Allocations
Each country is allocated a number of places based on its past performance at World Scrabble Championships. Each country's national association establishes rules for qualifying for those places, typically based on national tournament ratings or performance at qualifying tournaments or flagship events.
Dropouts and Alternates
Any player already named who drops out before registration at the event site should, if possible, be replaced by a representative from their own country.
A registered player who does not turn up at registration, or drops out during the tournament will not be replaced other than if the numbers are odd when the official standby from the host country will stand in.
Designated places
| Achievement | # Players | |||||||||||||
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| 2013 Finalists | 2 | ✓Nigel Richards
✓Komol Panyasoponlert |
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| 2014 Finalists | 2 |
✓Craig Beevers
✓Chris Lipe |
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| 2014 WYSC Champion | 1 | ✓Mariam Arif Jack Durand has declined. |
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| 2015 WYSC Champion | 1 | ✓Abdullah Abbasi Nicholas Hong has declined |
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| Last Chance Qualifier | 4 to 8 |
✓Lawson Sue ✓Paul Kalumba ✓Tariq Pervez ✓Wimal Fernando ✓Akkarapol Khwansak ✓Karen Richards |
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| Last Chance Qualifier Best Youth |
1 | ✓Hassam Hadi Khan | ||||||||||||
| Host Country | 2 | Australia |
Notes
- Players who qualify by designation are not included in the quota for any country.
- As the host country of this event, Australia has been awarded two extra places for this year only.
- Australia will also have a standby player who will drop in or out to ensure even numbers in every round.
Country quotas
The provisional allocation of places based on updating the quotas from the 2013 SCT is as follows. If a national association has posted its qualification system online, it should be linked below; if not, please send its URL to the webmaster| Country | # Players 2013 → 2015 |
Selection |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 14 → 17 |
Any American in the top ten of the 2014 SCT.
✓ David Wiegand (4th place) ✓ Peter Armstrong; (9th place) ✓ John O'Laughlin (10th place) Four spots from the qualification tournament in Portland OR,June 27-28. ✓ Jesse Day ✓ Rich Baker ✓ Cecilia Le ✓ Puneet Sharma Peak NASPA CSW rating ✓ Evans Clinchy ✓ David Koenig ✓ Marty Gabriel ✓ Mark Kenas ✓ Jason Keller ✓ Scott Garner ✓ Steve Polatnick ✓ Robert Linn Declined: Rob Robinsky Two spots from the 2015 National Scrabble Championship ✓ Sandy Nang ✓ Jennifer Lee Conditions apply. Qualification period ends on Memorial Day. http://www.scrabbleplayers.org |
| England | 11 → 15 |
By rating.
3 'PEAKS' ✓ Paul Allan ✓ Austin Shin ✓ Lewis MacKay ✓ David Webb ✓ Wayne Kelly ✓ Elie Dangoor ✓ Femi Awowade ✓ Chris Vicary ✓ John Ashmore ✓ Jared Robinson ✓ Andrew Goodwin ✓ Jackie McLeod ✓ Steve Perry Declined: Brett Smitheram, Calum Edwards, Jessica Pratesi, Martin Harrison, Terry Kirk, Phil Robertshaw, Penny Downer 2015 BMSC late August, two spots for players not already chosen ✓ Mark Nyman ✓ Ash Coldrick |
| Australia | 8 → 12 | 2014 Aust Masters: ✓ Cameron Farlow 2015 National Champ: ✓ Peter Kougi others by rating: 3 PEAKS Qualification period ends 31 Aug. ✓ Alastair Richards ✓ Daniel Piechnick ✓ Naween Fernando ✓ Richard Jeremy ✓ Andrew Fisher ✓ Esther Perrins ✓ Trevor Halsall ✓ Bob Jackman ✓ Russell Honeybun ✓ Rod Talbot Declined: Edward Okulicz Two places as host nation ✓ Ron Baginski ✓ Mythili Rudra |
| Canada | 7 → 9 |
Canadians in first quartile of the 2013 SCT
✓ Adam Logan (10th place) Matthew Tunnicliffe; (22nd place) Top two places in the qualification tournament some time after April 30. The remainder from peak NASPA CSW or TWL rating settled by April 30. ✓ Tony Leah ✓ Geoffrey Newman ✓ Jesse Matthews Andy Saunders Steve Ozorio ✓ Mohammad Sulaiman ✓ Andrew Golding Declined: John Chew http://www.scrabbleplayers.org |
| Thailand | 6 → 8 |
✓ Thacha Koowirat
✓ Pichai Limprasert ✓ Gerry Carter ✓ Taewan Sutthasin ✓ Jakkrit Klaphajone ✓ Puttapong Moonsarn ✓ Manop Phiphatboonserm ✓ Sompong Phosai |
| New Zealand | 5 → 6 | Snapshot rating at the end of Nationals in June.
Must have played 50 games. ✓ Joanne Craig ✓ Jeff Grant ✓ Howard Warner ✓ John McNaughton ✓ Blue Thorogood ✓ Peter Sinton |
| Scotland | 5 → 5 |
Five by rating (three peaks). ✓ Neil Scott ✓ James Squires Declined: Helen Gipson, Allan Simmons, Ross Mackenzie, Piotr Andronowski,Simon Gillam, Amy Byrne, Ray Tate See Scottish Scrabble Qualification ends Mar 31. |
| Malaysia | 3 → 5 | National Champion 2015
✓ Yeo Kian Hung Four from snapshot rating at September 30. ✓ Martin Teo ✓ Chang Ching Wei ✓ Alex Tan ✓ Michael Tang |
| Singapore | 4 → 7 | The 2014 National Champion :
The 2015 National Champion : The remainder from snapshot rating at 3 Aug. See Toucanet website ✓ Hubert Wee ✓ Tony Sim ✓ Cheah Siu Hean ✓ Andy Kurnia ✓ Yong Jian Rong |
| Nigeria | (5) → 6 | Points for placings in six key tournaments, last in mid May.
✓ Eta Karo ✓ Wellington Jighere ✓ Onota Oteheri ✓ Ayorinde Saidu ✓ Cyril Umebiye ✓ Emmanuel Umujose |
| N. Ireland | 3 → 5 | ✓ Nuala O'Rourke |
| Kenya | (2) → 3 | Qualifying events finishing in July. See
News report
✓ Gitonga Nderitu ✓ Allan Oyende ✓ Stanley Njoroge |
| India | 2 → 2 | Snapshot rating at end of Nationals in June.
See www.indianscrabble.com ✓ Mohan Chunkath ✓ Udayan Grover Declined: Sherwin Rodrigues |
| S. Africa | 2 → 2 | Win totals from key tournaments
✓ Trevor Hovelmeier ✓ Jarrod Page Declined: Dylan Early |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 → 2 |
Placing at Gulf Championship ✓ Eric Kinderman ✓ Rob Rosenthal Declined: Akshay Bhandarkar |
| Pakistan | 2 → 2 | Snapshot rating at 31 July
✓ Waseem Khatri ✓ Moizullah Baig |
| Philippines | 2 → 2 | Qualifying tournament ✓ Odette Rio ✓ Chris Abordo |
| Ghana | 2 → 2 | |
| Israel | 1 → 3 | One place by ratings:
✓ Evan Cohen Two places from qualifying tournament ✓ Naomi Landau ✓ Omri Rosenkrantz |
| Ireland | 1 → 3 | |
| Barbados | 1 → 3 | Orlet Bullock |
| Malta | 1 → 3 | A player in top half of division 1 Malta National (finish 16 April) ✓ Mario Saliba ✓ Moira Fenech Declined: Theresa Brousson |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 1 → 3 |
Qualifying tournament ✓ Pat John ✓ Leslie Charles ✓ Anthony Modeste |
| Guyana | 1 → 3 | |
| Sri Lanka | 1 → 2 |
✓ Lakshan Wanniarachchi ✓ Shaila Amalean |
| Bahrain | 1 → 2 | Gulf Tournament
✓ Irfan Siddiqui |
| Sweden | 1 → 2 | Points for tournament placings
www.scrabbleforbundet.se Declined: Gunnar Andersson,Johan Rönnblom |
| Netherlands | 1 → 1 | |
| Indonesia | 2 → 1 | Ratings: 3 PEAKS
Settled by June 30 |
| Poland | 1 → 1 | |
| Wales | 1 → 1 | |
| Romania | 1 → 1 | Playoff on May 16, 17
✓ Dan Sandu |
| France | 1 → 1 | Playoff
✓ Robert Springer |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 → 1 | |
| Oman | 1 → 1 | |
| Norway | 1 → 1 | Qualification tournament September 6th
✓ Anlaug Frydenlund |
| Japan | 1 → 1 | ✓ Warodom Geamsakul |
| Slovakia | 1 → 1 | |
| Germany | 1 →1 | Qualification tourney on 18 April
Declined: Peggy Fehily |
| Czech Republic | 2 → 1 | |
| Uganda | (1) → 1 | Tallies from 6 qualifying tournaments.
Settled by August. ✓ Phillip Edwin-Mugisha |
| Gambia | (1) → 1 | ✓ Abba Hydara |
| Tanzania | 1 → 1 | |
| Zambia | (1) → 1 | Winner Zambia National Championship ✓ Patrick Mulemuna Mpundu |
| Kuwait | 1 → 1 | |
| Qatar | (1) → 1 | |
| Austria | (new) 1 | Qualification tourney on 18 April
✓ Pam Morris |
| Sierra Leone | (new) 1 | Best placed at 2014 SCT
✓ Mohamed Komara |
| Hong Kong | (new) 1 | Qualifying tournament
See hksspa.org ✓ Johnson Tsang |
| Gabon | (new) 1 | |
| Switzerland | (new) 1 |
Notes
- In the past, the size of the field was maintained at 100 by using a formula which added and subtracted spots for a country based on the performance of their teams.
- For this Perth event, WESPA decided to increase the total allocation to 150. The existing formula was used to add and subtract places based on team performance at Prague in 2013 and then extra spots were allocated based on the new numbers - 3 spots to countries with allocations of 9 or more; 2 spots to countries with allocations of 6 to 8, and 1 spot to countries with 2 to 5 spots. For countries that had a single spot, those that finished in the top two thirds at Prague (top 73) were given an additional spot, the others remained at 1.
- Countries wishing to participate for the first time must form a recognized National Association and determine an appropriate qualifying system. Any qualifying tournament must have at least six participants. WESPA reserves the right to ask for evidence in case of doubt.
- Should any country be unable to take up its allocation, please be considerate and decide and inform us before 31 July 2015. If your country has not already done so, please confirm the name and contact details of its official country contact for further communication as soon as possible.
- We reserve the right to contact countries to establish that they fulfil the criteria for sending a team to the Championships.
- Quotas for any such event in the future will similarly be based on team performance (and attendance) in Perth.