Scrabble Australia
Australian Masters and State Team Challenge 2020
Contenders

Selective events 2020

The event

It was planned that twenty of the top players would play the Australian Masters as a round robin in Sydney on September 12 - 13 2020.
At the same time, teams of three players from each of seven states or territories would play the State Team Challenge as head-to-head matches.

Bob Jackman plans to conduct an online AMSC event using ISC (Internet Scrabble Club) over the designated weekend of 12th and 13th September.
There will be a single event held over two days, with all 41 qualifiers for both the Australian Masters and State Challenge eligible to take part.
Chris May has planned the format and draw and Edward Okulicz will be creating a web space to record ongoing results and annotated games. The format will be a progressive round robin, essentially with equal size groups playing round robins in four sessions over 2 days. Winners of groups will be promoted while losers of groups will be demoted. The ideal would be to play 20 games, but this will depend on the number of players wishing to take part. The proposed format is currently as follows:
There are no plans to organise live streaming or commentary at this stage
There will be no prizemoney or rating consequences
Because each session will be fully pre-drawn, a session should take about 2.5 to 3 hours. This is based on the recent Virtual World Cup experience. More precise details (overtime policy, lateness policy, etc) to follow once the field is set - most of these will also replicate Virtual World Cup rules (https://www.cocoscrabble.org/virtual-world-cup).
This tournament is open to all presumptive AMSC 2020 qualifiers. Please send your entries to Bob Jackman.

The contenders

The table below shows the teams according to qualification criteria (click here for details) set by the Council of the Australian Scrabble Players Association. It shows the selected teams as at 02.05.2020 plus 3 reserves from each state.


Selection has now finished.

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Masters
or State

Contender
Q Stat
02.05.2020
Games Peak (games)
May-Aug
Peak (games)
Sep-Dec
Peak (games)
Jan-Apr
1 MDavid Eldar (VIC) 2064.75*72 1910 (0)2101 (8)2124 (64)
2 MChris May (NSW) 2026.50102 2033 (18)2059 (43)2007 (41)
3 MAndrew Fisher (VIC) 2023.50102 2040 (14)2006 (34)2024 (54)
4 MEdward Okulicz (VIC) 1995.25143 1950 (30)1995 (80)2018 (33)
5 MNaween Fernando (VIC) 1988.00145 1997 (28)1995 (39)1980 (78)
6 MCameron Farlow (QLD) 1979.5099 1990 (32)2020 (51)1954 (16)
7 MPeter Kougi (VIC) 1951.00133 1931 (18)1941 (58)1966 (57)
8 MEsther Perrins (NSW) 1916.25112 1898 (24)1929 (43)1919 (45)
9 MAnand Bharadwaj (VIC) 1914.0067 1894 (30)1888 (7)1937 (30)
10 MMichael Cameron (SA) 1886.00139 1867 (42)1887 (52)1895 (45)
11 MTrevor Halsall (VIC) 1869.2579 1886 (37)1789 (19)1901 (23)
12 MJoanne Craig (NSW) 1867.00232 1865 (83)1897 (81)1853 (68)
13 MDaniel Piechnick (SA) 1864.7599 1875 (27)1866 (36)1859 (36)
15 MBob Jackman (NSW) 1774.50269 1878 (82)1802 (85)1709 (102)
16 MAdam Kretschmer (SA) 1770.25173 1844 (65)1813 (65)1712 (43)
17 MTony Hunt (NSW) 1768.25242 1728 (60)1741 (93)1802 (89)
18 MVictor Tung (NSW) 1757.25124 1739 (33)1818 (39)1736 (52)
20 MMythili Rudra (VIC) 1748.25157 1788 (32)1775 (68)1715 (57)
1 NSWRod Talbot (NSW) 1746.75272 1807 (93)1808 (93)1686 (86)
1 QLDRon Baginski (QLD) 1708.5069 1668 (8)1718 (16)1724 (45)
1 SATrevor Tao (SA) 1692.2568 1668 (11)1705 (35)1698 (22)
2 NSWJohn Holgate (NSW) 1686.00160 1712 (65)1636 (32)1698 (63)
1 VICGeoff Wright (VIC) 1675.25133 1632 (63)1677 (43)1696 (27)
3 NSWRyan Sutton (NSW) 1672.50*112 1770 (48)1790 (64)1565 (0)
2 SACarmel Dodd (SA) 1666.25177 1688 (60)1643 (89)1667 (28)
1 TASStephen Mooney Purse(TAS) 1652.0065 1653 (11)1673 (40)1641 (14)
1 ACTJohn Hamilton (ACT) 1646.7564 1655 (36)1644 (15)1644 (13)
2 QLDKaren Richards (QLD) 1636.75241 1625 (70)1658 (95)1632 (76)
2 ACTNoel Barrett (ACT) 1627.75174 1633 (80)1652 (68)1613 (26)
2 VICNorma Fisher (VIC) 1592.50112 1668 (66)1572 (41)1565 (5)
3 SABarry Jordan (SA) 1592.25105 1641 (41)1646 (48)1541 (16)
Jane Taylor (SA4) 1587.25216 1627 (65)1592 (61)1565 (90)
Graeme Lock Lee (NSW4) 1585.50173 1599 (72)1561 (64)1591 (37)
3 VICNatasha Podesser (VIC) 1576.0088 1639 (32)1533 (42)1566 (14)
3 QLDAndrew Hamblin (QLD) 1568.00*63 1719 (48)1651 (15)1451 (0)
Jyoti Chandna (NSW5) 1545.25143 1535 (68)1562 (25)1542 (50)
Paul Richards (QLD4) 1527.50258 1480 (89)1522 (69)1554 (100)
Antony Kimber (SA5) 1522.50168 1469 (71)1515 (58)1553 (39)
3 ACTJohn Spaan (ACT) 1522.50*83 1632 (35)1668 (48)1395 (0)
Roberta Tait (QLD5) 1520.75111 1482 (40)1523 (55)1539 (16)
2 TASDianne Brumby (TAS) 1520.75108 1587 (76)1528 (18)1484 (14)
Michael Vnuk (SA6) 1495.75133 1500 (43)1493 (47)1495 (43)
3 TASMartin Rose (TAS) 1491.2595 1479 (32)1504 (35)1491 (28)
Jane Brown (QLD6) 1487.75146 1439 (80)1516 (50)1498 (16)
Carol Johnsen (VIC4) 1485.50135 1494 (59)1440 (46)1504 (30)
Chris Ostrowski (NSW6) 1484.75244 1500 (76)1463 (75)1488 (93)
Alex Boiko (ACT4) 1476.75121 1466 (65)1535 (43)1453 (13)
Kashi Thiris (VIC5) 1456.0075 1444 (48)1466 (15)1457 (12)
Dianne Davis (VIC6) 1455.2590 1481 (73)1440 (10)1450 (7)
Ronnie Bennett (ACT5) 1406.00150 1437 (43)1321 (49)1433 (58)
Tony Williams (ACT6) 1345.75103 1355 (34)1342 (24)1343 (45)
Margaret Bishop (TAS4) 1277.2570 1341 (21)1326 (21)1221 (28)
Jan Hill (TAS5) 1269.2569 1241 (28)1250 (13)1293 (28)

Too few games
Jakob Teitelbaum (ACT) 35 games, (currently rated 1897)
Rael Hayman (QLD) 38 games, (currently rated 1735)
Simon Walton (SA) 40 games, (currently rated 1673)
Graham Bell (WA) 19 games, (currently rated 1738)
Nick Ivanovski (VIC) 58 games, (currently rated 1605)
Tim Mason (WA) 17 games, (currently rated 1685)
Wayne Jones (NSW) 46 games, (currently rated 1713)
Tony Miller (SA) 47 games, (currently rated 1589)
Derek McKenzie (QLD) 16 games, (currently rated 1703)
Jimmy Scarff (VIC) 7 games, (currently rated 1699)
Rocky Sharma (NSW) 25 games, (currently rated 1627)
Helen Hynes (QLD) 2 games, (currently rated 1635)
Jon Ford-King (TAS) 35 games, (currently rated 1433)
Khen Meerding (TAS) 54 games, (currently rated 1448)
Jeremy Yip (VIC) 30 games, (currently rated 1476)
Mark Smith (NSW) 16 games, (currently rated 1464)
Heather Long (VIC) 51 games, (currently rated 1521)
Ray Alford (VIC) 35 games, (currently rated 1497)
Garth van Vliet (NSW) 9 games, (currently rated 1486)
Julie Brice (QLD) 28 games, (currently rated 1437)
Oliver Jenner-O'Shea (SA) 6 games, (currently rated 1526)
Dianne Ward (WA) 21 games, (currently rated 1517)
Jegatheva Jegathesan (WA) 46 games, (currently rated 1466)
Alan Burn (VIC) 32 games, (currently rated 1445)
Susan Rayner (WA) 48 games, (currently rated 1331)
Julie Belle (VIC) 27 games, (currently rated 1430)
Charles Quartey (SA) 16 games, (currently rated 1350)
Margaret Webb (TAS) 12 games, (currently rated 1395)
Penny Wells (TAS) 21 games, (currently rated 1317)
Margaret Griggs (TAS) 49 games, (currently rated 1331)
Ros Wilkinson (TAS) 38 games, (currently rated 1361)
Carolyn Watt (WA) 18 games, (currently rated 1394)
Robin Andersen (WA) 58 games, (currently rated 1251)

Missed a peak
David Eldar (VIC) (currently rated 2124) Peak 1 = 2110−200
Ryan Sutton (NSW) (currently rated 1765) Peak 3 = 1765−200
Andrew Hamblin (QLD) (currently rated 1651) Peak 3 = 1651−200
John Spaan (ACT) (currently rated 1595) Peak 3 = 1595−200
Chris Hall (WA) (currently rated 1588) Peak 3 = 1588−200
Ian Ting (WA) (currently rated 1537) Peak 3 = 1537−200