Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2019
The 2019 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in in Malaysia from 29 November to 1 December 2019.. 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 2019 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.06.2019.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.06.2019
- You must be born 1 Jan 2002 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.07.2018 to 30.06.2019.
- Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
- There are two rating hurdles :
- You must have played 50 games within the Australian rating system before any peak.
- You must play at least 25 games within the Australian rating system 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 Tony Hunt (audiolifeportrait@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.
Qualification status at 01.07.2019
| CONTENDERS | Games before 01.07.2018 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Ronnie Bennett (ACT) | 466 | 129 | 1425 |  |
| Rahul Jegatheva (WA) | 322 | 7 | 1164 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 2 Sharvin Jeyendran (WA) | 167 | 25 | 1075 | |
| Shekinah Giffen (QLD) | 230 | 0 | 1014? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 3 Jason Tang (NSW) | 30 | 84 | 872 | |
| Kaustav Bhowmick (WA) | 234 | 24 | 854 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 4 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) | 23 | 113 | 853 | |
| Minuki Satharasinghe (VIC) | 39 | 0 | 849? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| 5 Asher Chhabra (NSW) | 0 | 52 | 782 | |
| Pranav Srivatsan (VIC) | 74 | 0 | 684? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 6 Alex Lam (NSW) | 0 | 69 | 675 | |
| Liana Aho (WA) | 149 | 0 | 662? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Sinadee Gamage (QLD) | 0 | 6 | 644? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Harper Pestinger (VIC) | 71 | 0 | 620? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Olivia Brown (NSW) | 47 | 0 | 610? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Aditya Bose-Mandal (WA) | 211 | 17 | 602 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 7 Patrick Huynh (NSW) | 0 | 70 | 596 | |
| Chelaka Paranahewa (VIC) | 32 | 0 | 580? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Elvin Huynh (NSW) | 0 | 7 | 571? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Ben Neal (QLD) | 25 | 0 | 553? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Beau Vu (NSW) | 0 | 16 | 543? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Jai Shepherd (NSW) | 37 | 13 | 528 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 8 Tanissha Suppiah (WA) | 0 | 77 | 516 | |
| Andy Do (NSW) | 9 | 7 | 506? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Gemma Aho (WA) | 0 | 32 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Joshua Tung (NSW) | 0 | 15 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Nathan Tang (NSW) | 0 | 13 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Alan Nguyen (NSW) | 0 | 7 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Andrew Song (NSW) | 0 | 7 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Shireeya Jeyendran (WA) | 0 | 7 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Sofia Jara (NSW) | 0 | 2 | 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. |
| Ryan Chung (NSW) | 9 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Annabel Huor (NSW) | 7 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Seraphine Bouf (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
Recently processed:
03.06.2019 WA Championship (WA) , Sharvin (-38), Tanissha
(+16), Gemma (+0)
09.06.2019 Kingston (TAS)
09.06.2019 Queens Birthday (VIC)
09.06.2019 VIC CHAMPIONSHIP (VIC) , Oscar (+6)
15.06.2019 WORDS WINTER (NSW) , Alex (+11), Patrick (+17)
22.06.2019 June Pub Tourney (SA)
23.06.2019 Bassendean (WA) , Tanissha (-4), Gemma (+0)
30.06.2019 McKinnon House Fundraiser (VIC)
30.06.2019 Winter Open (ACT) , Ronnie (-24)