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25.01.2022 Entries are now open for the Australian Championship dream team competition. The idea is simple. Pick a team of 6 players and the best performing team wins. It's free to enter and there is some small prizemoney for the best 3 finishers. To help you select your team, head to fantasyscrabble.wordpress.com. On the website you'll find a list of all entries to the event as well as a form guide written by John Hamilton and Ryan Sutton to give you some hints to assist you with maki...ng your team. You can also view the results of previous dream team competitions and some pointless statistics. Please note that technically entries have not closed so the list of entries may change over the next 24-48 hours. Rules: - 6 players per team, 3 from each division - No more than 1 person from each state or territory. You're also able to select up to 1 overseas player - The combined rating of your team must not exceed 8000 (1333 per player) - Entries close 9pm sharp, Western Time on Good Friday, 14th April (2pm London time) You can see more detailed rules on the website - fantasyscrabble.wordpress.com Any questions, contact John Hamilton

25.01.2022 WA's Kaustav Bhowmick pictured in this story on the world youth! https://thotsntots.com/chance-to-watch-the-best-young-scra/

25.01.2022 Some Nice reports in Australia following the conclusion of worlds. Good to have positive news about scrabble in the wider community. Scrabble Victoria carrying this report covering the 4 Aussies and the winner and including images of all participants http://www.scrabblevictoria.org.au/youthscrabble.htm And Perth Modern School organised the following story with the Stirling Times newspaper ... http://www.communitynews.com.au//joondanna-brothers-earn-/ See more

24.01.2022 Wonderful to see Graham Bell sweep to win the Joy Deans memorial Scrabble Comp. Really sad when we lost Joy a few years ago. I played her in my very first Comp ...in Australia when in Uni in the early 90s. Young 8 year old Tanissha gave a good account of herself with 3 wins. Her best return in a WA Comp. Benjamin Lee scored 212 for PROOFING, the current Australian record for 2019. I had an indifferent day going 4-3 with the highlight for me being able to pls the word LAVOLTS with a game score score of 494. Next Comp is the Youth fundraiser in Coogee in 14th April.... anyone in Perth interested in giving it a go let me know. Lots of scrabble clubs to try out too if you dont want to head straight to a Comp. See www.freewebs.com/scrabblewa/clubs.htm See more

21.01.2022 Nigel Richards at th world championships, Round 21 live starting now: https://www.twitch.tv/msa_tv

20.01.2022 35th anniversary tournament of the Rockingham Scrabble Club was held on Sunday with young Kaustav Bhowmick winning a Division for the first time ever with 6 win...s out of 7. A great sign for the world youth championships in Dubai in December where he will be representing Australia along with Adi, Sharvin & Rahul (All from Perth Modern School). In Div A, Russel Honeybun once more deployed the 'JJ' gambit, losing to Judy Jones in Round 1 before sweeping the rest of the field to win on 6 ahead of David Van Zyl on 5 and Chris pipping out Karen by a margin of 2 while on 4 wins. Div B was won by Benjamin Lee on margin over Louise Love with both on 6 wins with Robin in 3rd, with Delys Carbon and Marge Roberts also making the podium in Div C. I had a very forgettable day missing numerous chances I should have seen. Good thing I won one of the word prizes. Great to have Karen Richards there who flew in from Malaysia, and she had a special training session on Saturday with 8 WA kids all new to competitive scrabble! See more

19.01.2022 5 games to go in the WA Championship and there’s going to be some scrambling for the places.

18.01.2022 Page 2 of the Stirling Times this week. Also acknowledging the 3rd WA rep on the team, Kaustav Bhowmick of Churchlands High School

18.01.2022 4 games to go and it's a race for the line. Russell just has to keep winning; Tim has to keep up and hope he falters.

18.01.2022 Scrabble gets a mention in the West Australian Young Achiever Awards for the Sports Category! Course the main event is juried, but the People's Choice Vote underway

18.01.2022 Final day of the WYSC was a tense affair for the Aussies and a top 30 spot was on the cards for both Shekinah and Rahul if they won their final 2 games ... With a possibility of breaking the top 50 open to Radheya and Kaustav if they won their final 3.... In the end, Shekinah won her final game to finish 46th and Rahul lost in a desperate final play on the final turn by 2 points after deducting the C he had left in his hand to finish just outside his target in 51st on 12 wins...... Radheya and Koko had some success in their final 3 and finished with 11 and 10 wins respectively. Sanchit Kapoor if the UAE took the overall win by a big margin over the chasing pack. Sri Lanka took 2nd and 3rd and the team title.Former world champ Jack Durand lost his final game and finished 6th and we had an American and 2 young lads from Pakistan in the top 10 also See more

18.01.2022 On Sunday, the 19th of Nov, the 6 West Australian members of the Australian team for the World English-Langauge Scrabble Players Association Youth Cup (formerly WYSC) taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 27-29th Nov 2017, received their Aussie 'team-kit', beautifully designed by Joanne Hamilton. The team are fortunate that the medical fraternity in WA teamed up with the Australian Scrabble Players Association of WA (ASPA WA) to provide the kit and some assistance wit...h travel as well. Much thanks to the West Australian Geriatric Specialists represented on the day by Dr PK Loh and Dr Bhaskar Mandal who presented the kit to the team. Also Dr Ashish Chawla & Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention and ASPA WA who have been long time supporters of Youth Scrabble ensuring youth players were able to travel to world events past and present. The multi-talented WA team include (image from R-L), musician Kaustav Bhowmick, who plays the Jazz Trumpet on the Shenton Symphony Orchestra, Liana Aho who after the scrabble worlds will be flying the flag playing international Volleyball, 10 year old Shireeya Jeyendran, the youngest West Aussie to play at the world event, Super Coach Edie Mueller, master cricket batsman Aditya Bose-Mandal, whizz-kid Sharvin Jeyendran of MENSA fame and reigning Triathlon Union World Aquathlon Champion, Rahul Jegatheva, We wish them all the best! See more

18.01.2022 WEST AUSSIE REPORT - SCRABBLE WORLDS IN MALAYSIA The 6 West Aussies that formed part of the Australian team did us all proud with every single one achieving a personal best in terms of win totals at a world event, this being the biggest one ever with close to 200 participants! The one debutant at a worlds, 10 year old Shireeya bravely faced some of the top players in the world and was always cheerful, while fighting her way to 6 wins! Both Kaustav & Adi finished on 11 wins, b...eating their PB's by 1 and 2 wins respectively, and doing so in contracting fashions. Kaustav burst out of the blocks and after the first 6 games was the best placed Australian at 19th overall. Adi had an extremely tough time on day 2 and was on 5 wins after 18 games, but was the only layer in the entire field to win all 6 games on the final day to reach 11. Liana had 13 wins doing far better than some of the more experienced tournament players also winning the 5th best placed Australian prize, "I feel really delighted to have won 13 games as it's a big improvement from the last World Championships I participated in. I wouldn't have been able to do it without the huge amounts of support from parents, friends and coaches" said Liana. MENSA boy wonder Sharvin also finished on 13 wins, and was better placed than Liana on margin and was the 4th best Australian finisher at the worlds. He said, "I feel that I played well this tournament except for a few games which i definitely could have won or played better. But overall i believe i have improved significantly from the last WYSC and am looking forward to do better in the next one." Rahul playing in his 4th world championships, finally broke into the top 50 with 25th place overall and 15 wins, also taking the prize for 2nd best Australian finisher, losing out on top spot only on margin. "I owe a lot to mom and dad for doing well, and also coach Edie and the scrabble players in WA for supporting me all these years. I am really thankful to have finished well. In the past, I used to do really badly in the final few important games, but this time on the last day I won 5 of 6 and thats the reason I managed to reach and surpass the target!" See more

17.01.2022 Rockingham comp on 9th October 2016. Marge Roberts wins Div C, with Sharvin (Deva Menon) in 2nd and Kaustav (Deepa Bhowmick) in 3rd. Marge also won High Game wi...th Sharvin taking High Word (JERRIES). In Div B, Joy Deans finished on top. Delys Carbon was 2nd with Rahul in 3rd. Delys also took High Game with Rahul taking High Word (SQUIRTED). In Div A... Russell Honeybun wins once more, with Cori Lodder 2nd and Edie Mueller 3rd. Russel High Game and Ian Ting on high word with VINTAGES. See more

17.01.2022 Congrats Tim Mason ... 2nd in Class C at the 2017 North American Scrabble Championships! http://event.scrabbleplayers.org///CSW1-standings-031.html

16.01.2022 Last game of Day 1 at the WA Championship. Russell Honeybun is unbeaten so far and has opened up some distance over the chasing pack. Henny Yates, Ben Lee and Jane Walker are the leaders in B Division.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to the WA team of Robin Andersen, David Vanzyl and Edie Mueller, State Team Challenge Champions 2016. David also becomes the fourth individual champion from WA.

14.01.2022 Day 2 Aussie report

13.01.2022 World Championship watch: Russell Honeybun at 4-0 after 4 rounds in Africa! http://event.poslfit.com//b/tsh/A-enhanced-scoreboard.html

13.01.2022 Final standings in the State Challenge. Well done to Team ACT and particularly John Hamilton who blew away the opposition.

11.01.2022 Good to see the yougest member of Scrabble WA playing at the nationals! Final day today, and shout out to all the others from WA playing there too including Russell Honeybun, David Vanzyl, Louise Love, Benjamin Lee, Alan Mathews and John Salmon (who with 3 roudns to go is placed 6th in the plate)

11.01.2022 Graham Bell wins the Joy DEans Memorial competition!

10.01.2022 Great to see coverage in the West Australian of all 6 West Aussies who took part at last months world youth scrabble Championships in Malaysia, with every single one achieving a personal best in terms of win totals... great job Liana Aho, Sharvin and Rahul for finishing among the top 5 Aussies. Kaustav & Adi for achieving PB's and Shireeya the youngest on the Aussie team for her perseverance and wonderful spirit playing against the best in the world. Nice to see the bearded w...onder getting a mention and also the article does touch on Aabid Ismail's wonderful win! A big thank you to the sponsors of the Aussie team for putting up the awards for the top 5 Australians at the worlds, the team kit as well as some travel assistance: Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention, the West Australian Geriatric Society and the wonderful members of the Australian Scrabble Players Association of WA The Scrabble Victoria page has a full report of the tournament. Congrats Ronnie! top Aussie and Shekinah in 3rd, with Jason giving a great account of himself in his first world event http://www.scrabblevictoria.org.au/youthscrabble.htm

09.01.2022 WA state Scrabble Championships kick off! With 3 interstate visitors

08.01.2022 Some information and timelines about the upcoming new word list for 2019.

08.01.2022 END OF Day 2 at the Worlds

07.01.2022 A huge loss to WA.... Joy Deans....much loved.... rest in peace

07.01.2022 Wow... one of our young scrabblers is quite the musical talent! Marvi Delfin

06.01.2022 when it rains it pours... more youth scrabble news, now on the Joondalup Weekender on the west australian youths for the world event next week

06.01.2022 Pics from the Open Comp @ Melville on 5th Feb

06.01.2022 On the Perth Modern School FB page! Actually Kaustav also becoming a Perth Mod student going into 2018!

05.01.2022 Final comp for 2018!

05.01.2022 5 games to go in the WA Championship and theres going to be some scrambling for the places.

04.01.2022 Youth world champs in Dubai 13-15 Dec 2018

03.01.2022 3 west aussies in the top 20 of the championship Div at the nationals! Russell Honeybun, David Vanzyl, Ian Ting with 2 rounds to play! Alan Mathews & Benjamin Lee likewise in the plate division! GOOOOO WA http://scrabble.org.au/events/18AUST/CHAMP/latest.html

02.01.2022 4 of the 6 representing WA at the upcoming World Youth Scrabble Championships in Dubai received their official world championship 'Kit' at the recent tournament in South Perth. El Presidente Graham Bell presented the kit and on stage with the kids is one half of the Youth Mentor team Edie Mueller. AWOL on the day were Rahul who was finishing his Y12 exams and Adi who was conquering the world in the USA at the Scholars Cup Present on the day were veterans of past world events,... and part of the Perth Modern School brigade, Kaustav Bhowmick and Sharvin Jeyendren. Also there were the 2 young ladies Shireeya Jeyendren and Tanissha Suppaiah both of whom played their first WA Tourneys in 2018 Best of Luck to them all! Thanks to Deepa for the camerawork! Sadhana Bose Bhaskar Mandal Kala Suppiah Muthu Suppiah Deva Menon Jeyendren Ramachandran Deepa Bhowmick Youth Scrabble in Australia Karen Richards Tony Hunt

02.01.2022 More News in West Australian newspapers (North Coast Times) on the upcoming youth worlds ...... always happy when they reference our awesome President Graham Bell..... https://communitynews.com.au//word-to-the-wise-perth-youn/

02.01.2022 The 2017 Australian Championship and Plate will be held over Easter (15-17 April) at the Pagoda Resort and Spa, Como. The registered players are as follows: Championship (56) ---------------------------- Andrew Fisher VIC 2112... Daniel Piechnick SA 1939 Hubert Wee SNG 1939 Esther Perrins NSW 1876 Siu Hean Cheah SNG 1848 Gerry Carter THA 1830 Bob Jackman NSW 1814 Russell Honeybun WA 1804 Rod Talbot NSW 1795 Kian Hung Yeo MYS 1790 John Holgate NSW 1786 Nick Ivanovski VIC 1785 Trevor Halsall VIC 1763 Joanne Craig NSW 1755 David Vanzyl WA 1711 Tim Mason WA 1710 Michael Tang SNG 1707 Adam Kretschmer SA 1706 Tony Hunt NSW 1633 Heather Long VIC 1625 Dianne Brumby TAS 1622 Victor Tung NSW 1618 Karen Richards QLD 1617 Carmel Dodd SA 1613 Chris Hall WA 1607 Edie Mueller WA 1596 Rocky Sharma NSW 1556 Marlon Prudencio SNG 1554 Carol Johnsen VIC 1553 John Hamilton ACT 1535 Tengku Asri MYS 1531 Martin Rose TAS 1518 Jane Taylor SA 1515 Oliver Jenner-O'Shea SA 1498 Paul Richards QLD 1497 Sally Martin WA 1493 Noel Barrett ACT 1473 Barry Jordan SA 1449 Antony Kimber SA 1443 Robin Andersen WA 1429 Caroline Polak Scowcroft QLD 1419 Ian Ting WA 1410 Angie Pearse VIC 1401 Carolyn Watt WA 1398 Marie London TAS 1394 John Barker NSW 1393 Jegatheva Jegathesan WA 1382 Judy Jones WA 1372 Louise Love WA 1363 Chris Ostrowski NSW 1359 Gillian Street WA 1345 Faye Williams WA 1340 Arnold Appelhof QLD 1328 Lexie Neale NSW 1321 John Rider NSW 1321 Cori Lodder WA 1259 Plate (46) -------------- Geoff Shepheard VIC 1338 Peter Bauer VIC 1264 Margaret Griggs TAS 1247 Francoise Finlayson SA 1244 Jan Hill TAS 1242 Sharon Sorensen NSW 1236 Anne Stewart WA 1232 Rene Chelton NSW 1230 Ben Munson QLD 1194 Margaret Neal NSW 1191 Benjamin Lee WA 1186 John Hayes TAS 1171 Patti Ashwin QLD 1161 Ivy Nicholls TAS 1151 John Salmon WA 1146 Rahul Jegatheva WA 1136 Paula Messer VIC 1136 Susan Roberts SA 1136 Chris Payne WA 1127 Rhonda Reynish WA 1099 Khwanjai Thamapping VIC 1098 Colleen McCormick WA 1097 Margaret Bishop TAS 1093 Anne Hough NSW 1083 Anne Donnelly WA 1074 Liz Jackman NSW 1069 Delys Carbon WA 1051 Jenny Coetzee WA 1050 Shekinah Giffen QLD 1037 Jane Walker WA 1037 Donna Sekkouah WA 1033 Helen Jones SA 1026 Jack Ashwin QLD 979 Latha Weerakkody VIC 967 Louisa Atsas SA 962 Fiona Braendler SA 907 Elize Plagányi VIC 904 Christiane McCann VIC 902 John Finlay WA 896 Sharvin Jeyendran WA 864 Radheya Jegatheva WA 816 Emanuel Atsas SA 786 Janet Kirk WA 786 Kaustav Bhowmick WA 747 Ann Simms WA 747 Liana Aho WA 608