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2026 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2026

The 2026 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in somewhere sometime.

Australia is entitled to send 6 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they pay 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 2026 are:
  • You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.04.2026.
  • You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.04.2026
  • You must be born 1 Jan 2009 or later
  • The qualifying period is 01.05.2025 to 30.04.2026.
  • 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.

Qualification status at 21.05.2025.

CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
Oscar Ivanovski(VIC) 5 1590Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Alex Lam(NSW) 0 1409?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ashwin Page(QLD) 8 1309Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Vinh Nguyen(NSW) 0 1292?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jeffery Lam(NSW) 0 1206?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ryder Lo(NSW) 0 1117?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Nathan Tang(NSW) 0 1091?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Kelvin Korn(NSW) 0 1028?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Patrick Huynh(NSW) 0 962?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Anthony Yap(QLD) 0 900?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Jithuni Vidanapathirana(VIC) 5 849Needs to play 25 games in the period.
David Lam(NSW) 0 780?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Sam Pizzano(ACT) 5 745Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Oliver Klistorner(NSW) 0 722?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Tristan Hon(NSW) 0 699?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Lucas Luu(NSW) 0 661?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Tanissha Suppiah(WA) 0 645?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Raymond Tri(NSW) 0 641?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Brendan Tia(NSW) 0 631?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Alvin Korn(NSW) 0 600?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Phi Long Ma(NSW) 0 581?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Keena Tri(NSW) 0 540?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ashley Korn(NSW) 0 531?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Edrick Long(NSW) 0 515?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Danira De Silva(QLD) 8 500Needs to play 25 games in the period.
James Dinh(SA) 8 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Omitted names Few games: James Lo(18), Hugh Boveington(18), Annie Ly(18), Eric Phan(17), Ethan Tenaglia(14), Vincent Nuon(12), Alistair Scott(12), Jemima Ferguson(12), Daniel Liu(12), Raymond Hsieh(12), Albert Wang(11), Edward Hung(11), Sanvi Shah(11), Raghav Agrawal(10), Tracy Nguyen(9), Divine Nillos(8), Justin Eng(8), Richard Ha(7), Angela Ngo(7), Hemali Dave(7), Jay-Hanz Mesa(7), Micky Huang(7), Selena Kuch(7), Sreypov Pheng(7), Tanvi Bongale(7), Evan Hsieh(6), Ana Rose Palatty(4), Wara Rizvi(4), Felix Pham(4), Deyana Rizvi(4), Nayu Vuppala(4), Amy Ngo(4), David Boun(4), Jayco Lo(4), Laiken Lam(4), Micaiah Lam(4), Lexi Steinberg(3), Sunstar Tran(3), Anirudh Srinivasan(), Anuj(), Ariana Eleele(), Swara Patil()

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