2024 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2024

The 2024 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in somewhere. Australia is entitled to send 8 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

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 2024 are:

You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2024.
You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2024
You must be born 1 Jan 2007 or later
The qualifying period is 01.08.2023 to 31.07.2024.
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 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 26.09.2023

World Youth Cup 2024
CONTENDERS	Games in period	Peak	Status
1 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC)	35	1463
Alex Lam (NSW)	0	1451?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jeffery Lam (NSW)	0	1207?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ashwin Page (QLD)	24	1003	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Asher Chhabra (NSW)	0	974?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Vinh Nguyen (NSW)	11	970	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Patrick Huynh (NSW)	0	962?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ryder Lo (NSW)	5	913?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Jason Tang (NSW)	0	858?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Kelvin Korn (NSW)	11	768?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Tanissha Suppiah (WA)	0	635?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jemima Ferguson (NSW)	0	601?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Alvin Korn (NSW)	11	593?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Raymond Tri (NSW)	0	574?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Nathan Tang (NSW)	11	561?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Phi Long Ma (NSW)	0	551?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
David Lam (NSW)	0	549?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Ashley Korn (NSW)	7	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Edrick Long (NSW)	6	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Eric Phan (NSW)	6	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Sunstar Tran (NSW)	3	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Keena Tri (NSW)	0	500?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Tracy Nguyen (NSW)	0	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.

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