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2025 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2025

The 2025 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Malaysia from 30 August to 1 September 2025. See Malaysian website

Australia is entitled to send 6 young players who get free entry. However all suitable players are welcome, provided they pay an entry fee.

Candidates are encouraged to declare their intention to go, so that they may make travel plans, and receive coaching. Karen Richards from Queensland has been the major driving force of Youth Scrabble since last century. She has been appointed as the Youth Coach and will be giving coaching sessions, especially just before the National Scrabble Championship in Adelaide at Easter. Whether they intend playing in Malaysia or not, young players will benefit from this.

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 08.05.2025. Player intentions: Yes👍 No👎 Maybe🤔

CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
👍1Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) 140 1661happy
Alex Lam (NSW) 24 1427Needs to play 25 games in the period.
2Vinh Nguyen (NSW) 88 1321happy
👍3Ashwin Page (QLD) 62 1321happy
Jeffery Lam (NSW) 24 1243Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍4Ryder Lo (NSW) 60 1145happy
👍5Nathan Tang (NSW) 56 1091happy
👍6Kelvin Korn (NSW) 27 1028happy
ALMOST IN
Patrick Huynh (NSW) 0 962?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Anthony Yap (QLD) 37 900?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍7Jithuni Vidanapathirana (VIC) 64 851nearly in
David Lam (NSW) 23 780Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍8Oliver Klistorner (NSW) 33 722nearly in
👍9Sam Pizzano (ACT) 52 720nearly in
Tristan Hon (NSW) 15 699?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Vincent Nuon (NSW) 8 679?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Ethan Tenaglia (TAS) 8 670?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Lucas Luu (NSW) 15 661?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Tanissha Suppiah (WA) 7 645Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Raymond Tri (NSW) 15 641Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Brendan Tia (NSW) 19 631?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍10Alvin Korn (NSW) 27 610nearly in
James Lo (NSW) 18 609?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Alistair Scott (QLD) 6 609?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Evan Hsieh (QLD) 0 608?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍Phi Long Ma (NSW) 22 581Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Richard Ha (NSW) 0 567?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Felix Pham (NSW) 4 566?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
11Ashley Korn (NSW) 27 554nearly in
Eric Phan (NSW) 11 543?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Keena Tri (NSW) 15 540Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Edrick Long (NSW) 19 531Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍12Danira De Silva (QLD) 77 522nearly in
👍Hugh Boveington (ACT) 13 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
James Dinh (SA) 12 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Edward Hung (SA) 11 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Raghav Agrawal (QLD) 10 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Divine Nillos (NSW) 8 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Justin Eng (NSW) 8 500?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.
Laiken Lam (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Amy Ngo (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Jayco Lo (NSW) 4 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Lexi Steinberg (ACT) 3 500?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.

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