Back to Tournament Results
Canada at the WSC
THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPLACED.
I'm keeping this up only for historical interest, but the system
to be used in selecting Canada's team for the 2001 WSC can be found
in the May 2000 issue of SCRABBLE News, or at
http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2001/wsc/can.
The following section describes the qualification system for
the Canadian team at the 2001 World Scrabble Championship.
For more information, please contact John Chew (+1 416 876 7675 or
poslfit@gmail.com).
Qualification System (Final Version, 1999-11-29)
-
In what follows, a Canadian is deemed to be a person who is
either a Canadian citizen, or a has been a Permanent Resident
of Canada for the five years preceding the WSC.
-
The reigning World Champion, if a Canadian, is exempted from
this qualification system, if as is tradition, the Champion
is invited to play in the WSC ex officio and outside of
Canada's quota.
-
The reigning Canadian Champion, if not the World Champion,
qualifies for the Canadian team.
-
Some Canadian players who placed in the top 25% of the
previous
WSC qualify for the Canadian team in recognition of their
achievement, and their contribution toward the expansion of
the Canadian quota. The number of such players is limited to
half of the size of the new Canadian team, rounded down and not
including the reigning World Champion. If this limit needs to
be applied, players will be ranked for this purpose according
to their final standings at the previous WSC.
-
The remaining positions on the team will be awarded based on
Qualifying Ratings and a Qualifying Tournament. Half of the
available positions (rounded up) will be awarded based on
QR, and the remainder based on QT.
-
The QR will be calculated based on NSA tournament results
during the N-month Qualification Period, this time to run from 2000-01-01 to
2001-05-31. During this period, a player who wishes to qualify
based on QR must play at least 4N fully NSA-rated games. The QR
will be calculated as the peak rating during the QP, after at least
2N games have been played, and posted at the NSA web site.
Positions awarded based on QR at the end of the QP will go to those players whose QR is
highest, and who confirm their acceptance of a position within one
week of their being notified that they have qualified. Players who are attempting to qualify
for the WSC for the first time must declare their intention to do
so no later than 12 months before the end of the QP.
-
A QT will be held in late June or July of the year of the WSC, in
a Canadian city to be announced at least two months before the event.
It will use the
same word source and challenge penalty as the WSC itself, and consist
of at least 14 games played over two days. To be eligible to play in
the QT, a player must have played at least 2N fully NSA-rated games
during the Qualification Period and must not have qualified based on
QR. The Qualification Tournament Rating of such players will be
defined as peak rating after at least one QP tournament. The QT will
consist of those players wanting to play whose QTR is at least 1800,
and those players whose QTR is among the top 16 QTRs. All players must
register for the QT within two weeks of the end of the QP; acceptance
after that will be at the discretion of the QT director.
-
When counting games for the 2N (34) and 4N (68) quotas mentioned above,
the director of an NSA sanctioned tournament may count one such event
in any twelve-month period as 10 played games.
-
If a player who has qualified decides not to play, then an alternate
player will be chosen based on standings in the QT. If no QT players
are available, then a player will be chosen based on QR, and failing
that based on QTR. A player who attempts to qualify to represent
another country at the WSC will be deemed to have decided not to play
for Canada, regardless of whether or not they succeed in their other
qualification attempt.