Scrabble Australia: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2023
The 2023 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in person. 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 2023 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2023.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2023
- You must be born 1 Jan 2006 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.08.2022 to 31.07.2023.
- Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
- There are two rating hurdles :
- You must have played 0 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 (abcsuphire@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.
Qualification status at 30.01.2023
| World Youth Cup 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| CONTENDERS | Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Ronnie Bennett (ACT) | 51 | 1663 |  |
| 2 Alex Lam (NSW) | 60 | 1451 | |
| 3 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) | 62 | 1330 | |
| 4 Jeffery Lam (NSW) | 59 | 1207 | |
| Ryder Lo (NSW) | 22 | 1003 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Asher Chhabra (NSW) | 0 | 974? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 5 Patrick Huynh (NSW) | 31 | 942 | |
| 6 Vinh Nguyen (NSW) | 34 | 875 | |
| Jason Tang (NSW) | 0 | 858? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Joel Philip (QLD) | 0 | 837? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Ashwin Page (QLD) | 22 | 821 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Jemima Ferguson (NSW) | 12 | 755 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Jerene Philip (QLD) | 0 | 747? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Tanissha Suppiah (WA) | 14 | 659 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 7 Raymond Tri (NSW) | 39 | 553 | |
| David Lam (NSW) | 24 | 549 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 8 Keena Tri (NSW) | 39 | 514 | |
| Tracy Nguyen (NSW) | 0 | 500? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
Recently processed:
08.01.2023 AESTIVAL 2023 (VIC) , Oscar (-15)
14.01.2023 Bundanoon (NSW) , Ronnie
(+31), Vinh (+11), Raymond (+2), Keena (+0)
14.01.2023 Social Scrabble January (SA)
19.01.2023 Kingston Night (TAS)
22.01.2023 January Open (WA)
22.01.2023 Logan Clovers (QLD)
22.01.2023 Mel Leckie Memorial (SA)
22.01.2023 THE PLATE AND SIDE (VIC) , Oscar (-6)
29.01.2023 CSIM2023 (NSW) , Ronnie (+11), Alex (+11), Jeffery (+7)