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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 Nairobi, Kenya, from Aug 7 to 9.

n 2026, Kenya will proudly host the World Youth Scrabble Championship. See Kenya WSC

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. The secondary criterion is number of rated games within the qualification 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.
CASPA may make special determinations. 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 29.03.2026.

CONTENDERS Games
in period		 Peak Status
Dineth Fernando YES(VIC) 22 1780?22 games played, needs 50
1Oscar Ivanovski (VIC) 184 1754happy
2Nathan Tang (NSW) 116 1511happy
Alex Lam (NSW) 0 1409?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
3Ashwin Page NO(QLD) 98 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) 54 1209happy
5Kelvin Korn (NSW) 50 1099happy
6Sam Pizzano (ACT) 137 939happy
ALMOST IN
7Anthony Yap (QLD) 74 909nearly in
8Lucas Luu (NSW) 52 908nearly in
9Oliver Klistorner (NSW) 95 895nearly in
10Jithuni Vidanapathirana (VIC) 86 872nearly in
Huy Lam (NSW) 19 811?19 games played, needs 50
11Brendan Tia (NSW) 62 799nearly in
Vincent Nuon (NSW) 12 783?24 games played, needs 50
David Lam (NSW) 0 780?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Marcus Robertson (ACT) 23 772?23 games played, needs 50
12Alvin Korn (NSW) 50 765nearly in
Ethan Tenaglia (TAS) 9 740?23 games played, needs 50
13Phi Long Ma (NSW) 56 738nearly in
James Lo (NSW) 31 717?49 games played, needs 50
Laiken Lam (NSW) 12 714?16 games played, needs 50
Eric Phan (NSW) 25 713?42 games played, needs 50
Tristan Hon (NSW) 11 697?38 games played, needs 50
Kevin Lam (NSW) 16 684?16 games played, needs 50
Raymond Tri (NSW) 11 660Needs to play 25 games in the period.
14Danira De Silva (QLD) 112 641nearly in
15Hugh Boveington (ACT) 62 639nearly in
Celina Liu (NSW) 16 602?16 games played, needs 50
Jayco Lo (NSW) 28 593?32 games played, needs 50
16Justin Eng (NSW) 77 573nearly in
Albert Wang (NSW) 4 552?15 games played, needs 50
Edrick Long (NSW) 18 548Needs to play 25 games in the period.
17Ashley Korn (NSW) 31 547nearly in
Amy Ngo (NSW) 15 540?19 games played, needs 50
Keena Tri (NSW) 0 540?Needs to play 25 games in the period.
Divine Nillos (NSW) 8 537?16 games played, needs 50
Angela Ngo (NSW) 15 531?22 games played, needs 50
Micaiah Lam (NSW) 12 530?16 games played, needs 50
Jay-Hanz Mesa (NSW) 11 505?18 games played, needs 50
Claire Choong (NSW) 34 500?34 games played, needs 50
Nayu Vuppala (ACT) 17 500?17 games played, needs 50
Felix Pham (NSW) 12 500?16 games played, needs 50
James Dinh (SA) 11 500?23 games played, needs 50
Selena Kuch (NSW) 11 500?18 games played, needs 50
Omitted names Few games: Karam Idwer(14), Rose Cuninghame(14), Kevin Boun(12), James Murtagh(11), Vanessa Pham(11), Alice Alzohayri(11), Oriana Beecham(11), Tofarati Oluwole(11), Edward Hung(11), James Stark(10), Jaelene Mesa(8), Wara Rizvi(8), Adam Al-Quronfuli(8), Ana Rose Palatty(8), Deyana Rizvi(8), Ryan Zheng(8), Shindy Oluwole(7), Zachary Soutanich(7), Ryan Cuninghame(6), 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), Angelina Nguyen(4), William Tran(4), Tiara Huynh(4), Khai Nguyen(4), Micah Cheung(4), Muntaha Humayrah(4), My Huynh(4), Rosalie Young(4), Ryan Phantharangsy(4), Shanira De Silva(4), Sunaira Sadi(4), Thomas Hanna(4), Bryson Johnson(3), Clarissa Low(3), Daniel Fu(3), Simon Wilson-Ahap(3), Lexi Steinberg(3), William Sim(2)
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, Tanissha Suppiah, Tanvi Bongale, Tracy Nguyen
Age unknown: Aaron Tran, Adam Al-Quronfuli, Alice Alzohayri, Alistair Scott, Ana Rose Palatty, Angelina Nguyen, Annie Ly, Arham Shenhzad, Bryson Johnson, Celina Liu, Claire Choong, Daniel Fu, Daniel Liu, David Boun, Deyana Rizvi, Edward Hung, Ethan Tenaglia, Evan Hsieh, Felix Pham, Harrison Tran, James Dinh, James Stark, Jemima Ferguson, Jimmy Nguyen, John Halim, Karam Idwer, Kelvin Nguyen, Khai Nguyen, Kieran Phinith, Lexi Steinberg, Marcus Robertson, Micah Cheung, Muntaha Humayrah, My Huynh, Nayu Vuppala, Patrick Huynh, Raghav Agrawal, Raymond Hsieh, Richard Ha, Rose Cuninghame, Ryan Cuninghame, Ryan Phantharangsy, Shindy Oluwole, Simon Wilson-Ahap, Sunaira Sadi, Sunstar Tran, Thomas Hanna, Tiara Huynh, Tofarati Oluwole, Tracy Nguyen, Wara Rizvi, William Sim, William Tran, Zachary Soutanich

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