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2024 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2024


The 2024 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Sri Lanka from 6th to 8th of September. Citrus Waskaduwa, a five star beach hotel, will host the prestigious WYSC & SLIO . It is 1.5 hours drive from the Colombo International airport and about 1.5 hours drive from the Colombo City business area during rush hour.
Australia is entitled to send 6 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they pay an entry fee.

See the website for more information about the WYSC and the side tournaments.

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 2024 are:
  • You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2024.
  • You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2024
  • You must be born 1 Jan 2007 or later
  • The qualifying period is 01.08.2023 to 31.07.2024.
  • 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 12.08.2024 SELECTION HAS FINISHED!

World Youth Cup 2024
CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
1 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) 170 1642happy
2 Alex Lam (NSW) 31 1440happy
3 Vinh Nguyen (NSW) 124 1261happy
4 Jeffery Lam (NSW) 31 1260happy
5 Ashwin Page (QLD) 77 1139happy
6 Ryder Lo (NSW) 95 1089happy
ALMOST IN
   Asher Chhabra (NSW) 6 1019Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Patrick Huynh (NSW) 0 962?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
7 Kelvin Korn (NSW) 71 952nearly in
   Jason Tang (NSW) 0 858?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
8 Nathan Tang (NSW) 50 746nearly in
   Tristan Hon (NSW) 12 711?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Vincent Nuon (NSW) 4 666?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
9 David Lam (NSW) 31 657nearly in
   Oliver Klistorner (NSW) 20 656?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Tanissha Suppiah (WA) 18 636Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Evan Hsieh (QLD) 6 608?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Jemima Ferguson (NSW) 0 601?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
10 Alvin Korn (NSW) 71 600nearly in
   Raymond Tri (NSW) 4 572Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Richard Ha (NSW) 4 567?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Phi Long Ma (NSW) 14 545?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
11 Ashley Korn (NSW) 60 529nearly in
   Edrick Long (NSW) 47 508?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Brendan Tia (NSW) 12 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Eric Phan (NSW) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Lucas Luu (NSW) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Raymond Hsieh (QLD) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Alistair Scott (QLD) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Daniel Lin (QLD) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Keena Tri (NSW) 4 500Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Albert Wang (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Sanvi Shah (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Kevin Boun (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Sunstar Tran (NSW) 3 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Tracy Nguyen (NSW) 0 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.

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