World Youth Scrabble Championships

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The first World Youth Scrabble Championships were held in Wollongong, Australia 2006. Competitors from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, England, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand competed. WYSC was open to anyone under the age of 18 on January 1 2006.

The event started on Friday December 1 and finished on Sunday December 3. The championships consisted of 20 games using the Aupair System. After these 20 games the top 2 people played off in a best of 5 series. Prizes were awarded to the top 10 places. There was also an encouragement award which was awarded to the youngest player finishing in the top 25. In 2006 the encouragement award was won by Lahiru Elvitigala of Sri Lanka.

1 game per round was annotated and broadcasted live onto the web by the Western Scrabble Network, a club based in the Blue Mountains, Australia.


[edit] Top 10 finishers of the WYSC 2006

Place Player Country
1st David Eldar Australia
2nd Austin Shin England
3rd Will Nediger Canada
4th Joshua Sng Singapore
5th Benjamin Chow Singapore
6th Toh Weibin Singapore
7th Thacha Koowirat Thailand
8th Tanasak Supaphibunk Thailand
9th Sherwin Rodrigues India
10th Lee Guan Hui Singapore


[edit] References

Official Site of the 2006 WYSC
Annotated games from the WYSC 2006

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