2027 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2027

The 2027 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Thailand sometime. <

Australia is entitled to send 6 (perhaps) 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 2027 are:

You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.04.2027.
You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.04.2027
You must be born 1 Jan 2010 or later
The qualifying period is 01.05.2026 to 30.04.2027.
Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period. The secondary criterion is number of rated games within the qualification 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.

CASPA may make special determinations. 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 07.05.2026.

CONTENDERS	Games in period	Peak	Status
Dineth Fernando (VIC)	0	1828?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ashwin Page (QLD)	0	1344?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ryder Lo (NSW)	8	1277	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Kelvin Korn (NSW)	0	1099?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Sam Pizzano (ACT)	0	1004?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Oliver Klistorner (NSW)	8	920	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Lucas Luu (NSW)	8	914	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jithuni Vidanapathirana (VIC)	0	905?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Anthony Yap (QLD)	0	826?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Brendan Tia (NSW)	0	774?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Phi Long Ma (NSW)	6	765	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Alvin Korn (NSW)	0	765?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Danira De Silva (QLD)	0	755?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Hugh Boveington (ACT)	0	601?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Justin Eng (NSW)	0	573?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Edrick Long (NSW)	0	540?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ashley Korn (NSW)	0	533?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Celina Liu (NSW)	0	508?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.

Omitted names

Few prior games: James Lo(49), Eric Phan(48), Claire Choong(34), Jayco Lo(32), Marcus Robertson(28), Ethan Tenaglia(27), Oriana Beecham(26), James Murtagh(23), James Dinh(23), Huy Lam(19), Kevin Lam(16), Shanira De Silva(7), Clarissa Low(6), Micah Cheung(4), Alice Morley(3), Beth Flanagan(3), Sophie Watson(3), William Sim(2)
Inactive: Aaron Tran, Adam Al-Quronfuli, Albert Wang, Alice Alzohayri, Alistair Scott, Amy Ngo, Ana Rose Palatty, Angela Ngo, Angelina Nguyen, Annie Ly, Arham Shenhzad, Bryson Johnson, Daniel Fu, Daniel Liu, David Boun, David Lam, Deyana Rizvi, Divine Nillos, Edward Hung, Evan Hsieh, Felix Pham, Harrison Tran, Hemali Dave, Isabelle Levantard, Jaelene Mesa, James Stark, Jay-Hanz Mesa, Jeffery Lam, Jemima Ferguson, Jimmy Nguyen, John Halim, Karam Idwer, Keena Tri, Kelvin Nguyen, Kevin Boun, Khai Nguyen, Kieran Phinith, Laiken Lam, Lexi Steinberg, Micaiah Lam, Micky Huang, Muntaha Humayrah, My Huynh, Nayu Vuppala, Patrick Huynh, Raghav Agrawal, Raymond Hsieh, Raymond Tri, Richard Ha, Rosalie Young, Rose Cuninghame, Ryan Cuninghame, Ryan Phantharangsy, Ryan Zheng, Sanvi Shah, Selena Kuch, Shindy Oluwole, Simon Wilson-Ahap, Sreypov Pheng, Sunaira Sadi, Sunstar Tran, Tanissha Suppiah, Tanvi Bongale, Thomas Hanna, Tiara Huynh, Tofarati Oluwole, Tracy Nguyen, Tristan Hon, Vanessa Pham, Vincent Nuon, Vinh Nguyen, Wara Rizvi, William Tran, Zachary Soutanich, Zachary Young
Age unknown: Aaron Tran, Adam Al-Quronfuli, Alice Alzohayri, Alistair Scott, Ana Rose Palatty, Angelina Nguyen, Annie Ly, Arham Shenhzad, Bryson Johnson, Celina Liu, Claire Choong, Daniel Fu, Daniel Liu, David Boun, Deyana Rizvi, Edward Hung, Ethan Tenaglia, Evan Hsieh, Felix Pham, Harrison Tran, James Dinh, James Stark, Jemima Ferguson, Jimmy Nguyen, John Halim, Karam Idwer, Kelvin Nguyen, Khai Nguyen, Kieran Phinith, Lexi Steinberg, Marcus Robertson, Micah Cheung, Muntaha Humayrah, My Huynh, Nayu Vuppala, Patrick Huynh, Raghav Agrawal, Raymond Hsieh, Richard Ha, Rose Cuninghame, Ryan Cuninghame, Ryan Phantharangsy, Shindy Oluwole, Simon Wilson-Ahap, Sunaira Sadi, Sunstar Tran, Thomas Hanna, Tiara Huynh, Tofarati Oluwole, Tracy Nguyen, Wara Rizvi, William Sim, William Tran, Zachary Soutanich

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