peak attained in that tournament for any qualification purposes. Games played will count towards games quotas. Ratings will be calculated as usual, with byes and forfeits not rated.
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 01.08.2014
| CONTENDERS | Games before 01.08.2013 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Anand Bharadwaj (VIC) | 552 | 47 | 1848 |  |
| 2 Tim Mason (WA) | 291 | 134 | 1557 | |
| Ronnie Bennett (ACT) | 7 | 131 | 834 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Sam van Vliet (NSW) | 298 | 8 | 833 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Rahul Jegatheva (WA) | 21 | 75 | 817 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Shekinah Giffen (QLD) | 82 | 28 | 694 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Sol Dasika (VIC) | 23 | 7 | 658? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Jacob Woods (ACT) | 52 | 26 | 517 | Needs to get a rating of at least 1200. |
| Cynthia Mather (NSW) | 13 | 8 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Radheya Jegatheva (WA) | 62 | 7 | 500 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Chelaka Paranahewa (VIC) | 0 | 7 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
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