Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2017

The 2017 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Malaysia, 27, 28, 29 November 2017. Australia is entitled to send 10 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they play an entry fee.

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 free entry (ie the Australian quota places) in 2017 are:

• You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.06.2017.
• You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.06.2017
• You must be born 1 Jan 2000 or later
• The qualifying period is 01.07.2016 to 30.06.2017.
• Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
• There are two 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.
• 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.

Qualification status at 14.07.2017

CONTENDERS	Games before 01.07.2016	Games in period	Peak	Status
Anand Bharadwaj (VIC)	623	10	1849	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
1 Ronnie Bennett (ACT)	374	76	1221
2 Rahul Jegatheva (WA)	269	77	1136
3 Sharvin Jeyendran (WA)	98	93	1090
4 Shekinah Giffen (QLD)	206	48	1014
Minuki Satharasinghe (VIC)	39	0	849?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
5 Kaustav Bhowmick (WA)	145	113	832
Pranav Srivatsan (VIC)	74	0	684?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
6 Liana Aho (WA)	111	62	662
Harper Pestinger (VIC)	71	0	620?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Olivia Brown (NSW)	0	47	610?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Chelaka Paranahewa (VIC)	32	0	580?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
7 Aditya Bose-Mandal (WA)	172	39	561
Ben Neal (QLD)	16	9	553?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Jason Tang (NSW)	6	24	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Jai Shepherd (NSW)	22	15	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Andy Do (NSW)	0	9	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Ryan Chung (NSW)	0	9	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Annabel Huor (NSW)	0	7	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Riva Dubey (VIC)	11	0	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Meghna Nagarajan (VIC)	46	0	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.

Recently processed:
03.06.2017 Central Coast (NSW) , Olivia (+6)
03.06.2017 June 4-4 (SA)
05.06.2017 WA Championship (WA) , Sharvin (+80), Kaustav (-31)
11.06.2017 Woomba Wound Wobins (QLD)
12.06.2017 Vic Championship (VIC)
17.06.2017 WORDS WINTER (NSW) , Jason (+0), Jai (+0), Annabel (500)
18.06.2017 Kingston (TAS)
24.06.2017 Newtown Club (NSW) , Olivia (+51)
25.06.2017 ACT Winter Open (ACT) , Ronnie (+9)