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 30.03.2025. Player intentions: Yes👍 No👎 Maybe🤔

	CONTENDERS	Games in period	Peak	Status
👍1	Oscar Ivanovski (VIC)	104	1661
	Alex Lam (NSW)	24	1427	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
2	Vinh Nguyen (NSW)	84	1321
👍3	Ashwin Page (QLD)	53	1287
	Jeffery Lam (NSW)	24	1243	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍4	Ryder Lo (NSW)	60	1145
5	Nathan Tang (NSW)	52	1064
👍	Kelvin Korn (NSW)	23	1028	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
	Patrick Huynh (NSW)	0	962?	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍	Jithuni Vidanapathirana (VIC)	23	840?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Anthony Yap (QLD)	29	839?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	David Lam (NSW)	23	780	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍6	Oliver Klistorner (NSW)	33	722
ALMOST IN
	Tristan Hon (NSW)	11	697?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Lucas Luu (NSW)	11	695?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Tanissha Suppiah (WA)	7	645	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
	Eric Phan (NSW)	7	633?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍	Sam Pizzano (ACT)	16	620?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Raymond Tri (NSW)	11	614	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
👍	Alvin Korn (NSW)	23	610	Needs 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.
👍	Phi Long Ma (NSW)	18	584	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
	Vincent Nuon (NSW)	4	579?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Richard Ha (NSW)	0	567?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Ashley Korn (NSW)	23	554	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
	Brendan Tia (NSW)	15	548?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Edrick Long (NSW)	15	531	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
	Keena Tri (NSW)	11	523	Needs to play 25 games in the period.
	James Lo (NSW)	14	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
👍	Hugh Boveington (ACT)	13	500?	Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
	Raghav Agrawal (QLD)	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.
	Justin Eng (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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