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2025 WESPA SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP

Selecting Australia's team for 2025

The 2025 WESPA Scrabble Championship will be held in Ghana (Nov 12 to 16). Former World / WESPAC Champions are given automatic qualification, independent of any country's quota. So David Eldar is automatically selected by WESPA ♔.
WESPA policy for country quotas means that CASPA will select 14 more. You must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident on 30 June 2025, and be a financial member of ASPA on 30 June 2025.
IMPORTANT: Selection processes will now give priority to Australian players who have told CASPA that they will attend or might attend. Send an email to nro@scrabble.org.au with the subject line including WSC25, and an indication of YES, NO or MAYBE. Any Australian ASPA member may ask to be considered, not just the ones listed as contenders.
An adjunct World Teams event had been planned. But it has been postponed.

Selection by major titles

A maximum of two eligible players are selected by tournament success, namely

(1) The winner of the 2024 Australian Masters. ♚
(2) The highest placed eligible Australian in the 2025 Australian Championship.♛

Players who qualify this way must also play 40 games recognised by ASPA during the qualifying period.

If any of these berths is unfilled for any reason, the place is taken by another player selected via ratings as described below.

Selection by ratings

The primary criterion for ranking candidates is the Q statistic
Details
  • Subperiods are Jun to Sep 2024, Oct to Jan and Feb to May 2025.
  • The Qstat: The qualifying statistic is Q = (P1 + P2 + 2 x P3)/4 , which is a weighted average of peak ratings in the three subperiods.
  • Third peak: You cannot earn the peak in the third subperiod until you have played 40 games rated by ASPA in the qualification period.
  • Penalty: If you do not earn a peak in a subperiod , your peak in that subperiod is equal to the last rating minus 200. This may be applied more than once.
  • Incomplete tournament: 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.
  • Games: You must have played at least 40 games in the qualifying period.
  • Tie breaker: If two players have the same Q statistic, the one with the greater number of games in the qualification period is ranked higher.

Players may appeal to CASPA for a special dispensation in exceptional circumstances. In the event of any unforeseen issue the decision of CASPA is final.


The Qstat is Q = (P1 + P2 + 2 x P3)/4 where P1, P2, P3 are peaks from Jun to Sep 2022, Oct to Jan and Feb to May 2023. Qstat is shown, together with the peak(games) in each period. 40 games required.
Priority is given to players who have said that they will go or maybe go.

CONTENDERS
14 quota 		Q (games)
04.05.2025 		Peak (games)
Jun to Sep 		Peak (games)
Oct to Jan 		Peak (games)
Feb to May
Josh Watt (NSW)YES 1782.25(190✓)1613(49)1810(91)1853(50)
Adam Kretschmer (SA)MAYBE 1687.00(108✓)1641(42)1607(17)1750(49)
John Hamilton (ACT)YES 1646.25(126✓)1653(46)1618(35)1657(45)
Karen Richards (QLD)YES 1619.75(310✓)1656(136)1581(79)1621(95)
Paul Richards (QLD)YES 1568.50(260✓)1543(116)1621(77)1555(67)
Cameron Farlow (QLD) 1911.25(132✓)1899(24)1914(50)1916(58)
Peter Kougi (VIC) 1876.25*(23)1713(0)1948(16)1922(7)
Trevor Halsall (VIC) 1846.00*(115✓)1880(58)1680(0)1912(57)
Joanne Craig (NSW) 1813.00(138✓)1682(25)1820(58)1875(55)
Daniel Piechnick (SA) 1797.50(150✓)1811(41)1811(47)1784(62)
Esther Perrins (NSW) 1787.00*(61✓)1829(37)1629(0)1845(24)
Ryan Sutton (NSW) 1770.75(129✓)1750(44)1743(54)1795(31)
Victor Tung (NSW) 1759.25(101✓)1782(26)1761(43)1747(32)
Max Mason (SA) 1733.25(119✓)1680(54)1675(20)1789(45)
ALMOST IN
Sumbul Siddiqui (VIC) 1719.00*(21)1643(0)1843(9)1695(12)
Tony Hunt (NSW) 1717.50(166✓)1659(55)1713(60)1749(51)
Rod Talbot (NSW) 1708.50(207✓)1763(67)1769(94)1651(46)
Bob Jackman (NSW) 1707.75(181✓)1688(25)1697(102)1723(54)
David Vanzyl (WA) 1705.75(79✓)1678(44)1717(28)1714(7)
Stephen Mooney Purse (TAS) 1702.50(22)1719(4)1686(18)
Carmel Dodd (SA) 1686.00(163✓)1635(61)1683(46)1713(56)
Michael Hornung (VIC) 1678.50*(5)1575(0)1782(5)
Geoff Wright (VIC) 1674.00(162✓)1642(60)1696(38)1679(64)
Nick Ivanovski (VIC) 1658.75*(67✓)1431(8)1712(38)1746(21)
John Spaan (ACT) 1655.25(148✓)1657(50)1696(50)1634(48)
Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) 1631.75(177✓)1628(65)1661(59)1619(53)
Ian Ting (WA) 1631.75(105✓)1619(56)1638(21)1635(28)
Mythili Rudra (VIC) 1628.50*(16)1511(0)1746(16)
Noel Barrett (ACT) 1620.00(141✓)1574(67)1624(35)1641(39)
Tony Miller (SA) 1618.00(129✓)1579(44)1599(34)1647(51)

Not going: David Eldar, Edward Okulicz, Andrew Fisher, Naween Fernando, Russell Honeybun, Jane Taylor

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