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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 Kenya.

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 21.01.2026.

CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
1Oscar Ivanovski(VIC) 137 1754happy
2Nathan Tang(NSW) 91 1410happy
Alex Lam(NSW) 0 1409?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
3Ashwin Page(QLD) 90 1372happy
Vinh Nguyen(NSW) 15 1308Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Jeffery Lam(NSW) 4 1213Needs to play 25 games in the period.
4Ryder Lo(NSW) 46 1173happy
5Kelvin Korn(NSW) 43 1070happy
6Sam Pizzano(ACT) 122 917happy
ALMOST IN
7Anthony Yap(QLD) 66 909nearly in
8Oliver Klistorner(NSW) 88 895nearly in
9Lucas Luu(NSW) 41 892nearly in
10Jithuni Vidanapathirana(VIC) 66 849nearly in
11Brendan Tia(NSW) 51 799nearly in
David Lam(NSW) 0 780?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
12Alvin Korn(NSW) 43 743nearly in
James Lo(NSW) 31 717?49 games played, needs 50
Tristan Hon(NSW) 11 697?38 games played, needs 50
13Phi Long Ma(NSW) 46 676nearly in
Eric Phan(NSW) 15 668?32 games played, needs 50
Raymond Tri(NSW) 11 660Needs to play 25 games in the period.
14Danira De Silva(QLD) 83 641nearly in
15Hugh Boveington(ACT) 56 639nearly in
Jayco Lo(NSW) 28 593?32 games played, needs 50
Edrick Long(NSW) 12 548Needs to play 25 games in the period.
16Ashley Korn(NSW) 25 547nearly in
Keena Tri(NSW) 0 540?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
17Justin Eng(NSW) 71 522nearly in
Omitted names Few games: Vincent Nuon(24), Marcus Robertson(23), Ethan Tenaglia(23), Angela Ngo(22), James Dinh(20), Huy Lam(19), Huy Lam(19), Amy Ngo(19), Jay-Hanz Mesa(18), Selena Kuch(18), Nayu Vuppala(17), Laiken Lam(16), Kevin Lam(16), Kevin Lam(16), Divine Nillos(16), Micaiah Lam(16), Felix Pham(16), Albert Wang(15), Karam Idwer(14), Rose Cuninghame(14), Vanessa Pham(11), Vanessa Pham(11), Tofarati Oluwole(11), Alice Alzohayri(11), Edward Hung(11), Jaelene Mesa(8), Jaelene Mesa(8), Wara Rizvi(8), Ana Rose Palatty(8), Deyana Rizvi(8), Ryan Zheng(8), Adam Al-Quronfuli(8), Ryan Zheng(8), Zachary Soutanich(7), Ryan Cuninghame(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), 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), Bryson Johnson(3), Simon Wilson-Ahap(3), Daniel Fu(3), Lexi Steinberg(3)
Inactive: Alistair Scott, Annie Ly, Daniel Liu, David Boun, Evan Hsieh, Hemali Dave, Jemima Ferguson, Micky Huang, Patrick Huynh, Raghav Agrawal, Raymond Hsieh, Richard Ha, Sanvi Shah, Sreypov Pheng, Sunstar Tran, Swara Patil, Tanissha Suppiah, Tanvi Bongale, Tracy Nguyen
Age unknown: Aaron Tran, Adam Al-Quronfuli, Alice Alzohayri, Alistair Scott, Ana Rose Palatty, Annie Ly, Arham Shenhzad, Bryson Johnson, Daniel Fu, Daniel Liu, David Boun, Deyana Rizvi, Edward Hung, Ethan Tenaglia, Evan Hsieh, Felix Pham, Harrison Tran, Huy Lam, Jaelene Mesa, James Dinh, Jemima Ferguson, Jimmy Nguyen, John Halim, Karam Idwer, Kelvin Nguyen, Kevin Lam, Kieran Phinith, Lexi Steinberg, Marcus Robertson, Muntaha Humayrah, Nayu Vuppala, Patrick Huynh, Raghav Agrawal, Raymond Hsieh, Richard Ha, Rosalie Young, Rose Cuninghame, Ryan Cuninghame, Ryan Phantharangsy, Ryan Zheng, Simon Wilson-Ahap, Sunaira Sadi, Sunstar Tran, Swara Patil, Thomas Hanna, Tiara Huynh, Tofarati Oluwole, Tracy Nguyen, Vanessa Pham, Wara Rizvi, William Tran, Zachary Soutanich, Zachary Young

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