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2026 WORLD YOUTH

Selecting Australia's World Youth Scrabble team for 2026

The 2026 World Youth Scrabble Championship will be held in somewhere sometime.

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 2026 are:
  • You must be an Australian citizen, or have resided in Australia for at least 12 months prior to 30.04.2026.
  • You must be an ASPA member (or junior member, in NSW) at 30.04.2026
  • You must be born 1 Jan 2009 or later
  • The qualifying period is 01.05.2025 to 30.04.2026.
  • 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 John Hamilton (jjhamilton5@gmail.com) if you are aware of any other young Australian Scrabble players.

Qualification status at 30.06.2025.

CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
1Oscar Ivanovski(VIC) 45 1613happy
Alex Lam(NSW) 0 1409?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ashwin Page(QLD) 22 1315Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Vinh Nguyen(NSW) 11 1308Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jeffery Lam(NSW) 4 1213Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Nathan Tang(NSW) 15 1145Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ryder Lo(NSW) 15 1101Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Kelvin Korn(NSW) 11 1051Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Patrick Huynh(NSW) 0 962?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Anthony Yap(QLD) 12 892?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Vincent Nuon(NSW) 8 872?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
2Jithuni Vidanapathirana(VIC) 28 849happy
Lucas Luu(NSW) 11 784?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
David Lam(NSW) 0 780?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Sam Pizzano(ACT) 16 767Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Oliver Klistorner(NSW) 22 748Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Ethan Tenaglia(TAS) 6 730?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Brendan Tia(NSW) 11 723?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Tristan Hon(NSW) 11 697?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Eric Phan(NSW) 11 662?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Raymond Tri(NSW) 11 660Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Alvin Korn(NSW) 11 658Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Tanissha Suppiah(WA) 0 645?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Phi Long Ma(NSW) 11 642Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Hugh Boveington(ACT) 16 626?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
James Lo(NSW) 11 594?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
3Danira De Silva(QLD) 35 577happy
Justin Eng(NSW) 18 552?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Ashley Korn(NSW) 11 543Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Keena Tri(NSW) 0 540?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Edrick Long(NSW) 4 531Needs to play 25 games in the period.
James Dinh(SA) 8 500?Needs to have 50 prior rated games.
Omitted names Few games: Jay-Hanz Mesa(18), Angela Ngo(18), Selena Kuch(18), Annie Ly(18), Divine Nillos(16), Amy Ngo(15), Albert Wang(15), Laiken Lam(12), Alistair Scott(12), Jemima Ferguson(12), Jayco Lo(12), Micaiah Lam(12), Felix Pham(12), Daniel Liu(12), Raymond Hsieh(12), Huy Lam(11), Huy Lam(11), Vanessa Pham(11), Vanessa Pham(11), Tofarati Oluwole(11), Alice Alzohayri(11), Edward Hung(11), Sanvi Shah(11), Raghav Agrawal(10), Tracy Nguyen(9), Karam Idwer(8), Kevin Lam(8), Kevin Lam(8), Jaelene Mesa(8), Jaelene Mesa(8), Wara Rizvi(8), Deyana Rizvi(8), Nayu Vuppala(8), Ryan Zheng(8), Rose Cuninghame(8), Adam Al-Quronfuli(8), Ryan Zheng(8), Richard Ha(7), Zachary Soutanich(7), Hemali Dave(7), Micky Huang(7), Sreypov Pheng(7), Tanvi Bongale(7), Evan Hsieh(6), Zachary Young(4), Zachary Young(4), Aaron Tran(4), John Halim(4), Kelvin Nguyen(4), Isabelle Levantard(4), Jimmy Nguyen(4), Harrison Tran(4), Kieran Phinith(4), Arham Shenhzad(4), Marcus Robertson(4), Ana Rose Palatty(4), William Tran(4), Tiara Huynh(4), Kevin Boun(4), Rosalie Young(4), Thomas Hanna(4), Sunaira Sadi(4), Rosalie Young(4), Muntaha Humayrah(4), Ryan Phantharangsy(4), David Boun(4), Bryson Johnson(3), Simon Wilson-Ahap(3), Daniel Fu(3), Lexi Steinberg(3), Sunstar Tran(3), Anirudh Srinivasan(), Anuj(), Ariana Eleele(), Ngoc Lam Pham(), Swara Patil()

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