Scrabble Australia
International: World Youth Scrabble Championships
Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2018
The 2018 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in Dubai. Australia is entitled to send 10 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
For news about the Youth Scrabble happenings in Victoria (and often news about Youth Scrabble in a wider context), have a look at http://www.scrabble.org.au/victoria/youthscrabble.htm
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 2018 are:- You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.06.2018.
- You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.06.2018
- You must be born 1 Jan 2001 or later
- The qualifying period is 01.07.2017 to 30.06.2018.
- Contenders are ranked by their peak rating over the qualifying period.
- There are two rating hurdles :
- You must have played 50 games within the Australian rating system before any peak.
- You must play at least 25 games 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 Karen Richards (karendrichards@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.
Qualification status at 04.05.2018
| CONTENDERS | Games before 01.07.2017 |
Games in period |
Peak | Status |
| 1 Anand Bharadwaj (VIC) | 633 | 41 | 1843 |  |
| 2 Ronnie Bennett (ACT) | 466 | 106 | 1318 | |
| 3 Rahul Jegatheva (WA) | 322 | 33 | 1143 | |
| Sharvin Jeyendran (WA) | 167 | 14 | 1128 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Shekinah Giffen (QLD) | 230 | 4 | 1035 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Minuki Satharasinghe (VIC) | 39 | 0 | 849? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| 4 Kaustav Bhowmick (WA) | 234 | 28 | 826 | |
| 5 Olivia Brown (NSW) | 47 | 54 | 684 | |
| Pranav Srivatsan (VIC) | 74 | 0 | 684? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Liana Aho (WA) | 149 | 7 | 669 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Harper Pestinger (VIC) | 71 | 0 | 620? | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Ryan Chung (NSW) | 9 | 8 | 600? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Chelaka Paranahewa (VIC) | 32 | 0 | 580? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Aditya Bose-Mandal (WA) | 211 | 21 | 558 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Ben Neal (QLD) | 25 | 0 | 553? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Annabel Huor (NSW) | 7 | 8 | 536? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| 6 Jason Tang (NSW) | 30 | 32 | 532 | |
| Jai Shepherd (NSW) | 37 | 17 | 521 | Needs to play 25 games in the period. |
| Andy Do (NSW) | 9 | 8 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Riva Dubey (VIC) | 11 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
| Meghna Nagarajan (VIC) | 46 | 0 | 500? | Needs to have 50 prior rated games. |
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