Scrabble Australia
World Youth Championship 2021
The 2021 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held online over three weekends in August. A scheme is in place to try to have matches played at compromise times suitable to each time zone. Australian players are in Group D and will play the first 36 rounds as follows (note times have changed since the earlier announcement).
| Date | GMT | Opponents |
|---|---|---|
| Sat Aug 7 | 6 from Groups | |
| Sun Aug 8 | 100 | 6 from Groups C and D |
| Sun Aug 8 | 6 from Groups | |
| Sat Aug 14 | 6 from Groups | |
| Sun Aug 15 | 100 | 6 from Groups C and D |
| Sun Aug 15 | 6 from Groups | |
| Sat Aug 21 Sun Aug 22 | Playoff of top 10 as round robin |
GMT 100 is 11am Eastern Coast and 9am West Coast
GMT 1000 is 8pm Eastern Coast and 6pm West Coast
Group A: UK, Europe, Africa
Group B: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, UAE, Others
Group C: Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Phillipines
Group D: Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Trinidad, USA, Canada
On the third weekend (21 to 22 Aug) only the top ten players proceed. They will play a round robin.
The event will use Woogles (https://woogles.io) and will be organised by the Pakistan Scrabble Association with helpers around the world. See https://wyc2021.pakistanscrabble.org/ for details.
Australia is entitled to send 8 young players who get free entry thanks to CASPA.
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 2021 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 19.07.2021.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 19.07.2021
- You must be born 1 Jan 2004 or later
- The qualifying period is 20.07.2020 to 19.07.2021.
- Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
- There are two rating hurdles :
- You must have played 15 games within the Australian rating system before any peak.
- You must play at least 10 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 09.08.2021 SELECTION HAS FINISHED!
| CONTENDERS | Games before 20.07.2020 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Ronnie Bennett (ACT) | 718 | 93 | 1563 |  Qualified and in quota |
| 2 Alex Lam (NSW) | 77 | 57 | 1258 | Qualified and in quota |
| Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) | 136 | 55 | 1113 | Declined |
| 3 Jeffery Lam (NSW) | 0 | 57 | 1028 | Qualified and in quota |
| 4 Asher Chhabra (NSW) | 51 | 12 | 978 | Qualified and in quota |
| 5 Patrick Huynh (NSW) | 87 | 80 | 909 | Qualified and in quota |
| Jack Bell (NSW) | 0 | 6 | 889? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Jason Tang (NSW) | 153 | 0 | 860? | Needs to play 10 games in the period. |
| Jerene Philip (QLD) | 0 | 8 | 848? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Adrian Huot (NSW) | 0 | 12 | 773? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| 6 Ashwin Page (QLD) | 47 | 15 | 751 | Qualified and in quota |
| Tanissha Suppiah (WA) | 77 | 52 | 612 | Declined |
| Joel Philip (QLD) | 0 | 8 | 606? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| 7 Raymond Tri (NSW) | 0 | 23 | 569 | Qualified and in quota |
| Brendan Tieng (NSW) | 0 | 6 | 566? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| 8 Dylan Cheav (NSW) | 0 | 21 | 556 | Qualified and in quota |
| 9 Vinh Nguyen (NSW) | 0 | 48 | 532 |  Qualified |
| Nathan Tang (NSW) | 13 | 6 | 514 | Needs to play 10 games in the period. |
| Edward Ngov (NSW) | 0 | 6 | 504? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| 10 Chloe Pham (NSW) | 0 | 15 | 500 | Qualified |
| 11 Claire Pham (NSW) | 0 | 15 | 500 | Qualified |
| Alan Zheng (NSW) | 0 | 6 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Dwayne Nuon Eleele (NSW) | 0 | 6 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Nasya Dang (NSW) | 0 | 6 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Joshua Tung (NSW) | 32 | 0 | 500? | Needs to play 10 games in the period. |
| Gemma Aho (WA) | 32 | 0 | 500? | Needs to play 10 games in the period. |
| Anna Vu (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Hoa Lam (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Shorya Gupta (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Eidyn Tran (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Kevin Vu (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| John Ta (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| Kathy Phung (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
| David Buon (NSW) | 0 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 15 prior rated games. |
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