Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2020
The 2020 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in in December 2020. Australia is entitled to send 10 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they play 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
For news about the Youth Scrabble happenings in Victoria (and often news about Youth Scrabble in a wider context), have a look at http://www.scrabble.org.au/victoria/youthscrabble.htm
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 2020 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.06.2020.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.06.2020
- You must be born 1 Jan 2003 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.07.2019 to 30.06.2020.
- Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
- There are two rating hurdles :
- You must have played 50 games within the Australian rating system before any peak.
- 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 Tony Hunt (audiolifeportrait@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.
Qualification status at 12.03.2020
| CONTENDERS | Games before 01.07.2019 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Ronnie Bennett (ACT) | 718 | 132 | 1437 |  |
| Rahul Jegatheva (WA) | 362 | 0 | 1164? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Sharvin Jeyendran (WA) | 213 | 0 | 1037? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| 2 Alex Lam (NSW) | 77 | 85 | 1024 | |
| 3 Asher Chhabra (NSW) | 51 | 84 | 959 | |
| 4 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) | 136 | 77 | 930 | |
| 5 Jason Tang (NSW) | 153 | 77 | 883 | |
| Kaustav Bhowmick (WA) | 286 | 0 | 838? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Jeffery Lam (NSW) | 0 | 49 | 788? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| 6 Patrick Huynh (NSW) | 87 | 85 | 783 | |
| Ashwin Page (QLD) | 0 | 40 | 779? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Anna Vu (NSW) | 0 | 48 | 699? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Sinadee Gamage (QLD) | 6 | 0 | 644? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Olivia Brown (NSW) | 92 | 0 | 618? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Aditya Bose-Mandal (WA) | 256 | 0 | 602? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Kevin Vu (NSW) | 0 | 40 | 579? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Brendan Tieng (NSW) | 0 | 35 | 578? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Andy Do (NSW) | 24 | 14 | 571? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Elvin Huynh (NSW) | 15 | 7 | 548? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Jai Shepherd (NSW) | 67 | 0 | 528? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Vinh Nguyen (NSW) | 0 | 40 | 516? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| 7 Tanissha Suppiah (WA) | 77 | 41 | 506 | |
| John Ta (NSW) | 0 | 25 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Nathan Tang (NSW) | 13 | 22 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Edward Ngov (NSW) | 0 | 22 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Chloe Pham (NSW) | 0 | 16 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Claire Pham (NSW) | 0 | 16 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Hoa Lam (NSW) | 0 | 16 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Chloe Pham (NSW) | 0 | 16 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Shorya Gupta (NSW) | 0 | 14 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Kathy Phung (NSW) | 0 | 9 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Beau Vu (NSW) | 16 | 8 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Eidyn Tran (NSW) | 0 | 7 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Alan Nguyen (NSW) | 15 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Andrew Song (NSW) | 7 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Joshua Tung (NSW) | 32 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Sofia Jara (NSW) | 2 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Shireeya Jeyendran (WA) | 7 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Gemma Aho (WA) | 32 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Dylan Cheav (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
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