• SCRABBLE AUSTRALIA
  • HOME
  • SELECTIVE EVENTS
    • 2025
    • Australian Masters & State Challenge
    • WESPA Championship
    • World Team Scrabble Championship
    • World Youth

2025 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2025


The 2025 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in somewhere.
Australia is entitled to send 6 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they pay 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 2025 are:
  • You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 31.07.2025.
  • You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 31.07.2025
  • You must be born 1 Jan 2008 or later
  • The qualifying period is 01.08.2024 to 31.07.2025.
  • 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 15.12.2024

World Youth Scrabble Championship 2025
CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
1 Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) 54 1661happy
   Alex Lam (NSW) 11 1427Needs to play 25 games in the period.
2 Vinh Nguyen (NSW) 60 1305happy
   Jeffery Lam (NSW) 11 1225Needs to play 25 games in the period.
3 Ashwin Page (QLD) 28 1220happy
4 Ryder Lo (NSW) 37 1138happy
   Kelvin Korn (NSW) 17 997Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Anthony Yap (QLD) 13 987?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Patrick Huynh (NSW) 0 962?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
5 Nathan Tang (NSW) 41 958happy
   Jithuni Vidanapathirana (VIC) 13 901?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Oliver Klistorner (NSW) 19 774?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   David Lam (NSW) 11 712Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Tristan Hon (NSW) 11 697?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Lucas Luu (NSW) 7 648?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Tanissha Suppiah (WA) 7 645Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Eric Phan (NSW) 7 633?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Raymond Tri (NSW) 11 614Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Alvin Korn (NSW) 17 610Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Alistair Scott (QLD) 6 609?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Evan Hsieh (QLD) 0 608?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Danira De Silva (QLD) 27 584?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Vincent Nuon (NSW) 4 579?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Phi Long Ma (NSW) 7 576?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Richard Ha (NSW) 0 567?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Ashley Korn (NSW) 17 554Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Edrick Long (NSW) 11 531Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Keena Tri (NSW) 11 523Needs to play 25 games in the period.
   Brendan Tia (NSW) 11 522?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Raghav Agrawal (QLD) 10 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   James Lo (NSW) 10 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Albert Wang (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Sanvi Shah (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Annie Ly (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Tanvi Bongale (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Sreypov Pheng (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Micky Huang (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Hemali Dave (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Jay-Hanz Mesa (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Angela Ngo (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Albert Wang (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Selena Kuch (NSW) 7 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Raymond Hsieh (QLD) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Daniel Liu (QLD) 6 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Micaiah Lam (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Divine Nilos (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Laiken Lam (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Tracy Nguyen (NSW) 0 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Sunstar Tran (NSW) 0 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
   Anirudh Srinivasan (NSW) 0 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.

Recently processed:
30.11.2024 LAKE MACQUARIE SPRING (NSW)
01.12.2024 Southport Christmas (QLD)
07.12.2024 Saturday Sessions (SA)
08.12.2024 Before Christmas (VIC) , Oscar (-12)
08.12.2024 Central Coast Summer (NSW) , Vinh😊 (+13), Nathan😊 (+42)
08.12.2024 Graham Bell Memorial (WA)
14.12.2024 Kingo Slammer (TAS)
15.12.2024 Last Chance (QLD) , Anthony😊 (+57)
15.12.2024 SA December (SA)