2023 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2023

The 2023 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Trang, Thailand from 1 Dec to 3 Dec. Australia is entitled to send 8 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

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 2023 are:

You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2023.
You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2023
You must be born 1 Jan 2006 or later
The qualifying period is 01.08.2022 to 31.07.2023.
Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying 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.

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 (abcsuphire@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.

Qualification status at 26.07.2023

World Youth Cup 2023
CONTENDERS	Games in period	Peak	Status
1 Ronnie Bennett (ACT)	91	1700
2 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC)	135	1513
3 Alex Lam (NSW)	60	1451
4 Jeffery Lam (NSW)	59	1207
Asher Chhabra (NSW)	0	974?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
5 Patrick Huynh (NSW)	38	962
6 Vinh Nguyen (NSW)	62	941
7 Ryder Lo (NSW)	43	894
8 Ashwin Page (QLD)	46	877
ALMOST IN
Jason Tang (NSW)	0	858?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Joel Philip (QLD)	0	837?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Kelvin Korn (NSW)	26	749?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Jerene Philip (QLD)	0	747?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Tanissha Suppiah (WA)	14	659	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jemima Ferguson (NSW)	12	601?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
9 Raymond Tri (NSW)	59	579
Alvin Korn (NSW)	18	576?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Phi Long Ma (NSW)	18	551?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
David Lam (NSW)	24	549?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
10 Keena Tri (NSW)	50	500
Tracy Nguyen (NSW)	3	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.

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