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2025 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2025

The 2025 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Malaysia from 30 August to 1 September 2025. See Malaysian website

Australia is entitled to send 6 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they pay an entry fee.

Candidates are encouraged to declare their intention to go, so that they may make travel plans, and receive coaching. Karen Richards from Queensland has been the major driving force of Youth Scrabble since last century. She has been appointed as the Youth Coach and will be giving coaching sessions, especially just before the National Scrabble Championship in Adelaide at Easter. Whether they intend playing in Malaysia or not, young players will benefit from this.

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 2025 are:
  • You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2025.
  • You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2025
  • You must be born 1 Jan 2008 or later
  • The qualifying period is 01.08.2024 to 31.07.2025.
  • 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 John Hamilton (jjhamilton5@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.

The following players have said that they intend to go: Oscar Ivanovski, Ashwin Page, Ryder Lo, Nathan Tang, Kelvin Korn, Jithuni Vidana, Shukanya Prachi, Sam Pizzano, Oliver Klistorner, Alvin Korn, Phi Long Ma, Hugh Boveington, Danira De Silva, Justin Eng

Qualification status at 30.06.2025. Player intentions: Yes👍 No👎 Maybe🤔

CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
👍1Oscar Ivanovski(VIC) 180 1661happy
Alex Lam(NSW) 24 1427Needs to play 25 games in the period.
2Vinh Nguyen(NSW) 99 1321happy
👍3Ashwin Page(QLD) 84 1321happy
4Jeffery Lam(NSW) 28 1243happy
👍5Ryder Lo(NSW) 75 1145happy
👍6Nathan Tang(NSW) 71 1145happy
ALMOST IN
👍7Kelvin Korn(NSW) 38 1051nearly in
Anthony Yap(QLD) 49 892?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Vincent Nuon(NSW) 16 872?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍8Jithuni Vidanapathirana(VIC) 87 851nearly in
👍Shukanya Prachi(QLD) 24 839?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Lucas Luu(NSW) 26 784?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
David Lam(NSW) 23 780Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍9Sam Pizzano(ACT) 68 767nearly in
👍10Oliver Klistorner(NSW) 55 748nearly in
Brendan Tia(NSW) 30 723?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Tristan Hon(NSW) 26 697?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
11Raymond Tri(NSW) 26 660nearly in
👍12Alvin Korn(NSW) 38 658nearly in
Tanissha Suppiah(WA) 7 645Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍13Phi Long Ma(NSW) 33 642nearly in
👍Hugh Boveington(ACT) 29 626?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
James Lo(NSW) 29 594?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍14Danira De Silva(QLD) 112 577nearly in
15Ashley Korn(NSW) 38 554nearly in
👍Justin Eng(NSW) 26 552?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Keena Tri(NSW) 15 540Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Edrick Long(NSW) 23 531Needs to play 25 games in the period.
James Dinh(SA) 20 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Omitted names Few games: Jay-Hanz Mesa(18), Angela Ngo(18), Selena Kuch(18), Annie Ly(18), Divine Nillos(16), Amy Ngo(15), Ethan Tenaglia(14), Laiken Lam(12), Alistair Scott(12), Jayco Lo(12), Micaiah Lam(12), Felix Pham(12), Raymond Hsieh(12), Daniel Liu(12), Albert Wang(11), Albert Wang(11), Edward Hung(11), Tofarati Oluwole(11), Sanvi Shah(11), Raghav Agrawal(10), Wara Rizvi(8), Nayu Vuppala(8), Deyana Rizvi(8), Richard Ha( 7 ), Tanvi Bongale(7), Sreypov Pheng(7), Micky Huang(7), Hemali Dave(7), Evan Hsieh( 6 ), Marcus Robertson(4), Ana Rose Palatty(4), Lexi Steinberg(3), Anirudh Srinivasan( 0 )

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